Transplantation: a Sense of Place and Culture
This touring exhibition of contemporary narrative jewellery explores the sense of place and cultural identity through the theme of transplantation. Twelve artists based in the UK and Australia have explored their own sense of place and individual cultural identity as a consequence of their personal and family experiences of transplantation.
Education Guide – PDF 919KB (courtesy of The National Centre for Craft & Design)
Colonial Art
The National Picture: The art of Tasmania's Black War and Thomas Bock
Exhibited at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 17 August - 11 November 2018
As part of the joint National Gallery of Australia and TMAG exhibition, The National Picture, an education resource was created for upper high school and college students. The resource provides engaging and critical perspectives on colonial art, including references to a number of key 19th Century artworks in the permanent TMAG collection. Importantly the resource also includes references to contemporary Aboriginal artists’ responses to those works.
This innovative resource provides a useful guide for any educators or students wanting to ‘unpack’ the art of this period and to consider the diversity of ways it may be viewed and understood.
The National Pictureand Thomas Bock Education Resource - PDF 1.2 MB
Elegance in Exile
Exhibited at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 25 September - 4 November 2012
Portrait drawings from colonial Australia. Featuring works by Thomas Bock (1793-1855), Richard Read Snr (1765-1827), Charles Rodius (1802-1860) and Thomas Griffiths-Wainewright (1794-1847)
Elegance in Exile learning resource - PDF 1.46 MB (courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery)
John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque
Exhibited at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 28 November 2003 - 1 February 2004
John Glover (1767-1849) evolved innovative ways of painting the Australian landscape.
Glover education kit - PDF 954 KB
Creating a Gothic Paradise: Pugin at the Antipodes
Exhibited at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 14 September - 10 November 2002
One of England's great early Victorian designers, Pugin (1812-1852) made a significant contribution to the evolution of design in Australia.
Pugin education kit - PDF 2.74 MB
Contemporary Art
MOVE video art in schools 2010
This ground-breaking contemporary art resource, produced by Kaldor Public Art Projects, featured the work of 12 leading Australian artists and was distributed free to every secondary school and college in Tasmania in 2010.
Additional MOVE video art resources
Hobart Current: Liberty (2021)
Hobart Current: Liberty - Teacher Guide
Pat Brassington: À Rebours
Secondary Education Kit – PDF 919KB (courtesy of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)
Illumination: the art of Philip Wolfhagen
Online learning resources, available here.
Illumination: the art of Philip Wolfhagen education kit – PDF 1MB
Primavera 2010
Exhibited at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 8 October - 20 November 2011
Primavera is the Museum of Contemporary Art's annual exhibition showcasing the work of Australian artists aged 35 years and younger.
Primavera activity journal for kids - PDF 2.57 MB
Patricia Piccinini Evolution
Exhibitied at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 13 March - 14 June 2009
Patricia Piccinini (b. 1965) uses her artistic practice to explore the connections and tensions between nature, technology and life.
Patricia Piccinini education kit - PDF 722 KB
Grace Crowley: being modern
Exhibited at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 2 October - 23 November 2008
Grace Crowley (1890-1979) was a champion of modernism and one of the first Australian artists to paint purely abstract works.
Primary students' trail - PDF 432 KB
Secondary students' education kit - PDF 388 KB
Further information can be found on the National Gallery of Australia's website
Janet Dawson Survey
Exhibited at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 6 September - 21 October 2007
This survey of works by Janet Dawson (b.1935) examines the career of one of Australia’s most accomplished artists from the 1950s through to the present day.
Janet Dawson education kit - PDF 6.37 MB
Unique States: Seriality & the Panoramic
Exhibited at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 15 March - 26 May 2013
Unique States is a much anticipated retrospective of the work of Raymond Arnold, a significant Tasmanian artist whose grand visions, skilful compositions and embrace of printmaking’s alchemy of process and chance represent the pinnacle of artistic achievement within this field of practice.
Unique States education kit - PDF 2.70 MB