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Tamworth Regional Gallery provides a range of workshops suitable for young children, students (primary, secondary and tertiary), young people, teachers, adults, and access and aged care groups. Our learning programs and events take inspiration from our changing exhibition calendar, with gallery staff and artist educators conducting workshops and other programs. Our popular and dynamic workshop program seeks to foster a love of the arts among people of all ages and abilities, and from all sectors of our community.

Our programs seek to:

• Foster awareness of the visual arts in the local community and broader region through public exhibition of the collection and the development of education and outreach programs. 
• Provide opportunities for students and teachers to view works from the National Textile Collection, shows links to key learning areas.
• Encourage engagement with the arts
• Break down barriers that inhibit access to the arts
• Cultivate understanding, appreciation and enjoyment of Tamworth Regional Gallery as a cultural facility

 

Free Gallery Tours

Always available on request. Please use group booking form below.

Hands on Learning

For Schools and groups

Suitable for all stages.

Term 1, 2025 - Focus on Drawing and illustration. Landscape. Abstractism.

This 2 hr excursion includes exhibition tour, followed by 2 x  40 minutes workshops sessions and closes with a back of house tour.
Each session is run by qualified educators from the gallery and CNRL Innovation Studio, adjacent to the Esther Halliday Studio.
$5 per student for quality workshop materials.

Esther Halliday Studio

1. Portraiture
2. Line Drawing /Still Life
3. Exploring Abstractism
4. Patterns in Nature

Innovation Studio

1. Sphero bridge building (Engineering, Maths, Robotics)
2. Sphero chariot construction & race (rapid prototyping, Engineering, Robotics)
3. Makey-Makey Electronics and Coding (circuits, coding)
4. Engineering Building Challenge (rapid prototyping, Engineering)

 

National Textile Collection

The nationally significant  textile collection dates back to the 1970's. It comprises excellent examples of works that document the changes in textile practice over the past 50 years. The collection includes pieces by some of Australia's most innovative and acclaimed textile artists, as well as by local craftspeople and regional artists

Visit Database

The gallery offers free back of house tour, opportunity allows visitors to connect with textile tradition traditions first hand, and consider the links with sustainability, visual new artistic techniques. Seeing the scale and details of the textiles fosters a deeper understanding of cultural narratives and contemporary practice in textile arts. 
 

Our learning programs and events take inspiration from our changing exhibition calendar, with gallery staff and artist educators conducting workshops and other programs. We believe there is no substitute for experiencing artworks at first hand, and encourage gallery visitation to our fully accessible building.