With Kai Hagberg and Anni Hagberg
How do we understand and influence the people closest to us? and what happens when we give one another permission to take creative control?
Presented alongside Overstepping at NorthSite Contemporary Arts, this two-part workshop invites 15 intergenerational pairs to explore making, interpretation and creative exchange across generations.
Led by artist Kai Hagberg and his daughter, artist and curator Anni Hagberg, the workshops draw on the ideas behind Overstepping: a collaborative exhibition shaped by the overlapping relationships of parent and child, artist and curator, and by questions of trust, influence and creative freedom.
Workshop One — Painting with Kai Hagberg
Saturday 14 November 2026 | 12-2pm · 2 hour duration •
In the first workshop, parents and parental figures will work with Kai to explore an intuitive approach to figurative painting that prioritises observation and the act of making over a predetermined outcome.
Participants will create work independently, without knowing exactly how it will later be interpreted or used by their child.
No previous painting experience is required.
Workshop Two — Curating with Anni Hagberg
Saturday 21 November 2026 | 12-1pm · 1 hour duration •
One week later, the children take over.
Led by Anni, participants will work with the paintings produced by their parent or parental figure in the first workshop, experimenting with selection, placement, cropping, relationships and context.
Through this process, they will consider how something new can emerge when another person is given permission to interpret or intervene in something we have made.
Together, the two workshops offer a playful introduction to the relationship between artist and curator while exploring the messier territory of trust, authorship, influence and collaboration within families.
Overstepping is a collaborative exhibition by Kai Hagberg and Anni Hagberg exploring the complex and often overlapping relationships between parent and child, artist and curator.
This project is supported by funding from the Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF). RADF is a partnership between the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland and Cairns Regional Council to promote local arts and culture in regional Queensland.
