Self Guided Tour Notes - ACT Museums and Galleries

WHAT DO ARTISTS MAKE
Self-Guided Tour
Orange Art-Stop
Blue Art-Stop
Title: Near Yass Artist Richard Larter
Green Art-Stop
Title: The essence of Place Artist Lyn Inall
Red Art-Stop
Title: Apex 2 Artist Kensuke Todo
Title: Murrumbeeja Towards Dooligah
Artist Matilda House
Yellow Art-Stop
Title: Early Canberra Artist A.E. MacDonald
Canberra Museum and Gallery
Cnr London Cct & Civic Square ACT 2608
Telephone 62071775

What Do Artists Make
5 Self-Guided
Art-Stops
Museum Behaviour
Careful walking bodies
Inside voices
Safe hands
remembering not to touch
the artwork
Don’t forget to use your looking eyes!

What Do Artists
Make
Self-Guided Tour
GALLERY 1
The Art-Stops are marked by coloured
boxes in Gallery 1
Use the map on your self-guided notes to
locate each
Art-Stop
At each Art-Stop use the artists’ tools
in the coloured boxes and
your self-guided notes
Allow 10 minutes at each Art-Stop
There is no particular sequence -
Just follow your nose!

Gallery 1 Map
= Red Art-Stop
= Green Art-Stop
= Yellow Art-Stop
= Orange Art-Stop
= Blue Art-Stop

Red Art-Stop
Title Murrumbeeja Towards Dooligah
Artist Matilda House
This artwork is called a Print. A Print is a very special kind of
stamp.
Use your drawing finger in the air to make lines
like Matilda’s lines.
What could Matilda’s lines be a picture about
Feel the lines which have been carved into the soft cut blocks.
Press hard with the drawing tool to make your own
wiggly lines in the red rectangle.
(Make sure a piece of paper is inserted in the folder first!)
An artist that makes prints is called a Printmaker!
Murrumbeeja is an aboriginal name for the Murrumbidgee River.
Dooligah is an aboriginal name for the star pictures in the night sky.

Green Art-Stop
Title Apex 2
Artist Kensuke Todo
This artwork is called a Sculpture.
A Sculpture is like a statue. You can see all the way
around a Sculpture.
What shapes can you see
Make a Sculpture using blocks
What shapes will you put on the top
An artist that makes sculptures is called a Sculptor!
Kensuke’s sculpture is made out of a type of metal called steel.
Imagine you are a tiny person..how would you climb to the top of
Kensuke’s sculpture

Yellow Art-Stop
Title Early Canberra
Artist A.E. MacDonald
This artwork is called a Painting. You might paint your own
Paintings at preschool.
What can you see on this farm
Pretend to Paint a farm using the brush and canvas.
Sing “Old MacDonald had a Farm”.
An atist that paints paintings is called a Painter!
This is a very old Painting. It was painted before you were born, before
your Mum and Dad were born and even before your
grandparents were born!
It is nearly 100 years old.

Blue Art-Stop
Title The Essence of Place
Artist Lyn Inall
This artwork is called a Quilt. A Quilt is a special
cover that you might have on your bed to
keep you warm.
What is the Quilt made from
Arrange the coloured fabric shapes to make a Quilt.
Back Wadding Quilt
An artist that makes quilts is called a Quiltmaker!
Lyn has used a needle and thread to sew all of the
Quilt shapes together.

Orange Art Stop
Title Near Yass
Artist Richard Larter
This artwork is called a Roller Painting.
What do these Roller lines make a story about
Use the Roller to paint rainbow lines in the air.
Sing “I Can Sing a Rainbow”
Red and yellow and pink and green,
Purple and orange and blue,
I can sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow,
Sing a rainbow too!
Use the felt boards to create a picture with the coloured felt arches
and dots.
An artist that paints paintings is called a Painter!
One rainy day Richard was travelling between Canberra
and Yass. He saw the rainy hills when he looked through the window,
and he decided to paint this painting.