Learning Resources: Olive Cotton and her contemporaries

Explore the National Gallery of Australia Learning Resources for Olive Cotton and her contemporaries.

Olive Cotton and her contemporaries is a luminous look at one of Australia’s greatest photographers and her international peers who shaped modernist vision.

A range of learning resources have been developed by the National Gallery to accompany its collection of photographs by Olive Cotton.

Max and Olive: The photographic life of Olive Cotton and Max Dupain
Learning Resource
Secondary
Year 9–10

Olive Cotton: drawing with light
Learning Resource
Primary / Secondary
Year 5–10

Olive Cotton: Resisting definition
Essay by Shaune Lakin
Read Time: 31 minutes
Shaune Lakin is the National Gallery's Senior Curator of Photography.

The Curator Series: Dr Shaune Lakin on Olive Cotton
Let Senior Curator of Photography, Dr Shaune Lakin, draw you in to the universe of Olive Cotton.

The Shell
A song performed by the Luminescence Chamber Singers, composed by Sally Whitwell
Listen Time: 2 minutes

Light
Learning Resource
Art making activity

Find out more about Olive Cotton and her contemporaries.

IMAGE Olive Cotton, The shell c. 1935, National Gallery of Australia, KamberriCanberra, purchased 2012

Olive Cotton and her contemporaries is part of a program of touring exhibitions drawing on the National Gallery's outstanding photography collection. The program is fully supported by the Bowness Family Foundation, and sees some of the most significant photographs by Australian and International artists tour to regional venues across Australia. The program seeks to elevate awareness of the significant cultural influence of photography in Australia, and to provide communities with access to the best of the history of Australian and international photography.

This is a National Gallery Touring Exhibition presented as part of The Bowness Family Foundation Photography Touring Program.