Find out more about drawing from those pushing the boundaries.
Join Primrose Park Studio Artist Toshiki Oiyama together with Jody Graham and Gary Warner to see their work and gain insights into their drawing styles that have seen each of their works included in major art prizes and exhibitions.
Toshiko Oiyama
Toshiko Oiyama is a current Artist in Residence at Primrose Park Artists Studio. For Toshiko, drawing is a way of asking questions, and one question she has been asking is what it means for all things to be in a constant state of transience. both constantly in flux, and governed by the unbreakable rules of physics, which are unchangeable. She explores this paradox through the contrasting elements in her work – the free-flowing ink drawings that sit against the rigid pinholes that puncture the delicate paper with taut thread. Toshiko lectures in drawing at National Art School, has been a finalist in Dobell drawing Prize, Hazelhurst Work on Paper Prize, and has been awarded the Tim Olsen Drawing Prize. She has a PhD in Fine Art, College of Fine Arts (COFA), The University of New South Wales, 2011, Master of Fine Arts by Research, COFA, The University of New South Wales, 2006, Master of Art in Painting/Drawing, COFA, The University of New South Wales, 2003, Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Communication, The Ohio State University, Ohio USA, 1971
Jody Graham
Jody Graham’s practice encompasses drawing, mixed media, sculpture and installation. Her work celebrates the broken, displaced and forgotten and speaks to her long-nurtured compulsion to restore and rescue with a strong anti-consumerist, re-use and re-cycle ethos across her practice. Investigating mark making is at the core of everything Jody does, often using unconventional tools and approaches when drawing, such as a rocks, bones or wire bound to the back of her hand, stick or a bent umbrella. Graham has been a finalist in major drawing, painting and sculpture awards, some include, Sculptures at Scenic World, Parliament Plein Air, Muswellbrook and Paddington Art Prizes. Winner of The Greenway Prize and selected for Kedumba, Dobell, Rick Amor, Swan Hill and the Adelaide Perry drawing prizes. Her work is held in the Kedumba Collection of Australian Drawings, with Waverley and Blacktown Council, Western Sydney Institute, Nepean Arts and Design Centre, Australian Fords Lands Company and private collections nationally and in the UK, USA and New Zealand. Jody has a Master of Art from UNSW Art and Design.
Gary Warner
Gary Warner is an artist and art worker in the cultural sector for over 40 years with a self-taught background in experimental filmmaking, visual arts, photography, music and sound art, digital media production, natural sciences, poetry and buddhism. Gary has worked at the Australian Film Commission supporting electronic media arts programs, he was Chair of the Coordinating Committee and Co-Curator of the Third International Symposium on Electronic Art in Sydney in 1991. Since 2018, Gary has been teaching experimental drawing at the National Art School in Sydney and has developed and run workshops in autonomous drawing machines there and at the University of Technology Sydney and Monash University’s Sensilab.
Image detail Shoals by Toshiko Oiyama