SCHOOL HOLIDAY WORKSHOPS Wollongong Art Gallery provides workshops and activities for children during school holidays. Artist-run activities include experimentation and investigation of various media in a casual and fun environment. Our next school holiday workshop program will be in July 2016. Participants must bring their recess and lunch for full day workshops. EDUCATIONAL These workshops change regularly and sell out quickly so book early. Check the Galleries OPPORTUNITIES websites for further details closer to the date. For enquiries phone 4227 8500. FOR SCHOOLS Image: Students with their finished books from our Boomaking School Holiday Workshop TERM 2 2016

VISITING THE GALLERY ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS TERM 2 School visits to the Gallery are available Tuesday to Friday, 10am - 5pm. PRIMARY STUDENTS Entry to all exhibitions and guided tours is free. EXHIBITION FOCUS: STEEL TOWN - PORT KEMBLA If you would like to combine a practical Year 3 - Tues 3 May, 9am - 3pm Year 5 - Thurs 5 May, 9am - 3pm workshop led by an artist with your Year 4 - Wed 11 May, 9am - 3pm Year 6 - Fri 13 May, 9am - 3pm tour, this can be arranged for a small $40 per student cost. Contact the Gallery to see how Steel Town - Port Kembla is a timely exhibition that delves into the Gallery’s we can tailor your visit to suit your art collection to celebrate the indelible impact of the steel industry on this area students’ current curriculum. through painting, drawings and assemblage. Students will tour Steel Town - Port Kembla and will learn about the history of the steel works through art and MAKING A BOOKING stories. This will be followed by a variety of art making activities such as painting There are a number of ways you can on canvas and drawings using mixed media elements. All artworks created on book your visit to the Gallery: the day will be taken home after the completion of each workshop. Web: visit our website to plan your For bookings and enquires phone our Education Officer, Julie Danilov on excursion 4227 8506 or email [email protected] wollongongartgallery.com Image: Evan Salmon, (detail) Steelworks (Grey Day), 2013, oil on linen, 122 x 97cm Phone: Julie Danilov on 02 4277 8506 Email: [email protected] A minimum of 2 weeks’ notice is required for a guided tour or workshop. SECONDARY STUDENTS - YEAR 12

Image: Year 3 students displaying their fun foam creatures HSC VISUAL ART WRITING WORKSHOP during our Sensorium Enrichment Program. Tuesday 7 June, 10am - 3pm $35 per student The Gallery's Enrichment Program is offering writing workshops for Year 12 Visual Art students. In this writing workshop students will engage with works in current exhibitions. The workshop will include a viewing of our ARTEXPRESS 2016 exhibition, with a focus on how students have investigated ideas in a variety of forms. Wollongong Art Gallery is a service of Wollongong City Council and receives assistance from the NSW Government through Arts NSW. Wollongong Art Students will also focus on strategies for answering Gallery is a member of Regional and Public Galleries of NSW. WCC©1416295.4.16 Section 1 of the HSC Visual Arts paper.

Corner Kembla & Burelli streets Wollongong For bookings and enquires phone our Education Officer, phone 02 4227 8500 Julie Danilov on 4227 8506 www.wollongongartgallery.com or email [email protected] www.facebook.com/wollongongartgallery open Tues-Fri 10am-5pm, weekends 12-4pm Image: Michael Beare analysing artworks with HSC students COMING UP AT WOLLONGONG ART GALLERY. All exhibitions include free tours. Book your school in today! TORI DE MESTRE: VALLEY MANN-TATLOW 14 May - 17 July Sredersas Gallery COLLECTION The enfolding escarpment and foothills of the 20 February - 29 May Calderwood Valley have been a formative part of the Mann-Tatlow Gallery artist’s life; from a childhood freely exploring ridges Asian ceramics, textiles and objects from the Neolithic and creeks to her present bonds and responsibilities. Period to the early twentieth century are displayed with Paintings directly reference the contour lines of the valley; contemporary collection works by Asian Australian encompassing it's many moods, with always the home artists, and artists who have a connection with Asia. cottage Callemondah central to external elements.

Image: Dongwang Fan, Descendants #1 - Red Environment, 1995, Image: Tori de Mestre, Looking out - Summer Fires, 2014, oil on linen, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 118 x 173cm, Gift of the Friends of 91 x 121cms Wollongong City Gallery, 2000

STEEL TOWN - PENNY HARRIS: WRITING PORT KEMBLA POETRY FOR THE MINERS Until 22 May OF EL COBRE Gallery 1 and BlueScope Gallery 14 May - 17 July Steel Town - Port Kembla is a timely exhibition that Mercury Gallery delves into the Gallery’s art collection to celebrate The exhibition re-interprets poetically a historical narrative the indelible impact of the steel industry on this area about the women who mined the El Cobre copper mine through painting, drawings and assemblage. in Cuba during the 16th & 17th century. This history is Image: C Dudley Wood, (detail) Steelworks, Port Kembla, (1950-51), watercolour, gouache on paper, 45.3 x 33.3cm. Gift of A. Dosdale to mark re-imagined through cast bronze objects re-presented as Heritage Week, 1984 archaeological artifacts.

Image: Penny Harris, (detail) Petrified Cloth Fragment, 2015, bronze, 21 x 36 4.5cm

ARTEXPRESS GROUP EXCHANGE: 2ND 23 April - 26 June TAMWORTH FIBRE TRIENNIAL Dickson and Fine Galleries 28 May - 28 August. Gallery 1 An exhibition of outstanding works by 2015 The 2nd Tamworth Textile Triennial provides a forum to explore Higher School Certificate Visual Arts students current issues and trends in textile practice in Australia. from schools in NSW. Twenty-two selected artists from across Australia explore Visual Arts Teachers Professional Day themes around collaboration, interdisciplinary relationships In association with ARTEXPRESS and the cross pollination of ideas. Friday 29 April, 8.30am - 3pm Image: Lorna Murray, (detail) Making Space, 2014, deconstructed paper umbrellas, For further details visit http://artexpress.artsunit. thread, timber bindis. Dimensions variable. Photography Max Gatti nsw.edu.au/workshops_teachers.php Student Practice Workshop Tuesday 31 May, 9.30am - 3pm For further details visit: http://artexpress.artsunit. nsw.edu.au/workshops_students.php Image: Madeleine Ha, (detail) Deserving Violet, 2015, THROUGH THE EYE OF THE The Illawarra Grammar School NEEDLE: EMBROIDERER’S GUILD OF NSW – WOLLONGONG GROUP 4 June - 11 September Mann-Tatlow Gallery View the colourful and imaginative world of needlework through the eyes of an embroiderer. This exhibition explores the past, present and hopefully, the future of embroidery Major Sponsor Associate Sponsor 20th Year as Official Carrier Patron and how the age-old art of embroidery relates to life today. Image: Janelle Badans, (detail) Seasons, 1996, French knots, running stich, thread-wrapped twigs and beadwork, stitched on painted calico, 30 x 35cm