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Design your own Dragon With Anney Bounpraseuth

4 February 2024

In the Centre for Creativity

Kids & Families

Sunday Morning Free Creative Play

Ages 7 - 11 | Inspired by Lunar New Year, you will design your own dragon in this drawing and painting workshop.

Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.

Albert Einstein

Design your own dragon for Lunar New Year

Inspired by Lunar New Year, you will design your own dragon in this drawing and painting workshop. We will begin with some dragon history to discover the differences between Eastern and Western dragons. Then, you will learn how to draw different animal parts and combine the ones you like to create a unique dragon with a name, personality, and superpower! Your dragon will be as long as you to fly and roar across your bedroom wall!

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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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