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NAIDOC Portraits

Keep the Fire Burning

Celebrate NAIDOC: Keep the Fire Burning! Blak, Loud and Proud and First Nations portraiture in this live National Portrait Gallery program.

1 Portrait of Jawoyn Elder, Margaret Katherine, 2015 John Gollings. © John Gollings/Copyright Agency, 2024. 2 Adam (Adam Goodes), 2014 Alan Jones. © Alan Jones/Copyright Agency, 2024. 3 Kath Walker (Oodgeroo Noonuccal) and Lowitja O’Donoghue at the opening of the inaugural National Aboriginal Conference, Canberra, 1978 (printed 2014) Mervyn Bishop. © Mervyn Bishop.

Celebrate the contributions, achievements and enduring strength of First Nations people represented in the National Portrait Collection. This program will use portraits to engage students with this year’s NAIDOC theme through the visual communication tool of art.

The program will encourage primary students to look closely, respond to and create their own artworks. Students will:

  • explore ideas and artworks of and by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to use as inspiration for their own representations
  • use materials, techniques and processes to explore artwork-making conventions
  • present artworks and describe how they have used visual cues to represent their ideas (please have drawing material/tools ready for each participant)
  • identify intended purposes and meanings of artworks using visual arts terms to compare portraits
  • participate in a body movement activity inspired by poses in First Nations portraits.

Presenter

April Phillips is Wiradjuri-Scottish educator with ancestry from the Galari/Kalari peoples of regional NSW. She is passionate about innovative approaches to learning such as multi-modal resources and live virtual delivery. April is a First Nations Learning Designer who develops resources and engaging experiences for students across the nation.

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The National Portrait Gallery acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders past and present. We respectfully advise that this site includes works by, images of, names of, voices of and references to deceased people.

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