Lesson Background:
Last week was National Reconciliation Week here in Australia. The theme this year is about taking action- stepping up and being proactive about reconciliation. My colleague came up with the idea of creating an artwork about caring for Country- protecting the environment and living in harmony with the land, which is such an important aspect of Indigenous life.
We created this artwork with the bottom half of the artwork showing us not caring for the environment and then used the art of Indigenous artist Brownyn Bancroft as inspiration for painting the top half of the artwork to show how the environment used to look and how it could look again if we "take action and care for Country".
We used acrylic paint for the artwork, litter that we went out and collected to start taking action, and then we used a chalk paint stick to write the words in. We outlined the artwork in black permanent marker.
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