Visual Arts / Year 9 and 10 / Exploring and responding

Curriculum content descriptions

investigate the ways that First Nations Australian artists celebrate and challenge multiple perspectives of Australian identity through their artworks and visual arts practice (AC9AVA10E02)

Elaborations
  • researching a diverse range of artworks or designs such as artworks in galleries, protest posters or street art in order to analyse how and why First Nations Australian artists have used visual communication as a tool to express activism for change
  • analysing the ways that First Nations Australian artists use their practices to challenge and inform community debate and present multiple ways of understanding an issue; for example, understandings about “first contacts” between the First Nations Peoples of Australia and people from Britain or Europe
  • comparing, analysing and evaluating ways that contemporary First Nations Australian artists and designers are exploring and challenging concepts and histories of Australia and Australian identity
  • exploring the ways that First Nations Australian visual artists use their practices to communicate ideas, messages and lived experiences to the broader community
  • understanding ways that the arts provide opportunities for First Nations Australian artists and designers to continue and develop their culture
  • investigating how First Nations Australian visual artists are caring for Country/Place, culture and people through the visual arts; for example, by working with representatives of the First Nations Australian community to explore how local groups are caring for the local environment and highlighting these issues through visual arts projects, such as campaigns that focus on environmental issues
General capabilities
  • Intercultural understanding Intercultural Understanding
Cross-curriculum priorities
ScOT terms

Narratives,  Cultural appropriation,  Indigenous cultural and intellectual rights ,  Aboriginal art,  Australian art,  Torres Strait Islander art,  Artists,  Culture,  Cultural identity,  Cultural imperialism,  Aboriginal identity,  Torres Strait Islander identity

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Interactive

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Yoshitomo Nara: nobody's fool

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Koorie Cross-Curricular Protocols for Victorian Government Schools

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Indigenous Australian collection

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Australian collection

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