ArtPlay Summer School Holiday Fun

Destroy with artist Poppy Green
Wednesday 9 January
10.30am to 1.30pm
$16 per child, bookings essential
Ages: 5 to 8 years

Break and make art!

ArtPlay's New Ideas Lab supports artists and children to work together to develop new arts experiences. Can destruction be a creative process?

Have you ever wanted to sneak under the barrier in an art gallery and touch the sculptures and paintings? Well now you can. Destroy invites you to look, touch and pull artworks apart.

Poppy Green is an artist from London who creates big, elaborate sculptures made from everyday objects, such as wool and wood. It will be your job to destroy one of her imaginative pieces and find out how it was made! The destruction of one of Poppy's kooky masterpieces will lead to creation of new artworks, made by you! What will you make? It's all in your hands.

Destroy with artist Alistair Mason
Thursday 10 January
10.30am to 1.30pm
$16 per child, bookings essential
Age: 9 to 12 years

Alistair Mason is an artist who works mostly with steel nuts and bolts and plastic piping to create huge, amazing animals! It will be your job to dismantle one of his critters and found out how it was made! The destruction of Alistair's larger-than-life mechanical beast will lead to creation of new artworks, made by you!

Destroy with artist Kathy Holowko
Saturday 12 January
1pm to 4pm
$16 per child, bookings essential
Age: 5 to 8 years

Kathy Holowko is an artist well known to ArtPlay for her clever and fun ideas. It will be your job to unravel one of her sculptural pieces and found out how it was made!

The destruction of Kathy's magical works will lead to the creation of new artworks, made by you!

Destroy with artist George Rose
Sunday 13 January
1pm to 4pm
$16 per child, bookings essential
Age: 9 to 12 years.

George Rose works with paints and brushes and spray cans to make giant, colourful graffiti art. Can you destroy something by adding to it? When is it graffiti art and when is it vandalism? It will be your job to find out!

The destruction of George's graffiti piece will lead to creation of new artworks, made by you! What will you make? It's all in your hands.

ArtPlay Backyard
Wednesday 9 until Sunday 27 January (Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays)
10am to 12pm
Free
Ages: Family

Come and play in the ArtPlay Backyard.

These school holidays we'll have all sorts of materials on hand for you to create your artwork. There's a different theme each time, so you could draw in the dirt, build sculptures with recycled and natural materials or muck about with water, you could wrap up some rope or ribbon and dream up your own mini landscape. Anything is possible!

Air Camp by Memetica
Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 January
10.30am to 12.30pm and 2pm to 4pm
$16 per child, bookings essential Age: 7 to 12 years

Create your own mini inflatable sculpture.

What's important to you? Colonizing mars? Vegetarianism? Soccer? Let's explore themes that are meaningful to you. Using re-purposed materials such as plastic bags and working alongside professional artists, you will draw and make a 2D design that expresses your perspective.

Sonic Labyrinth with artists Aviva Endean and Justin Marshall
Wednesday 23 January and Thursday 24 January
10.30am to 12.30pm and 2pm to 4pm
$16 per child, bookings essential
Age: 9 to 12 years

Experiment with new modes of manipulating sounds.

Can you find new ways to play with sound? How will sound lead you on a journey through the Labyrinth? Come and explore the limitless possibility of sound using specially made and unconventional instruments built by the Artists.

Shine lights, create vibrations and move your body through space to activate and create your sonic journey. Experience sound in a way you have never imagined before! The creative journey continues in February where you can experience the complete Sonic Labyrinth!

Lost
Artists: Alex Walker, Ahmarnya Price, Shanni, Gali and Thomas
Sunday 27 January
10.30am, 12pm, 2pm and 3.30pm
$16 per child, bookings essential
Age: 6 to 9 years

Calling all curious adventurers!

There is a place where something very special and very important is missing. It's not something you can touch or feel. Adults have tried and tried to find the lost things but so far nothing has worked. The people of this place now need your help.
If you accept this mission, you will be invited to enter a world of paths filled with hidden clues. Tasks will be presented to those who require a big heart and a huge imagination. Will you say yes to this quest? Story, craft and potion-making come together in this artistic journey for children.

Lost was produced through ArtPlay's Young Idea Makers program which facilitates the creation of art experiences by children for children.

For more information or to book tickets, visit the ArtPlay website.