Education Resources and Activities

Young visitors Noah and Zane Cook completing art activities in the Gallery - Treasure Map Jan 2013

The Gallery offers a number of education resources that are available to teachers, students or self guided groups. These can include 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. Please contact the Gallery’s Education and Audience Development Officer, Jodi Ferrari. Email: GalleryEducation@tweed.nsw.gov.au Telephone: (02) 6670 2712.

Current exhibition resources

Margaret Olley Art Centre
Margaret Olley Art Centre - Education Resource (3.89mB PDF)
Margaret Olley Art Centre - Primary age Kids Resource (4.4mB PDF)

Previous exhibition resources

Tweed Regional Gallery Education Resources

David Hockney: Words and Pictures
Teacher Notes (1.97mB PDF)

Michael Cook Mother
Education Resource (3.26mB PDF)

Private Assembly: a contemporary approach
Education resource (3.61mB PDF)

It's all about the light: works by Margaret Olley from public collections
Part I - Teacher Resource and Exhibition Activities (1.5mB PDF)
Part II - Teacher Resource and Exhibition Activities (1.62mB PDF)

The Glass: Michael Zavros
Educational Resource - The Glass (1.55mB PDF)

Touring Exhibition Education Resources

Sidney Nolan’s Ned Kelly series - A National Gallery of Australia exhibition
Education Resource (Primary) (2.13mB PDF)

Void - an MGNSW touring exhibition
Void Learning Resource (3.32mB PDF)
Void Teachers Guide (80kB PDF)

Tension[s] 2020 Tamworth Textile Triennial - A Tamworth Regional Gallery Touring Exhibition
Education Kit (4.38mB PDF)


Arthur Boyd: Landscape of the Soul - A Bundanon Trust touring exhibition
Education Guide (3.64mB PDF)

National Art (part one) - A National Art School Touring Exhibition Program
Learning Resource (6.15mB PDF)

Just Not Australian - A Museums & Galleries NSW Touring Exhibition
Education Resource (1.03mB PDF)

John Mawurndjul: I am the old and the new - A Museum of ContemporaryArt Australia Touring Exhibition
Web resource (external link)

JamFactory Icon: Clare Belfrage: A Measure of Time - A JamFactory Touring Exhibition
Education Resource (8.69mB PDF)

Art Deco from the National Collection: The World Turns Modern - A National Gallery of Australia exhibition
Education Resource (1.94mB PDF)

Self-made: zines and artist books - A State Library of Victoria travelling exhibition
Education Resource (2.18mB PDF)

Experimenta Make Sense: International Triennial of Media Art
Study Guide (4.24mB PDF)

Borrowed Time: Laith McGregor - A Caloundra Regional Gallery exhibition
Laith McGregor Primary Education Kit (1.17mB PDF)
Laith McGregor Secondary Education Kit (1.54mB PDF)

Abstraction: celebrating Australian women abstract artists - A National Gallery of Australia exhibition
Education Resource (2.39mB PDF)

The adventures of Aecap: Alasdair Macintyre - A Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre touring exhibition
Education resource K-6 (571kB PDF)
Education resource 7-12 (372kB PDF)

Slipstitch - An Ararat Regional Art Gallery and NETS Victoria touring exhibition
Education Resource (10.86mB PDF)

Objects of Desire: Contemporary Clay - An artisan touring exhibition
Education Resource (2.91mB PDF)

Resolution: new Indigenous photomedia - A National Gallery of Australia exhibition
Education resource www.nga.gov.au/Resolution/PDF/ResolutionEducationResource.pdf (external link)

Uncommon Australians: The vision of Gordon and Marilyn Darling - A National Portrait Gallery touring exhibition
Exhibition Resource (external link)

Mark Tedeschi: shooting around corners
Education Kit (1.17mB PDF)

Archibald Prize 2015 - An Art Gallery of New South Wales touring exhibition
Ecovend (external link)
Childrens Trail (external link)
General Portraiture Education Kits (external link)

Ken Julia Yonetani: The Last Supper
The Last Supper K-6 Resource (398kB PDF)
The Last Supper 7-12 Resource (390kB PDF)

Arcadia: sound of the sea
Arcadia - Education Resource (2.06mB PDF)

Stars in the river: the prints of Jessie Traill
Education Resource (1.1mB PDF)

Cream: Four Decades of Australian Art
Teacher Notes (342kB PDF)

Waves and Water: Australian beach photographs
Educational Resource (1.16mB PDF)

In-Habit: Project Another Country
Education Kit (666kB PDF)
Activity Trail (668kB PDF)

Charles Conder: The Lithographs
Education resource (632kB PDF)

Designing Craft/Crafting Design: 40 years of JamFactory
Education resource (1.69mB PDF)

Contemporary Australian Drawing: 20 years of the Dobell Drawing Prize
Educational Resource (218kB PDF)

Ben Quilty: After Afghanistan
Educational Resource (2.15mB PDF)

The Antipodean Steampunk Show
Educational Resource (1.11mB PDF)

Illumination: The art of Philip Wolfhagen
Education Kit (1.16mB PDF)
Art Trail (1.16mB PDF)

The world is not a foreign land
Education Resource (1.65mB PDF)

A Tamworth Regional Gallery touring exhibition
Education Kit (4.38mB PDF)