Artist in Residence - Lulu Quintanilla Term 2, 2013

Sculptors are involved in many processes depending on the medium he or she uses. The grade 2 students will have the opportunity to work with Lulu Quintanilla, our artist in residence this term. Lulu will engage with the students in her chosen field, Clay. She will make links with her cultural heritage and help students to create clay creatures based on South American sculptures of imagined and spiritual creatures. Lulu will be exploring new territories with the students; an exploration of her own heritage and the animals and creatures of her childhood that she has wanted to re-create for a long time. She will work with them, explaining techniques and skills that are important to understand when using clay as a material for sculpture.

Lulu is a multidisciplinary artist working within painting, installation, and ceramics. She has exhibited both interstate and overseas and is currently undertaking her Master in Fine Arts degree at Monash University. She has worked at the studios of Arts Project Australia and is currently also conducting workshops at Signal, a creative studio for young people aged 13-20.

As a child growing up in El Salvador, Central America her imagination was captivated by traditional as well as Pre-Columbian ceramics which commonly depicted interesting and humorous animals both real and invented. Lulu considers her time as artist in residence at Princes Hill as an opportunity to finally explore her interest in this form of ceramic and to be sharing her inspiration with the children at Princes Hill.

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Hannah Rother-Gelder

Visual Art teacher