Learning

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PICA School Tour. Photo by Annie Harvey.

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PICA School Tour. Photo by Annie Harvey.

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PICA School Tour. Photo by Annie Harvey.

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PICA School Tour. Photo by Annie Harvey.

PICA’s learning program is designed to foster creativity and innovation through hands-on experience with contemporary art.

PICA brings students and teachers up close and personal with contemporary artists, dancers, theatre-makers, musicians and innovators across a wide range of disciplines through an exciting program of events, activities and online resources.

Your primary and secondary school students can connect with contemporary art and ideas through tours designed to link to the curriculum.

Comprehensive Education Notes for previous exhibitions are available below.

Contact

Jenn Garland – Learning, People & Culture Manager
education@pica.org.au or 9228 6309

Hatched Learning

Hatched Schools Expo

Excursion Forms & Resources

2023

Robert Andrew: Held within a word

Excursion Details

Curriculum Links: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures; place, space and interconnection; historical significance  

Content Suitability: Best suited to tertiary and secondary students (Years 7–12) with a focus on Visual Arts, Humanities or STEM subjects.

Art Forms/Styles: Kinetic, installation and abstraction  

Length: Approx. 15-minute visit (we encourage schools to combine this with a tour of our other exhibitions)

Cultural Warning: A.O. Neville’s book Australia’s Coloured Minority features in the installation and contains offensive references to First Nations People (not visible to audiences). 

Sensory Description: Sudden loud noise (high-pitched electrical sound); dramatic flickering lights (not strobing, some rapid flashing)  

Rosa Barba: Emanations

Excursion Details

Curriculum Links: Sustainability; media arts; data and information; codes and conventions of media 

Content Suitability: Best suited to tertiary and secondary students (Years 9–12) with a focus on Visual Arts, Humanities or STEM.

Art Forms/Styles: Installation and media arts 

Length: 
Approx. 20-minute visit 

Content Description: Themes of environmental destruction

Sensory Description: Mild flickering lights (not strobing, some rapid flashing), moving text 

Archie Barry: Scaffolding (Preface)

Excursion Details

Content Suitability: Best suited to tertiary and secondary students (Years 9–12) with a focus on Media Arts, and Information and Communication Technology.  

Art Forms/Styles: Media arts and digital technologies  

Length: Approx. 15-minute visit

Content Warning: Mild fantasy themes and medical procedures which some children and young people may find confusing or upsetting (CGI cross-section of a floating head).

Sensory Description: Sudden loud noise (high-pitched electrical sound); dramatic flickering lights (not strobing, some rapid flashing)

2022

Nathan Beard: A Puzzlement

Pilar Mata Dupont: Las Hormigas/The Ants

Hatched National Graduate Show 2022

Hatched: National Graduate Show 2022 presents the work of leading emerging artists recently graduated from art schools across the nation. Since establishing Hatched in 1992 PICA has worked with generations of makers and watched many of them establish themselves as leading artists with enduring practices.

Selected by a panel of national and international artists and curators, the artists exhibiting as part of Hatched present a tantalising glimpse into the diverse and exciting practices of arts graduates in Australia, whose unique visions of the future are both urgent and compelling.

We hold you close – Katie West

Working with textiles and locally sourced plant matter, York-based artist Katie West’s immersive installations invite us to reconsider our relationship with the natural environment and each other. In her largest and most ambitious project to-date, We hold you close is a song for material intimacy that invites us to interact and engage in a sensory experience.

Gathering and learning from materials and one another is fundamental to West’s practice. In developing the exhibition, West invited friends and family to a natural dyeing workshop at her home on Noongar Ballardong boodja in York. Over two days, the group walked along the bilya collecting plant material. They made dye bundles and immersed them into pots of water on an open fire, to bubble away and become infused with the colour and scent of country. The group shared time around the fire, ate lunch, and drank cups of tea, waiting for the dye pot to do its work.

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