Knowing Water
1 Nov 2025 – 8 Feb 2026
Year level: Suitable for all year levels
Duration: 90 minutes
How can water connect people, places, and stories across time and culture?
What emotions or memories can be expressed through layers of colour, texture, and movement in art?
How do artists use their work to respond to environmental change and human impact?
We invite your students to explore Trần Lương, Tầm Tã – Soaked in the Long Rain, an exhibition spanning painting, installation, performance, and community engagement. It reflects on the life of an artist who has shaped contemporary art in Vietnam over the past thirty years.
Through Trần Lương’s surreal, expressive paintings, we explore wai as a magical connector and life-giver. Ākonga compare water environments and older students discuss threats posed by human activity.
In our Learning Centre
What stories do our paintings hold?
Students create underwater worlds where water flows, spreads, and dives deep. They experiment with wet-on-wet techniques, ink blotting, and wax resist. Through translucent layers, self-portraits emerge in cellular form.
At school
Curriculum links:
- Visual Arts
- Science – Living World
Preview the exhibition Trần Lương, Tầm Tã - Soaked in the Long Rain
Water Maps
Students create a visual map of places they’ve visited or know of where water plays a key role (e.g., rivers, lakes, oceans, waterfalls) adding personal or whānau stories connected to these places.
This lesson connects with Puke Ariki Museum education programmes: Kia Urutau te Moana – Sea Change | Puke Ariki