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Humour and kindness run as undercurrents throughout his work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Teachers will explore how Indigenised materials and conceptual thinking affect art practices and the interpretation of contemporary art today. Indigenous pedagogy spans a kaleidoscopic range of thinking in relation to contemporary art, there’s no single fixed approach, but a rich variety of perspectives. In Currie’s practice, material and conceptual frameworks are closely interlinked: the materials the artist uses carry meaning just as much as the ideas behind them. In this workshop, we invite participants to expand their thinking around how this connection might shape and inform their own choices with materials and art making. Together, through hands-on exercises with collage and assemblage and open discussion, teachers have the opportunity to play and explore these ideas with the artist. Learning Outcomes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n By participating in this workshop, teachers will:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Where:<\/strong> ACCA<\/p>\n\n\n\n Student Teacher $20 + GST Regional teachers: we\u2019re pleased to be offering a limited number of free spots! To secure a limited free ticket please email ACCA Education, and tell us a little about yourself and your school community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Nicholas Currie is an artist and curator. As an artist his practice spans painting,\u00a0sculpture\u00a0and performance. Currently based in\u00a0Narrm\/Melbourne, he is from the\u00a0Mununjali\u00a0clan of the\u00a0Yugambeh\u00a0language group, with connection to Kuku Yalanji. Humour and kindness are undercurrents to the major themes addressed in his works: contemporary Indigenous perspectives, hauntology and exploration of identity within current Australia.\u00a0\u00a0 His work is held in collections including Monash University, Nillumbik Council, and ANZ. Currie has published two artist books with Stray Pages: I can laugh with you<\/em> (2025) and OBSERVATION NOITAVRESBO <\/em>(2025). He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from the Victorian College of the Arts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Nicholas Currie is represented by Daine Singer.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n AITSL Australian Professional Standards for Teachers:<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1 – 4pm Join artist and curator Nicholas Currie (Mununjali clan of the Yugambeh language group, with connection to Kuku Yalanji) in this workshop, which explores the material and conceptual frameworks interlinked within his practice spanning painting, sculpture and performance. Humour and kindness run as undercurrents throughout his work. Teachers will explore how Indigenised materials and conceptual thinking affect art […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":55418,"template":"","artist":[],"event_type":[1628],"product_category":[],"series":[1814],"sponsor":[2134],"class_list":["post-55412","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","series-summer-workshop-series","sponsor-department-of-education"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acca.melbourne\/api\/wp\/v2\/program\/55412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acca.melbourne\/api\/wp\/v2\/program"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acca.melbourne\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acca.melbourne\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/55418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acca.melbourne\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acca.melbourne\/api\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=55412"},{"taxonomy":"event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acca.melbourne\/api\/wp\/v2\/event_type?post=55412"},{"taxonomy":"product_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acca.melbourne\/api\/wp\/v2\/product_category?post=55412"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acca.melbourne\/api\/wp\/v2\/series?post=55412"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acca.melbourne\/api\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=55412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":55414,"date":"2026-09-07T19:35:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T09:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acca.melbourne\/?post_type=event&p=55414"},"modified":"2026-09-07T19:35:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T09:35:05","slug":"drawing-club-how-far-you-can-take-a-line-with-mira-gojak","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/acca.melbourne\/program\/drawing-club-how-far-you-can-take-a-line-with-mira-gojak\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawing Club | How far you can take a line\u00a0with Mira Gojak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n 5:30-8:30pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n Welcome to ACCA’s Drawing Club! This series will push the boundaries of drawing, allowing you to explore new skills and styles whilst refining your technique. Each workshop is inspired by the exhibition and supported by a different artist facilitator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Designed to drop in, join us for one session or all four. Perfect for educators and life long learners alike. No prior experience needed. This workshop series is open to the general public and teachers. The session will also feature an introduction to the exhibition and light refreshments will be provided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n All material provided. Participants are welcome to bring their own personal materials (e.g. visual diaries, pencils, etc.) if preferred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ACCA is pleased to announce the fourth Drawing Club for 2026 with ACCA alum Mira Gojak (NEW05).<\/em> Join this dynamic workshop to explore how a line on a blank page can trace both continuous movement and its discontinuity through various forms of interruption. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Working with\u00a0colour and\u00a0a range\u00a0of\u00a0drawing processes, including pencil, charcoal and\u00a0Texta,\u00a0the workshop will investigate the\u00a0tension between continuity and disruption\u00a0as a line moves across the\u00a0page.\u00a0These ideas will be explored in response to the works in\u00a0NEW26<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This workshop is open to the general public and teachers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n All material provided. Participants are welcome to bring their own personal materials (e.g. visual diaries, pencils, etc.) if preferred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n TICKETS<\/strong> Discounted tickets for teachers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Teacher $20 + GST Regional teachers: we\u2019re pleased to be offering a limited number of free spots! To secure a limited free ticket please email education@acca.melbourne<\/a> and tell us a little about yourself and your school community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n BIOGRAPHY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Mira Gojak lives and works in Melbourne. She studied science, psychology and zoology before completing a fine arts degree. Her exploratory practice is informed by these disciplines, perhaps enabling her to move freely between abstraction and figuration, gesture and structure across her drawings, sculptures and installations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Gojak\u2019s works often begin by extending a line drawing into space. Through a process of entanglement or accumulation, these lines materialise as works where the distinction between internal and external forces becomes unclear, embodying a tension between movement and stillness, continuity and cuts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Here the idea of a threshold allows opposing actions and their repetitions to play out in and through time. Repetition is performed almost as a ritual, as though bound to the strange logic of a fable, where each return may become a passage towards transformation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Gojak has participated in exhibitions at public institutions, commercial galleries and artist-run project spaces in Victoria and interstate. Her work is held in the collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of South Australia, Buxton Contemporary, Heide 5:30-8:30pm Welcome to ACCA’s Drawing Club! This series will push the boundaries of drawing, allowing you to explore new skills and styles whilst refining your technique. Each workshop is inspired by the exhibition and supported by a different artist facilitator. Designed to drop in, join us for one session or all four. 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This exhibition celebrates the most compelling emerging Australian artists through bold and ambitious new commissions. Spanning painting, moving image, ceramics, sound, installation, writing and architectural intervention. This <\/em><\/strong>exhibition is an opportunity to immerse your young ones in new ways of thinking, experimenting and learning about contemporary art practice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Session 3: Curatorial Perspectives<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr Shelley McSpedden<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Session 2: Expanding Artistic Practice<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Caesar Florence-Howard<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Freya Alexander<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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This professional learning session equips teachers with adaptable classroom activities and curriculum-aligned approaches that foster experimentation, material inquiry and creative thinking across the Victorian Curriculum F\u201310, VCE Art Making and Exhibiting, VCE Art Creative Practice study designs and Visual Art Studio. Pre-Service Teachers are also welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Tickets:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Teacher $25 + GST
Free for regional teachers
Recommended for Primary and Secondary Visual Art. Pre-Service Teachers are also welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Currie has exhibited widely in\u00a0Narrm\/Melbourne, including at Daine Singer, Connors\u00a0Connors, Sullivan + Strumpf, Futures, Kings Artist Run Space, Blak Dot Gallery, Koorie Heritage Trust, Craft, Incinerator Gallery, Ordinance Gallery, and the Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery (formerly the Margaret Lawrence Gallery), as well as at Outer Space in Meanjin\/Brisbane. In 2025 he presented\u00a0Stars, Scars, Sagas<\/em>\u00a0together with Amelia Griffin-Toovey through the Public Art Melbourne Test Site program.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Standard 2: Know the content and how to teach it\u00a0
(2.1) Content and teaching strategies of the teaching area\u00a0
Standard 6: Engage in professional learning\u00a0
(6.2) Engage in professional learning and improve practice\u00a0
Standard 7: Engage professionally with colleagues, parents\/carers and the community\u00a0
(7.4) Engage with professional teaching networks and broader communities\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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General Public: $30 + GST<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Student Teacher $15 + GST
Free for regional teachers<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/s>Museum of Modern Art, McClelland Gallery, Monash University Collection, National Gallery of Australia and National Gallery of Victoria, as well as in various private collections. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
All participants will create their own artwork and contribute to a large-scale collaborative work inspired by the themes of\u202fexperimentation and technology in this exhibition.\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Free drop-in workshop, suitable for ages 3\u201310.\u00a0
All children are to be accompanied by an adult at all times.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n