Learning Resources

Learning resources encourage research and exploration of works of contemporary art featured in our exhibition program and throughout the UTS Art Collection.

Accessible, interactive and syllabus-linked content includes exhibition information, video interviews with artists and curators, contextual information about artists and their work, quotes, related links and suggested classroom activities.

Resources may be used in the classroom to compliment a tour or workshop, or for independent research and exploration by students and teachers. Online resources are searchable by tags linking art forms and key ideas.

About Education & Outreach

Indigenous art from UTS Art Collection

VIDEO and text: UTS ART Education and UTS Art Collection selected a group of works to display outside Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning on Level 6 of the UTS tower. All the contemporary art works were made by Indigenous Australians and were used as the basis of a creative writing workshop led by Richard Short of Sydney Story Factory.

Over Many Horizons, Keith Armstrong

2 August – 23 September 2016 STEAM VIDEO and text. Over Many Horizons encourages us to re envisage ourselves as future sustaining species, an act of re-futuring. Artist Keith Armstrong collaborates with Scientists and other artists to explore our relationship to the environment.

Michael Riley cloud

VIDEO and PDF BOOKLET: Investigate the iconic photographic series cloud and selected earlier works Sacrifice, Maria & Kristina by renowned Indigenous artist Michael Riley, and explore artist's practice through quotes, critical texts, inquiry questions and further readings. Hear dancer and choreographer Daniel Riley discuss his work Riley (of earth and sky) for Bangarra Dance Theatre in an in-depth video interview, discover the connections between the photographic series and the dance piece it inspired and consider how students can respond.

Meet the curator

VIDEO: Three curators Wayne Tunnicliff Head of Australian Art, AGNSW, Amanda Rowell Owner/Director The Commercial Gallery, Sydney and Owen Leong artist and independent curator open up about their journeys to becoming curators, what a curator does in their different positions and how they do the job that they do!

Crystal Romeo Técha Noble

10 March - 2 April 2015 IN CLASS ACTIVITY and text. Técha Noble’s solo practice plays with performances of gender, tropes of pop culture and systems of cultural power. Her interdisciplinary approach is expressed via costume, choreography, video, sculpture, installation and printmaking. Terminology in this resource was updated September 2019 in line with the resource Clear Expectations.

Joonba Junba Juju

29 April - 23 May 2014 VIDEO and text: Four Aboriginal owned art centres come together to exhibit objects and video of song and dance cycles from the Kimberley. Aboriginal and Torre Strait Islander people are advised that the videos contained in this resource may contain images of people who are deceased.

Ian Burns 'Too Much Is Real' & 'Extended Stage'

11 March - 17 April 2014 UTS Gallery 8 April - 17 April 2014 Goods Line Tunnel, Ultimo VIDEO and text

Paul Greedy 'Pressure Vessel'

29 July - 29 August 2014 VIDEO and text. Paul Greedy's installation 'Pressure Vessel' is an audio installation that explores the relationship between architecture and sound. Ultrasonic rangefinders will track a viewer’s movements through the gallery, activating sets of instruments that correspond to their locations.

Djalkiri We are standing on their names Blue Mud Bay

11 September - 12 October 2012 PDF BOOKLET. Djalkiri is the culmination of a vibrant and intensive cross-cultural exchange between five highly respected Yithuwa Madarrpa artists and four renowned artists from across Australia.

Trace Recordings

22 October—29 November 2013 UTS Gallery Denis Beaubois James Bridle Mahwish Chishty Paolo Cirio Heather Dewey-Hagborg Benjamin Gaulon Adam Harvey Trevor Paglen Shinseungback Kimyonghun Matt Richardson Curated by Chris Gaul and Holly Williams.

Soda_ Jerk 'Dark Matter'

30 July - 30 August 2013 Artist duo Soda_Jerk appropriate film, music and images from popular culture to create a series of videos that act as a ‘séance fiction’ where encounters are staged between the past and future selves of a deceased screen star.

far and wide:Narrative into Idea

9 September - 10 October 2014 Barbara Campbell, George Egerton-Warburton, Michael Lindeman, Alex Martinis Roe and Tom Nicholson. Curated by Jasmin Stephens.

Look This Way

5 March - 5 April 2013 Alex Gawronski, Adrian Gebers, Sebastian Goldspink, Shane Haseman, Biljana Jancic, Sean Lowry, Philipa Veitch.

Echosonics

4 June - 12 July 2013 Curated by Dr Nigel Helyer Part of ISEA2013 Marc Brown, Minoru Sato, Jon Drummond, Ed Osborne.

The Baker's Dozen

6 March - 5 April 2012 PDF BOOKLET. Vivienne Binns, Bonita Bub, Debra Dawes, Lynne Eastaway, Lesley Giovanelli, Elizabeth Gower, Lorna Grear, Lisa Jones, Elizabeth Pulie, Nike Savvas, Gemma Smith, Kerry Smith, Samantha Whittingham.

Homelands

12 June—20 July 2012 PDF BOOKLET. Damian Dillon and Rebecca Shanahan.

Incidental Data

2 August—2 September 2011 PDF BOOKLET. Curated by Kate Sweetapple. Christopher Baker (US) Daniel Eatock (UK) Chris Gaul (Australia) Stacy Greene (US) Tim Knowles (UK) Sam Winston (UK).

Creative Accounting

25 October—25 November 2011 PDF BOOKLET. Curated by Holly Williams. Conrad Bakker (USA), Melanie Gilligan (CAN), Andrew Hurle (AU), Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre, Sanne Mestrom (AU), Kenzee Patterson (AU), David Shapiro (USA), Janos Sugar (HUNGARY), Mark Wagner (USA), Time/Bank (USA). With loans from the Powerhouse Museum and the Westpac Banking Group Archives.

Group Exchange: 2nd Tamworth Textile Triennial

14 april - 15 May 2015 A touring exhibition organised by the Tamworth Regional Gallery and curated by Cecilia Heffer, Senior Lecturer and Course Director of Fashion and Textiles in the School of Design at the University of Technology Sydney. Group Exchange brings together the work of 22 textiles artists from around Australia, celebrating collaboration and experimentation and examining the creative outcomes of shared knowledge.

The Black Box Sessions

31 May - 15 July 2011 PDF BOOKLET. Alex Davies' The Black Box Sessions is an augmented reality installation that was developed in Linz, Austria in conjunction with artist group ‘Time’s Up’ between August and September 2008.

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