Learning resources

The Gallery offers a number of education resources that are available to teachers, students or self guided groups. This includes free printable Education Kits and activities for selected touring and Gallery-initiated exhibitions.

These resources are a great way of preparing students and may also include preparatory notes, Gallery activities, follow up activities and suggestions for further research.

Contact the Gallery’s Education and Audience Development Officer by email at GalleryEducation@tweed.nsw.gov.au or by phone on 02 6670 2712.

Current exhibition resources

Monet in Murwillumbah - First Impressions

Impressionists were masters of colour and used complementary colours in their paintings. Complementary colours are opposite each other on a colour wheel and seem to vibrate or pop when placed side by side.

• Red and green
• Violet and yellow
• Blue and orange

The following downloadable PDF activity invites young people to build their own haystack while exploring and playing with complementary colours.

First Impressions - Create a haystack activity(PDF, 65KB)

Watch the videos below - the first one is a guide to making your own First Impression Haystack and the second shows some haystacks made by visitors to the Gallery for our Art Making for Everyone program over the summer of 2022-2023.

Learn more about the Sharing the National Collection exhibition.

Margaret Olley Art Centre

• Education resource(PDF, 4MB)
• Kids Guide - education resource - primary school(PDF, 4MB)

Previous exhibition resources

• Three Echoes - Western Desert Art(PDF, 2MB)
• Julie Fragar: Bio Graph - education Kit(PDF, 1MB)
• One Foot On The Ground, One Foot In The Water - learning Guide(PDF, 16MB)
• At Home - Upper secondary learning resource(PDF, 683KB)
• David Hockney: Words and Pictures - teacher notes(PDF, 2MB)
• Michael Cook: Mother - education resource - secondary school(PDF, 3MB)
• Private assembly: a contemporary collection - education resource(PDF, 4MB)
• It's all about the light: works by Margaret Olley from public collections
  • Teacher resource and exhibition activities - part 1(PDF, 2MB)
  • Teacher resource and exhibition activities - part 2(PDF, 2MB)
• Michael Zavros: The Glass - educational resource(PDF, 2MB)
• Education resource - Sidney Nolan’s Ned Kelly series - A National Gallery of Australia exhibition(PDF, 2MB)
• Void - a Museums and Galleries of NSW touring exhibition
  • Void Exhibition Learning Resource(PDF, 3MB)
  • Void Exhibition Teacher's Guide(PDF, 88KB)
• Education kit - Tension[s] 2020 Tamworth Textile Triennial - A Tamworth Regional Gallery Touring Exhibition(PDF, 4MB)(PDF, 4MB)
• Arthur Boyd: Landscape of the Soul - education guide(PDF, 4MB)