Levels 3-8

Join an NGV Educator for a short and lively introduction to one work from the exhibition WHO ARE YOU | Australian Portraiture at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia. To have your questions answered about the Wednesday Work of the Week during the program send them in advance to education.bookings@ngv.vic.gov.au.

A program recording will also be available to access online for booked participants for one week.

Federation series: 1901 –2001

Julie Dowling’s Federation Series 1901–2001, 2001, was created at the time of the centenary of Australia’s Federation. Each of the ten panels features a family member who was affected by policies and events in successive decades after Federation. This week, learn more about the faces painted in the centre of these panels and the stories told through the images and symbols that surround them.

Duration: 15 mins

Cost: Free

Learning objectives

• Identify and describe the sitters and subject matter in Federation Series 1901–2001
• Analyse and interpret the ideas and messages communicated in the artwork
• Consider how the artwork reflects traditional and/or contemporary characteristics associated with portraiture.