By Ms Pip Buining, Junior School Teacher

Kindy Arts is currently exploring Indigenous storytelling through art, music, drama and dance. To deepen our learning experience, we visited the National Gallery of Australia (NGA). Many thanks to Ms Jodie Munday, First Nations Artist in Residence, who accompanied two of the classes to the gallery.

Students carefully studied artworks in the First Nations Gallery and Sculpture Garden to explore what the artworks tell us about the artists' connection to country – land, animals and people.

Two highlights of our excursion were The Aboriginal Memorial and Ceremony created by Dr Matilda House and Paul Girrawah House.

In the photo on the right students are pretending to be seeds waiting to grow into desert flowers after the spring rains in front of Emily Kam Kngwarray’s Alhalkere - My Country (1992).

The NGA is open every day (except Christmas Day), and it is a wonderful place for families to visit and learn together about First Nations Australians.