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Tali Koto

Scratch Studio: School Holidays at PICA during AWESOME Festival

Scratch Studio: School Holidays at PICA during AWESOME Festival

Step into Perth’s most exciting contemporary art gallery to scratch, scrape and reveal your way to an original artwork while discovering new ways to make, notice and wonder.

During AWESOME International Arts Festival for Bright Young Things, PICA presents Scratch Studio, a free space with many ways for you to explore art and creativity.

Make and connect. Visit the PICA Hub, a welcoming drop-in space for creative play. Discover sgraffito, a process used by artist Tali Koto to create designs by scratching through one surface to reveal colour underneath. Experiment with marks, lines, shapes and patterns on a postcard to keep or share. You can also build a 3D portrait from found objects, create poems with magnetic words, and cover everyday surfaces with your own designs.

Notice and reflect. Pick up your free copy of The Art of Noticing, a creative journal featuring activities designed by artists that encourage children and families to look closely, listen deeply and discover new ways of noticing the world around them. 

Wonder and be inspired. Explore the Hatched National Graduate Show, an exhibition of artworks by emerging artists where you’ll encounter bold new ideas, unexpected materials and the future of Australian contemporary art.

Drop in for five minutes or stay for an afternoon. Try one activity or explore them all! 

Free · Drop in · Family

About the artists

Born in South Australia, Tali Koto is an Anglo-Australian/Fijian artist whose work is a personal exploration of connection and belonging. Working across ceramics, drawing and mixed media, Tali’s practice integrates cultural narratives that are reflective of dual identities and histories. The ancient and the modern are woven together in her pieces, creating work that investigates the beauty and the tension experienced when existing between two worlds. Her ceramic techniques echo this, often using sgraffito in traditional Fijian patterns, an homage to her family’s wood carving practices. Tali offers up an alternative perspective on heritage, celebrating cultural identity while exploring the quiet sense of distance and disconnect that can be a consequence of absence from place. Through her work, Tali challenges stereotypes that minimise identities and contributes to the broader discourse about the Pacific diaspora experience in Australia.

Supporters

Hatched is made possible by Exhibition Partner Minderoo Foundation and the generosity of PICA’s Art 1000 Donors. PICA Hub is made possible thanks to the support of PICA’s Community Engagement partner, the City of Perth.