Learning
PICA School Tour. Photo by Annie Harvey.
PICA School Tour. Photo by Annie Harvey.
PICA School Tour. Photo by Annie Harvey.
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
Excursion Forms & Resources
Public Liability Certificate (Certificate of Currency)
Excursion Management Plan
2023
Robert Andrew: Held within a word
Excursion Details
Curriculum Links: Media arts; data and information; codes and conventions of media; information and communication technologies
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)
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)
Hatched: National Graduate Show 2023
Excursion Details
Student Suitability: Best suited to tertiary and secondary students (Years 7–12) with a focus on Visual Arts, Media Arts, Performing Arts and Humanities. Ideal for Year 11 and 12 Visual Arts ATAR.
Curriculum Links: Sustainability; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures; Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia; Commentaries; Points of view; Differences; Identities; Place, space and interconnection; Social, cultural and historical contexts; Media arts; Data and information; New technologies.
Art Forms/Styles: Installation, textile arts, media arts, interactive arts, digital technologies, ceramics, jewellery, painting, conceptual arts, bio arts, abstraction; time and motion-based artwork
Sensitive Content: References to environmental destruction, gender identity, power and oppression, AIDS epidemic, graffiti, themes which some people may find confusing or upsetting (person wearing a hood over their head in a dark space).
Sensory Description: dramatic flickering lights (not strobing, some rapid flashing), moving interactive images (high contrast white stars on dark background), bright colourful light (dual channel video installation, not strobing or 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.
Hatched 2022 – Think: Secondary Student Worksheet [PDF]
Hatched 2022 – Teach: Educator Resource [PDF]
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.