Joy and Hisba

At Artbox, creativity always goes hand-in-hand with joy! We prioritise enjoyment in all aspects of our programme and foster a friendly, supportive environment in our studio to enable this. 

Hisba is an artist who has fully embraced joy in the first few months of 2024. A prolific artist, Hisba loves to experiment, continually finding new subjects to focus on and new materials to explore. Having always been drawn to coastal scenes in her painting and drawing, Hisba has moved her interest into three dimensions, building a beach scene with characters that she is creating stop-motion animations from.

Under a bright blue painted sky and atop a beautiful rice-grain beach, Hisba’s beach party has all the components for a fun-filled summer day: ice creams, flying volleyballs, blasting stereos, huge seagulls, and of course, dancing crabs with big grins on their faces.

Being an artist constantly brings opportunities to play while also learning new skills. In making the set and models for the beach scene, Hisba has learned new modelling techniques. While creating a storyboard, learning stop motion and adding sound to her videos has pushed her practice in a whole new direction.

Ultimately, the result has been a lot of fun and laughs in the studio as Hisba, the artists and our volunteers have got to experience the creation of Hisba’s world of summer and fun.