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How to use this resource • This resource is designed to be displayed on an interactive whiteboard or via a laptop and projector. • Guidelines are contained within the notes section along with links to further education resources and any documents you may wish to print. Welcome to the MCA What happens at Bella Plus? Brown Council, Performance Art : Group Action (production still) 2014 Help us keep the artworks safe! • Ask your staff or MCA staff if you’re not sure What’s great about the galleries? • Ask your staff or MCA staff if you’re not sure Explore the MCA galleries Discover artworks and engage with fun creative strategies and discussions with Artist Educators. Images courtesy and © MCA. Visit the Bella Room! Brown Council, Performance Art (installation view) 2014 Brown Council, Group Action (production still) 2014 Find out more about Brown Council’s work here or visit the artist’s website Make art in the Creative Studios Bella Plus participants create artworks in the Creative Studios. Images courtesy and © MCA Visit our Digital and Multimedia Studios Bella Plus participants create artworks in the Digital Studio and present their digital artworks in the Multimedia Studios 2013. Image courtesy and © MCA What is contemporary art? Lynette Burida, Pandanus palm coil weave basket, date unknown, Museum of Contemporary Art and Maningrida Arts & Culture with financial assistance from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Board of the Australia Council, 1994 Nicholas Folland, The door was open... 2006, Museum of Contemporary Art, donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Wendy Foard and Peter Bate, 2009 Wall painting Robert Owen, Sunrise #3 2005, Museum of Contemporary Art, purchased 2005 • This is a painting made by an Australian artist called Robert Owen. • It is painted on the wall of the gallery! Installation • Woven Water hangs from the ceiling. We can look at it from different angles as we move around the space. • We call this kind of artwork an installation because the sculpture responds to the space it is in. Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Woven Water, Submarine Landscape 2003, Museum of Contemporary Art, purchased with the assistance of Geoff and Vicki Ainsworth and donors at the 2005 Bella Dinner, 2006 • See more of Maria Fernanda Cardoso’s ‘animal’ sculptures here. Video • The artist, Shaun Gladwell filmed himself on his skateboard. • You may see this video artwork during your Bella Plus visit to Volume One: MCA Collection. Shaun Gladwell, Storm Sequence (still) 2000, Museum of Contemporary Art, donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Andrew and Cathy Cameron, 2011 What did you see at the MCA? Brown Council, The One Hour Laugh (still) 2009, Museum of Contemporary Art, purchased with the assistance of Dr Edward Jackson AM and Mrs Cynthia Jackson AM, 2011 Nicholas Folland, The door was open... 2006, Museum of Contemporary Art, donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Wendy Foard and Peter Bate, 2009 Stephen Birch, Untitled (detail) 2005, Museum of Contemporary Art, gift of the Estate of Stephen Birch, 2008 Thank you for joining our Bella Plus Program! Brown Council, Performance Art (Still) 2014, commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia for the Jackson Bella Room, 2014. Image courtesy and © the artist, Photograph: Alex Davies Bella Plus participants create artworks in the Creative Studios. Image courtesy and © MCA