Children live in a world not quite built for them and, for a long time, galleries were no exception. No touching. No talking. Just stand and receive.But, something is changing. Across Australia, galleries are beginning to meet children where they are — not just as visitors, but as artists in their own right.Tamsin Cull, head of public engagement at QAGOMA and Lilly Blue, head of learning and creativity research at AGWA, talk about children's creativity, and how galleries are being transformed by it.
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The art of children's books
With just a few lines and strokes, picture books hold whole worlds: joy and sorrow, memory and wonder. They can be stark, fun and beautiful, all at once.This week on The Art Show, we're celebrating the picture book as a subtle, serious art form — where image meets poetry and artists speak, not just to children, but to the child still inside us.Illustrator and writer Tull Suwannakit, Wiradjuri artist, writer and poet, Jazz Money, and artist and painter Jason Phu take us into their worlds.
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Five Acts of Love
Five Acts of Love, now on at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, isn't a show about romance.It's about love when it's fierce, when it's fragile; when it lives inside grief, memory, resistance, and revolution.The practices of Megan Cope and Ali Tayhori stretch across Country, history, family and faith, reminding us that love isn't always gentle, but it's always alive.
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Darrell Sibosado and Frances Rings light up the stage
When artists step into the theatre, the stillness of the studio meets the breath of the stage. And audiences, perhaps without even knowing, lean in.Illume is one of those collaborations, where Goolarrgon Bard visual artist Darrell Sibosado and Bangarra Dance Theatre's Artistic Director, Wirangu and Mirning woman, Frances Rings have made something luminous.In this work, light is used as more than illumination: it's a character in the performance. Darrell and Frances explore how the show brings Country to the stage and how they integrated light into the show without overwhelming the performers.
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Yolŋu Power puts Yirrkala art front and centre
Yolŋu Power: The Art of Yirrkala, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, is not just an art exhibition, but a field of ancestral presence.It's a space of authority and deep listening that shows what art can be when it is inseparable from land, from water, from Law, and from the unbroken chain of Yolŋu knowledge.It's also the featured Winter exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW, an important acknowledgement that Australian art is worthy of standing alongside the impressionist and modernist masterpieces at other state galleries.Yinimala Gumana, Gunybi Ganambarr, and Will Stubbs share their knowledge
Visual artists tell you why and how they create! From studio visits, intimate interviews, and live issues, we take art out of the gallery and into your ears.
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