Educator PD Workshop with Sally Smart

Next date: Friday, 06 March 2026 | 09:00 AM to 03:00 PM

Educators, artists and teachers from all backgrounds – join us for a special professional development day featuring a workshop with renowned contemporary artist, Sally Smart.

Learn about Sally Smart’s creative process and experience it for yourself. Take inspiration from Smart’s current exhibition, The Artists Ballet, to create your own experimental contemporary artwork. Play with materials and processes to generate ideas for learning experiences that will ignite curiosity and creativity for learners of all ages. 

• 9.00am – 9.15am: arrival and registration
• 9.15am – 10.00am: exhibition tour with RMOA staff
• 10.00am – 2.00pm: workshop with Sally Smart
• 2.00pm – 3.00pm: overview of 2026 RMOA exhibitions and programs, networking

Materials and catering provided (tea/coffee, light lunch).

 

 

Sally Smart

Sally Smart is one of Australia’s most dynamic and sought after contemporary visual artists. Living and working on Wurundjeri/Boon Wurrung Country, Melbourne, Smart is recognised internationally for her large-scale assemblage installations, collage painting and film performance works.

The artist takes collage out of its traditional domain of small-scale paper and scales it up to dramatic effect, applying it to other media, including textiles, sculpture and even metal, creating captivating installations that invite and suggest multiple perspectives and interpretations.

In August 2025, Smart transformed RMOA’s Long Gallery with The Artists Ballet, a site-specific work responding to the monumental yet intimate scale of this space, on display until 2028. 

 

This program is generously supported in partnership with Haymans Electrical. 

 

Image: Sally Smart Studio Portrait. Photo: G.Lorenzutti

 

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