PLAY DATES | Spring School Holidays 2026

10-11am Monday 28 September & 5 October | FREE, bookings required

Dancing the Gallery is a joyful movement workshop where families come together to dance, connect and explore. Responding to works of art and the unique gallery environment, dancer Estelle Brown will guide families through imaginative movement games and creative dance making. No need for any prior dance experience!  

Suitable for families with children 5 yrs and up.

10-10.45am Wednesday 30 September & 7 October 2026 | FREE, bookings required

Cranky Pants is a high-energy workshop for families set inside a colourful pop‑art world where you take centre stage! Participants explore disobedient feelings and rebellious design through costume, humour and playful experimentation. Using bold materials and unexpected combinations, you will collaborate on expressive looks that reject perfection and celebrate individuality. We will play with character, emotion and performance, discovering new ways to expand a sense of self on the catwalk.

Suitable for families with children 5 yrs and up.

10-11am Thursday 1 & 8 October 2026 | FREE, bookings required

Cardboard Couture is a wearable sculpture making workshop for families where visitors transform everyday materials into over-the-top accessories. Participants will imagine cardboard, string, tin, foil and other curious textures into opulent jewels, sophisticated handbags and extravagant hats. We will play with scale, value and function, exploring what it means to adorn our bodies in the most fabulous and unexpected ways. Push the boundaries of creativity, challenge what fashion can be, and redefine style!

Suitable for families with children 5 yrs and up.

10-11am Friday 2 & 9 October 2026 | FREE, bookings required

Drawing Together is a playful slow drawing workshop for families exploring expressive mark making, limited palette, and collaboration. Through thoughtful observation, response techniques and drawing games families will contribute to a collective artwork and explore individual experiments with pencil grip, tone, shading, line, scale and colour.

Suitable for families with children 5 yrs and up.

11am Tue 29 & Wed 30 Sep, Thu 1, Fri 2, Mon 5 – Fri 9 Oct 2026 (No tour on Mon 28 Sep) | FREE

Our Family Tours are led by our friendly Gallery Guides and invite children and their families to explore amazing artworks, share ideas, and spark creativity together. You’ll dive into stories behind the art, learn about how different materials are used, and enjoy lively conversations shaped by your own thoughts and imagination.

Suitable for children aged 5–12 and their grown-ups.

10am-5pm Wednesday-Monday, closed Tuesdays | FREE

Cranky Pants, in collaboration with UK artist Bruce Asbestos, is an interactive exhibition celebrating rebellious emotion and disobedient design. Set within a vivid pop art world of larger than life characters, families and participants of all ages are invited to design hyper-couture costumes and accessories for the catwalk.

Suitable for all ages.

3pm-4pm Wednesday-Monday, closed Tuesdays | FREE

Quiet Hour is for slow play and soft listening, offering a quiet space for whispering together and enjoying a lower sensory environment. Notice colours, textures, sounds and sensations. Listen to your heartbeat. Feel your breath rising and falling. Rest.

Suitable for all ages.

10am-5pm Daily | FREE

All the secrets are buried between the oceans and the mountains, is the first solo exhibition by acclaimed Western Australian artist Stormie Mills to be held at an Australian state gallery. A defining figure in Australian street art, Mills has spent four decades shaping the visual language of contemporary urban culture. This landmark exhibition presents a new body of work reflecting his global movements, personal history, and the encounters that have informed his distinctive practice since he first began painting in 1984.

10am-5pm Daily | FREE

Chivalry is dead? is a display of Mediaevalism in material from The State Art Collection. The exhibition highlights the tensions and ambiguities of the code of mediaeval chivalry as it reflects the ways that chivalric and mediaeval imagery reappear during moments of rapid social and technological change. In response to today’s interest in mediaeval culture, this exhibition explores mediaeval revival, courtly love and faerie tales in the art of nineteenth-century England to reveal the personal and political agendas that underlie the fantasy of ‘chivalry.’