Brett Graham / Ngāti Korokī Kahukura, Tainui Aotearoa New Zealand b.1967 / Wakuwaku (installation view, GOMA) 2024 / Paper templates, crayons, MDF, steel, paint / A collaboration between Brett Graham and the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / Commissioned for Asia Pacific Triennial Kids with support from the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation / © Brett Graham / Photograph: J Ruckli © QAGOMA
The Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) Children’s Art Centre and Regional Services has developed the ‘Asia Pacific Triennial Kids on Tour’ interactive program, enabling Queensland communities to enjoy key elements of the program.
‘Asia Pacific Triennial Kids on Tour’ will feature projects developed by the Children’s Art Centre in collaboration with artists from India, Aotearoa New Zealand, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Cambodia and Timor-Leste, who invite children to explore wide-ranging themes and ideas through a mix of hands-on activities.
All ages are welcome, but we find that primary school aged and younger high school children get the most out of these holiday workshops.
Free, but bookings are required. As the gallery is closed during the Christmas break before this workshop, please self-cancel if you are unable to attend so that people on the waiting list can be notified of an opening.
Asia Pacific Triennial Kids on Tour includes activities developed in collaboration with artists Dana Awartani (Saudi Arabia/Palestine), Etson Caminha (Timor‑Leste), Harold ‘Egn’ Eswar (Malaysia), Brett Graham (Aotearoa New Zealand), Okui Lala (Malaysia), Yim Maline (Cambodia) and Rithika Merchant (India).
Developed in collaboration with artist Dana Awartani, Unity within Multiplicity is an activity based on Zellij tile designs — a style of mosaic traditionally found in North African and Spanish architecture and created by arranging small pieces of coloured tile into geometric patterns. In this activity children can create repeating patterns using coloured pencils and geometric templates.
My Kitchen Sounds, an activity by experimental sound artist and musician Etson Caminha, invites children to experiment with their own sound composition and make music with materials found in the home.
Monster of Wants, developed with Malaysian artist Harold ‘Egn’ Eswar, invites children to create a drawing of a monster that expresses the things they most desire, while A Dream for the Future, in collaboration with Cambodian artist Yim Maline, prompts them to make a drawing that reflects what they dream for the future.
If the seeds chose where to grow, developed in collaboration with Indian artist Rithika Merchant, encourages children to shape a new world by adding elements such as living beings, plants and celestial bodies to a digital or drawn landscape.
Wakuwaku reflects artist Brett Graham’s use of traditional Māori patterns. He asks children to consider the natural environment where they live and to be inspired by it when designing their own pattern to apply to the surface of two custom template shapes.
Children can also enjoy two video works created in collaboration with Malaysian artist Okui Lala and featuring bilingual and multilingual students from Brisbane’s West End State School.
APT11 Kids on Tour is free QAGOMA Touring program available to regional Queensland communities, with thanks to generous support from The Tim Fairfax Family Foundation.
