Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
Welcome!
Nicholas Folland
The door was open... 2006
Pre-Visit
Performance Art
Rebecca Baumann Hiromi Tango
Rebecca Baumann Hiromi Tango
Improvised Smoke Device 2010/2011 Hiromi Hotel – Mixed Blood 2011
Video Art
THINK
Shaun Gladwell filmed
himself doing tricks on his
skateboard in slow motion.
Shaun Gladwell
Storm Sequence 2000
Pre-Visit
Installation Art
Some artworks change shape
depending on where they are
exhibited.
This is called an ‘installation’.
LOOK
What do you think Maria
Maria Fernanda Cardoso Fernanda Cardoso used to
Woven Water: Submarine Landscape I 2003
make this installation?
See more of her ‘animal’
sculptures here.
Pre-Visit
Painting?
Rosalie Gascoigne cut up
old road signs and
rearranged them to make
these artworks that are
displayed like paintings.
Sculpture
Hany Armanious made a
large sculpture of part of
the body.
Conceptual Art
Sometimes contemporary
artists don’t make the
finished artwork
themselves.
Instruction Drawing
Pre-Visit
Movable Sculpture
Gemma Smith makes
paintings and
sculptures that explore
colour, space and
shape. She calls her
sculptures ‘adaptables’.
Gemma Smith
(Left) Adaptable (dark peach/red oxide) 2008 (Right) Adaptable (mint/golden green) 2008
LOOK
Which parts do you
think might move?
Pre-Visit
Movable Sculpture
Watch Gemma Smith
moving one of her
adaptables.
(start at 4:30min)
Your exhibition
RESPOND
Did you make anything at the
MCA?
Be creative!
Sand Pendulum Activity Pendulum Painting 2
Here are some ideas…
Click on image to play
Post-Visit
Or…
Use your interactive
whiteboard to create a
wall drawing.
www.mca.com.au
Be creative!
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