2026 – Term 1 Creative Learning

Term 1 at NERAM offers rich opportunities for students to engage with art through observation, experimentation and discussion. Our exhibitions and programs support Visual Arts outcomes across Years K–12, encouraging students to explore artistic practice, materials, ideas and context. Programs can be tailored to suit stage level, curriculum focus and learning needs.

Contact our Education Officer, Anne Blair-Hickman for further information at education@neram.com.au, phone 6772 5255.

Availability: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursdays

2026 – Term 1 Creative Learning

Term 1 (2026) Education Newsletter

Teachers can download the Term 1 Education Newsletter here for dates, program details and booking information.

echoes & silences: untethered fibre artists

Stage 4–6 education focus:

echoes & silences explores contemporary fibre practice through the relationships between artist, artwork, audience and world. Students investigate how artists use materials, techniques and processes to develop meaning, and how conceptual intentions are communicated through texture, scale and material choice. The exhibition supports analysis of subjective, cultural and structural frames within contemporary Australian art.

Stage 4–6 syllabus connections:

  • Practice: material investigation, experimentation, process-based artmaking

  • Conceptual Framework: artist–artwork–audience–world relationships

  • Frames: subjective, cultural and structural interpretations

  • Critical & Historical Studies: contemporary practice and collective artmaking

Suggested Stage 4–6 activity:

  • Students develop a fibre or mixed-media work that communicates a personal or social idea through material choice and process, accompanied by a short written or oral artist statement reflecting conceptual intentions.

Of Brushes and Light

 

Education focus

This exhibition introduces students to Australian Impressionism and the practice of painting en plein air. Through close looking, students explore how artists responded to light, colour and atmosphere, and how working outdoors changed representations of the Australian landscape.

Curriculum connections:

  • Visual Arts (K–12): Practice, Context, Frames

  • Artmaking: observation, colour mixing, mark-making

  • Art History: Australian art, late 19th century

Possible student activity:

  • Create a small landscape study responding to light and mood using quick observational sketches.

Hinton Art Appreciation Workshop followed by Still Life Exercises

Delve into the Hinton Collection through an in-depth art appreciation session with an arts educator. Investigate colonial Australian art, the artist camps, female artists in the collection & the emerging modernists on display. To follow, complete a series of sketching exercises in the gallery space looking at line, shape and tone. Find out more >>

PRIMARY: MUSEUM IN A BOX – Printmaking with Lego

NERAM, Museum of Printing and Hopscotch Press present this program to creatively engage primary school students with their local museums without leaving the classroom environment. Investigating the history of printing with a museum of printing education resource, students are encouraged to discover the original letterpress process through printing with lego. Find out more here >>

PRIMARY: MUSEUM IN A BOX – Making Monotypes, Experimenting with Colour + Composition.

NERAM presents this program to creatively engage primary school students with their local museums without leaving the classroom environment. NERAM invites students to experiment with colour, shape and texture to create their own unique compositions using the versatile and user friendly method of gelli printing. Students will look at the work of iconic French artist Henri Matisse as well as artist from the NERAM collection, John Coburn. Find out more here >>

SECONDARY: MUSEUM IN A BOX - Printing Vintage Ads

Engaging in Museum of Printing education resource and worksheets provided students will gain an understanding of the history of print publishing. Introduced to the history and concepts of vintage print advertising, students will create there own A4 page magazine ad using a collection of vintage printing blocks from Museum of Printing .  Students will combine the block with stencil type and copy from a typewriter to convey their own message interpreting the block in its historic and cultural context. Find out more >>

PRIMARY: MUSEUM IN A BOX - 'Old Tom' Character Creation

Originally an outreach program with an educator, this program has now been transformed into a pick up museum in a box program available to loan to schools.  Explore the fantastic prints of ‘Old Tom’ by Australian artist and acclaimed author Leigh Hobbs. Explore the artwork, big book and hilarious cartoon of Old Tom and then create your own unique characters to cause chaos with Old Tom! Find out more here >>