Exhibitions

2000-2010
Bertram Mackennal Education Programs

 

Exhibition | Artist | Events | Education | Monograph

 

Note: Limited student numbers per hour
 

Maquette for proposed memorial to Australian Sailors

Years K-6

Da Vinci Project
• Starting with art
1 hour • 8 students or less • free
A workshop tour for students with mild to moderate intellectual disabilities which includes discussion, art-making, role-play and the use of sensory materials. Pre- and post-visit activities are provided.

• HOT art
Years 5 & 6 • 1.5 hour • $187.50 per group of 15 or less
Workshop tour for gifted and talented students focusing on the sculpture of Bertram Mackennal leading students back to consider Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo's anatomical research. Workshops will focus on drawing and sculpture or dance. Pre- and post-visit activities are provided.
 

Years 7-12

Discussion tour
Figuring out form
Incorporating role-play and drawing as key interpretive skills, observe and explore sculptural form and the rendering of the human figure through key works in the Bertram Mackennal exhibition and the Gallery's collection.
1 hour • $127.50 per group of 15 or less
VAPDs and pencils essential. Other materials supplied

Da Vinci Project
• Starting with art
1 hour • 8 students or less
freeA workshop tour for students with mild to moderate intellectual disabilities which includes discussion, art-making, role-play and the use of sensory materials. Pre- and post-visit activities are provided.

HOT art
Years 7 & 8 • 1.5 hours
$187.50 per group of 15 or less
A workshop tour for gifted and talented students focusing on the sculpture of Bertram Mackennal leading students back to consider Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo's anatomical research. Workshops will focus on drawing and sculpture or dance. Pre- and post-visit activities are provided.
 

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Image: Bertram Mackennal Maquette for a proposed 'Memorial to Australian Sailors' Sydney Harbour c1925-26 Art Gallery of New South Wales. Gift of Brian Donegan 1991