Shepparton Art Museum

SAM Makes: Coiled Vessels Workshop
2021-12-09 17:30 - 19:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Online, Shepparton
SAM Makes: Coiled Vessels A ceramic workshop with Tantri Mustika Thursday 9th of December from 5:30pm - 7:00pm on ZOOM Class Admission FREE Material packs available Join us online to discover the versatile method of coiling ceramics. Tantri will lead participants through unique ways of coiling pots and vessels in this online workshop. A great starter for those wanting to learn more about ceramics or refresh their skills in coiling. Book your spot below:

Contemporary Arts on the Road - PD for Teachers
2021-11-30 09:30 - 15:30 | Shepparton Art Museum, 530 Wyndham Street, Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
Both (after Guston) 2020, oil on canvasSam George and Lisa Radford

Art Educators don’t miss this wonderful opportunity to attend an exceptional Professional Development onsite in new SAM!

Contemporary Art on the Road is a teacher professional development program founded to bring artists, art educators and teachers together to exchange ideas, share creative experiences and explore contemporary art and culture. The program has been designed to introduce teachers to a range of hands-on, expertly designed strategies and resources for teaching contemporary art in their classroom

Sam George and Lisa Radford will present a workshop based in collaborative practices, signals and non-verbal or written language. Working together since 2008, the collaborators use conversation and oral histories to produce works that refer to documentary processes, shared narratives and coded language. You can listen to the artists discussing text and language with Jason Phu on Gertrude Talks, a Digital Projects initiative of Gertrude Contemporary. Presenters: Sharon Grace Flynn, Gertrude Contemporary; Melissa Bedford, Monash University Museum of Art; Kathryn Hendy-Ekers, Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority; and representatives from the partnering galleries and museums. Should you have any concerns about accessibility, please do not hesitate to get in contact with Sharon Grace Flynn on sharon@gertrude.org.auor lbryan@sheppartonartmuseum.com.auPlease note this program is available to regional and Low SES Victorian teachers as a priority. There is no cost for involvement however bookings are essential. Please call Gertrude to check eligibility.Bookings through Gertrude Contemporary link here

SAM Makes: Thrown Ceramics
2021-11-22 18:00 - 20:00 | Shepparton Art Museum, 530 Wyndham Street, Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
A practical workshop for adults with ceramicist Kaye Poulton Monday 22, 29 of November and 13 December 6:00pm – 8:00pm at SAM Workshop General Admission $240 (Friends of SAM receive a 10% discount on events) Learn the basics of wheel-based ceramics in this workshop series led by ceramicist Kaye Poulton. Over three weeks, participants will be introduced to the techniques of throwing, trimming and glazing their pieces. If you have always wanted to have a turn on the pottery wheel or are returning from a long hiatus, this is the class for you. All materials and firing included. Please note, participants will have to return to SAM after the workshop to collect their works. Refer to the SAM website for bookings. Join the waitlist below:

SAM Sketch: Birds of SAM
2021-11-21 13:00 - 16:00 | Shepparton Art Museum, 530 Wyndham Street, Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
Sunday 21st of November, half-hour sessions from 1.00pm – 4.00pm at the SAM Forecourt Create collages with GV artists Kristen Retallick and Rachel Doller Discover the species of local fauna surrounding the SAM lake in this practical workshop for adults and families. Exploring SAM’s wetlands and the birds found within them, learn how to recreate your own local bird for SAM’s workshop flock. The SAM Flock will hang in the workshop room until the end of January 2022. Bookings essential, all materials provided.

Build It and They Will Come
2021-11-21 11:00 - 12:00 | Shepparton Art Museum, 530 Wyndham Street, Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
Sunday 21 November at 11.00am – 12.00 pm at the SAM forecourt overlooking the lake SAM presents a panel discussion exploring the journey of our new museum. Join us as we hear from key stakeholders and industry professionals speak on the vision, journey, and build of the new SAM. Many years in the making, the new SAM positions the Goulburn Valley as a key player in the Australian arts and tourism ecology by bringing people together in new and creative ways. Moderated by Melbourne School of Design’s Professor Alan Pert, the panel features John Denton, founder of Denton Corker Marshall, SAM Artistic Director & CEO Rebecca Coates and David Sequeira, artist and Director of Margaret Lawrence Gallery, University of Melbourne. Limited spaces available. Registration is essential. Image credit: Shepparton Art Museum © John Gollings Photography

SAM Sketch with Sophie Wilson
2021-10-06 17:30 - 18:30 | Victoria
Join GV artist Sophie Wilson for an engaging evening of watercolour painting. Using flora found in their garden or in the Australian bush, participants will learn the fundamentals of painting with watercolour. Beginners and more experienced painters alike are welcome to join this SAM Sketch!

For this workshop, all you will need is plain paper, watercolours and collected flora or other botanicals from the garden. If watercolours aren’t available to you, gouache, diluted acrylics or even coloured pencils will allow you to participate too.

© Sophie Wilson

SAM Sketch is a digital sketchbook club that comes together to be inspired by a new artist or illustrator each iteration.

SAM Art Card with Sophie WilsonDownload

FREE

SAM Sketch with Jamie Marcetic
2021-09-29 14:30 - 15:30 | Shepparton Art Museum, 530 Wyndham Street, Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
SAM Sketch with Jamie Marcetic

Spring School Holiday Program

A virtual sketchbook club for kids!

Join us in this dynamic, engaging drawing workshop led by GV artist Jamie Marcetic. Kids and young at heart play along over ZOOM to create their own weird and whacky monsters! A fun way to get the kids thinking creatively these school holidays.

For this workshop all you will need is plain paper, coloured pencils or textas, and a pair of dice.

SAM Sketch is a digital sketchbook club that comes together to be inspired by a new artist or illustrator each iteration.

SAM Art Card with Jamie MarceticDownload

FREE

SAM Sketch with Moorina Bonini
2021-09-23 14:30 - 15:30 | Shepparton Art Museum, 530 Wyndham Street, Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
SAM Sketch with Moorina Bonini

Spring School Holiday Program

A virtual sketchbook club for kids!

What makes you, you? Is it your fingers or toes? Is it where you come from or where you’re going? In this workshop, join artist Moorina Bonini in exploring your own identity and create an imaginative artwork that matches your findings.

For this workshop all you will need is plain paper, coloured pencils or textas, old magazines or newspapers, a glue stick and a pair of scissors.

SAM Sketch is a digital sketchbook club that comes together to be inspired by a new artist or illustrator each iteration.

SAM Art Card with Moorina BoniniDownload

Free

SAM Sketch with Kristen Retallick
2021-09-15 17:30 - 18:30 | Shepparton Art Museum, 530 Wyndham Street, Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
SAM is supporting local talent to inspire creativity in our region during lockdown.

Connect to your surroundings with artist Kristen Retallick in this watercolour painting workshop.

Exploring your home environment, learn how to use natural materials to create a unique composition in your sketchbook.

For this workshop you will need paper, pencils or markers, white-out, watercolour or diluted paint, paintbrushes and found materials from around home like charcoal, bark, leaves and other things that makes marks!

SAM Sketch is a digital sketchbook club that comes together to be inspired by a new artist or illustrator each iteration.

Free

SAM Sketch with Rachel Doller
2021-09-08 17:30 - 18:30 | Victoria
A Virtual Sketchbook for All

During the Victorian lockdown, SAM is supporting local talent to inspire creativity in our region.

Join GV artist Rachel Doller in this fun dynamic workshop to make your own greeting card! Make a card for a neighbour, a friend or a family member to brighten their day during the lockdown.

Rachel’s joyful patterns and whacky collages are sure to put a smile on the recipients face.

For this workshop, you will need paper, coloured pencils or textas, scissors and a glue stick. Gather up junk mail from the letterbox, coloured tape, stickers, magazines or newspapers, even food dye from the pantry if you have it!

SAM Sketch is a digital sketchbook club that comes together to be inspired by a new artist or illustrator each iteration.

Free

SAM Scholars Term 3
2021-08-18 16:00 - 17:30 | Shepparton Art Museum, 530 Wyndham Street, Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
Are you a passionate Art and Design student in years 10-12?

SAM is offering a FREE five week onsite and online workshop series!

We are excited to welcome senior students to this series of workshops in SAM’s new workshop space! Join ceramicist Kaye Poulton and explore your creativity with ceramic sculpture.

SAM Scholars in Term Three will be both onsite and online! Easily accessible from your own home through zoom, or at the new SAM building by Victoria Lake, the choice is yours! Application forms are now available.

What we provide

For Term Three’s workshop you will be provided with clay tools and various clays to explore sculpting. Firing and glazing options will also be provided.

See poster linked here for your classroom

What to bring

All you need to provide is water and a space to work. A materials pack will be delivered to your door, or posted free! This program is supported by SPP and Victorian Government Education and Training.

How to apply

To apply, please fill out the application form and send it to SAM Visual Arts Educator, Linda Bryan at lbryan@sheppartonartmuseum.com.au

Image: Ceramics by Kaye Poulton © the artist.

SAM acknowledges the support of the Department of Eduction and Training through the Strategic Partnerships Program.

sam scholars digital exhibition term 2

David Hockney by Hannah GriggHannah Grigg

Amelie LamontDavid Hockney by Amelie Lamont

Imogen PayneDavid Hockney by Imogen Payne

Eliza Bester

David Hockney by Ellie Bott

David Hockney by Olivia Wilsher

by Alida Phommathatby Alida Phommothat

Artwork by Gabriella Vittoria

POSTPONED - Friends of SAM: The Art of Zen
2021-07-15 18:00 - 19:30 | 505 Wyndham St Shepparton, 505 Wyndham St, Shepparton, VIC, 3630, Australia
Explore the art of Japan with Rebecca Coates

Friends of SAM are delighted to announce the return of this popular event. Join us as SAM Artistic Director/ CEO Dr Rebecca Coates takes us on a tour of the internationally significant art scene of Japan.

Purchase your ticket at the SAM shop, open everyday 10am – 4pm

Image: Mitsuo Shoji, Platter, c.1980, Shepparton Art Museum Collection, purchased with the assistance of the Crafts Board of the Australia Council © the artist.

SAM Sketch with artist Liv Lee
2021-07-14 17:30 - 2021-07-21 18:30 | Shepparton Art Museum, 530 Wyndham Street, Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
SAM Sketch with artist Liv Lee A FREE virtual sketchbook club for all via ZOOMWednesday 14th and 21st of July from 5:30pm – 6:30pm (with discussion and questions after class) Join us for another online edition of SAM’s popular program SAM Sketch led by artist and illustrator Liv Lee. In these workshops you will learn the basics of using colour to create a composition, that will form your own unique designs. Create a postcard for a friend, a new digital background or a fun poster with illustration tips and tricks to use time and time again. A great workshop for artists to learn new perspectives or for beginners to develop their own personal style. A list of materials and the ZOOM link will be emailed upon registration.

Friends of SAM Coffee Morning
2021-07-07 10:00 - 11:00 | Tatura Irrigation and Wartime Camps Museum, 49 Hogan Road, Tatura, VIC, 3616, Australia
Become What You Are an exhibition of work by Paul Mezulianik

The artist, Paul Mezulianik was a 19 year old Austrian detainee interned at Tatura who sketched life around him there. His drawings were only recently discovered just before he died in 2019. Meet at the Museum to explore the exhibition and other exhibits too, plus the new mural, then enjoy coffee together at a local café.

To purchase your ticket please email friendsofsam@sheppartonartmuseum.com.au

SAM Talks: Public Art, House of Discards
2021-07-06 12:30 - 13:00 | Shepparton Art Museum, 530 Wyndham Street, Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
Tuesday 6th of July from 12:30-1pm FREE on ZOOM

Located on the forecourt of SAM, Tony Albert’s House of Discards, 2019, is a major sculptural artwork standing around five metres high. Made using supersized playing cards translated into metal, this deck strips the cards of colour and form and stacks them in a monochromatic arrangement where black never meets white. Albert’s multidisciplinary practice investigates contemporary legacies of colonialism, prompting audiences to contemplate the human condition.

Join artist Tony Albert and SAM Curator- Indigenous, Belinda Briggs this NAIDOC week as they discuss SAM’s newly installed public artwork and its role in truth-telling as we celebrate this year’s theme: Heal Country!

Friends of SAM Coffee Morning
2021-06-23 10:30 - 11:30 | 18 Bowe St Shepparton, 18 Bowe St, Shepparton, VIC, 3630, Australia
Entwined Shepparton Textile Artists Exhibition

Meet at Judith Roberts’ Studio, 18 Bowe Street Shepparton

This very popular annual exhibition, STA’s contribution to Shepparton Arts Festival, will be presented in two studios belonging to STA members.

Friends of SAM will meet for morning tea and brief talk, then divide into two groups to view the exhibitions, swapping venues halfway through.

Thank you to Judith and Kerry for making their spaces available.

To purchase your ticket please email friendsofsam@sheppartonartmuseum.com.au

SAM Makes: What makes you... you?
2021-06-19 10:00 - 12:00 | Wesley Hall, 156 Maude St, Shepparton, 3630, Australia
What makes you… you? Is it your fingers or toes? Is it where you come from or where you’re going? In this workshop, join artist Moorina Bonini in exploring your own identity and create an imaginative artwork that matches your findings.

This program is part of the 2021 Shepparton Festival.

Book your place now!

SAM Talks: Australian Melting Pot, with artist Moorina Bonini and SAM curator Belinda Briggs
2021-06-18 18:00 - 19:00 | Wesley Hall, 156 Maude St, Shepparton, 3630, Australia
SAM presents Moorina Bonini’s Australian Melting Pot (2018) as part of the Shepparton Festival. Australian Melting Pot, 2018 examines the complexity of living between multiple cultures in Australia. Join artist Moorina Bonini and SAM Curator, Belinda Briggs as they discuss the artwork and the multifaceted perspectives that contribute to the construction of Australian identity.

Image credit: Lucy Forster

Book your place now!

Moorina Bonini, Australian Melting Pot, 2018, at the Shepparton Festival
2021-06-11 00:00 - 2021-06-27 23:59 | Wild Life Brewery, 172 Maude St, Shepparton, VIC, 3630, Australia
SAM presents Moorina Bonini’s Australian Melting Pot (2018) as part of the Shepparton Festival. This artwork will be projected on the wall of the Wild Life Brewery for Shine on Greater Shepp.

Australian Melting Pot (2018) examines the complexity of living between multiple cultures in Australia. Bonini explores the Australian identity and how it manifests in our society through an extensive ingredient list, that combined make for the perfect identity stew. Moorina Bonini is a proud descendant of the Yorta Yorta Dhulunyagen family clan of Ulupna and the Yorta Yorta and Wurundjeri-Woiwurrung Briggs/McCrae family. Moorina is an artist whose works are informed by her experiences as an Aboriginal and Italian woman.

Australian Melting Pot (2018) will be projected after dark on the wall neighbouring Wild Life Brewery at 172 Maude Street, Shepparton for the duration of the festival.

Image: Moorning Bonini, Australian Melting Pot, 2018, video (still), 4 min 18 sec. Courtesy the artist. © the artist

SAM Sketch with Troy Firebrace
2021-04-14 17:30 - 18:30 | Online, Shepparton
A virtual sketchbook club for all

Learn how to create stories using visual language in this workshop taught by artist Troy Firebrace. Troy’s practice is heavily informed by his experience as a Yorta Yorta man, a story that he tells through visual symbols. Discover how to create your own symbols and tell your own stories in this week’s iteration of SAM Sketch.

For this workshop, you will need paper and coloured pencils.

SAM Sketch is a digital sketchbook club that comes together to be inspired by a new artist or illustrator each fortnight. Fill out the form below to book your place now.

SAM Sketch with Tessa Chong
2021-03-31 17:30 - 18:30 | Online, Shepparton
A virtual sketchbook club for all

Discover the ins and outs of illustrating figures with artist Tessa Chong. Tessa’s drawn figures convey personality, emotion and most often humour! Learn how to breathe life into your own figures in this week’s iteration of SAM Sketch.

For this workshop you will need paper, pencils and gauche or watercolour.

SAM Sketch is a digital sketchbook club that comes together to be inspired by a new artist or illustrator each fortnight. Fill out the form below to book your place now.

Image © Tessa Chong

SAM Sketch with Rachel Doller
2021-03-17 17:30 - 18:30 | Online, Shepparton
A virtual sketchbook club for all

Big shapes of bold colours await you in this workshop led by GV artist Rachel Doller. Taking inspiration from their everyday surroundings, participants will learn how to create colourful visuals out of common household belongings. Rachel’s joyful patterns and whacky collages are sure to take you out of your comfort zone in this iteration of SAM Sketch.

For this workshop, you will need plain and coloured paper, coloured pencils and a glue stick.

SAM Sketch is a FREE digital sketchbook club that comes together to be inspired by a new artist or illustrator each fortnight. Fill out the form below to book your place now.

Image credit: Rachel Doller

SAM Sketch with Tegan Iversen
2021-03-03 17:30 - 18:30 | Online, Shepparton
A virtual sketchbook club for all

Dive into a bright pool of colours with this week’s guest illustrator, Tegan Iversen. Focusing on repetition, participants will learn methods of pattern making using the drawings they create. Tegan’s fun and whacky figures are sure to breathe life into the blank pages of your sketchbook.

For this workshop, you will need paper and coloured pencils or pens, a fine liner, and gouache if it is available to you.

SAM Sketch is a FREE digital sketchbook club that comes together to be inspired by a new artist or illustrator each fortnight. Fill out the form below to book your place now.

Image credit: Tegan Iverson

Digital Exhibition - Moorina Bonini, Australian Melting Pot, 2018
2021-03-01 09:00 - 2021-03-28 17:00 | Shepparton Art Museum, 530 Wyndham Street, Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
Digital Exhibition

Moorina Bonini: Australian Melting Pot, 2018

A Blak Dot Gallery digital exhibition touring with NETS Victoria. Curated by Kimba Thompson.

Australian Melting Pot (2018) demonstrates an intentional action undertaken to understand the construct of the Australian identity. Through uncovering, re-learning and mixing together, the perfect identity stew is presented.

Simmering idealistic fantasies rise to the top of the pot and the fire that burns under Nonna’s gnocchi pot in addition to cooking the stew, stains the outside surface with black. The same tone that remained after the intentional burning for the desire of regrowth and gain.

Moorina Bonini is a proud descendant of the Yorta Yorta Dhulunyagen family clan of Ulupna and the Yorta Yorta and Murundjeri-Woiwurrung Briggs/McCrae family. Moorina is an artist whose works are informed by her experiences as an Aboriginal and Italian woman. Her practice is driven by a self-reflexive methodology that enables the reexamination of lived experiences that have influenced the construction of her cultural identity. By unsettling the narrative placed upon Aboriginal people as a result of colonization of Aboriginal Australia, Bonini’s practice is based within Indigenous Knowledge systems and brings this to the fore.

This project is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.

SAM School Challenge Digital Exhibition
2021-02-10 00:00 - 2021-09-30 23:59 | Shepparton Art Museum, 530 Wyndham Street, Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
Entries are in, view them here! The top mascots to be chosen soon!

Who is SAM? Congratulations to all the students who answered this question and have designed a mascot for new SAM!

Included in this resource is:

An introduction PowerPoint
Lesson outline
Research page
Art card for primary and

updated Artcard

Your school entries

Guthrie St Primary

Oneschool Nathalia!

Stanhope Primary

Kialla Central Primary!

Colbinabbin Primary

Dhurringile Primary !

Katandra West Primary

Harston Primary!

GSSC VCAL

Waaia Primary

Undera Primary

Zeerust Primary

Tungamah Primary

Tallygaroopna Primary

Lancaster Primary !

Wyong CCS

St Joseph‘s Primary!

Dookie Primary

Numurkah Secondary!

Merrigum Primary

Congupna Primary

Sacred Heart Primary

Ardmona Primary

Mooroopna North PS

Lemnos Primary

Elmore Primary

Girgarre Primary

Katamatite Primary

Wyong CCS

FLC

School workshops

Students at Sacred Heart Tatura

Students at Numurkah Secondary

Drawing Wall #39: Troy Firebrace
2021-01-16 00:00 - 2021-06-27 23:59 | Shepparton Art Museum, 530 Wyndham Street, Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
Troy’s practice is influenced by his experiences growing up in his hometown of Shepparton and with his family on the banks of the Dungala (Murray river) or Kaiela (Goulburn river). His paintings share his affinity as a Yorta Yorta man with the surrounding red gum forests, rivers and its offshoots.

Induction, 2019 invites us to “walk within two worlds”. Using geometric designs that seem almost digital in appearance, the artist mimics something very real – the country and landscape that we inhabit. He asks us to stop and look, to connect to our surroundings, rather than our digital devices.

“Think about the sounds, smell and feelings that you might experience out on country whether it’s on the Murray, or the Goulburn River just behind this building. I ask for you to walk within two worlds” says Troy.

We might see in this work the familiar sight of cracked riverbeds during the dry times of the year when the water in the river is low and the Cray beds of the high banks are exposed to the sun. We might recognise the silhouette of the river, its creeks and streams flowing and branching out, simultaneously resembling the roots of the famous red gums that flank our ancient water ways. On a personal level, the pattern work within the river represents the artists culture flowing with the current, and the use of bright colours reflect his ambition to experiment with his culture, past, present and future.

Based in Bendigo, Troy Firebrace runs his own arts and education business Firebrace Designs. Under this title he not only practices as a professional artist but also as an Aboriginal educator providing and developing Aboriginal based learning and lessons for all ages. He has worked all over Victoria in many Primary and Secondary schools as well as TAFEs and Universities.

Troy studied a Bachelor inCreative Arts, Major in Fine Art, at Bendigo University and is currently completing a Masters of Teaching Secondary Education. Firebrace has exhibited widely in Victoria and was the winner of the Art Gallery of Ballarat Victorian Indigenous Art Awards in 2015.

Image: Troy Firebrace, Reflection (detail), 2019.

Teacher PD: Contemporary Art on the Road with Jason Phu
2020-12-03 13:30 - 17:00 | Victoria
Venue: ONLINE

*Please note this program is only available to regional Victorian teachers.

Booking: https://www.trybooking.com/BKNMV or phone Siobhan Sloper, Gallery Coordinator, Gertrude Contemporary on (03) 9419 3406

RSVP: Monday, 16 November 2020

Presenters:Siobhan Sloper, Gertrude ContemporaryMelissa Bedford, Monash University Museum of ArtKathryn Hendy-Ekers, Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority,Jason Phu, Gertrude Studio Artist

Contemporary Art on the Road is a professional development program founded to bring artists, art educators and teachers together to exchange ideas, share creative experiences and explore contemporary art and culture. The program has been designed to introduce teachers to a range of hands-on, expertly designed strategies and resources for teaching contemporary art in their classroom.

The first part of the program consists of formal presentations by educators from Gertrude Contemporary, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA) and Shepparton Art Museum (SAM). It will provide insights and enable deeper knowledge of contemporary arts, art practices and exhibitions.

A presentation and hands-on workshop by Gertrude Studio Artist Jason Phu will form the second part of the program. Jason will lead a series of drawing exercises about what can constitute as a face and basic two-dimensional masks made purely out of a piece of cardboard. Emphasis on the cardboard masks will be on utilising the whole box to create textures rather than external craft materials and paints. He will speak about masks that have existed in Chinese culture and their uses.

To facilitate this online workshop Gertrude will send a Workshop Kit via Australia Post at least one week prior to the online session. The workshop kit will contain all materials needed to undertake the hands-on activity, printed resources and a special gift from us!

You will be emailed a link and instructions on how to access the workshop online, one week prior to the session. Should you have any concerns about accessibility, please do not hesitate to get in contact with Siobhan Sloper at siobhan@gertrude.org.au.

Jason’s multi-disciplinary practice brings together a wide range of, sometimes contradictory, references from traditional ink paintings to street art, everyday vernacular to official records,personal narratives to historical events. Working across installation, painting and performance, the artist frequently uses humour as a device to explore experiences of cultural dislocation. He often uses the stories of ghosts, spirits, demons and gods in Chinese culture as a personification of these concepts. Jason has recently shown in the Dobell Drawing Biennale, 2018, Art Gallery of New South Wales; The Burrangong Affray, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art; Primavera, 2018, Museum of Contemporary Art and was commissioned for the Sydney Opera House 2019 Art Assembly. In 2019 he also had solo shows at Chalk Horse, Sydney and STATION, Melbourne.

Contemporary Art on the Road is an initiative developed by Gertrude Contemporary in partnership with Monash University Museum of Art, the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority and three regional Victorian galleries: Castlemaine Art Museum, Horsham Regional Art Gallery and Shepparton Art Museum.

Contemporary Art on the Road is funded by the Department of Education and Training Victoria through the Strategic Partnerships Program (SPP).

This professional learning program addresses the following Australian Professional Standards for Teachers:2.1 – Content and teaching strategies of the teaching area (Visual Arts)3.1 – Establish challenging learning goals3.2 – Plan, Structure and sequence learning programs6.2 – Engage in professional learning and improve practice6.3 – Engage with colleagues and improve practice7.4 – Understand the role of external professional and community representatives in broadening teachers’ professional knowledge and practice.

Image | Jason Phu, Procession in the Warming Light/Procession in the Rising Darkness, Workshop/Performance, Art Assembly, 2019, Commission, Antidote Festival, Sydney Opera House. Image courtesy of the artist and STATION, Melbourne.

Sound Seen by Sarah crowEST
2020-12-01 00:00 - 23:59 | Victoria
Calling on sound-makers of all persuasions! Let’s make some noise.

From 1 October, we invite you to view and collaborate with our first online commissioned project by Melbourne based artist Sarah crowEST. Experiment with and perform your own translations of crowEST’s diagrammatic scores.

Using visual scores, the artist asks us to explore the different shapes of language and how we interpret the visual into sound.

CrowEST explores connections between text, drawing, painting, noise and sound. Her work spans discipline boundaries of contemporary art, publishing and performance. Her often collaborative projects involve sound artists and the production of diagrammatic scores, instructional works and word-events presented in the form of paintings and backdrops. With a focus on interpretation, she regularly engages in collaborations where experimental translations produce performative outcomes.

‘Sound Seen’ consists of a series of artworks conceived of as visual scores for experimental musical responses but that can also function as dynamic visual artworks in their own right. crowEST has produced five open-source, diagrammatic scores, developed and documented through a shifting, graphic process.

A speculative ‘key’ or index connects sonic registers and movements to the visuality of colours and diagrammatic forms. A number of shapes and colours linked by letters to a list of imperatives form a guide to the scores. Deliberately open and ambiguous enough to invite idiosyncratic approaches, the language is prescriptive and precise but invites disobedience and may serve as a provocation. Sound-makers of all persuasions are invited to play and experiment.

Score #1 has been co-developed with sound artist AHI (aka Luke Whitten) and Rara Zulu, who have produced a recording to be heard online in conjunction with the visual score.

Another of the scores will be co-developed with a local musical group from Shepparton and published at the end of the month.

How to participate…

Choose the score you want to respond to below and download it along with the ‘Key’ document to help you in your audio composition. Then create and record your piece.

KeysDownload

Download, save or print your choice of visual score below to respond to in your own sonic way.

Score #1Download

Score #2Download

Score #3Download

Score #4Download

Score #5Download

All Scores #1-5Download

Still stuck? We recommend you download our instructions pdf to get you going.

Sound Seen InstructionsDownload

Share your piece

Feel like sharing your sound-response? We would love to hear from you! Tag us on social media using @sam_shepparton, @sarahcrowEST and #soundseen so we can share your piece online. Not on social media? No worries! Email us your work at info@sheppartonartmuseum.com.au.

Here are some responses from you all so far…

Roger Oulton, Windsor, VIC, responding to Score #2

Tina Douglas, Melbourne, Victoria, responding to Score #3

Teacher Trysh Baggs and 3 Year 7 students from Greater Shepparton Secondary College (McGuire Campus), responding to Score #2

Greater Shepparton Secondary College (McGuire Campus) Staff, responding to Score #4

Honey di Pietro responding to Score #1, Age 6, Melbourne, Victoria

Leo di Pietro responding to Score #2, Age 9, Melbourne, Victoria

Barney Johnson responding to Score #4, Abbotsford, Melbourne

Benjamin Woods responding to score #1, Artist and Flutist, Birrarunga/Naarm/Melbourne

Not feeling musical? Download and print these visual scores as an A3 poster to enjoy at home, or for your laptop background.

About the Artist

Sarah crowEST is a British/Australian visual artist, born in London and currently living and working in Melbourne. CrowEST’s work spans discipline boundaries of contemporary art, publishing and performance. Her recent collaborative projects involve sound artists and the production of diagrammatic scores, instructional works and word-events presented in the form of paintings and backdrops. CrowEST is currently working on a series of open-source scores which will evolve through collusions yet to come.

Recent projects, working at the intersection of sound and image, include an installation and performance at Polyphonic Socialby Liquid Architecture in 2019 and the ‘play’, Dark Ruuumbling Earth at The Melbourne Art Theatre that same year. Large, hanging word and graphic scores in acrylic on linen were shown alongside soundtracks produced in collaboration with sound artists. Also in 2019, Version Excursion, an exhibition at CAVES, Melbourne, of crowEST’s paintings featured a responsive ambient noise loop.

CrowEST was awarded a Shakespeare Grove Artist Studio residency 2017-2020, a Gertrude Contemporary studio residency 2013-2016, and a PhD by University of Melbourne, Victorian College of the Arts, 2013. Recent exhibitions include: Soft Eyes, Dub Wise, Gallery 9, Sydney, 2019, Material Constructs, Ararat Textile Art Museum of Australia, 2018, Peregrinação São Paulo, Brazil, 2017, Endless Circulation, Biennial Tarrawarra Museum of Art, 2016

Feature image: Sarah crowEST, Dark Ruuumbling Earth (performance installation detail), 2019. Photo: Yanni Florence

Top image: Score #1 (for AHI and Rara Zulu), 2020, pen, laser print, paper, glue on card.

FRESH: GV Top Art & Design Webinar
2020-11-04 17:00 | Victoria
VCE Art and Design students zoom in to learn about entering SAM’s new Top Art & Design show, from the comfort of home!

Hear from Jason Phu, acclaimed artists and one of the judges of the show, along with museum curators. Improve your entry chances, and be in the first exhibition for the amazing new SAM on the lake!

It will be a chance to gain a few art industry tips, and to ask questions on entering art shows, completing the application process and presenting/delivering work for FRESH.

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Image: Jason Phu in his studio. Image Credit: Docqment Photography. Educational purposes.

The Heart String - SAM Scholars
2020-10-29 17:00 - 2020-11-19 18:15 | Shepparton Art Museum, 530 Wyndham Street, Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
A FREE weekly online student workshop lead by artist Aiofe Billings

Every Thursday 29th of October and 5th , 12th and 19th of November from 5.pm – 6.15pm on ZOOM

Art, Design and textiles students, whatever your cause, artist Aoife Billings has the stitch for you. Join her in this beginner-friendly course of embroidery that will make the heartstrings sing.

Learn how to make an embroidery patch for yourself, (or a friend or family member) over this four-week intensive. Alternatively, why not donate your patch to a front-line worker as a good luck charm for support and safety.

Participants will receive a materials pack free, along with the workshop. This can be collected from SAM shop at 70 Welsford Street, Shepparton.

Materials provided:-Small embroidery hoop (with screws to tighten)

-Two chenille needles between the sizes 15-21 (a medium sized needle with the eye big enough for embroidery thread)

-At least 4 different embroidery thread colours (DMC embroidery thread is best for beginner’s as it’s less likely to fray)

-30cm of white cotton fabric cut off the roll, not sheer or as thick as denim, something in between

-Iron on patch backing

Limited places available. Please visit sheppartonartmuseum.com.au for SAM Scholars bookings.

About Aoife: she is a textiles-based artist who has taught textiles and sewing workshops for over five years for many Victorian councils and at Pink Ember Studio, a queer run not-for-profit in Coburg that she co-founded.

Aoife explores antifashion ideologies, her Irish heritage and the silent contracts surrounding the opression of femme bodies and behaviours within her fine art practice. Her disciplines include embroidery, clothing making, ceramics, installation, and most recently, oil painting.
