Year 11 Art Creative Practice class excursion

Five Acts of Love Exhibition

On the unseasonably lovely morning of Thursday the 21st of August, the Year 11 Art Creative Practice class took a tram into the city for an excursion. The sun was shining, the air was warm, and everyone proceeded in a timely and sensible manner to our first destination: the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA). 

There, we visited an exhibition entitled Five Acts of Love. The exhibit presented - through a multitude of different mediums - a thoughtfully unconventional and quietly eerie take on what it is to love and be loved, as seen through the lenses of five different acts: resistance, revolution, intimacy, memory, and annihilation. 

65,000 years: a Short History of Australian Art.

After that, we caught a bus to our second and final stop of the day – the Potter Museum of Art’s 65,000 years: a Short History of Australian Art. Our class progressed upwards through three stories of historical and contemporary Australian art by a wide range of First Nations and white Australian artists, analysing and thinking critically as we went. A standout piece was Betty Muffler and Maringka Burton’s arrestingly detailed wall-sized painting Ngangkari Ngura (Healing Country). The cool toned, heartfelt aerial perspective of the Country where the two “were born and belong” tied in very nicely with the focus of our current unit on culture and collaborative art. With that, intellectually stimulated (and tired from all the walking), the class departed back to Northcote High for a productive last two periods of school. 

Written by Saskia Clarke