Day 2 Session

Suitable for: PRIMARY LEVELS

 
About the Workshop

In this hands-on workshop, Author, Illustrator, and Experienced Educator, Jasmine Seymour, will demonstrate the art and illustration techniques she uses to create her complex and layered works.

Bringing together a broad range of techniques to create a mixed media image, participants will apply their new knowledge to create their own outcomes by combining mono printing, acrylic inks and (the digital illustration App) Procreate to create dynamic and visually compelling collage.
 
 

About the Presenter

A member of the Darug Custodian Aboriginal Corporation, Jasmine is the descendant of Maria Lock. Maria Lock was a prominent Burubiranggal woman in early colonial Sydney and the daughter of renowned Elder, Yarramundi.
Jasmine is a Darug language activist, who has recently completed a Master of Indigenous Language Education at Sydney University.
She is also an artist who works with lino print, watercolours and ink. Her work is inspired by the Sydney rock engravings and is a response to the stories they still hold and tell every day.
It is Jasmine’s wish that through her art and her books, everyone will know that the Darug mob are still here, still strong. Jasmine is a primary school teacher in the Hawkesbury area of NSW.
In 2019, Jasmine illustrated and authored “Baby Business” and “Cooee Mittigar”, both young children’s books about smoking ceremony and Darug Country respectively.
In 2020, Jasmine illustrated the book “Family”, a second in the series “Our Place” which minds to Indigenous cultural philosophies. “Family” shares ways in which Family makes us whole.