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Draw collection portraits with Yvette Coppersmith

Saturday 22 July 2023
2:00 – 3:00pm AEST
Live online
Self-portrait, 2011-22 Yvette Coppersmith
Yvette Coppersmith
1 Self-portrait, 2011-22 Yvette Coppersmith. Photograph: Matthew Stanton. 2 Yvette Coppersmith. Photograph: Jessica Grilli.

Bookings essential - free

This free program will be delivered using Zoom.

Did someone say, ‘art workshop with an Archibald winner?!’ Woo! Join Yvette Coppersmith from wherever you are for a drawing session using a range of works from the collection.

To start, you’ll ease into the session with a mindfulness exercise and some stretches before kicking things off. Next, we’ll warm up your art-muscles with some rapid sketches and break down portrait structure into simplified shapes. Then we’ll get into the meaty section where you’ll be exploring facial shapes and angles, and balancing analytical drawing with the freedom of mark making.

Beginners to advanced welcome. Have your drawing tools ready!

Yvette Coppersmith is a Melbourne-based painter whose practice spans portraiture, still life and abstraction. In 2018 she was the 10th woman to win the Archibald Prize with, Self Portrait, after George Lambert. Since graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2001, she has exhibited across Australia and internationally; been included in the Foxtel Arts’ documentary, 'The Archibald'; and her upcoming solo show Carnelian at the Jewish Museum is their inaugural contemporary commission and will accompany a Marc Chagall exhibition.

Self Portrait, after George Lambert, 2018 Yvette Coppersmith
Self Portrait, after George Lambert, 2018 Yvette Coppersmith. Photo: AGNSW, Jenni Carter

Coppersmith is represented by Sullivan+Strumpf.

Access information

Make a booking and the Gallery will email you details on how to connect with us using Zoom.

For access support or other ways to book please email bookings@npg.gov.au or phone 02 6102 7070 prior to your visit.

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