Looking and Interpreting
Stop, look and respond. Engage with original works of art through observation, interpretation and discussion. Enrich your visual arts knowledge while developing visual literacy, critical skills and vocabulary. Consider meaning and context and investigate approaches for interpretation and analysis.

Introducing the Gallery
Get to know your Gallery. Become familiar with its history, site and gallery spaces, as well as the breadth of the collections, in a fun and informative way.

The Role of the Museum
What is the role of the museum in establishing, maintaining and challenging cultural values? Investigate the principles of selection, order and display and architecture that underpin the collections. Consider how collections of artworks in galleries can communicate an individual's point of view or a society's narrative through time to audiences.

Researching the Library
A brief introduction for students and teachers of all disciplines to the Gallery's Research Library and Archive as a key resource for historical and critical research. Guided by Library staff, learn about the extensive material available, how to locate it and use it effectively for researching the fine arts.

7-12 Gallery Focus

Focusing on investigations, interpretations and experiences of the Gallery, its galleries and spaces and the collections and art forms presented to audiences.

Subjects, Themes and Genres
Explore an enduring subject or genre from the artworld through key works across the gallery's collection. Critically compare and contrast how artists have approached these ideas over time.
Select from: people, objects, other living things, places and spaces, or portraits, still life, landscape, religious images, abstraction vs. representation, 2D vs. 3D.

Yiribana: Tracking Diversity
Experience connections to country, culture and community by responding to featured artworks in the Yiribana Gallery's permanent collection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art. Investigate and discuss contemporary Indigenous practice, narratives and concerns.

Engaging Australia
Discover the changing images and stories of Australian art and history from contact and colonisation to Federation during and between the World Wars to present time. Uncover our changing relationship to this country and the rest of the world through artists' responses over time and place.

Tall Tales and True
Read, re-enact and re-live, the colourful stories, narratives and histories woven through the grand European paintings, sculptures and spaces of the ‘old courts'. Discover the artists and art histories at the heart of the Gallery and their influence on other artworks in across collections.

Myriad Visions
Explore the religious and artistic currents in the Asian collection, including ancestor worship, Hinduism and Buddhism that have moved across Asia over the centuries and continue to find expression in the work of contemporary Asian artists.

Signs and Symbols
Investigate cultural symbolism and artistic processes as expressed through the diverse range of media in the Asian collection including stone, wood, ceramics, textiles, metalwork, scroll painting and folding screens.
Teachers may select a cultural focus: China, Japan, India or Southeast Asia

The Contemporary Challenge
Be challenged by the ideas of contemporary art. Discover meaning in this sometimes complex world through engaging with artworks and reflecting on what art might or could be. Discuss the ideas, issues, theories and changing contexts of a selection of artworks from the late 20th to now.

Photo-media
Consider the diverse nature of photographic practice from its early historical beginnings to contemporary practice and discuss process, technique, issues and theories. Includes access to the Prints and Drawings Study room.

7-12 Syllabus Focus

Focusing on investigations, interpretations and experiences of the New South Wales Visual Arts syllabus content through the Gallery and its collection as a key resource.

Frames of Reference
Identify, define and apply. Build your students' confidence using the Frames as a tool for critical think and analysis. Develop an informed point of view and articulate responses to historical and contemporary artworks.

The Conceptual Framework
Define and identify the agents of the artworld: artwork, artist, audience and world. Decode their dynamic meanings, relationships and influence on one another as evidenced in key art works, the Gallery, its spaces and collections. Who or what are you?

Body of Work
Consider the concept of a body of work with reference to selected artists in the collection. Discuss the development of ideas, materials and processes over time and place. Teachers may request a specific focus.

Unpacking practice and process
Investigate a key art form and its processes as practiced by artists across time, cultures and the Gallery's collections. Discover the unique and diverse possibilities they offer by unpacking art works through the processes, tools and materials with which they were made.
Select from: Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking or Drawing

Material Matters
Investigate the 'stuff of art' and why materials matter when exploring the artwork as a real object. Consider the artist's selection and use of materials. Discuss the artwork's physical properties, its presence and impact on the space and the viewer, historical origins and how the use of materials contributes to the meaning of the artwork.

Art-Write
An extended, 90-minute workshop tour with structured writing exercises. Investigate the skills and practices of the curator, art historian and critic. Investigate examples of art writing including artwork captions and panels, catalogues and reviews, analysing their use and audiences. Compose, compare and present written responses to artworks on the Gallery floor. VAPD and pencil essential.

Study Mornings

Introducing the Gallery/Collection
Focusing on key art works, these Study Mornings are designed to introduce large groups of students to the Gallery and its collections. Designed to promote looking and interpreting skills, empowering students when viewing original art works in the collection.
Based on the Gallery's Collection Education Kits as a key support resource for Self-guided visits.
Select from: Gallery, Asian collection, Australian collection, Contemporary collection, Aboriginal collection art or Photography Collection.

11-12 Study After Hours

Having trouble organising excursions to the Gallery during normal school hours? Use the Gallery's education programs and Research Library after hours. Then stay on and introduce students to the Gallery's nightlife during the very popular Art After Hours on Wednesday evenings.
Please note: Study After Hours does not include Student Study Mornings, Artist Workshops or Brett Whiteley Studio Programs.

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