Biennale of Sydney – Student-Led Art Tours
Art education just got a serious upgrade. As part of Sydney’s most celebrated international art event, the 25th Biennale of Sydney: Rememory, students are invited to experience world-class contemporary art up close through specially designed guided tours that bring the exhibitions to life in ways a textbook never could.
Running free across five major venues White Bay Power Station, Art Gallery of NSW, Chau Chak Wing Museum, Campbelltown Arts Centre, and Penrith Regional Gallery the Biennale’s student-led art tours are designed to spark curiosity, encourage critical thinking, and build confidence in interpreting contemporary art. Led by artist-educators, each tour moves students through the exhibition, encouraging them to observe, question, and respond to the works around them.
And for the Indian community, there is plenty to connect with. Indian collective CAMP and Indian artist Kulpreet Singh are among the 83 artists and collectives from 37 countries whose work features across the Biennale. Perhaps most powerfully, students will encounter the deeply personal work of Monica Rani Rudhar — an Australian artist of Indian heritage whose three-channel video installation The Fire In Me Was Lit Long Ago traces her grandfather’s journey as a freedom fighter for Indian Independence in 1940s Punjab. Students will also have the rare opportunity to participate in a hands-on crafts workshop led by Rudhar herself, making their own commemorative prints inspired by objects they love.
This is more than a school excursion — it is a chance for young people to see their own stories, cultures, and heritage reflected in world-class art, and to understand that the past is never truly behind us.
