Home – Imprinted memory – Jonathan Jones

Explore connection to place through printmaking  

Student visual arts resource developed by The Arts Unit in collaboration with the Art Gallery of NSW and Wiradjuri and Kamilaroi artist Jonanthan Jones.

Years 3 to 6 visual arts

Your students will:

• listen to Wiradjuri, Kamilaroi artist Jonathan Jones speak about his artwork, barrangal dyara (skin and bones) 

• think about places and buildings that are important to them and others 

• create an artwork inspired by your connection or memory to a building 

• reflect on their connection to their chosen place and why it is important to them.  

Creative Arts K-6 Syllabus

• VAS2.1: represents the qualities of experiences and things that are interesting or beautiful* by choosing among aspects of subject matter. *‘Beautiful’ within this outcome does not simply mean ‘pretty’ but rather something that excites and arouses awe, wonder, fascination and delight. 

• VAS2.4: identifies connections between subject matter in artworks and what they refer to, and appreciates the use of particular techniques 

• VAS3.1: Investigates subject matter in an attempt to represent likenesses of things in the world.  

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

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, as well as, the ability for your students to upload of any files they create. Email this form to your students with the link to the Creative Class and all your student responses will be collated in a google sheet.

• Google Classroom Assignment: create an assignment or a quiz in your classes Google Classroom with activities and/or questions, as well as, the ability for your students to upload any files they create.  

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

• Email: instruct 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 like a message board where teachers can pose questions, called "topics," and their students can post video responses that appear in a tiled grid display. 

• Jamboard: an interactive whiteboard which can be used as a feedback board for you and your students to use.

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