Home: Aboriginal Art from NSW – Karla Dickens

Create artworks inspired by the art practice of Wiradjuri artist Karla Dickens

Student visual arts resource developed by The Arts Unit in collaboration with the Art Gallery of New South Wales

Years 5 and 6 visual arts

Your students will:

• explore the richness and diversity of Aboriginal art from New South Wales

• reflect on personal experiences to create meaning in artworks

• devise ways to join different materials when creating artworks.

Creative Arts K-6 Syllabus

• VAS3.2: makes artworks for different audiences assembling materials in a variety of ways.

• VAS3.4: communicates about the ways in which subject matter is represented in artworks.

 History K-10 Syllabus

• HT3-2: describes and explains different experiences of people living in Australia over time.

• HT3-4: describes and explains the struggles for rights and freedoms in Australia, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

For further syllabus connections in this creative class, please refer to Mapping Aboriginal Perspectives and Cross-Curriculum Content K-10 (PDF 300KB).

Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) refers to the rights that Indigenous people have, and want to have, to protect their traditional arts and culture. Sometimes the words 'cultural heritage' are used to mean the same thing. 

The following 2 links provide information to support teachers in the delivery of Aboriginal content:

• NESA - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander principles and protocols

• Arts Law Centre of Australia - Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property factsheet

Collection of student work 

• Google Form: create a Google form with activities and/or questions. Students can also upload any files they create. Email this form to your students with the Creative Class link and all your student responses will be combined in a Google sheet.

• Google Classroom Assignment: create an assignment or a quiz in your Google Classroom with activities and/or questions. Students can also upload any files they create.  

• MS Teams: create a quiz or assignment in your class team drive where students can submit responses and upload any files they create. 

• Email: ask your students to email you any responses and files they create.

• Flipgrid: a website that allows teachers to create 'grids' to facilitate video discussions. Each grid is a message board where teachers can pose questions called 'topics'. Students can post video responses that appear in a tiled grid display. 

• Jamboard: an interactive whiteboard which can be used for class feedback.

For further support on how to create these resources

• Get started with Google Forms

• Create a Google Classroom Assignment

• Assign quizzes to students  through Microsoft Teams 

• Create an assignment in Microsoft Teams

• Educators – getting started with Flipgrid

• Get started with Jamboard