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Visual Arts: Environmental art.

Earth and Environmental Science: students will learn about biodiversity in the Wollundry Lagoon and learn about animal habitats.

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Visual Arts: This exhibition explores a range of different glass makers and techniques.

History: This exhibition will feature works from the National Art Glass Gallery collection over a range of different time periods.

Science: Glass making is a science where there are different methods that an artist may use to create their desired outcome.

Art Gallery collections: This exhibition will feature works from women artists in the National Art Glass Gallery collections. This is a great example for those interested in curatorial roles as the artworks where picked from over 700 pieces in the collection and curated to work as a whole exhibition.

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Visual Arts: Andy Pye creates vibrant paintings on canvas and board.

Geography: In this exhibition artist Andy Pye depicts landscapes from the area where he lives in Victorian High Country.

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Visual Arts: Anna Louise Richardson works primarily in charcoal and graphite to create large scale drawings of objects connected with rural life.

Critical thinking: The Good explores ideas of intergenerational exchange, parenthood and identity based on her experiences of living and working on a multi-generation beef cattle farm in rural Australia. The Good emerges from Richardson’s broader investigations into the complex relationships between humans and the natural world, tinged by grief and the competing demands of nurturing new life. In a world increasingly defined by division and hardship, Richardson’s work points to the necessary act of radical optimism needed to seek goodness in all things.

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Visual Arts: Julia Roche works mainly with canvas and paper. Working on her family property Wooroola, on Wiradjuri Country for the past six years, Roche has developed a signature painting style which both describes the land she sees, and is shaped by it—the layers of her canvases are a record of the environmental elements in which she paints.

Critical Thinking: When we engage with the places we call home with this kind of critical attention, we challenge what we see, what we know. We learn to rely on all our senses to better understand our relationship to land, to place, to home.

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Visual Arts: In this exhibition the National Art Glass Gallery will become a unique laboratory, a place of surprising experimentation and transformation. Lyndall Phelps will create a site-specific installation

Science: This exhibition showcases Phelp’s research into the National Art Glass Collection and glass from the scientific world. Glass is a recurring material within Phelps’ work, especially scientific glass, of which she is an avid collector. She is also drawn to glass’s transparent and light reflective qualities, and the richness of colour it affords. For Science of Common Life the precision and skill required to manufacture scientific glass will be echoed in Phelps meticulously constructed, labour intensive objects.

Critical Thinking: This exhibition explores themany ways women incorporate glass into craft activities, now and in the past

History: The investigation of collections, both historical and contemporary, is central to Lyndall Phelps’ art practice

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Visual Arts: Landscape, landscape art or landscape painting is generally defined in Western art traditions as the depiction of natural scenery in art, whether real, idealised or imagined. The term ‘landscape’ derives from the Dutch word landschap, meaning ‘region, tract of land’, which was later adapted to ‘a picture depicting scenery on land’ in the 1500s. Landscape art might include mountains, valleys, fields, the bush, bodies of water, coastlines and, since the 20th century, urban or industrial environments. Flora and fauna, the sky and weather are also typical features. People and man-made structures or objects might also be included, but not as the main subject.

History: Established following a bequest by Richard Wynne, the annual Wynne Prize was first awarded in 1897 in honour of the official opening of the Art Gallery of New South Wales at its present site. Judged by the trustees of the Art Gallery, it is awarded to the best landscape painting of Australian scenery or for the best example of figure sculpture by an Australian artist.

Critical thinking: The Wynne Prize reflects the diversity of figurative sculptural practice, while the paintings are a dynamic reflection of Australian artists’ response to the land, reflecting contemporary aesthetics, environmental and stewardship concerns, and conceptions of Country.