Powerhouse Creative Studio: Capsule Documentary

Explore the art of collaging — cutting, pasting, and crafting images together to tell a visual story — while creating your own capsule documentary with Bungendore-based multimedia artist Miah-Tya Nungheena Gowland.

In this three-day workshop, students will take inspiration from objects in the Powerhouse Collection (hyperlink https://collection.powerhouse.com.au/) and collaborate with their peers to curate a short video collage to preserve a special moment in time.

Students will be guided by the artist’s creative process, which often showcases themes that highlight her experience of growing up in small, rural Australian towns. Nungheena’s work exhibits the importance of preserving the lands we live on, and how it can shape us as creatives and human beings.

Price: $20
Age: Children ages 11–17
Participants should bring a packed lunch.

Artist

Miah-Tya Nungheena Gowland strives to express personal stories through graphic design, film, motion graphics and photography. As a writer/director, their work showcases themes and storylines that highlight the experiences of growing up in rural Australia, the importance of acknowledging the land we live on and how this shapes us as human beings. Nungheena’s films have been featured in the Canberra Short Film Festival, and their motion graphic, Time Well Valued, was the 2022 Arts Category Winner in the University of Canberra’s Creative Competition. Their latest work, The Gap Year, has also been supported by the Veolia Mulwaree Fund.

PHIVE sits on the lands and waters of the Burramattagal of the Dharug nation and we acknowledge Burramatta as significant place of ceremony, story and tradition. We pay our respects to Dharug Ancestors and Elders, past, present and future and extend our respect to all First Nations people joining this program and visiting PHIVE.