Celebrate Mother’s Day with your loved ones by joining artist Minna Gilligan for a free drop‑in workshop. Craft and write a postcard to a mother figure in your life, creating a personal message inspired by care, connection, and MOTHER: Stories from the NGV Collection.
Using an array of collage materials curated by the artist, you are invited to design a unique postcard before turning it over to write a personal message to your chosen recipient – whether this is a mother figure or special someone in your life, a mother that you know, or someone about to embark on their own journey into motherhood.
Suitable for all ages with all materials provided.
Minna Gilligan is an artist based in Melbourne (Naarm), working primarily with painting, drawing and collage. Her colourful and playful works have been shown at the National Gallery of Victoria, the National Gallery of Australia and Heide Museum of Modern Art.
MOTHER: Stories from the NGV Collection presents diverse stories drawn from across the NGV Collection. The exhibition features works by contemporary and historical Australian and First Nations artists, alongside international art.
It explores both universal and culturally specific experiences of motherhood – from private transformation and societal expectation to intergenerational trauma and loss, mythology and religious iconography, storytelling and language and the deep connection between motherhood, nature and Country.