FEBRUARY

QATA AGM

SUNDAY| February 23 2025

11.00pm

Our Annual General Meeting and IMA presentation is 11 am, 23rd Feb 2024, hosted by the Institute of Modern Art. All are welcome! 

Join us for the QATA 2025 AGM at the IMA Fortitude Valley. Directly after the AGM we have the pleasure of a gallery tour of Archie Moore’s exhibition Comic Paintings at the Institute of Modern Art. If you can’t be here in-person you will be able to join us on-line for the AGM.

At the AGM all executive positions will be declared vacant. We always love to see new faces and welcome our regulars. Be sure to nominate if you would like to be more involved through an official QATA position.  Among other benefits of being involved in your professional association, it’s a fabulous way of capturing evidence for a Highly Accomplished or Lead Teacher application.

Click here to nominate for a position.

Please note: You do not have to nominate for a position to attend the AGM.

Click here to download the 2025 QATA AGM Agenda and 2024 QATA AGM Minutes.

Please register your attendance for catering purposes as we’ll supply refreshments.

Not in Brisbane? Please select online when you register.

Mona Ryder in her studio surrounded by various works, 2022. Courtesy of the artist. Photography by Louis Lim.
Archie Moore ‘Archie in The Reminder’ 2005. Courtesy The Commercial, Sydney.

Archie Moore

Comic Paintings
18 January–30 March 2025

In 2005, aged thirty-four, Archie Moore undertook a residency for emerging First Nations artists organised by Campfire Group at FireWorks Gallery, Meanjin/Brisbane. He produced seven large, unstretched canvases that turned on his sharing his first name with the famous American comicbook character. The paintings emphasise the difference of his childhood experiences—experiencing bullying and abuse; poverty, shame, and low self-esteem—with those of the American white middle-class teen. After Moore won the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale last year, it’s an interesting moment to look back at these ‘early works’. Thanks to The Commercial, Gadigal/Sydney.

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MARCH

In the Studio - Sarah Sculley

THURSDAY | 27 MARCH 2025 (rescheduled)

Join us for the QATA Term 1, 2025 In the Studio online event Introduction to stencils with artist Sarah Sculley for teachers.  Sarah Sculley has been included in the Second Edition of Creative Inquiry: Visual Art for Queensland Senior Secondary Students.

In this workshop you will:

• Learn about the Nambour State College x Sarah Sculley Artist-in-residence program (Liz Clout)

• See Sarah’s art and mural work and influences

• Have the opportunity to learn about and book Sarah’s School Workshops

• Learn how to turn a photograph into a stencil using Adobe Photoshop

• How to cut stencils and use spray paint to create your own street art masterpiece.

 Feel free to bring your own photo/stencil templates, or use the supplied photo/template. You will learn how to effectively create, cut and spray stencils. As well as learning different spray paint techniques and blends to create your own unique design. Participants will be able to ask questions.

FREE for QATA members
Non-members $15

APRIL

Andrea Huelin Portrait Workshop

SUNDAY | 2th Apr 2025, 9:00 am – 3.00pm

Archibald Prize Finalist and Packing Room Prize Winner, Andrea Huelin, will be conducting a portrait workshop in oil paint at Nambour State College. Andrea Huelin is an accomplished portrait artist, with paintings hung in a number of prestigious portrait prizes. She is best known for her colourful and evocative still life paintings.  Andrea is interested in colour and form, and capturing elusive qualities of lustre and light with economical brushwork.  

Location: RC01 – Art Room- Nambour State College

Lunch, snacks and tea and coffee will be provided.

QATA members $80
Non-members $160

MAY

Portrait painting with Eliza Bertwistle

SATURDAY| 31st May 2025, 9:00 am – 3.00pm

This workshop is designed to help educators enhance their drawing and painting skills through targeted observational exercises to allow for more accurate and naturalistic portrait construction. The session begins with guiding participants to sketch their portrait lines, angles, and proportions as they truly are. Educators will then practice precise colour matching by mixing skin and hair tones directly from reference images, strengthening their understanding of light, tone, and colour perception. By the end of the workshop, participants will have complete portraits of their chosen sitter.

This workshop is ideal for art teachers seeking to refine their technical practice and gain practical, classroom-ready strategies for teaching observational portraiture. The workshop will be conducted in acrylic paint.

Location: Corinda State High School

Lunch, snacks and tea and coffee will be provided.

QATA members $60
Non-members $120

Digital Drawing on Ipads - Phoebe Paradise Workshop

SATURDAY| 31st May 2025, 9:30 am – 1.00pm

Unlock your artistic potential at our Digital Drawing Workshop with Phoebe Paradise! 

Immerse yourself in the vibrant world of digital art and be guided by Phoebe as you discover the fundamentals of Procreate in this engaging, hands-on workshop using iPads and styluses. Procreate is a digital art studio that allows you to create expressive sketches, rich paintings, and gorgeous illustrations. It is the most advanced painting app ever designed for a mobile device and is used all around the world by artists, graphic designers, content creators and animators.

Location: Rockhampton Museum of Arts

This workshop is appropriate for High School teachers and Upper Primary.  Morning Tea will be provided.
BYO: Ipad with Procreate installed and a stylus. Some Ipads may be able to be sourced for those with no access. Please identify in ticketing if you can bring your own Ipad or not and we will be in contact with those who don’t.

QATA members $35
Non-members $70

JUNE

In The Studio with Carolyn V Watson

MONDAY| 2nd June 2025, 4:30 – 6.00pm

Join us for the QATA Term 2, 2025 In the Studio online event Introduction to sculpture with artist Carolyn V. Watson for teachers.  Carolyn has been included in the Second Edition of Creative Inquiry: Visual Art for Queensland Senior Secondary Students.

In this workshop you will:

  • See Carolyn’s art and influences
  • Learn about Carolyn’s creative process and how to apply this to your classroom
  • Learn how to create an armature and develop it into different directions using recycled materials and refined surface techniques 
  • Find out how to book Carolyn’s School Workshops

Participants will be able to ask questions.

ONLINE

QATA members FREE
Non-members $15

Illuminate 2.0 Imbedding Visual Art in the Primary School Classroom Workshop

SATURDAY| 21st June 2025, 9:30 am – 1.00pm

This workshop is a response to a very clear need for help for primary and early childhood teachers who, as classroom generalist teachers, who often have little or no background in The Arts. This workshop focusses on Visual Art and aims to give participants a set of skills, strategies and techniques to implement the Visual Art curriculum with minimum stress and maximum enjoyment! No experience required!

There will be lots of practical art- in a context of pure fun! Core information on both making and responding tasks, logistics to make sessions run smoothly and effectively, a handy ‘go’ to folder of key knowledge, product information and demystifying curriculum and assessment AND a box of real art goodies selected to underpin ongoing development of teachers’ skills and confidence.

Location: Von Stieglitz-Riverway Arts Precinct, Thuringowa 

QATA members $35
Non-members $70

JULY

QATACON25 - CELEBRATE CREATIVITY

THURSDAY| July 17  Opening event QCAD from 5:30pm

FRIDAY | July 18  Curriculum & networking day at Southbank TAFE from 8:00am

FRIDAY | July 18 Art Teacher Art Exhibition closing celebration & QATACON25 Dinner

SATURDAY| July 19  Workshop day @ Southbank TAFE  & QCAD from 8:00am

Previous In the Studio resources

We hope you enjoyed these free members online events.

The workshop videos are available on Vimeo via the Members only resources page. 

Petalia Humphreys

Wednesday Jun 1 | 2022
Reinterpreting architectural surrounds to inform three-dimensional paintings.
Download the template

Alison McDonald

Wednesday Feb 23 | 2022

Explore hyperbolic geometry to make STEAM informed sculptures
View the materials list and resources

Jody Graham

Thursday Oct 19 | 2021

Drawing tools and mark making

View the materials list

Ken + Julia Yonetani

Wednesday August 11 | 2022
An exploration of dysbiosis: an imbalance of a living systems microbiota

Workshop stimulus

Bruce Reynolds

Wednesday Oct 12 | 2022

The plaster frieze as a frozen moment
Process notes and materials

Chloe Bennett

Wednesday Mar 1 | 2023

Objects for belonging and connection
Questions and workshop activities