Micro Macro Drawing

Dr Erica Seccombe

Humans have observed and drawn the natural world for many millennia. Animals, plants, landscapes and objects found in nature have been depicted in a myriad of forms, patterns, styles and media. Micro-Macro is a drawing workshop that covers a range of drawing activities inspired by objects found in nature designed to encourage and inspire artists and non-artists alike to engage with the natural world and their local environment through art. Participants will be able to closely investigate specimens they gather themselves with microscopes and magnifying glasses, and to explore a range of drawing techniques to examine details through proportions and scale, including some techniques used by scientists, scientific illustrators and contemporary artists alike.

More about Erica

Dr Erica Seccombe lectures in Foundation Studies at the ANU School of Art & Design, convenes the course Figure & Life and teaches into Vision & Perception. She also lectures for The Centre for Art History and Art Theory, and has convened the courses for Australian Modernism, Cyberculture and first year Art History.

Erica is a visual artist based in Canberra. She was recently awarded the prestigious 2017 Capital Arts Patrons CAPO Fellowship. Her practice spans from traditional and photographic print media to experimental digital platforms using frontier scientific visualisation software.

Erica's PhD, GROW: experiencing Nature in the Fifth Dimension is practice-led research investigating time-resolved (4D) micro-X-ray Computed Tomography through immersive stereoscopic digital projection installations and 3D printing. Her interdisciplinary research is facilitated by the ANU Department of Applied Mathematics.