Asia Pacific Triennial Kids on Tour

Asia Pacific Triennial Kids on Tour features activities developed by QAGOMA Children’s Art Centre in collaboration with artists who invite children to explore wide-ranging themes and ideas through a mix of hands-on activities.

Asia Pacific Triennial Kids on Tour includes activities developed in collaboration with artists Dana Awartani (Saudi Arabia/Palestine), Harold ‘Egn’ Eswar (Malaysia), Brett Graham (Aotearoa New Zealand) and Yim Maline (Cambodia).

Developed in collaboration with artist Dana Awartani, Unity within Multiplicity is an activity based on Zellij tile designs — a style of mosaic traditionally found in North African and Spanish architecture and created by arranging small pieces of coloured tile into geometric patterns. In this activity children can create repeating patterns using coloured pencils and geometric templates.

Monster of Wants, developed with Malaysian artist Harold ‘Egn’ Eswar, invites children to create a drawing of a monster that expresses the things they most desire, while A Dream for the Future, in collaboration with Cambodian artist Yim Maline, prompts them to make a drawing that reflects what they dream for the future.

Wakuwaku reflects artist Brett Graham’s use of traditional Māori patterns. He asks children to consider the natural environment where they live and to be inspired by it when designing their own pattern to apply to the surface of two custom template shapes.