Learning resources

Drawing is how I talk

With Eden Menta from Arts Project Australia

Eden invites you to draw your world and express your identity through art.

D.I.Y. bow tie with Maxine Benba Clarke

Maxine, a featured writer in the Portrait23: Identity publication, invites you to create your own bow tie!

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2022

Let’s look closely at the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2022 together! For students and family groups.

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2020

Google Arts and Culture

Exploring select works from the NPPP 2020. For secondary students.

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2019

Google Arts and Culture

Exploring select works from the NPPP 2019. For secondary students.

Facing New Worlds

Google Arts and Culture

Providing a closer look at individuals and groups who established contact with Asia and Oceania during the European age of discovery. This resource ties in with the Australian Curriculum, specifically for Year 4 and Year 9 students.

Visual Arts

Google Arts and Culture

Travel the collection and see how portraiture reflects aspects of identity, art conventions, technology, storytelling, making processes and reveal historical connections. For Year 5 to Year 7 students.

Migration and Identity in Australia

Google Arts and Culture

Explore migrant stories of individuals from early European colonisation to today. For secondary school students.

Dame Jean Macnamara

Google Arts and Culture

Learn about the Australian doctor and scientist who dedicated her life to the research and treatment of poliomyelitis. For Year 5 – 7 students.

Australia: Sport and Identity

Google Arts and Culture

Australians love their sport. We find many of our heroes and shared values on the sporting field – notions of being a good sport, having dignity in defeat, being socially inclusive and playing fair. For anyone with an interest in sport.

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2018

Google Arts and Culture

Exploring select works from the NPPP 2018. For teachers of primary and secondary Visual Arts.

Photographic Portraits

Google Arts and Culture

Through visual analysis, activity and conversation you will evaluate how photographic portraits communicate artistic intentions, see the impact of evolving technologies and be inspired! For Years 7 to Year 10 students.

Photography

Google Arts and Culture

The images and themes in this resource are designed to provide inspiration and to encourage critical thinking. For Year 11 and 12 students.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Activists

Google Arts and Culture

Explore our complex history and those who have been living in Australia, connecting with the land and telling their stories for 60,000 years. For year 5 – 8 students.

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2017 learning resource

Google Arts and Culture

Explore pose, place, expression and meaning in the photographic portraits from the 2017 Prize. For secondary students.

John Brack's Portraiture

Google Arts and Culture

Learn about artist John Brack, who said that portraits involve three people: the painter, the sitter and the viewer. For Year 6 – 8 students.

The hand of Captain Cook

Google Arts and Culture

Take a close look at a portrait with a hidden message in its hands. For Year 7 – 9 students.

The good, the bad and the ugly

Google Arts and Culture

Learn about some colourful characters from Australia's colonial past. For Year 9 students.

Prison and death in the 19th century

Two iBooks of authentic records

These books include sixteen inmates including Ned Kelly, Captain Moonlite and Frederick Deeming and twelve sketches of the deceased, including several children. For Year 7 – 9 students.

Australian Portraits

Radio National Books and Arts

In this ten-part series on Australian portraits, Angus Trumble and Fiona Gruber hold a wide-ranging, thought-provoking and often unexpected face-off with history and culture.

Look Within: Self-Portraiture

ABC Education

Self-portraits are among the most direct yet intriguing works created by artists for analysis and self-expression. As both subject and creator, the artist is represented entirely in their own terms. For primary students.

Colonial Women

ABC Education

Features the stories of five colonial women. For Years 3 to Year 6 students.

Digital portraits

ABC Education

Explore the medium of digital portraiture (will take you to the ABC Splash website). For Year 7 to Year 12 students.

Learning resource archive

Older resources for previous exhibitions