Painting classes with working artists Mornington

He paints the street he walks down

The People

Bobby Bowers paints the street he walks down. Sun faded architecture and the foliage around it, in the suburbs he moves through. Most young people are taught that the subjects worth making work about are somewhere else. He teaches painting at Assembly from Term 1.

Bobby Bowers paints the street he walks down.

Acrylic on panel. Sun faded architecture and the overgrown foliage around it, in the suburbs he actually moves through. He has shown in Melbourne since 2008, and in New York, London and Singapore.

Most young people are taught that the subjects worth making work about are somewhere else.

He grew up in the Dandenong Ranges. He teaches painting at Assembly from Term 1.

The practitioners here are not teachers who also make work. They are people whose own practice comes first, standing in a room with ten young people, doing the thing rather than describing it.

Andrew Chew

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