The Ways of Making program series invites educators to explore the creative processes of artists and designers in the NGV Collection while gaining practical skills for the classroom.
In October, join NGV educators and contemporary artist Siri Hayes for a half day focus on photography. Gain insights into Hayes’ creative practice and career journey as she shares insights into her art-making process. Explore and analyse photographic works from the NGV Collection and take part in a hands-on photography workshop led by the artist, where you’ll learn practical skills and techniques to inspire student projects. Discover how photographers use composition, light, and storytelling to create powerful images—and explore how these techniques can be adapted for the classroom.
This program is suitable for teachers of all year levels, particularly those interested in incorporating photography as a creative medium in their classrooms.
Please bring your own camera and its manual (downloaded on your phone or hard copy), an empty memory card, and a fully charged battery. All other materials are supplied. Morning tea is included- please indicate dietary requirements when booking.
Learning Objectives:
- Develop practical photography skills for use in the classroom.
- Learn strategies to integrate photography into lesson planning, both in the gallery and classroom.
- Explore methods to engage students in creative photographic experimentation.
- Build confidence and skills to support successful teaching outcomes.
AITSL Standards:
- 2.1 Apply knowledge of the content and teaching strategies of the teaching area to develop engaging teaching activities.
- 3.3 Select and use relevant teaching strategies to develop knowledge, skills, problem solving and critical and creative thinking.
- 6.2 Participate in learning to update knowledge and practice, targeted to professional needs and school and/or system priorities.
- 7.4 Participate in professional and community networks and forums to broaden knowledge and improve practice.
About the Artist
Siri Hayes works with photography, video and textiles to explore personal and cultural connections to place and human interaction and impact upon it. Hayes is a member of the Paradoxa Collective and collaborates with InPlace Projects at Garambi Baanj.
Her work has been curated into exhibitions such as Photography: Real and Imagined and Negotiating this World; Contemporary Australian Art at the National Gallery of Victoria, Future Primitive at Heide Museum of Modern Art and Contemporary Australian Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery. She has received The Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture and the Philip Hunter Fellowship as well as being a finalist in the National Works on Paper and Bowness Photography Prize.
Hayes’s work is held in public collections such as the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Australian Parliament House and Heide Museum of Modern Art. She has lectured in photography at the Victorian College of the Arts since 2015.