Art Binge

01/06/2026

Hello from me (Emily) at Art Binge! Just dropped on the website are some fresh courses from here until the end of the year. Amongst them are some firm faves as well as some cool surprises, such as a Two-day Intensive Specimen Drawing Club, Evening Prinmaking Studio and Watercolour Wednesdays! I'd love to see you at one or more of these courses and if you have any Qs just reach out!

This week one student from our Watercolour Wednesday team said to me, "I'm no longer scared of mixing colours." This is huge and made me feel so excited for them. Here we see a massive shift away from a scarcity minset towards a sense freedom to play. When you deeply learn the fundamentals, you're no longer alone guessing.

Whether you are a beginner, or a beginner at heart, Art Binge is great place to start!

See you soon,
Emily

www.laboratoryartbinge. com

08/05/2026

Tired of thinking about creativity? Ready to make time for yourself?

Been a while since you got back drawing? This class is for you.

A safe and supportive community to nurture your unique creative voice and build a drawing practice from the ground upwards.

Beginner Drawing Classes

4 x TUESDAY NIGHTS

My Beautiful Laundrette ( )
151/153 Brunswick St,
Fitzroy VIC 3065

12 May - 02 June

7pm-9pm

All materials provided

Cost $250/ $190 bring a friend

To book:

www.laboratoryartbinge.com/melbourne

Emily x

12/04/2026

I'm looking forward to sharing some insight on my arts practice at the Castlemaine Art Museum next Sunday the 19th of April at 3:30-5pm. Come and enjoy a glass of wine or juice and let me take you places. I am framing this talk through the lens of observing and reimagining the body. There's quite a bit to chew on there.

These talks help to raise funds for the gallery and I'm delighted to have been invited to speak.

Emily 😊

Exciting talk with artist Emily Fong. She will discuss her art and her creative approach to life, death, embodiment, emotion, and interspecies relationships.

29/03/2026

Bendigo, we love you! Our team enjoyed getting up close and personal with textures and exploring scale. We used our bodies like microscopes, zooming in and out to play with compositon and storytelling.

It fills me with so much joy to see people become comfortable enough with their surroundings to sink in and explore. Well done team!

You can join us for a drop-in drawing day on Saturday the 11th or 18th of April in Rosalind Park, Bendigo.

After then, our Beginner Watercolour Class starts in the laundrette on Wednesday the 22nd April for 6 weeks, 2-4pm.

Emily x

www.laboratoryartbinge.com

27/02/2026

It is final days to see the Experimental Print Prize 2025 at the - Closing Sunday, March 1st. Here is fellow drawing master looking so bright and playful as she engages with my piece. I feel very lucky to live and work on this incredible Dja Dja Wurrung Country surrounded by so many creative and beautiful minds.

You too are invited to put on the gloves and spend an intimate moment exploring my work in the coming days.

Many thanks to all who have taken the time to see it thus far and to the gallery staff who have kept it safe over the past few months. This prize has enabled me to undertake further research into the printmaking processes of stone lithography and 3D printing, and for this I'm very grateful.

Many thanks to you, Melissa, for these words:

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Emily Fong
The stone on my shoulders is chasing light between boulders

This is a multidimensional, participatory work that occupies time and space, that bridges the past and present: 2D tetra pak, drypoint print, 3D printing, and 4D temporality through a photography reel of local landscape and print, and the soundscape of disembodied breath — breath that is rhythmic, yet undeniably human and personal.

We are invited into the artist’s psycho-geographical experience of oneself in the land and the land within us. Locals can speak of the timeless landscape of Dog Rocks at Leanganook: a place where you can feel the presence ancient land spirits; where massive boulders redefine your sense of human scale, presence and perspective.

This is an interactive, relational work. You are invited to hold the stone, cup the ear. Emily asks you to step into a poetic space. She asks for your presence: to listen, to look, to feel and to hold; to find and draw associations between the elements on hand; to imagine and to discover a narrative from glimpses and suggestions, from the clues you have been offered.

Melissa Proposch
8 November 2025

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The temporal bone 3D printed within this work is from the Open 3D Man project. This incrrdible open source anatomical model of the male human body can be found at anatomytool.org.

23/02/2026

The Juggle...yesterday I spoke about the balance of being a bad business woman and in the same breath being an assistant to small human. One of my favourite roles in life is to be the creative assistant. The one who cleans and refills the water pot, holds the rag, and guides gently...marvelling confidently without judgement at the decision making of pure unbridled joy. It is this crucial and tender point that many folk turn away from creativity. Art Binge invites you back. We create the safe space you need to learn from mistakes and develop trust in your own way of seeing the world and your place in it.

I don't have this treasure on social media, mostly because they are too beautiful they'd likely break your screen. And secondly because consent/privacy can't yet be understood, let alone given. Being a parent is the best. Teaching art is also the best. Making art is freedom. Freedom is the best.

Come find me when you're ready. 🫶🏾

Emily x

22/02/2026

Coming Up in the laundrette are Beginner Drawing Classes & Show and Tell for Grown-ups! We begin again in the laundrette on Tuesday nights from the 3rd of March. The "earlybird" price is still up online because I am a bad business woman and the juggle is real!

I recently had a terrific conversation with the lovely Martin Lee from on Castlemaine's Main FM. When we'd wrapped up, the most beautiful anonymous text came through the textline. I keep thinking about it and want to share it here.

"Hello! I've had to pull over to text this so that Siri doesn't bungle it up - I want to get this right: thanks Emily, you've got me thinking and feeling. I've been told I can draw, but nothing freaks me out more than drawing... loving how you frame what is important in art. I already KNOW what you're saying but thanks for reminding me that our art is OUR art and our eyes are OUR eyes. My desire to create is piqued. Cheers."

Thank you to this person who took the time to listen, pull over, and articulate this beautifully real response. I hope that we meet if we haven't already. I also hope that if you want to draw (however terrifying) that you give yourself permission to do so, little by little. Drawing freaks me out too (fact). But equally it fills me with wonder and joy and often above all else it is what keeps me well. It is the way that I can manage to be most present in the world. My hands are actually often the ones leading the show. It is also a pressure valve for me. Without it, I accumulate too much, see and feel too much with nowhere to put it.

I started these drawing classes in the laundrette and beyond because connection is survival and joy in community is what I truly need.

For anyone who resonates with any of the above, come find me, when the time is right for you. Let me open some creative doors beside you. That would be my absolute pleasure.

Emily x

Ps: the recording of my conversation with Martin can be found on the interwebs somewhere if you'd like a playback. I'd give you the link, but...the juggle. 🫶🏾

08/11/2025

What an honour to be awarded the emerging artist prize at today for the Experimental Print Prize 2025. Congratulations to all of the artists whose high calibre work I am humbled to be sitting amongst. Thank you to the judges for your time and energy spent with all of the works, the gallery team who have taken such care with the install, and to all who have supported this prize which champions experimentation, risk taking, and the expansion of what printmaking is and can be. I'm feeling grateful, buoyant, and inspired.

A special thank you to .mackenna.studio .museum.of.loss.and.renewal whose constant guidance, mentorship and friendship I am blessed by. 💖
Emily Fong
The stone on my shoulders is chasing light between boulders, 2025
Moving image (4m15s), drypoint on tetrapak, photography, sound, 3D printed bone, USB-C, stone.
Courtesy of the artist

A conversation between stone and bone, this work is a photographic psychogeographical study of the Leanganook Mountain Dog Rocks, and an exploration of the interior of the human head in intaglio print. The rhythm of the breathing apparatus accompanies the viewer as a metronome and embodied presence within the deep cavity of the boulder and the interior flesh and bone scaffold of the body.

The work is embedded within a 3D printed human temporal (ear) bone connected to stone; inviting the viewer to hold open the conversation, with care.

The bone printed in this work is a component of the Open 3D Man (CC BY SA), an Open Source and FREE Digital Model of Human Anatomy in which Emily Fong is one of two key modellers. The model can be accessed via https://anatomytool.org/open3dmodel.

This work was made on Djaara Country; the unceded lands of the Dja Dja Wurrung people, with great respect to Elders past, present, and future.

06/11/2025

Today was a brilliant day! Art Binge had a one day collab with Melissa Edwards Vmch in Bendigo, supporting local carers with a day of drawing, good food and sunshine! So much fun...and these drawings? Jaw dropping. 4 hours, and we all left relaxed and amazed by what we'd achieved as a team. Bravo all. ❤️✍️🏽🌱