EDUCATION KITS

This Education Resource is designed to support learning outcomes and teaching programs associated with viewing CONCRETE art design architecture by providing:

• Activities for preparation, during and after student visits to the exhibition.
• Focus on nine selected works are grouped into three themes: Art: Personal Identity; Design: Funky Forms; Architecture: Oases of Faith.
• Statements by the nine selected contributors.
• Perspectives by other writers: a range of ideas and information about these works.
• Connections to Curriculum Frameworks, through back at school research tasks. Called Questions and Research, these tasks follow each of the three theme groupings.
• Further Research in the closing section for students to explore the topic of concrete.

It may be used in conjunction with a visit to the exhibition or as a pre-visit or post-visit resource.

THEME 1
ART: Personal Identity

All three artists featured in this theme are highly motivated by personal experiences based on their cultural origins or social and political issues that impact on their lives.

Exhibitors: Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Megan Cope, Elvis Richardson

THEME 2
DESIGN: FUNKY FORMS

Exhibitors: CHEB, Convic, Adam Goodrum.

THEME 3
ARCHITECTURE:
OASES OF FAITH

Oases of Faith explores the use of concrete in three contemporary faith buildings for religious communities; The Australian Islamic Centre in Melbourne, Punchbowl Mosque in Sydney and Victoria’s Tarrawarra Abbey.

Exhibitors: Glenn Murcutt & Hakan Elevli, Baldasso Cortese Architects, Angelo Candalepas and Associates.