Take your art teaching to the next level by learning directly from artists with works in the NGV Collection. See artworks in the gallery through their eyes and build practical art-making skills and techniques that you can take straight back to the classroom.
This immersive full-day professional learning program includes:
- An interactive gallery tour with Melbourne-based artist duo Zilverster (Sharon Goodwin and Irene Hanenbergh), exploring artworks and ideas that have shaped their collaborative practice.
- A hands-on art-making workshop in the NGV Learn studios led by Zilverster.
- An interactive gallery tour with NGV Educators, focusing on creative ways to integrate Medieval, Gothic, Romantic and Surrealist art into your teaching.
- A round-robin style workshop with NGV Educators featuring a range of engaging, collaborative and classroom-ready activities.
Please note: this event is catered. Please indicate any dietary requirements when booking.
Learning Objectives:
- Develop an understanding of how artists generate ideas, make decisions and draw inspiration from artworks, materials and processes
- Explore practical making processes and techniques and consider how these can be adapted for use with students
- Identify connections between specific art genres and creative, collaborative classroom activities
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 Artists
Zilverster is the ongoing collaborative practice of Melbourne-based artists Sharon Goodwin and Irene Hanenbergh, established in 2010. Known individually for their highly detailed and imaginative work, the artists began collaborating by exchanging unresolved pieces and working through each other’s visual problems. This exchange has since grown into a shared practice that expands both artists’ ideas and processes.
Drawing on shared interests including fantasy, art history, occult and alchemical imagery, and the supernatural, each artist brings a distinct sensibility: Goodwin’s imagery often evokes medieval and Gothic worlds, while Hanenbergh’s reflects a Romantic, European mood. Their collaborative works – particularly their intricate, fantastical drawings – continue to evolve, remaining striking in both detail and strangeness.