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Extending practical artmaking skills - using wire as a sculptural medium

Explore aluminium wire as a medium for creating a sculpture. Working with wire provides students with a great opportunity for problem solving as they consider line, space, shape, weight and balance. Aluminium wire can be easily adapted to your classroom as it's a pliable material that can be cut with scissors and is suitable ...

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Serious fun: a conversation with Yoshitomo Nara and Hideki Toyoshima

This is a video of an interview with the Japanese pop artist Yoshitomo Nara and his long-term collaborator, the Osaka designer Hideki Toyoshima, about the 2010 exhibition 'Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody's fool'. The interview is conducted by the exhibition curator, Miwako Tezuka, and is provided in two formats: a short 3-minute ...

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'Garak the Universe - larrakitj', 2005

This is a larrakitj (hollow funeral pole) sculpture created and painted by Yolngu artist Gulumbu Yunupingu. It depicts the universe ('Garak'); not only all the stars that can be seen with the naked eye but everything that exists beyond. The larrakitj is shown here in a colour image that can be enlarged and is accompanied ...

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Yoshitomo Nara: nobody's fool

This is a website introducing the exhibition, 'Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody's fool' (2010-11, USA) featuring artworks by the Japanese pop artist. Information about the exhibition is organised under three headings: Isolation, Rebellion and Music. Also included are images and information about Nara's installations (including a ...

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Patricia Piccinini

This is a PDF resource that focuses on the artworks of artist Patricia Piccinini, based on the exhibition 'Patricia Piccinini: Once upon a time ...' at the Art Gallery of South Australia (2011), and explores themes such as biodiversity and biotechnology. It comprises 28 pages and includes background information on the artist, ...

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Let's draw

Students explore drawing through a guided illustration with illustrator Aura Parker and one of her characters from the 2019 Premier's Reading Challenge Poster.

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e-Museum: app for Android

This Android application contains high-resolution images and descriptions of over 1,000 items from four Japanese museums: Tokyo National Museum, Kyoto National Museum, Nara National Museum and Kyusyu National Museum. The images are organised into twelve categories: Painting, Calligraphy, Sculpture, Architecture, Metalwork, ...

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Julie Gough, 'Some Tasmanian Aboriginal children living with non-Aboriginal people before 1840', 2008

This is a sculpture by Trawlwoolway artist Julie Gough representing the experiences of Tasmanian Aboriginal children living with non-Aboriginal people. It was exhibited in the second National Indigenous Art Triennial,' unDisclosed', at the National Gallery of Australia (NGA). Further information about the artists and the ...

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Rosalie Gascoigne: 'Suddenly the Lake', 1995

This resource includes an enlargeable image, with corresponding catalogue information, of the four-part series of assembled landscapes 'Suddenly the lake' by Rosalie Gascoigne. There is also a video with audio commentary providing an interpretation of the artwork. The corresponding onscreen text gives additional information ...

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Peter Laszlo Peri and Constructivism

This lesson explores questions about the nature of Constructivism and what can we learn about it from the work of artist Peter Laszlo Peri? This lesson can be used to start a sculpture project, to develop drawing skills and use of sketchbooks to develop ideas, to gain an understanding of the routes of abstraction and/or ...

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Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and abstraction

What can we learn from one artist and his development towards abstraction? Gaudier-Brzeska became a very influential figure in 20th-century sculpture in England and France. Why was he so influential and what can we learn today from his artistic development? This lesson can be used to start a sculpture project, to develop ...

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Antony Gormley: Angel of the North

This lesson plan was inspired by The Angel of the North and the work of sculptor Antony Gormley. This lesson can be used by students to develop drawing skills and use of sketchbooks to develop ideas and/or to gain an understanding of the work of one of the most famous contemporary artists.

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Elephant under a Tower

This lesson focuses on the bronze cast sculpture Elephant under a Tower by Andrew Burton. The lesson plan looks at how the work was made. It can be used to stimulate a sculpture project.

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Casting with plaster

This lesson plan can be used to develop ideas and understanding of processes and materials and/or as part of study of any artist using casting in their work.

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Direct Carving

This lesson plan was inspired by the work of sculptors using the carving process in their work, including Dawn Rowland, Constantin Brancusi, Henry Moore, Henri Guardier-Brzeska and Barbara Hepworth. This lesson can be used to enhance drawing skills and use of sketchbooks to develop ideas, to produce creative work, exploring ...

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Clay sculpture on an armature

Dora Gordine was a famous female sculptor of her time and made many portraits of famous and not so famous people in her studio in London. These were mostly modelled in clay on a wire armature, a technique that is still used by artists today. This lesson provides information about how they were made. The lesson plan can ...

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Carving Clay

How does sculptor Halima Cassell make her carved ceramic works? This lesson explores her work. It can be used to start a sculpture project, to foster an understanding of the link between discoveries made outside the arts, and artists’ practice and/or to practise the use of maquettes as preliminary studies for 3D work and ...

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Sculpture in wax

This resource focuses on a sculpture workshop using wax that gets cast into bronze. The six films show the creation of a soft wax sculpture inspired by the bronze cast sculpture of Miro. The lesson can be used to start a sculpture project, to develop ideas and understanding of processes and materials and/or as part of study ...

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Balancing Sculptures

This activity invites students to explore balance and stability by designing and building whimsical kinetic sculptures that tilt, slide, and suspend everyday objects and ordinary materials into surprising arrangements. Students explore stability, centres of gravity, balanced forces and symmetry through this hands-on, tactile ...

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Six women sculptors

This interactive quiz provides students with the opportunity to explore elements of sculpture and some of their preferences in terms of art-making. They then access biographies with questions about each of the six women sculptors.