Rock Faces: Cockatoo Island drawings

Drawing Week on Cockatoo Island

Rock faces everywhere.

Cockatoo Island Images

The cavernous buildings, the old machinery, the dwarfed students and the light that has a cathedral feel.

Cockatoo Island Drawing Week

Cockatoo Island is a small island in Sydney Harbour, once covered in red gums and frequented by sulphur crested cockatoos. A prison was built there early on, then it was converted to a shipyard then it spent some time in abandonment. Nowadays the public can visit and the National Art School sends all its second and third year students there for a drawing week at the start of the school year.
The old shipyard buildings are enormous ... ... and mainly bare though some of the original equipment remains.
During 'drawing week' there are students everywhere, sitting in corners and along walls, dwarfed by the size of the buildings.