Educational opportunities

History and Social Sciences :

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history;

• Stolen generation experience;

• local history.

Arts:

• observational skills;

• art appreciation;

• painting technique;

• art in society.

 

Student Worksheets

Click to download two-page colour worksheets:

• Primary School

• Secondary School

Print the worksheet and use it while visiting the exhibition at this website, or in person.

 

Further Reading

South West Indigenous Art including Carrolup Art

http://johncurtingallery.curtin.edu.au/carrolup
Koolark Koort Koorliny (Heart Coming Home) The Herbert Mayer Collection of Carrolup Artwork  exhibition catalogue, curator: Chris Malcolm, John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University, 2014.

South West Central Indigenous Art from South Western Australia 1833-2002  Brenda L. Croft with Janda Gooding, Art Gallery of Western Australia 2003.

Nyungar Artists. Aboriginal Artists of the South-west: The Heritage of Carrolup  Western Australia, John Stanton, Berndt Museum of Anthropology, University of Western Australia, Perth 1992.

Koorah Coolingah (Children Long Ago)  Tracie Pushman and Robyn Smith Walley, Berndt Museum of Anthropology, University of Western Australia, Occasional Paper No. 8, 2006

Generations. The Stolen Years of Fighters and Singers  Tjalaminu Mia, Curator, Centre for Indigenous History and the Arts, University of Western Australia, 1999.

Biographical Accounts of Noongar People

Wandering Girl  by Glenys Ward 1997

No Free Kicks  by Eric Hedley Hayward, Fremantle Arts Centre Press 2006.

Kayang & Me  by Kim Scott Hazel Brown, Fremantle Arts Centre Press 2005.

Ngulak Ngarnk Nidja Boodja - our mother, this land  Centre for Indigenous History and the Arts, University of Western Australia, 2000.

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