In the materials section, you’ll find an activity book to download featuring topics. (A screenshot showing the location has been provided below.)
Each topic in the booklet includes artwork activities and videos to explore. You can access all the videos directly from this main page for smart screen presentations.
Topics include:
1. Digital video: Hand painting
What do hands painted in artworks mean for First Nations people?
Deep time history of Australia
Throughout deep time the world has associated ochre, and the handprint sprayed on rock art sites as Indigenous ancient art. For First Nations people of Australia, this style is still used in contemporary Cultural Arts.
Australia has many heritage rock art sites that protect the stories of our Original Custodians. Some have sprayed their hands with ochre and animal fat onto a cave wall. This is called stenciling, the act of placing your hand on a surface spraying the earth onto it and removing your physical hand to leave the outline of what was once there.
Today modifications are made to hand painting such as:
- cardboard stencils
- straws and paint brushes that spray acrylic paint on a range of different surfaces.
First Nations people from all over Australia tell their stories from their region in different ways. The continuing Cultural practice to paint and create with our hands is embedded in years of storytelling. This technique passes on the connections that First Nations people have with our environments.
2. Digital video: Echidna
(Refer to the Tribila Echidna Program and watch the Echidna research video for further knowledge about the mammal)
3. Digital video: Flowering Gum Nuts
4. Digital video: Eastern Rosella
