Our free resources include exhibition kits, workshop kits, and videos to assist students and teachers in learning about contemporary art.
General Resources
Curators, Galleries, Conservation: VCE: Arts Industry Contexts (VCE)
ARTNOW Digital: Archie Moore, Dwelling (Victorian Issue), presented at
Gertrude Contemporary, 2022.
ARTNOW Digital: Octopus 22: Baroquetopus (Humanimal Entanglements and Tentacular Spectaculars), curated by Dr. Tessa Laird, presented at Gertrude Contemporary, 2022
ARTNOW Digital: Octopus 21: On Fire, curated by Tim Riley Walsh, presented at Gertrude Contemporary, 2021
VCE Video Resources: Artist Interviews
These resources have been developed for VCE Art studies. Together these four resources address the Analytical Frameworks of Structural, Personal, Cultural and Contemporary. They are intended to introduce students to these frameworks and how they can be used to gain understanding of the meaning and messages conveyed in artworks.
These resources are also relevant to VCE Studio Arts, detailing Gertrude Studio Artists' inspiration and techniques, exploration and concepts, and studio process.
1. The Structural Framework with Mia Salsjö
For accessibility, a transcript of this discussion can be downloaded here
2. The Personal Framework with Darcey Bella Arnold
For accessibility, a transcript of this discussion can be downloaded here
3. The Contemporary Framework with Andrew Atchison
For accessibility, a transcript of this discussion can be downloaded here
Video interview for the Cultural framework coming soon...
Exhibition Kits
Artist Collaborations: Lewis Fidock & Joshua Petherick, and Foster & Berean (7-10 and VCE)
Atlanta Eke: The Tennis Piece (7-10 and VCE)
Ali McCann: Οι νεοί (7-10 and VCE)
Jamie North: Slag Studies (7-10 and VCE)
Dale Harding: The Golden Mile (7-10 and VCE)
Octopus 19: Ventriloquy (7-10 and VCE)
an unreliable narrator: Consuelo Cavaniglia and Brendan Van Hek (7-10 and VCE)
Hope Dies Last: Art at the End of Optimism (7-10 and VCE)
David Noonan: A Dark and Quiet Place (7-10 and VCE)
Sangeeta Sandrasegar: It's Like That (7-10 and VCE)
Great Movements of Feeling (7-10 and VCE)
Raafat Ishak: Chicken River and Khadim Ali: Fragmented Memories (7-10 and VCE)
Octopus 18: Mother Tongue (7-10 and VCE)
Zzzzz: Sleep, Somnambulism, Madness (7-10 and VCE)
Gertrude Studios 2018 (7-10 and VCE)
Professional Learning - Contemporary Art on the Road
To download these resources please see the Contemporary Art on the Road page, here.