Gallery 09
For Schools
For numbers, COVID safety and to ensure a positive experience for everyone, school groups are required to book and pay for a Teaching Artist-facilitated workshop in all Gallery 09 exhibitions.
Contact our Learning Team for details – educate@artgallery.wa.gov.au
Gallery 09 Interactive Exhibitions are:
• Flexible: There are always multiple entry points that allow children/audiences of all abilities and skill levels to take part in some way.
• Tactile: The materials are sensory, accessible and safe.
• Collaborative: The projects are designed so that children/audiences of all ages can share experiences, create together and build relationships.
• Interactive: The exhibitions are always interactive and provide opportunities for social/emotional learning in a multi-sensory environment.
• Empowering: Opportunities are provided for children/audiences to make choices and be agents of their own experience and learning.
• Open-ended: The creative opportunities are open-ended providing agency and opportunity for imagination, experimentation and discovery.
• Artist led: Development of projects is artist led. Participation provides access to artist processes and concepts using high quality materials to ensure children/audiences have access to genuine and meaningful arts practice.
• Co-designed: An emergent development process in collaboration with artists and children always informs the development of the project.
• Research driven: Long term projects and slow practice philosophies of ‘staying-longer’ create opportunities for research partnerships and meaningful evaluation of social/emotional impact and learning outcomes.
Forecast
Forecast is a place for feeling, inviting audiences of all ages and abilities to contemplate trees as family and weather as borderless, amid increasing environmental crisis and divisive times. At a time of increasing climate instability, we invite audiences to engage with First Nations understandings of environment as family, inviting reflection and deepening connection with our changing world.
Exquisite Bodies
Exquisite Bodies, in collaboration with disabled artist Bruno Booth, interrupts preconceived perceptions of disability and normativity. Through visitor interaction, experimentation and slow-play the figurative sculptures morph and change in unexpected ways.
Boorongur
Boorongur (Totem), in collaboration with artist Sharyn Egan, provides a shared space for audiences to consider a personal plant or animal totem, and contribute to the accumulation of families of small raffia and wool creatures. Sharyn Egan invites children and families to think about multi-species relationships and care for environments where human and non-human species cohabit.
Looking Out/Back/In
Looking Out/Back/In, in collaboration with artist Eveline Kotai, invites families to look OUT the newly revealed windows to the skyline, BACK in time to what the city might have looked like before, and IN towards the building’s architecture in this participatory all-ages exhibition and dedicated play space.
