Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre summer 2023–24 exhibition kits and activity sheets

Client: Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre

Artists: Eddie Abd, Katy B Plummer, Leanne Tobin

Learn about three artists and their exhibitions through in-depth kits and activity sheets! This resource suite also includes guides on actively Acknowledging Country and creating culturally safer spaces.

Use the resources before, during and after an exhibition visit.

Each kit contains:

  • an introduction to the artist

  • information about the exhibition

  • artwork images

  • activities for students and teachers to use in the classroom or gallery

  • curriculum connections

Each activity sheet has:

  • prompts for engaging with the artwork

  • an artist quote

  • a creative activity

Acknowledging Country and facilitating culturally safer spaces

This resource guides you through an active way of Acknowledging Country, as well as tips for creating cultural safer learning spaces.

You can also download a PDF of the guide.

Eddie Abd

Exhibition: The unbearable right to see and be seen

The unbearable right to see and be seen is a major solo exhibition by artist Eddie Abd. The exhibition highlights the tension between self-representative image making and the gaze, inviting an examination of the values we assign to the images that we create and consume. Using both digital images and embroidery as medium and message, Eddie Abd’s works are a rendering of opposing notions converging: modern/ancestral, the homeland/country, the curated/mundane and the digital/tactile.

You can also download a PDF of the exhibition kit and activity sheet.

Exhibition kit
Activity sheet

Katy B Plummer

Exhibition: Margaret and the Grey Mare

Margaret and the Grey Mare is an opera, a fever dream about an opera and an immersive video installation, made in collaboration with a chatbot coded to act as a channel to an ancient Celtic land spirit.

Anchoring the project is a sprawling hour-long video opera. The score is composed and performed by ARIA award-winning composer Sally Whitwell and sung by the artist, her sister Margaret Plummer (a principal mezzo soprano with Vienna State Opera), and baritone Michael Honeyman. The video was filmed at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre and produced in collaboration with award-winning filmmaker and video artist Kuba Dorabialski.

You can also download a PDF of the exhibition kit and activity sheet.

Exhibition kit
Activity sheet

Leanne Tobin

Exhibition: Memories of Water (Badu)

Memories of Water (Badu) reveals glimpses of life from pre- and post-colonisation in the Liverpool/Casula region where the Georges River flows. The exhibition provides a unique insight into the often-overlooked Cabragal Dharug connection to Badu (water) and Ngurra (country).

Leanne Tobin is a proud descendent of the Buruberong and Wumali clans of the Dharug nation. She is highly respected and is increasingly acknowledged as a leading contemporary arts figure at a national level.

You can also download a PDF of the exhibition kit and activity sheet.

Exhibition kit
Activity sheet