Museum Season | fantastic forms
1 April – 18 June 2023
These learning experiences are informed by the 2023 Museum season exhibition fantastic forms and are connected conceptually to the themes and material practices of the artists and artworks.
Imaginative and playful connections to Bundanon as place are explored through the learning experiences. Sustainability in artmaking and materials choices also connects the three learning experiences.
Activities for Museum Season: fantastic forms
Spark Ideas (1 hour)
Learners explore and analyse artworks on display in the Art Museum. Consideration is given to the variety of artmaking practices, techniques utilised and colour, form and material themes evident. This art analysis will inform learners about their own artmaking in the connected suite of learning experiences.
By the Hand – The Fantastic Process (2 hours)
Playful exploration drives this drawing activity. Learners generate a small collection of energetic, intuitive drawings that incorporate collage and multimedia. This collection influences development of a resolved work that re-imagines Bundanon’s natural environment.
The workshop considers both Merric Boyd’s vividly coloured, energetic drawings and ceramics, Nabilah Nordin’s sculptural exploration of the awkward, the wonky and the colourful, and Stephen Benwell’s modestly heroic figures. This provides a fresh approach to seeing the world in a colourful new light.
Impossible Things – Precarious Sculptures (3 hours)
“What can this be? What can this do?” (Nabilah Nordin)
Rehearsing, exploring, constructing, deconstructing, recreating: an active process of exploration will drive this collaborative sculpture workshop. Using found and re-use items, a consideration of sustainability will underpin this activity.
Inspired by the sculptures of Nabilah Nordin, learners will explore the properties of materials, considering themes of impermanence, temporal transformation, and the boundaries of what is possible/impossible. Learners will document the sequence of sculptures created before returning their sculptures to component parts for reuse.
What happens here? Storyboards for the unexpected (3 hours)
Imaginative visual story-telling is the apparatus for responding directly to Bundanon as a place of one’s own experience. Alongside cartooning, drawing and collage, learners can choose outcomes from a variety of animation or storyboarding techniques.
Storyboard making and sequential animation respond to viewing Rubyrose Bancroft’s video works and discussing ideas about protagonist and story in Steven Benwell’s expressive figurative work.
Two-night program includes:
9 hours of connected learning activities led by Bundanon’s specialist team
- Spark Ideas (1hr)
- By the Hand – The Fantastic Process (2 hrs)
- Impossible Things – Precarious Sculptures (3 hrs)
- What happens here? Storyboards for the unexpected (3 hrs)
All art materials for each of the above activities.
All activities tailored to the stage required.
Activities take place on the Art Museum site.
Time for students to connect and undertake continuous learning.
Learning in spaces designed to connect with the natural world.
Contemporary accommodation with linen and towel provided.
Healthy and fresh onsite catering from afternoon tea on day one through to lunch on day three.
Two nights provides opportunities to undertake:
- Bundanon’s optional extension activities, see below.
- Time for a deep dive into your own constructed learning.
Cost from $400 per person
One-night program includes:
6 hours of connected learning activities led by Bundanon’s specialist team
- Spark Ideas (1hr)
- By the Hand – The Fantastic Process (2 hrs)
- Impossible Things – Precarious Sculptures (3 hrs) OR What happens here? Storyboards for the unexpected (3 hrs)
All art materials for each of the above activities.
All activities tailored to the stage required.
Activities take place on the Art Museum site.
Time for students to connect and undertake continuous learning.
Learning in spaces designed to connect with the natural world.
Contemporary accommodation with linen and towel provided.
Healthy and fresh onsite catering from afternoon tea on day one through to lunch on day two.
One night provides opportunities to undertake:
- Bundanon’s optional extension activities, see below.
Cost from $210 per person
Day visit program includes:
3 hours of connected learning activities led by Bundanon’s specialist team
- Spark Ideas (1hr)
- By the Hand – The Fantastic Process (2 hrs)
All art materials for each of the above activities.
All activities tailored to the stage required.
Activities take place on the Art Museum site.
Time for students to connect and undertake a day of continuous learning.
Cost from $25 per person
