Holiday Workshops brochure (959 KB pdf) - Bendigo Art Gallery

Holiday Program
Join us this spring for some great art activities
inspired by the season and our current exhibitions.
Workshops for students aged 4 to 7 years
and 8 to 14 years.

Holiday Workshops
24 September – 3 October
4 – 7 YEARS
All students participating in these workshops must be accompanied by an adult.
$7.50 per session. Accompanying adults free!
Spring Mobiles
Create a colourful spring mobile of handmade birds and blossoms. Using a range
of decorative papers, card, pens, wire and wool these mobiles are sure to brighten
up any room.
11am – 12pm Tuesday 24 September and 1 October
1.15 – 2.15pm Wednesday 25 September and 2 October
Creatures Alive
It’s spring and it seems everything has come to life. In this workshop participants
will create their own creative creature using wire, foam, felt and more. After the
creature has been made, participants can also choose to create a web or home in
which their creature could live.
1.15 – 2.15pm Tuesday 24 September and 1 October
11am – 12pm Wednesday 25 September and 2 October

8 – 14 YEARS
$10.50 per session
Optical Art
Inspired by some of the paintings in our current exhibition, participants in this
workshop will have the opportunity to learn a little of the history and aims of optical
art and then create optical artworks of their own using coloured markers and pens.
*Optical (Op) art works are abstract, with many of the better known pieces made in black and
white. When the viewer looks at them, the impression is given of movement, hidden images,
flashing and vibration, patterns, or alternatively, of swelling or warping.
11am – 12.30pm and 1.30 – 3.00pm Thursday 26 September
11am – 12.30pm and 1.30 – 3.00pm Thursday 3 October
Bookings essential for all workshops
Payment must be made at time of booking
Workshop dates may be swapped but unfortunately no refunds are available.
Bendigo Art Gallery
42 View St
Bendigo VIC 3550
T 03 5434 6088

Current Exhibitions
Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize 2013
3 August – 6 October 2013
Now in its tenth year, the Guy Prize provides the opportunity to survey contemporary painting by
attracting many high calibre and emerging artists from across Australia. Bendigo Art Gallery is
grateful for the opportunity to showcase artworks by the selected finalists on each occasion and
acquire the winning work from each exhibition, and looks forward to the continuation of this
prestigious and highly regarded acquisitive award.
Experimenta Speak to Me
7 September - 13 October 2013
Experimenta is Australia’s leading contemporary media arts organisation dedicated to
commissioning, exhibiting and touring the best of contemporary new media art. Experimenta Speak
to Me, is an invitation to consider what it means, at this time, to be together. Our ability to
communicate with each other anywhere, all of the time - ultimate interconnectivity - has been with
us for some time. In a rapidly changing technological field, how do we now consider these new
relationships to the world, technology and each other? What does this connectedness now offer
us? Visitors will be inspired to investigate these contemporary questions as they enjoy the work in
the exhibition by some of Australia's leading media artists.
Art for the People: Bendigo Art Gallery 1887 - 2013
Post Office Gallery
16 August 2013 – 27 January 2014
Bendigo Art Gallery, established in 1887, has played, and continues to play an important role in the
local Bendigo community. The Gallery has existed for the delight of the people since a desire for a
Gallery was expressed in Mayor P Hayes letter (11 May 1887) to the principal citizens to ‘prove of
great service to the young people growing up around us’. Considered a cultivating and educating strength of
the community, the Gallery continues to endeavor to collect, preserve and display works of art … for the
pleasure and education of the public. In more recent years it has positioned itself as the most profiled
and significant cultural venue in regional Australia. Drawing on the archives of Bendigo Art
Gallery, the exhibition has been curated to offer a glimpse into the story and journey so far for the
much loved and respected people’s gallery.