Play The Gallery is a platform for experiencing art online, with a specific focus on education and expanding the accessibility of art within a New Zealand context.

It strives to enable connection between local institutions, artists, curators, and the broader community.

Create a Profile today, and gain exclusive access to the platforms extended functionality — create your own collections, join the community discussion, and see what others in your network are sharing. Keep reading to find out more.

1. Create your own Collections

Select and drag any item to the right side of the page to create a new collection of your own, or add it to an existing collection. You could explore a certain art movement, or a visual narrative across works. The board motif allows you to make visual associations between works in each collection. Name your collections accordingly, and freely arrange them as required. You can make as many as you like!

2. Add your perspective

Once you create a board, it can be accessed within the collection section. The works that you’ve added may be arranged, edited, and annotated at an artwork- specific level. Seamlessly navigate between your own commentary and the official LIDO descriptors. Both a list view and gallery view allow for links to be drawn between selected works on both a textual and visual level.

3. Add relevant tags

Play The Gallery utilises a tag system that enables seamless navigation of content. Search for movements, artists, descriptors — whatever you require, you can find it. Add tags to your board to describe it best. Tags are searchable integrated back into the system to facilitate connections between works.

4. Share with broader community

Your resources may be valuable to others. The accessibility option within the Collections page puts the power in your hands to decide. Set your boards to private for personal use, share them within your institutional/academic network, or go further by opening up access to the public, making the board searchable through the tag cloud, with the potential to become a verified quality resource by Play The Gallery curatorial staff.