Teaching Indigenous perspectives in VCE Art and Studio Arts
The art activities look look at the importance of ritual and ceremony to Aboriginal people, the different types of ceremonies and rituals Aboriginal people perform and how different cultures use ceremony to discuss death
These art activities explore Aboriginal perspectives of land, their connection to land, the disposession of land and discussion about land rights in contrast to those of western culture
Land
These art activities explore race as a social construct and the issues around idenity indigenous people face as a result of government policies and dispossesion of land
Identity
Ceremony and ritual
Education, politics and activism
These art activites explore the art as activism for Aboriginal people and a history of Aboriginal activism
art activites
Emily Kame Kngwarreye (c1910—1996)
Oorooterna, Wild Fruits, 1991
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
121.0 x 91.0 cm
Tracey Moffatt
Always the Sheep, 1987, 1999
Series of 10 images
Off set print
80 × 60cm
Gough Whitlam pours soil into the hands of Vincent Lingiari, symbolically handing the Wave Hill station in the back to the Gurindji people in 1975 abc.net.au 2014
Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri with
Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri
Napperby death spirit Dreaming 1980, NGV