Holiday Workshops 4 - 7 years

All children participating in these workshops must be accompanied by an adult.
Cost: $7.90 per session. Meet at Gallery reception.

Sketch Books

For inspiration for our book covers we will begin this workshop looking at the exhibition 
Desert Lines: Batiks from Central Australia.   We will then move to our art space and create a batik themed front cover using wax crayons and ink. Once our covers are dry the books will be bound together using a bamboo rod, rubber band and cartridge paper.  

Places of cultural significance enrich people’s lives, often providing a deep and inspirational sense of connection to community and landscape, to the past and to lived experiences.

They are important expressions of Australian identity and experience, and may be significant for their aesthetic, historic, scientific, social or spiritual values, for past, present or future generations.

10am Morning tea, 10.30am – 11.30am Guest speaker event

With a private art collection of more than 380 works, The Honourable Paul Guest OAM QC is undeniably a passionate and dedicated supporter of the arts. His long-standing commitment to collecting the work of contemporary artists has allowed him to pursue his desire to encourage artists to meet their full potential.  

Hear Paul discuss his love of art and collecting.

Presented by the Friends of Bendigo Art Gallery.
Hearing loop available.

In conjunction with the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize 2019, join Charles Green, Professor of Contemporary Art in the School of Culture and Communication at The University of Melbourne and Dr Rebecca Coates, Director Shepparton Art Museum for a lively discussion on painting in Australia today. 

10am Morning tea, 10.30am – 11.30am Guest speaker event

eX de Medici lives and works in Canberra by choice. The artist explores the various transmutations and vectors of the human instinct to accrue power and control, geo-economic systems are the artists favourite hobby. Artist eX de Medici will speak about her practice, including the influences and inspiration for her artworks.

Presented by the Friends of Bendigo Art Gallery.
Hearing loop available.

Art & Tea event

10am Morning tea, 10.30am – 11.30am Guest speaker event

Speaker: Dr Kylie Banyard, artist and Lecturer, Visual Arts and Visual Arts Coordinator, La Trobe University 

Kylie Banyard’s expansive painting practice incorporates installation, photography, video and sculpture and also intersects with fields such as architecture and education. In her work she explores the utopian imagination and the history of experimental models for living and learning.

10am Morning tea, 10.30am – 11.30am Guest speaker event
Artist Karen Ward will speak about her practice, including the influences and inspiration for her artworks

Presented by the Friends of Bendigo Art Gallery.

Hearing loop available.

Introduction to silk dying techniques using natural plant material to achieve individual colour and texture outcomes.

Workshop is hands on and each participant will go home with three pieces of dyed silk.

Established in 2006, Kaiela Arts is an Aboriginal art centre located in Shepparton.  We are active in promoting the South Eastern Australian Aboriginal linear art styles, which is traditional to the Aboriginal peoples of the Kaiela-Dungala region.

Gain insight into the important exhibition Desert Lines with First Nations Curator, Shonae Hobson. Learn about the unique role that batik played in the lives of Central Desert women and the evolution from batik to painting.

Meet at Gallery reception.

Gain insight into the important exhibition Desert Lines with First Nations Curator, Shonae Hobson. Learn about the unique role that batik played in the lives of Central Desert women and the evolution from batik to painting.

Meet at Gallery reception.