SCHOOL HOLIDAY WORKSHOPS
Limited capacity. Bookings essential. Parents not required to stay*.
APRIL 2024
Charcoal Animals
with artist Katy Bain
Tuesday 2 April
10.30am – 12pm
7-12yrs
$15 pp incl. materials
Create your own animal drawing while exploring and playing with charcoal!
Learn to manipulate charcoal with a variety of tools, such as kneadable erasers, paper stumps and brushes, then apply your new skills to your artwork.
Make your animal life-like or create a quirky creature.
Bookings Tue 2 Apr 10.30 - 12pmMaking Faces
with artist Natalya Hughes
Friday 5 April
10.30am – 12pm
6-12yrs
$15 pp incl. materials
Create your own dynamic portrait guided by renowned artist Natalya Hughes along with her daughter Violet!
Extending on activities included in the exhibition The Castle of Tarragindi, make your own unique portrait incorporating collage, pencil, ink and watercolour.
Image: QAGOMA supplied. Photo by C. Baxter.
Bookings Fri 5 Apr 10.30 - 12pmGame on!
Tuesday 9 April
10.30am – 12pm
6-12yrs
$15 pp incl. materials
Innovation meets creativity in this workshop where you will design your own game!
Utilise recycled materials to make game pieces or characters, paint a board, and let your imagination run wild as you develop the story and rules to form a game.
Bookings Tue 9 Apr 10.30 - 12pmImagine, Create, Play!
Tuesday 9 April
1.30pm – 3pm
6-12yrs
$15 pp incl. materials
Join us for a creative adventure where you will design and make your own game to take home and continue the fun.
Put a spin on a classic like Snakes and Ladders or develop your own unique game!
This workshop will encourage you to bring new life into recycled materials.
Bookings Tue 9 Apr 1.30 - 3pm‘THE CASTLE OF TARRAGINDI’ ON TOUR
By artist Natalya Hughes
Open Tue – Sun until 14 April 2024
All ages free entry
‘The Castle of Tarragindi on Tour’ features activities developed by The Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) Children’s Art Centre in collaboration with Australian artist Natalya Hughes.
In her work, Hughes creates paintings, textiles, sculptures, and installations informed by decorative and ornamental traditions.
In this free-entry creative program, artist Natalya Hughes invites children and families to explore the decorative art form of the ‘grotesque’ through various hands-on and drawing activities, including creating a hybrid creature using imagery designed by the artist.
Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
Image: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Children’s Art Centre, Natalya Hughes – The Castle of Tarragindi, 9 Sep 2023 – 14 Jul 2024 installation view. Courtesy of the artist and QAGOMA.
Drop in - no booking requiredArtPlay Sunday
Sunday 21 April
11am – 2pm
Ages all ages
Drop in for FREE family fun inspired by our current exhibitions!
Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
Drop in - no booking requiredPuppet Creatures
with artist Odessa Mahony de-Vries
Thursday 11 April
10.30am – 12pm
6-12yrs
$15 pp incl. materials
Join the fun at this puppet building workshop!
Create quirky puppets on sticks using paper and a wide range of colourful craft materials.
This is a hands-on construction workshop encouraging creativity and storytelling.
Bookings Thu 11 Apr 10.30 - 12pmBeyond the lines; perfecting portaiture
with artist Odessa Mahony de-Vries
Thursday 11 April
1 – 3pm
13-18yrs
$15 pp incl. materials
Build your skills during this Portrait Workshop!
Dive into drawing and painting while mastering proportions, shading, and colour mixing.
Select your favourite portrait image on the day or bring in your own for inspiration.
The session will start off with drawing on canvas to perfect the proportions, then lead into painting using tone and tints, leaving you with a portrait to take home and hang on the wall.
Bookings Thu 11 Apr 1 - 3pm