"Memory of the Night" | Diorama making workshop with Fiona Davies

Next date: Saturday, 31 January 2026 | 01:00 PM to 04:30 PM

Create a miniature scene within an immersive small-scale diorama.

This workshop was originally scheduled for Saturday 13 December, but has been rescheduled to 31 January due to unforeseen circumstances.

In this hands-on workshop you will design and construct a layered engaging diorama. Explore scale and depth to translate your vision into small scale three-dimensional scene. Bring you diorama to life with photos, textures, sound and found objects—including miniature human figures. Expand your understanding of how materials, space, atmosphere and storytelling interact in art-making. By the end of the workshop, you’ll have crafted a unique diorama that not only captures a moment or memory but also demonstrates new approaches to combining media in small-scale installation art.

This workshop is part of the exhibition The Night Passes. Find out more about The Night Passes.

About Fiona Davies
The art practice of Fiona Davies is based in installation, video, writing, and spoken word performance, informed by the abject and the beautiful. Its purpose is to be a transdisciplinary, political practice of storytelling. These stories primarily address the experiences of the hospital patient the practice of Western medicine. Davies focuses on the patient using humour, chagrin, and gaming, layered with the pleasure of fragments of beauty within the hospital.

COST $12
All materials provided
AGES: Adults and Youth; ages 12 and up

TO BOOK: Register via Eventbrite or email cowraartgallery@cowra.nsw.gov.au

 IMAGE ABOVE Fiona Davies, Once upon a time long ago and far away: shutting down in isolation, 2020, video still. Images courtesy of the artist
 IMAGE BELOW Fiona Davies, Blood Fountain (detail), 2019, mixed media. Images courtesy of the artist

 

PRESENTING PARTER: Lane Cove Gallery

 

  

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Location

Nguluway Room, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, 77 Darling Street Cowra, 2794, View Map