28 October 2023 – 11 February 2024
These learning experiences are informed by the 2023 Museum season, Miwatj Yolŋu– Sunrise People, and are connected to the ideas, themes and material practices of the artists and artworks.
Connections to ideas of reciprocity and mutuality underpin this learning program. Three learning experiences explore our connections with water, land and sky through art making and appreciation.
Museum Season Learning Activities:
Spark Ideas (1 hour)
Learners explore and respond to artworks on display in the Art Museum. Consideration is given to the variety of art making practices, including themes of materiality and storytelling of ecologies in First Nations Yolngu art. This exhibition will inform and inspire learners about their own art making in the connected suite of learning experiences.
Of Water (2 hours)
Who are you and what is your water story? Reflect on what you know about water near you and your relationships to water. Do you swim? Do you have a strong memory of walking in the rain? Or through a storm? Represent this relationship to water using Bundanon water, water-based media, wax resist and oil pastels to create a triptych.
Each panel focuses on: personal water stories, consideration of water in the environment, and water at Bundanon. The exercise explores water as a medium for art making and utilises both traditional and experimental approaches. Together, consider the group’s collective work in a grid to notice connections, similarities and differences.
From Trees (3 hours)
In this Bundanon landscape, explore patterns and ecologies of trees over time. Trees have stories. Take your paper to the tree. Use rubbing and drawing techniques to create a series of records of this meeting. Then take your records to inspire a 3D collage work that narrates a relationship with trees. Collaborate with your peers to curate a conversational forest, bringing individual works into conversation with each other.
Our Celestial Spheres (3 hours)
This activity is only available to learners who stay overnight. Experience the sky at Bundanon during ‘night’ and ‘day’. Consider what different skies show us and hide from us and how this prompts memory of previous experiences of sky.
Remember a past-moment of experiencing the celestial sphere and use micron pens, pencils and gouache to create a tondo (round artwork), where ‘up doesn’t matter’ and your moment is visually connected to a time in the celestial sphere (e.g., surise, sunset, night, day, night and day at once).
Two-night program includes:
9 hours of connected learning activities led by Bundanon’s specialist team
- Spark Ideas (1hr)
- Of Water (2 hrs)
- From Trees (3 hrs)
- Our Celestial Spheres (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)
- Of Water (2 hrs)
- From Trees (3 hrs) OR Our Celestial Spheres(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)
- Of Water (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
