Programmes

Midday Monday 29 Aug – Midday Tuesday 6 Sep

Experience the top art folios from Aotearoa’s best secondary school artists.

Applications open on 25 July for this $3000 scholarship awarded to a Year 13 Taranaki visual art or DVC student intending to study visual arts, design or architecture at a tertiary level.

Find our more here.

Term 3 exhibitions offer students a diverse range of media and styles to connect to their own art making, including batik, drawing, painting, photograms, sculpture, printmaking, and video.

The collection exhibition Several degrees of attention contains a range of distinct approaches to artmaking and interpretation, linking the past with present and posing the question: how do we make sense of what we inherit?

Atomic Power focuses on Len Lye’s concerns for freedom, peace and a global community and encourages students to consider how they might include political attitudes in their art.

Shona Rapira Davies’ giant sculpture Ko Te Kihikihi Taku Ingoa and Ko Te Kihikihi will inspire students to research and create art linked to Te Ao Maōri, local histories and environmental issues.

E ono ngā kaupapa Matua mo te tau:

1. Orokohanga / Creation
2. Te Waonui ā Tāne / Realm of Tānemahuta
3. Wai / Water
5. Papatūānuku / Land
6. Ko wai koe / Who are you


Wāhanga Tuatahi:

Our full immersion and bilingual programme focus on creating art relating to "Ko wai koe / Who are you’’.


Kaupapa include:

Pēpēha: A way of identifying and introducing who we are and where we come from.

• We find hononga (connections) and create art that symbolises our Mounga, Awa, Moana, Marae, Iwi, Hapu and Waka. Discuss places and landmarks that we identify with or that are significant to us.

• We connect with our homeland and the vessel that brought our people to this land both tangata wēnua and tangata tauiwi.

Whakapapa: Whakapapa is genealogy, a line of descent from tūpuna down to the present day and links people to all other living things. Everything comes from somewhere. The story of where something or someone comes from is whakapapa.

· We explore family relationships and dynamics to create art works that complement our kōrero and findings.

· Gain an understanding of tikanga Māori relating to whakapapa.

· Explore whakapapa stories such as Ranginui and Papatūānuku or Te Wānau Matariki.

Interactive experiences designed for students in Learning Support classes. The energy and scale of Len Lye’s sculptures offer students an opportunity to express themselves holistically. Talk to the gallery educators to discuss visit options.

Social narrative for students unfamiliar with the Gallery.

Visit the Gallery website accessibility tab for further information.

Can your students say more about art other than whether they like it or not?

This general introduction to the exhibitions gives students confidence and skills to analyse art through discussion and instant activities.

How did cameraless movies work? What makes Len Lye’s films still so cool?

Inspired by innovative approaches to filmmaking and the stimulating exhibitions, students deepen their knowledge of where film came from through a variety of hands-on options including zoetrope drawings, experiments with OHP colour projections and a ‘direct’ film workshop.

View Len Lye films online:
Tusalava
A Colour Box
The Birth of a Robot
Free Radicals

Films supplied by Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision. Please respect the integrity of Len Lye’s artwork by not copying his films.

Visit the Len Lye Centre Cinema

The Gallery’s state-of-the-art 62-seat cinema shows experimental film, arthouse and cult films and film festival programming. Special screenings can be arranged by appointment. Please contact Gallery educators for further information or find out what’s on here.

Direct Film Workshop

Inspired by Len Lye’s direct films, students use cameraless hand animation techniques to learn how to create their own whole class 16mm ‘direct’ film.

No cost - contact Gallery educators for details.