Start at the Gallery - Mix it up

Mad March is only just beginning, and it’s time to mix it up!

Get messy, get bold, get experimental with Start at the Gallery.

Enjoy kids tours, live performances and hands-on art activities - all inspired by the thick paint, warped forms and lurid colours of acclaimed contemporary painter Ben Quilty.

A mixed-up melting pot of art and ideas for the whole family!

11am-3pm

Start Art workshops
Squirt bottle painting
You don’t need a paintbrush to paint! Get abstract and expressive with colourful squirt bottle painting. Let loose and create your own unique piece to take home.

11am, 11.30am, 12 noon, 1pm, 1.30pm & 2pm

Children's Tours
Explore the dynamic mix of influences and ideas in Ben Quilty’s work on family tours with Gallery Guides.

12.30pm

Neo Tour
Join Neo's team of trained teenage guides as they share their unique perspectives and thought-provoking insights with art lovers of all ages.

11.30am, 12.30pm & 1.30pm

Sketch Tours
Fragmented figures with Kate Kurucz
Join contemporary painter Kate Kurucz on a surrealist sketch tour of the gallery, creating weird, way-out and wonderful figure drawings.

11.15am, 12.15pm & 1.15pm

Storytelling performances with Helen Lawry

11am–3pm

Start Sounds
Dumpster sound system
DJ Sandy Bunker mashes up a fresh mix of tunes from Joe Quilty’s world and beyond.

12pm, 1pm, 2pm

Hula Hooping
Move your hips with hooping tips from hula master Adrienne Harris.