Young People

Online Art Lab: Tell Your Story

NGA x PhotoAccess

Friends of artist Nan Goldin looking out of a window on a train whilst smoking a cigarette.

Nan Goldin, Dieter on the train, Sweden, 1984 from the series The ballad of sexual dependency, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 2021 in celebration of the National Gallery of Australia's 40th anniversary, 2022 © Nan Goldin

Live Stream
Sat & Sun 2, 3, 9 & 10 Sep 2023
2pm AEST
Online via Zoom
Closed Captions
No performances scheduled

Free, bookings essential
Duration: 4 days
Ages: 16 to 25 years old

Art Labs are artist-led workshops connecting young audiences nationally with artists, artmaking and the national collection.

Recently acquired by the National Gallery, The ballad of sexual dependency is Goldin’s extended photographic study of her chosen family – her ‘tribe.’ The work began life as a slide show screened in the clubs and bars of New York where Goldin and her friends worked and played. The slide show was then distilled to a series of 126 photographs which are on display at the Gallery from the 8 July to 28 January 2024.

Presented in partnership with PhotoAccess, this online workshop will teach you how to use photography as a tool for documentation, observation, and expression through personal storytelling.

Listen to Anne O’Hehir, Curator, Photography, talk about the exhibition. Draw inspiration from Goldin's approach to photography as a tool for recording and storytelling to develop your own artwork that features your own story, your community and the life of your generation. Explore themes such as close relationships, growing up, love, diaries, and what it means to be a young person in today's world.

You will need:

  • Your phone or another digital device to take digital photographs.
  • Your own internet-connected computer, laptop or device with webcam and in-built microphone or Bluetooth speaker.
  • Access to and ability to sign into web platform Zoom.

Please note:

Art Lab will be delivered over 4 days, Saturdays and Sundays 2, 3, 9 & 10 September from 2–4pm

Other details
Ticket holders will receive a Zoom link to access this online event by Thursday, 31 August 2023. Please contact the Gallery on +61 2 6240 6411 or young.people@nga.gov.au if you do not receive your viewing link.

VIEWER ADVICE

The photographs in Nan Goldin’s The ballad of sexual dependency depict the everyday lives, often in intimate detail, of people in Goldin’s immediate community during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Please be advised that the works of art depict explicit nudity, sexual acts, drug use, and the impacts of violence against women.

Viewer discretion is advised.

This artwork is not suitable for children under the age of 15.

Please contact the Youth Programs Convenor for further information if required young.people@nga.gov.au