1. Understanding Art Lesson 8: Indigenous Art
Year 4: Art, Materials and Technology

2. Understanding Art Lesson 8: Indigenous Art
Year 4 Art, Materials and Technology
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3. Rapid Review
A coil pot is made by stacking rolls of clay on top of each other.
Teacher to differentiate by releasing students who are ready and teaching to the middle and lower students.
Look at examples from LRS resources for question style.
Include extended thinking down the bottom of the slide.
When making a coil pot, what comes first?
Rolling the clay
Kneading the clay

4. Learning Objective
We will identify different styles of Indigenous1 Australian art.
native to a particular area

5. Activating Prior Knowledge
We will identify different styles of Indigenous Australian art.
There are four design elements of art. Label each one using these words. colour texture shape line
Indigenous Australians used symbols in their art. Label these symbols using the words.
campsite person emu waterhole
line
emu
shape
waterhole
TG: “Read With Me, today we will…”
Optional question.
colour
campsite
texture
person
Tell your partner another symbol used in Indigenous Australian art.

6. Concept Development
We will identify different styles of Indigenous Australian art.
There are many styles2 of Indigenous Australian art. We will look at four.
Also known as rarrk paintings
Aboriginal rock art on the Barnett River, Mount Elizabeth Station
Rock art
Cross hatching
Warlugulong by Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri
Dot painting
Colour field
My Country by Kuddirii Kngwarreye
Key academic vocabulary comes from the learning objective.
E.g. We will describe the style of…
Definition: Style is…
Gesture optional for definition.
A special kind or type of thing
True or False: There is only one style of Indigenous Australian art.

7. https://parksaustralia.gov.au/kakadu/do/rock-art/
Skill Development
There are many styles of Indigenous Australian art.
There are different styles from different areas.
To identify different styles of Indigenous Australian art, we will:
Explore various styles of Indigenous Australian art
Explore the purpose behind Indigenous Australian art
Identify the techniques used
Describe how the four design elements are used to add meaning.
Aboriginal rock art on the Barnett River, Mount Elizabeth Station
Rock art
What’s the skill?
Pick 3 x non-volunteers.
Tell your partner one style of Indigenous Australian art.

8. Skill Development Rock Art https://youtu.be/q8bq_y8bx8s
Bradshaw rock paintings in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, taken at a site off Kalumburu Road near the King Edward River.
Barramundi. Aboriginal art from GNU image on German Wikipedia.
Aboriginal rock art on the Barnett River, Mount Elizabeth Station
What’s the skill?
Pick 3 x non-volunteers.
Aboriginal rock painting, Nourlangie, Kakadu National Park, Australia
Tell your partner a purpose for making rock art.

9. Skill Development To tell and preserve stories, traditions and beliefs
These drawings in the Kimberley are amongst the oldest rock art in the world. Photo by Dr June Ross. Ross.
Aboriginal rock art on the Barnett River, Mount Elizabeth Station
Style
Purpose
Techniques used
How four elements of design are used:
Line
Shape
Colour
Texture
Rock Art
To tell and preserve stories, traditions and beliefs
Natural ochres, wood ash, blood painted on rock where people lived and held ceremonies
Blobs of beeswax and spinifex resin
What’s the skill?
Pick 3 x non-volunteers.
To outline or pattern the figure
Life-like, often seen from an aerial view
Natural ochres, wood ash and blood
Painting, engravings or cutting into rock

10. Guided Practice
There are many styles of Indigenous Australian art. There are different styles from different areas.
To identify different styles of Indigenous Australian art, we will:
Explore various styles of Indigenous Australian art
Explore the purpose behind Indigenous Australian art
Identify the techniques used
Describe how the four design elements are used to add meaning.
Quinkan rock art, near Laura Qld
What’s the skill?
Pick 3 x non-volunteers.
Tell your partner the name of the ancestral spirits of the Laura region.

11. Guided Practice
There are many styles of Indigenous Australian art. There are different styles from different areas.
Quinkan rock art, near Laura Qld
Style
Quinkan Rock Art
Purpose
Techniques used
How four elements of design are used:
Line
Shape
Colour
Texture
To tell and preserve the laws and cultural practices told through the ancestral spirits
Natural ochres, wood ash, blood painted on rock
What’s the skill?
Pick 3 x non-volunteers.
Long and curved. Often over top of other art.
Long bodies. No detail
Natural ochres, wood ash and blood
Painting

12. Skill Development
There are many styles of Indigenous Australian art. There are different styles from different areas.
To identify different styles of Indigenous Australian art, we:
Explore various styles of Indigenous Australian art
Explore the purpose behind Indigenous Australian art
Identify the techniques used
Describe how the four design elements are used to add meaning.
Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri painting, “Warlugulong: Fire Dreaming” 1999
Dot painting
What’s the skill?
Pick 3 x non-volunteers.
Tell your partner why dots were used in many Indigenous Australian art works.

13. Skill Development To hide sacred secrets
Style
Dot painting
Purpose
Techniques used
How four elements of design are used:
Line
Shape
Colour
Texture
To hide sacred secrets
Repeated dots using a stick or brush
Traditional symbols underneath or lines made by repeated dots
What’s the skill?
Pick 3 x non-volunteers.
Neat, small dots to large, rough dots
Ochre colours or bright acrylic
Raised smooth dots
Why were dots used by the Papunya people?

14. Guided Practice
There are many styles of Indigenous Australian art. There are different types from different areas.
To identify different styles of Indigenous Australian art, we will:
Explore various styles of Indigenous Australian art
Explore the purpose behind Indigenous Australian art
Identify the techniques used
Describe how the four design elements are used to add meaning.
Maureen Hudson Nampijinpa
What’s the skill?
Pick 3 x non-volunteers.
Tell your partner which one of the dot paintings did you like the most.

15. Guided Practice To hide sacred secrets Acrylic paint, brush
Maureen Hudson Nampijinpav
Style
Dot Painting
Purpose
Techniques used
How four elements of design are used:
Line
Shape
Colour
Texture
To hide sacred secrets
Acrylic paint, brush
What’s the skill?
Pick 3 x non-volunteers.
Made from repeated dots
Made from repeated dots
Natural ochres and bright acrylic paint
Smooth raised dots

16. Skill Development
There are many styles of Indigenous Australian art. There are different styles from different areas.
To identify different styles of Indigenous Australian art, we will:
Explore various styles of Indigenous Australian art
Explore the purpose behind Indigenous Australian art
Identify the techniques used
Describe how the four design elements are used to add meaning.
Cross Hatching
What’s the skill?
Pick 3 x non-volunteers.
Tell your partner which people used cross hatching.

17. Skill Development For ceremonial paintings
Bark painting in X-ray style depicting a kangaroo. The ‘rarrk’ cross-hatching patterns and the way the figure is cramped within the frame of the painting suggest this work is from a member of Kunwinjku artists active in the 1950s. Western Arnhem Land.
Style
Cross Hatching
Purpose
Techniques used
How four elements of design are used:
Line
Shape
Colour
Texture
For ceremonial paintings
Dragging reeds or hair to paint parallel lines
What’s the skill?
Pick 3 x non-volunteers.
Used to fill in between the outline
Usually animals or patterns
Natural ochres
Flat painted surface

18. Guided Practice
There are many styles of Indigenous Australian art. There are different styles from different areas.
To identify different styles of Indigenous Australian art, we will:
Explore various styles of Indigenous Australian art
Explore the purpose behind Indigenous Australian art
Identify the techniques used
Describe how the four design elements are used to add meaning.
What’s the skill?
Pick 3 x non-volunteers.
What is the name of this style of painting?

19. Guided Practice How four elements of design are used:
Style
Cross Hatching
Purpose
Techniques used
How four elements of design are used:
Line
Shape
Colour
Texture
For ceremonial paintings
Dragging reeds or hair to paint parallel lines
Used to fill in between the outline
Usually animals, people or patterns
What’s the skill?
Pick 3 x non-volunteers.
Acrylic paint in ochre colours
Painting on a flat surface

20. Skill Development
There are many styles of Indigenous Australian art. There are different styles from different areas.
To identify different styles of Indigenous Australian art, we will:
Explore various styles of Indigenous Australian art
Explore the purpose behind Indigenous Australian art
Identify the techniques used
Describe how the four design elements are used to add meaning.
My Country – Kudditji Kngwarreve
Colour Field
What’s the skill?
Pick 3 x non-volunteers.
Tell your partner whether this is traditional, ancient or contemporary art.

21. Skill Development Colour Field For ceremonial paintings
My Country – Kudditji Kngwarreve
Colour Field
Style
Colour Fields
Purpose
Techniques used
How four elements of design are used:
Line
Shape
Colour
Texture
For ceremonial paintings
Brush and paint
What’s the skill?
Pick 3 x non-volunteers.
Uneven and shapes don’t represent animals or people
Uneven blocks of colour
Bright
Painted canvas

22. My Country – Kudditji Kngwarreve
Guided Practice
There are many styles of Indigenous Australian art. There are different styles from different areas.
To identify different styles of Indigenous Australian art, we will:
Explore various styles of Indigenous Australian art
Explore the purpose behind Indigenous Australian art
Identify the techniques used
Describe how the four design elements are used to add meaning.
What’s the skill?
Pick 3 x non-volunteers.
My Country – Kudditji Kngwarreve
What is the name of this style of painting?

23. My Country – Kudditji Kngwarreve
Guided Practice
Colour Field
Style
Rock Art
Purpose
Techniques used
How four elements of design are used:
Line
Shape
Colour
Texture
Dreaming stories
Brush, large splashes of colour
No drawn lines
Uneven outlines of patches of colour
What’s the skill?
Pick 3 x non-volunteers.
My Country – Kudditji Kngwarreve
Acrylic paint in bright colours
Painting on a flat surface

24. Relevance
We will identify different styles of Indigenous Australian art.
Being able to identify different styles of Indigenous Australian art helps us to:
Realise that different regions have different art styles
Appreciate the skills of our people
Tell your partner another reason to identify different styles of Indigenous Australian art.

25. Closure There are many styles of Indigenous Australian art.
To identify different styles of Indigenous Australian art, we will:
Explore various styles of Indigenous Australian art
Explore the purpose behind Indigenous Australian art
Identify the techniques used
Describe how the four design elements are used to add meaning.
Also known as rarrk paintings
Aboriginal rock art on the Barnett River, Mount Elizabeth Station
Rock Art
Cross Hatching
What’s the skill?
Pick 3 x non-volunteers.
My Country by Kuddirii Kngwarreye
Warlugulong by Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri
Colour field
Dot Painting
Tell your partner how many styles of Indigenous Australian art we identified.

26. Closure There are many styles of Indigenous Australian art. Rock Art
The Papunya people used this to hide sacred meanings they did not want others to see.
A contemporary style using blocks of shape and colour to tell Dreaming stories.
Dot Painting
The oldest continuous art tradition in the world. Australia has the oldest examples.
Cross Hatching
Key academic vocabulary comes from the learning objective.
E.g. We will describe the style of…
Definition: Style is…
Gesture optional for definition.
Also called rarrk painting. Using strands of hair or reeds parallel lines are painted to fill in the outline of a drawing.
Colour Fields

27. https://japingkaaboriginalart.com/articles/bush-medicine-leaf/
Independent Practice
We will identify different styles of Indigenous Australian art.
To identify different styles of Indigenous Australian art, we will:
Explore various styles of Indigenous Australian art
Explore the purpose behind Indigenous Australian art
Identify the techniques used
Describe how the four design elements are used to add meaning.
Bush Medicine Leaves
What’s the skill?
Pick 3 x non-volunteers.

28. Independent Practice Style Bush Medicine Leaves Purpose
Techniques used
How four elements of design are used:
Line
Shape
Colour
Texture
Dreaming stories
Brush. Dots with sweeping tails
No drawn lines
Sweeping shapes made by colour and spacing.
Acrylic paint in colours of bush medicine.
Paint on a flat surface.
What’s the skill?
Pick 3 x non-volunteers.
Extended thinking: Can you name other styles of Indigenous Australian art?