Peer2peer is a new education initiative which continues the Gallery’s development of a comprehensive youth audience strategy (ages 13-18). This strategy already incorporates the annual ARTEXPRESS exhibition and InsideARTEXPRESS website, as well as the Artside-In outreach program for disadvantaged teenage students.
Peer2peer is a unique program specifically focused on teenage students in the Gallery context that offers them a public voice, a rich engagement with the visual arts and its professional world, and an enhanced social, vocational and educational experience.
The project – a first for a major Australian public gallery – invites Year 11 and 12 Visual Arts students from diverse NSW schools, to be trained in video/filmmaking techniques and interview skills, for the purpose of producing video interview resources about practising artists and their work presented in the Gallery’s exhibitions or held in its collections.
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The role of the Gallery
Student interviews with Gallery staff, including the director, a curator, a collections registrar, a conservator, the installation crew and painters
Videos (13 Flash videos • total length approx 1.5 hrs)
Mari Velonaki
In association with the exhibition Double Take
Student interview with artist Mari Velonaki
Video (Flash video • 8m:32s • 64.3 MB)
ARTEXPRESS 2009
In association with the exhibition ARTEXPRESS 2009
Student interviews with ARTEXPRESS artists
Videos (7 Flash videos • average 5m:30s • average 40 MB)
More information on the peer2peer project
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