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Warlugulong

Theme: Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders - Cultural diversity and multiculturalism
Key Learning Area: English - Studies of Society and Environment (SOSE) - The Arts
Age Group: Primary Upper (10-12) - Secondary Lower (13-14) - Secondary Middle (15-16)
Resource Type: Maps
Stimulus Name: Warlugulong

Outcomes

Students explore and appreciate the variety of ways in which the environment can be depicted for a range of purposes.

Introduction

This complex work is not only a topographical, political and weather map of the area but it is also a parable.

Worksheets to download
Warlugulong painting (jpeg File)
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Diversity of Survival (rtf File)
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Resources Needed

Examples of topographical, political and weather maps of Australia

Suggested Activities

Adapted from Diversity- A celebration of Art & culture
An Education Kit for the Yiribana Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Gallery

Download student copies of Warlugulong and Diversity of Survival.

Find examples of topographical, political and weather maps of Australia.
Compare them to Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri's and Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri's Warlugulong.
Consider what is being communicated by these different representations of place and environment and analyse how this information is communicated.

Additional Strategies

Working in groups
Make a map of the school yard as a guide to existing in that environment.

Devise patterns and textures to describe the different terrains.
Add markings to represent specific places that are important to the group.
Mark journeys through this environment with symbols.
Compare group maps.

Tell a travel tale, detailing smells, sights, feelings, colours and creatures or people that were met along the way. What did you learn from this journey?

Related Resources

Art Gallery of NSW 1976, Australian Collection Focus -Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri- Warlugulong
YIRIBANA Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Gallery, brochure available from the AGNSW Bookstore
Vivien Johnson 1994, The Art of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri Craftsman House, Sydney

Copyright Acknowledgement
Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri and Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri
Warlugulong, 1976, synthetic polymer on canvas, 168. 5x 170.5cm,
Art Gallery of New South Wales
c. Aboriginal Artists Agency Ltd, photo: C Snee for AGNSW

Date: 12 October 2000

Last Modified: 15 Nov 2005

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