These video interviews of selected artists in the Art Gallery’s ARTEXPRESS 2010 exhibition are the result of the peer2peer student video interview project.

peer2peer is an education initiative that continues the Gallery’s development of a comprehensive youth audience strategy (ages 13–18). This strategy already incorporates the annual ARTEXPRESS exhibition and InsideARTEXPRESS website, as well as the Artside-In outreach program for disadvantaged teenage students.

The project – a first for a major Australian public gallery – invites Year 11 and 12 Visual Arts students from diverse NSW schools, to be trained in video/filmmaking techniques and interview skills, for the purpose of producing video interview resources about practising artists and their work presented in the Gallery’s exhibitions or held in its collections. In the case of ARTEXPRESS, the artists are from the year's ARTEXPRESS exhibition.

peer2peer is a unique program specifically focused on teenage students in the Gallery context that offers them a public voice, a rich engagement with the visual arts and its professional world, and an enhanced educational experience.

2010 ARTEXPRESS peer2peer interviews with artists from the Wilderness exhibition >

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Note: for best performance on slower connections, click the Pause button () after each video finishes buffering, then wait for 30 seconds (or until the grey line is about 2cm long):
 

behind the scenes

View a short video on YouTube about the making of the peer2peer project by Kathleen Hannigan, Visual Arts teacher, Fairfield High School.