Untitled Ruth LUMSDEN-DEAN Wool and Linen

Material Matters: Art from Fabric
Until 2 March 2025

Students will have fun exploring this exhibition of the textile art by seven makers with connections to Te Waipounamu/ The South Island. They will look at and discuss concepts and techniques in the exhibition, and then create stitched images in response.

Curriculum Areas: Technology, Visual Arts
Duration: 75 – 90 minutes depending on level
Levels: Years 2 and up

Joanna Braithwaite To Have and To Hold 4, 2004, Oil on canvas

A Show of Hands: From the Suter’s Collection and Beyond
9 November 2024 – 6 April 2025

This quirky and fun exhibition of artworks draws attention to the human hands and their expressive possibilities. Hands can convey and produce feelings, thoughts, directions, and they coordinate to make things. This wide selection of artworks drawn mainly from the collection shows hands as a key feature. During this visit, students will learn about how hands can communicate ideas. They will have fun engaging with a broad range of interesting artworks before creating their own handy artwork as a response.

Your choice of hands-on activity:
1. Watercolour painting of hands using New Zealand Sign   or
2. Clay sculptures of hand gestures
(Note: there is a $2 materials cost for clay workshops)

Curriculum Areas: Visual Arts, English, Social Studies.
Duration: 75 – 90 minutes depending on level
Levels: Years 0 and up

Warwick Freeman, Dead Set II (detail), 2006. Collection of The Suter

Art to Wear: Aotearoa Contemporary Jewellery Triennale 2025
8 March - 8 June 2025

An exhibition of contemporary jewellery coinciding with Nelson Jewellery Week. Students will look at, discuss, and draw from this exhibition of contemporary jewellery/body adornment and objects by makers from Aotearoa New Zealand, and then make tiny worn sculptures in response to their learning.

Curriculum Areas: Visual Arts, Technology
Duration: 75 – 90 minutes depending on level
Levels: Years 0 and up