GALLERY 501: HDR Research Poster Exhibitions and Staff Creative Practice

2024 Pop-Up Exhibitions: Gallery 501

(Reception Area, 3rd Floor, Building 501 Curtin Bentley Campus)

June 2024 – Tanya Carcione. HDR-PhD Work in Progress : Arts-based Education Research Exhibition

Forthcoming Exhibitions in Gallery 501

August 2024- Tayla Fordham (Performance) … Pop-Up opens 11 am Wed 14/8 til Fri 13/8

Past Exhibitions in Gallery 501

MAY 2024 – Creative Beginnings … Pop Up opens 11am Wed 15/5 and continues til Fri 8th June 2024

The “Creative Beginnings” exhibition presents a survey of work produced by our Curtin University School of Education 2^nd year B.Ed Generalist educators in the unit “Visual Media Arts for Primary” which follows on from previous studies in “Performing Arts for Educators”. Together the two units aim to provide a solid foundation for authentic arts education practice in primary years education settings (years 3-6).

The work on show illustrates a range of foundation skills and concepts from the disciplines of drawing, painting, graphic design, printmaking, and ceramics. Students learned how to teach the disciplines by themselves experiencing the challenges and affordances of materials, methods, techniques, and concepts. They were asked to select one work from their visual arts portfolio to contribute to the exhibition.

The exhibition experience serves not only to highlight their practical skills, knowledge and understanding of the artforms, but also to emphasize the importance of exhibitions as a source of kudos (acknowledgement and reward for effort) for their future students in primary schools.