Post on 31-Dec-2015
Bella ProgramPre-Visit Resource
for secondary students
What happens at Bella?
Meet our friendly MCA Artist Educators in the National Centre for Creative Leaning.
Help us keep the artworks safe!
• Ask your staff or MCA staff if you’re not sure
What’s great about the galleries?
• Check with your teacher if you’re not sure
Explore the MCA galleries
Discover artworks and engage with fun creative strategies and discussions with Artist Educators.
Find out more about Brown Council’s work here or visit the artist’s website
Visit the Bella Room!
Brown Council, Performance Art (installation view) 2014 Brown Council, Performance Art: Group Action (production still) 2014
Make art in the Creative Studios
Bella participants create artworks in the Creative Studios.
Bella participants create artworks in the Digital Studio and present their digital artworks in the Multimedia Studios.
Digital and Multimedia Studios
Nicholas Folland, The door was open... 2006
Lynette Burida, Pandanus palm coil weave basket, date unknown
What is contemporary art?
Robert Owen, Sunrise #3 2005
• This is a painting made by an Australian artist called Robert Owen.
• It is painted on the wall of the gallery!
Wall painting
• Woven Water hangs from the ceiling. We can look at it from different angles as we move around the space.
• We call this kind of
artwork an installation because the sculpture responds to the space it is in.
• See more of Maria
Fernanda Cardoso’s ‘animal’ sculptures here.
Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Woven Water, Submarine Landscape 2003, Museum of Contemporary Art, purchased with the assistance of Geoff and Vicki Ainsworth and donors at the 2005 Bella Dinner, 2006
Installation
Video• The artist, Shaun Gladwell
filmed himself on his skateboard.
• You may see this video artwork during your Bella visit to Volume One: MCA Collection.
Shaun Gladwell, Storm Sequence (still) 2000
What did you see at the MCA?
Stephen Birch, Untitled (detail) 2005Brown Council, The One Hour Laugh (still) 2009
Nicholas Folland, The door was open... 2006
Thanks for joining our Bella Program!
Brown Council, Performance Art (Still) 2014 Take home your artwork from Bella at the MCA!