Our art gallery trip

A sculpture by New Zealand Artist, Bill Culbert, an artist that uses recycled products to create art work with a heavy light influence. Looking at this piece of art inspired the parents and children to want to make their own piece of art work from "rubbish" unwanted items from their home. 

A group of children learning about the story of Rama, with the help from one of our parent helpers. 

In the studio session, the children worked with the art teacher to make a piece of shape art using different shapes and dye. These pieces of art will be on display in the classroom. 

A room in the art gallery that is all about the children, the exploration centre, this room the children got to let loose, and as one child said excitedly " we are allowed to touch things in here?"

Our second gallery exploration time with our Art Educator Jackson. We went into different parts of the gallery and carefully looked at the paintings and sculptures. We had to act out home characters in the paintings were feeling and had discussions about how the art made us feel. 

In the New Zealand art wing of the gallery this particular piece took the children's fancy, they could not believe it was a real birds head attached to a wet suit. The children were very interested that " art" can take many different forms. The art was called " Wetsuit"

What an exciting and action packed day full of learning we had at the Auckland art gallery. We spent the morning with gallery educators, recreating art work through dance, drama and objects, a art making session using shapes and dye and then had a self guided time looking at the Story of Rama, light exhibition and the exploration centre. The children had an incrrdiable time looking at all the different types of art, fantastic discussions and a lot of "I wonder" questions were asked. A huge thank you to our Indian community of parent helpers who came and shared their expertises telling us about the story of Rama as we were looking at the display. We would highly recommend a trip to the gallery to see the Story of Rama and the other exhibitions, it was a rewarding experience for all.

We also looked at the shapes we can see in some of the pieces of art, and made art using cut out shapes to replicate a woven art piece we saw in the gallery.

Here we are using our bodies to make the different shapes we can see in the paintings.