Emily Kam Kngwarray

Program

Join our educators online to experience the diverse and powerful art practices of Emily Kam Kngwarray, one of the most innovative First Nations artists in Australia. This exhibition celebrates the artist and gives insight into the Anmatyerre people’s Country, culture, and community through the eyes of Kngwarray, featuring a collection of over 100 works of art including painting, textiles (batiks), and works on paper.

If you have any further questions, please contact groupbookings@nga.gov.au

Location and Duration

By request
Online, 45 – 60 mins

Curriculum Connections

Learning Areas: Visual arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Cross-curriculum priority: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures, Sustainability.
General capabilities: intercultural understanding.

Themes

Diversity of First Nations art, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art

Curriculum content

Explore ideas and practices used by artists from different cultures and times, including the practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, to represent different views, beliefs and opinions; identify purposes and meanings of artworks using visual arts terminology to compare artworks from different social, cultural and historical contexts; analyse how artists use visual conventions; identify features and purposes of artworks from contemporary and past times to explore viewpoints, starting with Australian artworks including those of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The importance of Country/Place to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples; the diversity of Australia's first peoples and the long and continuous connection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples to Country/Place (land, sea, waterways and skies); the influence of people, including Aboriginal and Torres Islander peoples, on the environmental characteristics of Australian places; how groups, such as religious and cultural groups, express their particular identities.

Join us live from your classroom for a free digital excursion, delivered by Education team including experienced learning facilitators and artist educators.

For further information on programs, call +61 2 6240 6777 or email groupbookings@nga.gov.au.