. Visiting the GallerySchool visits to the Gallery are available Tuesday to Friday, 10am – 5pm. Entry to all exhibitions and guided tours are FREE. If you would like to combine a practical workshop led by an artist with your tour, this can be arranged for a small cost. Contact the Gallery to see how we can tailor your visit to suit your students’ current curriculum.

Image: Students from Girls Empowerment Enrichment Program, March 2020.

Making a BookingThere are a number of ways you can book your visit to the Gallery:

Web: visit our website to plan your excursion wollongongartgallery.com/learning/Pages/Education.aspx

Phone: Julie Danilov on 02 4277 8506

Email: jdanilov@wollongong.nsw.gov.au

A minimum of 4 weeks notice is required for a guided tour or workshop.

Image: Year 6 students from our Local Landscapes Enrichment Program.

ENRICHMENT PROGRAM

Corner Kembla & Burelli streets Wollongong phone 02 4227 8500 www.wollongongartgallery.com www.facebook.com/wollongongartgalleryopen Tues-Fri 10am-5pm, weekends 12-4pm

Wollongong Art Gallery is a service of Wollongong City Council and receives assistance from the NSW Government through Arts NSW. Wollongong Art Gallery is a member of Regional and Public Galleries of NSW. WCC©5000283.6.20

WOLLONGONG THEN AND NOWYear 1: Friday 4 September Year 2: Friday 11 September 9:30am – 3pm $50 per student

Students will begin with a guided tour of Pamela Griffith’s exhibition, Wollongong Then and Now. Students will look at photographs by Charles Kerry, depicting landscapes within the Illawarra 130 years ago. The tour will focus on how Griffith’s paintings present the sites as they are today complete with modern interventions. Students will spend the remainder of the day learning how to draw a traditional landscape with a variety of materials. Teachers are not required to attend. Phone 4227 8506 or email jdanilov@wollongong.nsw.gov.au

ANITA JOHNSON LARKIN: COME TO ME WITHOUT A WORDYear 9 & 10: Friday 25 September 9:30am – 3pm $50 per student

Students will begin the day with a guided tour of Anita Larkin’s exhibition: Come to Me Without a Word. Anita Johnson Larkin will then conduct this workshop where students will create a soft sculpture out of a recycled soft toy. Textile components will be added to create a narrative within their work. Participants must bring their own soft toy, morning tea and lunch. All other materials will be provided. Teachers are not required to attend. For enquiries phone 42278506 or email jdanilov@wollongong.nsw.gov.au

Image: Anita Johnson Larkin, The Wandering Breath, 2017, salvaged vacuum cleaner parts, industrial and filter felt, thread, 43 x 120 x 80cm (variable).

Image: Pamela Griffith, Bulli Beach, 2018, acrylic, 30.5 cm x 30.5 cm

COVID-19: To help keep everyone safe, the Gallery will reschedule programs if required.

EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIESFOR SCHOOLSTERM 3 2020

SCHOOL HOLIDAY WORKSHOPSWollongong Art Gallery provides workshops and activities for children during school holidays. Artist-run activities include experimentation and investigation of various media in a casual and fun environment. Our next school holiday workshop program will be in October 2020. Participants must bring their morning tea and lunch for full day workshops.

These workshops change regularly and sell out quickly so book early. Check the Gallery’s website for further details closer to the date. For enquiries phone 4227 8500.

Image: Students in our Ken Done Sydney Opera House School Holiday Workshops, January 2020.

COMING UP AT WOLLONGONG ART GALLERY All exhibitions include free tours. Book your school in today!

COMING UP AT WOLLONGONG ART GALLERY All exhibitions include free guided tours. Book your school in today!

HALINKA ORSZULOK BLACK BOB'S CREEK 7 March – 23 August Mercury Gallery

Paintings which depict the local site of Black Bob’s Creek, a place lost in the sad passing of generations, relegated to the liminal space of ghost geography. If we take the time to listen, we know what was once there, in fact everywhere in the landscape – tracks, landmarks, special connections to place - a glaring absence that becomes an uncomfortable presence.

Image: Halinka Orszulok, Black Bob’s Creek, 2019, oil on canvas, 100 x 150cm

EVERY BODYWORKS FROM THE COLLECTION19 July – 11 July 2021 Dickson and Fine Galleries

A collection exhibition of narrative, mythological, historical and reflective depictions of the human body. Including painting, photographs, prints, ceramics, film and sculpture from across all gallery collection areas, Colonial and Early Australian, Indigenous, Asian and Contemporary Art.

Image: Max Dupain, Sunbaker (detail), 1936, silver gelatin print, 38.0 x 43.5 cm, Purchased 1999

ANITA JOHNSON LARKINCOME TO ME WITHOUT A WORD29 August – 11 October 2020 Sredersas Gallery

Abandoned and collected objects are combined with felt, beeswax, honey and lead in Larkin’s artworks offering themselves up as intimate poetry of love, longing and loss. Chairs, ladders, crutches, hot-water bottles, violins and beds, can be seen to stretch, slump, climb, smell of cloves, wrap themselves in the warmth of felt or emit the sound of bees.

Image: Anita Johnson Larkin, Holding breath, (breath repair series), 2020, performance: Breath Repair, photographs by Bernhard Fischer, 80 x 280cm

FABRICATIONS15 August - 15 November Gallery 1

Fabric is a resource which is created, worn, used and discarded in vast volumes every day. This exhibition includes sculpture, photography, painting and film by artists whose works utilise this abundant medium. The artists evolve fabric into new forms, exploit the capability of fabric to evoke memory and explore the fluid potential of fabric to drape, wrap, cover and mask.

This exhibition includes sculpture, textiles, photography, film, painting and prints from Wollongong Art Gallery’s collection and is supported by loans from Artbank, Art Gallery of New South Wales and Museum of Contemporary Art.

Image: Richard Goodwin, Maquette for Soho horse, 1989, cloth, steel, varnish, 58.0 x 78.0 x 28.0 cm, Gift of Peter Fay, 1996

BIG DAY ART Free Excursion for Secondary Visual Art ClassesYears 9, 10 and 11 Thursday 10 September 10am – 2pm

BIG DAY ART is a free excursion for Secondary Visual Art Students. Places are limited to 3 classes and each class must be from different schools. The day will include a Fabric as Sculpture workshop. Students will also hear from the Gallery’s Professional Officer about what it is like to curate an exhibition and will then curate their own exhibitions in groups. A writing task will also be featured where students will respond in a direct manner to a variety of artworks on display. For enquiries phone 4227 8506 or email jdanilov@wollongong.nsw.gov.au

PAMELA GRIFFITH WOLLONGONG THEN AND NOW 21 March – 25 October Mann-Tatlow Gallery

Photographs from 1890’s depicting the Illawarra by Charles Kerry are shown with works by Sydney based artist Pamela Griffith who has spent time in the local landscape. Griffith’s paintings present the sites as they are today complete with modern interventions and local people.

Image: Pamela Griffith, Wongawilli Colliery, 2019, acrylic, 41 x 51 cm

Image: Illawarra Christian School Students in Rosie Deacon’s Fashion Forest Seduction installation, 2019.