School Holiday Workshops with Kate Beynon

11am–1pm:
Magic Mask Spirit Charms with Kate Beynon 
(For 6–12 years)

Join award-winning artist Kate Beynon to create magical mask spirit charms, such as friendly Turtle Monster, Tudao Dog and Lucky Cat Spirit, or imagine and design your own!  

Inspired by her work Masks of the Ogre Dancers in the TarraWarra Collection and guided by Kate, participants will use card, watercolour brush markers and yarn to create colourful hanging charms. Add a positive message for an extra special gift or keep them as lucky magic charms to hang around home. 

Please note: 6–year–olds require a guardian

2–4pm:
Supernatural Mini Mask Portraits with Kate Beynon
(For 13–16 years)

Inspired by her Masks of the Ogre Dancers painting in the TarraWarra Collection, Kate Beynon will share insights into life as a contemporary artist, while guiding participants in a painting workshop of mini portraits, based on supernatural mask versions of family, fur-family, creatures and guardian spirit figures.  

Through experimenting with watercolours, gouache and metallic pigments, create your own mini mask portraits, exploring supernatural elements, guardian creatures and talismanic imagery.  

Kate Beynon

Kate Beynon is a Hong Kong-born Narrm/Melbourne-based artist working across painting, drawing, textile installation, fashion, public art, community projects, animation, projection art and collaborations with her creative family collective, TudoFAM. Kate’s work has featured in several exhibitions and projects at TarraWarra including Kate Beynon—An-Li: A Chinese Ghost Tale and accompanying publication in 2015. Kate is a nine-time Archibald Prize finalist, winner of the 2016 Geelong Contemporary Art Award, recipient of the 2024 City of Yarra Fellowship, and a Teaching Associate at Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Kate’s work is held in major national and international museum collections, and she is represented by Sutton Gallery, Narrm/Melbourne.

Credit Ben Clement

Limited tickets. Bookings essential.  

Your ticket includes exhibition entry between 11am and 5pm on Wednesday 9 July to TarraWarra Biennial 2025: We Are Eagles.