Tin Sheds

Tin Sheds was founded in 1969 Officially designated as a place for students to study and practise the methods of the old masters, the founding artists and other tutors encouraged students of the arts, architecture, and engineering students (and anyone else) to dream and create all manner of artworks; Renowned sculptor Bert Flugelman was coordinator of Tin Sheds from the beginning until 1973. He became a lifelong friend of Brook. Bernard Smith was involved with the workshop, and wanted to change the name to Fine Arts University Workshop. in 1970. The Earthworks Poster Collective was based at Tin Sheds for the whole of its existence, from 1972 to 1979. During this time, Tin Sheds was officially known as the Sydney University Art Workshop. The School of Architecture, Design and Planning was always a supporter of the workshop, and from late 70s the Tim sheds offered courses recognised for credit by the Fine Arts and Architecture departments of the university. In 2004 Tin Sheds moved into new purpose-built workshops and a gallery in the school, at 148 City Road, Darlington. ==Optronic Kinetics==

A few medical and engineering students began to use their expertise with computer graphics,) and Jim McDonnell (b.1948). Along with Flugelman, the students created "conceptually ambitious and humorous works" such as Cubed tree, Feathered office, and Flashing boob. Other works included Electronic colour organ and Reflector. Feathered office' (1971) was described by Brook thus: "One Monday morning I was delighted to find my own room transformed with chicken feathers... set with their quills in an obsessively regular grid, as if the room had sprouted them, to its own astonishment, out of its own naturally tidy follicles".{{cite journal | last1=Green | first1=Charles| first2=Heather|last2= Barker | title=Flight from the Object: Donald Brook and the Emergence of Post-Studio Art in Early 1970s Sydney| website=Index Journal | url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282664197| doi=10.38030/emaj.2009.4.2 | issue= 4 |date=2009 A collection of Optronic Kinetics' work was gifted to Flinders University Museum of Art (FUMA) by Brook, as Emeritus Professor at the university. ==Tin Sheds Gallery==

The Tin Sheds Gallery hosts exhibitions and issues publications relating to national and international architecture, art, design and urbanism. ==Legacy==

Tin Sheds was the only experimental art workshop at the time; Inhibodress, founded by Mike Parr and Peter Kennedy, grew out of it, and soon other alternative venues proliferated. ==People==

Others involved with the organisation of Tin Sheds include: • Vivienne Binns, tutor in painting and drawing at Tin Sheds in the late 1980s • Chips Mackinolty (Earthworks Poster Collective) • Frances Phoenix, researcher of the history of women's needlework, tutor in women's needlework) Artists who took courses at Tin Sheds include: • Barbara Campbell (born 1961), Super 8 course, 1987 • Michael Riley (1960–2004), photography course == See also ==