MAPh | (Sold out) Portrait lighting masterclass with Petrina Hicks

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(Sold out) Portrait lighting masterclass with Petrina Hicks

19 January 2025

Petrina HICKS
The self awareness of African grey parrots 2024 (diptych)
pigment inkjet prints
courtesy of the artist and Michael Reid (Sydney)

Learn more about Snakes and mirrors here >>

Sunday 19 January 2025
10 am – 3 pm
MAPh - Wheelers Hill Library Meeting Room

Join Petrina Hicks for an artist talk about her work, her career and her exhibition Snakes and Mirrors, followed by a masterclass in portrait lighting.

This masterclass will explore the use of studio lighting for portraiture, with each participant setting up studio lighting and taking portraits of a subject against a neutral backdrop.

Petrina will share her knowledge and experience with portrait photography, concept creation and articulation, and working with human and non-human models.

Aimed at emerging through to established photographers, this workshop offers a unique opportunity to learn alongside others in a practical setting, guided by an expert.

Learn how to:

set up studio lighting and backdrops for portraiture
use composition for effective storytelling
work with models – both human and non-human

Participants must bring their own camera (that can be synced to studio flash), laptop with Adobe Lightroom and tether cable.

BYO lunch (light snacks provided)

Places limited (14 max)

Cost $160 Members $144

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About Petrina Hicks...

Petrina Hicks is an Australian artist. Working with analogue photography she creates large-scale photographs drawing from mythology, fairy tales, and historical art imagery to re-frame the contemporary female experience.

Permeated with a sense of magical realism, animals and females often appear together to represent aspects of psyche and identity, alluding to the complexity of female identity and the sentience of animals.

The porous boundaries between human and animal states and the affinity of females and animals are central to her work.

Time travelling between past and future histories, Hicks re-imagines myths, historical art imagery and fairytales, placing female stories at the centre.

Myths, fairy tales, and folklore help us to understand the nature of the world; of being human, animal and the divine.

MAPh acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong People, and recognises their continuing connection to the land and waterways.

We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging and extend this to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.

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