Start at the Gallery: Picnic & Paint En Plein Air

Step outside and slow down with Start, in an en plein air program connecting creativity, community and the natural world. Bring a picnic rug, create your own masterpiece and explore the outdoors through art-led adventures.

Start Art Adventures
10.30am - 12pm

Explore the collection and discover landscapes and outdoor scenes on a guided art adventure.

Drop in, duration 20 minutes

Nylon Zoo
11am - 3pm

Explore Evelyn Roth's colourful incredible inflatable wonderland.

Courtyard

Start Art Workshops En Plein Air
11am - 3pm

Add your mark to a vibrant, collaborative landscape canvas or create your own impressionist masterpiece with Start artists. Share online and go in the draw to win a Monet to Matisse prize pack.

The Studio & Courtyard lawns

Start Sounds

11am - Resident Start Sounds DJ spins groovy tunes in the Courtyard.

12-3pm - The Bait Fridge Collective

The Bait Fridge Collective return to Start with chaos, colour, costume and creativity. These manipulators of hyper-colourful landscapes are bound to no laws but those of visual, sonic and social evolution.

Courtyard Pavilion

*Dancing in the Gallery
11.30am - 1.30pm

Be moved by art with creative choreographers Jessie McKinlay and Tanya Voges.

Meet in the Atrium, duration 30 minutes

*Start Sketch Tours
11am - 1pm

Join artists Lauren Herraman and Gemma Rose Brook on a drawing journey.

Meet upstairs in Gallery 7
Sessions every half hour, duration 45 minutes

Nature Festival x Tutti | The Bee Keepers
12-2pm

Enjoy a playful, roving performance from Tutti Arts about bees, plants, animals and caring for nature.

Courtyard & lawns amongst the outdoor activations

Start Art Book Club
12pm

Saskia Spark-lee: Fundraiser Fail by Rebecka Sharpe Shelberg & Illustrated by Sofya Karmazina

Saskia Spark-Lee loves animals – she’s almost adopted a whole zooworth! But when Da and Dee say they can’t add another to the collection, she must come up with a new plan to continue supporting her furry friends.

Ages 8-11 | 59 pages

Bookings required

Meet in the Vestibule, North Terrace entrance

Labyrinth Recital Performance by Anna Freer
12pm & 2.30pm

Labyrinth is a musical adventure through the seasons of life, inspired by the twists, turns, and surprises that we all encounter. Blending violin music, song, poetry, and storytelling, this recital explores both personal and universal journeys through times of challenge, change, hope and renewal.

Gallery 3

AGSA Store
10% discount for AGSA and Start Art Club Members.

Parent/carer supervision is required

On your visit please:

• Check in when you arrive by using your Start Art Club Membership.
• Book into activities on arrival.