Art Kids - Pine Rivers Art Gallery

Next date: Saturday, 24 January 2026 | 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM

Art Kids is a fortnightly program designed to engage young artists in hands-on making and exploration of exhibitions at Pine Rivers Art Gallery.

Cost $5 per session or 3 sessions for $12 - book here.

Art kids can expect to learn new skills, connect with their peers, explore different ways of art-making, and most importantly, have fun!

Each session starts with a captivating exploration of artworks, sparking discussions and igniting curiosity around a specific piece.

Parents are welcome to join in or relax in the gallery. All children must be accompanied by an adult during their visit. Places limited, bookings essential.

Pine Rivers Art Gallery is open from Tuesday to Saturday, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM.

Saturday 24 January | Painting patterns

Explore pattern and geometry in this hands-on painting workshop using acrylic paint, watercolour, and oil pastels.

Experiment with creating a complex repeating pattern or keep your design simple. Inspired by Lincoln Austin, we’ll work with bold colours, strong contrasts, and simplified shapes to produce a unique and dynamic final piece.

Saturday 14 February | Window clings

Inspired by geometry, play with shape and colour in this DIY window cling workshop. 

Window clings are a jelly-like, semi-translucent window decals, perfect for adding a stained-glass inspired touch to you window at home. 

Use one of our templates inspired by Imperfect Pattern, or make your own!

Saturday 14 March | Whacky Racers - craft workshop 

Dream up your own transportation device and construct a model of it.  Remix discarded materials, like cardboard, foam, electrical components and more, to create your own portal, hoverboard, or driverless spaceship.  

Assemble a 3D sculpture of your own mode of transport – functional or fictional – before putting them to the test in a race against time and each other.  

Saturday 28 March | Bag of bizarre - macrame workshop 

Make a macrame bag to hold an absurd futuristic tool made from waste materials.  

Sift through electronic parts and leftover materials to upcycle a bizarre tool made for an imagined future.  

Customise your macrame carrier to wear a keyring of fire-starting pencil shavings, bring a cloud detector in your bum bag, or sling a sludgehammer around your shoulder in the near future. 

Saturday 9 May | Modern mammoths - soft sculpture workshop 

Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro dissemble things and present them in a way totally different from its original form. In We Hunt Mammoth, they ask us to think about modernity and tradition.  

In this workshop, we will combine old techniques with new ideas to create our very own modern mammoth soft sculpture.

What will your mammoth look like? You could add racing stripes, tusk handlebars for ultimate speedsters, or keep your design classic. It's up to you!

Saturday 23 May | Sci-fi shrine – cardboard construction workshop  

Imagine that you’ve been transported to the distant future. Around you lie the remnants of forgotten technologies — objects once celebrated, now abandoned. 

Technology evolves at lightning speed. Think about inventions that were once revolutionary: The Nokia flip phone, the trusty typewriter, even the humble horse and cart. Today, they feel like relics of another era. 

Sean Corderio and Claire Healy invite us to reflect on this cycle of progress and obsolescence. How does technology transform over time? What will the future discard as casually as we’ve discarded these? 

In this workshop, create a sci-fi shrine dedicated to something you imagine the future will desperately need — only to eventually throw away.

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Location

Pine Rivers Art Gallery, 130 - 134 Gympie Road, Strathpine, 4500., View map