Getting started

Bring the artist into the classroom

Introduce your students to Brian Robinson using the videos below.

Find Waiben (Thursday Island) on a map of Australia. How far away is it from where you live?

Look closely at Empyreal: A Place and a Path in the Sky and on the Earth by Brian Robinson. What things do you recognise?

Brian Robinson - An introduction - National Gallery of Australia
Brian Robinson, 'Up in the Heavens the Gods contemplate their next move…' - QAGOMA