Holiday Drop-in: Soapy Sculptures

Holiday Drop-in: Soapy Sculptures

Explore sculpture carving… using soap! Inspired by Noriko Nakamura’s limestone and bronze sculptures, What our bodies bring to us, participants will use ceramic tools to carve, scrape and decorate their own 3D form using a bar of soap. Holiday Drop-in sessions run on Saturday mornings during the school holidays and are inspired by current MAMA exhibitions….

Holiday Drop-in: Glowing Collages

Holiday Drop-in: Glowing Collages

Enjoy a hands-on session exploring Wiradjuri Language through art making! Joined by special guest Little Ruthie, participants will create and decorate their own bird (gugubarra, garru, muraany – kookaburra, magpie or white cockatoo) using cardboard and mixed media. This activity celebrates Ruth Davys’ current Kids Gallery installation, Yamandhu wudhagarbinya? (Wiradjuri for are you listening?). Holiday…

Teens Workshop: Watercolour with Pinky Wittingslow

Teens Workshop: Watercolour with Pinky Wittingslow

Learn new and effective creative skills in this watercolour workshop for teens. The teens will create their own watercolour ‘patchwork quilt’ style artwork with illustrator Pinky Wittingslow. The students can paint their favourite memories whilst learning useful watercolour techniques. Workshop outline Warm up Students will learn how to use watercolours and how to achieve different…

Kids Workshop: Watercolour with Pinky Wittingslow

Kids Workshop: Watercolour with Pinky Wittingslow

Learn new and effective creative skills in this watercolour workshop for kids. Kids will create their own watercolour ‘patchwork quilt’ style artwork with illustrator Pinky Wittingslow. Kids can paint their favourite memories whilst learning useful watercolour techniques. This workshop is for primary school-aged children. Workshop outline Warm up Kids will learn how to use watercolours…

Artist talk & opening – Linda Sok: Reincarnations of an altar cloth

Artist talk & opening – Linda Sok: Reincarnations of an altar cloth

Celebrate the opening of Reincarnations of an altar cloth, an exhibition by Cambodian-Australian artist Linda Sok. Reincarnations of an altar cloth presents a selection of works from the ongoing series Deities in Temples, re-imagining lost, stolen, collected, and destroyed silk weavings. Collaborating with family members and drawing upon descriptions found on museum registration cards in…

Noriko Nakamura: What our bodies bring to us

Noriko Nakamura: What our bodies bring to us

Noriko Nakamura’s limestone sculptures explore the complexity of female embodied experiences. The monumental works of What our bodies bring to us specifically reflect on pregnancy and bodily transformation. Three works – Womb III, Woman, and Birth – relay a narrative of conception, gestation, and birth that is subtly complicated by organic and vine-line patterns and…

Kirtika Kain: Pitch

Kirtika Kain: Pitch

Kirtika Kain has an ongoing interest in the social classifications of materials, particularly as they relate to class and status. In her works, gold, bitumen, and turmeric combine to create intricate and luminous surfaces that highlight the aesthetic qualities of her chosen materials and complicate assumptions about their relative high or low value. The tar…

Teelah George: Fragile Armour

Teelah George: Fragile Armour

Dense embroidery, delicate chainmail, and found truck curtains come together in Teelah George’s Fragile Armour in a way that both reinforces and extends the material interests that drive her practice. Embroidery is an established and important part of George’s output, represented in Fragile Armour with Wall piece, a large textile composed of thousands of hand…

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