Start at the Gallery: Power of Portraits

Start at the Gallery celebrates Reconciliation Week 2019 and the Ramsay Art Prize 2019.

Get up close and personal exploring fascinating faces and powerful portraits! Whether captured in paint, pencil, pottery or photography, portraits can carry rich and wonderful stories, unique personalities, complex emotions and vital cultural histories. Learning about each other’s lives can foster connection, understanding and reconciliation.

Sketch your way through the Gallery, take a Discovery tour, create your own 3D portrait in plasticine or enjoy an immersive storytelling experience from the Adnyamathanha community of the Flinders Ranges.

Don’t forget to make your mark by entering your own remix self-portrait in the 2019 Start Art Prize for junior art stars!

Parent / carer supervision is required.

Start Art workshops
Plasticine portraits with Gus Clutterbuck
11am - 3pm
Sculpt your own three-dimensional portrait inspired by Ben Qulity’s expressive Toby jugs.
Location Sculpture Courtyard Tent

Start Art Prize activity
Remix portraits
11am - 3pm
Create a bold, painterly ‘remix portrait’ with oil pastels. Enter your creation in the Start Art Prize for exhibition at the August Start event!
Location the Studio

Same Like Yesterday
presented by DreamBIG Festival for Reconciliation Week 2019
11am, 12pm, 1pm & 2pm
Follow the journey of two young Adnyamathanha women through the Flinders Ranges, learning from their elders about history, culture, safety and respect on country. A beautiful multimedia story created by women and children of the Adnyamathanha community, in collaboration with the Sharing Stories Foundation.
For more information: https://www.dreambigfestival.com.au/events/same-like-yesterday/
Location Radford Auditorium

Discovery Tours
11am, 11.30am, 12 noon, 1pm, 1.30pm & 2pm
Explore the power of portraits and the stories they can tell on family tours with Gallery Guides.
Location meet in the Atrium

Sketch Tours
Kate Kurucz
11.30am, 12.30pm & 1.30pm
Join local contemporary painter Kate Kurucz on a sketch tour of the gallery exploring the power of portraits.
Location meet at The Studio entrance

Teens Talk
12.30pm
Join Neo's trained teenage guides as they share their unique perspectives and thought-provoking insights with art lovers of all ages.
Location meet in the Atrium

Storytelling performances
The cat sat on the mat by Joan Aiken
with Helen Lawry
11.15am, 12.15pm & 1.15pm
Sir Laxton Superb sees Emma's portrait and is furious. With his white wall spoiled Emma and Aunt Lou will have to go. A story for people who like fairies, buses or cats!
Location Function Room

Start Sounds
DJ Donut
12.30pm & 1.30pm
Creative playlists by Otto Zagala & Joe Quilty
11am & 2pm
Wiggle and groove to fresh tunes selected by creative young people
Location Sculpture Courtyard Tent