Australian Art Silhouettes

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Celebrate Indigenous art from your local area or further afield with our Australian Art Silhouettes. Students will decorate their silhouette in an homage to the traditional First Nations artwork of their area. Alternatively, take your class on a nature walk to find natural materials to decorate their work with.

Use this activity to research and represent Indigenous art in your area.

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Curriculum Codes

AC9HS2K04 9

The interconnections of First Nations Australians to a local Country/Place

AC9HS3K04 9

The ways First Nations Australians in different parts of Australia are interconnected with Country/Place

AC9HS3K02 9

Significant events, symbols and emblems that are important to Australia’s identity and diversity, and how they are celebrated, commemorated or recognised in Australia, including Australia Day, Anzac Day, NAIDOC Week, National Sorry Day, Easter, Christmas, and other religious and cultural festivals

AC9AVA6E01 9

Investigate and explain the ways that visual artists represent views, beliefs and opinions for different purposes and in different contexts

ACAVAM106 8.4

Explore ideas, experiences, observations and imagination to create visual artworks and design, including considering ideas in artworks by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists

ACHASSK049 8.4

The ways in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples maintain special connections to particular Country/Place

ACHASSK062 8.4

The importance of Country/Place to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples who belong to a local area

ACHASSK064 8.4

Days and weeks celebrated or commemorated in Australia (including Australia Day, Anzac Day, and National Sorry Day) and the importance of symbols and emblems

ACAVAM110 8.4

Explore ideas and artworks from different cultures and times, including artwork by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, to use as inspiration for their own representations

ACAVAM114 8.4

Explore ideas and practices used by artists, including practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, to represent different views, beliefs and opinions

ACAVAR117 8.4

Explain how visual arts conventions communicate meaning by comparing artworks from different social, cultural and historical contexts, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artworks

VCGGK066

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Country/Place on which the school is located and why Country/Place is important to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and the ways in which they maintain special connections to particular Country/Place

VCHHK072

The significance of Country and Place to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who belong to a local area

VCHHK076

Significance of days and weeks celebrated or commemorated in Australia and the importance of symbols and emblems, including Australia Day, ANZAC Day, Harmony Week, National Reconciliation Week, NAIDOC week and National Sorry Day

VCAVAR032

Identify and describe how ideas are expressed in artworks by comparing artworks from different contemporary, historical and cultural contexts, including artworks by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

GE1-1 old

Describes features of places and the connections people have with places

GE1-2 old

Identifies ways in which people interact with and care for places

GE1-3 old

Communicates geographical information and uses geographical tools for inquiry

GE2-2 old

Describes the ways people, places and environments interact

GE2-4 old

Acquires and communicates geographical information using geographical tools for inquiry

HT2-1 old

Identifies celebrations and commemorations of significance in Australia and the world