Term 4 Creative Learning
Contact our Education Officer, Anne Blair-Hickman for further information at education@neram.com.au, phone 6772 5255.
Availability: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursdays
Term 4 Creative Learning
Echoes of the Earth: Tribal and Desert Art
November 14, 2025 – February 1, 2026
Developed through collaboration between partners in Australia and India, Echoes of the Earth brings together Australian First Nations and Indian tribal artists whose practices bridge continents and traditions. The exhibition celebrates contemporary art grounded in ancestral knowledge, exploring the resonances between cultures shaped by land, spirit, and storytelling. Through painting these artists illuminate resonate cosmologies and living traditions that trace back to the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana. Echoes of the Earth invites audiences to reflect on the enduring creativity that flows through Country and community across time and place.
Art activity idea: Symbols of Spirit and Story
Students can explore how symbols and storytelling express culture and identity by creating their own motif that represents a personal or shared value — such as care for Country, family, or community. Inspired by Indian tribal and Aboriginal art traditions, they arrange their designs into bold, patterned compositions. Classes can then bring their pieces together to form a vibrant “community tapestry” celebrating connection and creativity.
Tableaux vivant ‘Living Pictures' | Creative play with Hinton
Translated from French, tableaux vivant means ‘living pictures.’ In this creative arts program NERAM has selected a number of paintings from the iconic Hinton collection and carefully sourced costumes and props for students to create there own tableaux vivant. NERAM invites students to investigate the pose, and facial expression of characters in the paintings on display with continuous interaction artworks they are trying to recreate. Find out more here >>
Providore: Kim Bizo
Celebrating the joy of gathering, Providore brings together a series of still-life paintings that revel in the simple beauty of food, friendship and home. Continuing the artist’s exploration of pantry and fresh produce as subjects, this vibrant body of work transforms familiar ingredients—cheese boards, olives, pickles, oysters and sourdough—into sensual studies of light, texture and abundance.
Art Activity: Still Life Class – Eat and Draw
Celebrate the art of food and friendship in this hands-on still life class inspired by Providore. Enjoy a shared platter as you sketch and paint from life, exploring light, texture, and abundance through delicious inspiration.
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 >>
