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Sunrise and Sunset with Anney Bounpraseuth

20 August 2023

In the Centre for Creativity

Workshops

Sunday Morning Free Creative Play

Ages 7+ | Be inspired by the magnificent sunsets of Sydney Harbour in our free painting play session for all the family!

Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.

Albert Einstein

Paint a sunrise silhouette

Using a special “paint sandwich” technique, children will create a sunrise or sunset that is reflected in the water below the horizon. They will then paint the silhouettes of the landscape featuring the Sydney Opera House building on the horizon using 3D impasto paint.

Sydney Opera House Presents

 

Meet the artist

Anney Bounpraseuth

Anney Bounpraseuth is an Australian-born artist of Laotian heritage who reinterprets matriarchal traditions through painting, textiles, and sculpture to assert self-determined identity.

Bounpraseuth describes her kitsch, vivid and intensely patterned aesthetic as Cabracadabra or ‘South East Asian mum-style’ in honour of her mother Chockeo who came from Laos to Australia as a refugee migrant, raising her family in Cabramatta, a suburb of South West Sydney. Bounpraseuth cites her mother's clashing wardrobe and interior decorating style with fake flowers, imitation antiques and mismatched textiles as her main artistic influence.

Bounpraseuth has been featured on ABC TV and iView, ABC Radio National, FBI Radio’s Canvas program and Frankie Magazine. In 2019, she was a finalist for the Hidden Rookwood Sculpture Exhibition and Prize. She has presented in various galleries across NSW with solo exhibitions at Fairfield City Museum and Art Gallery and Bankstown Arts Centre. In 2018, she curated the February ARTBAR at the Museum of Contemporary Art.

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