Waterways

Design your own basket

Some vessels are baskets. Design your own basket that you could use to carry your 5 most important possessions. Now draw these items inside your basket. Is your basket strong and big enough to carry all your items? Baskets often have handles. Will your basket be easy and comfortable to carry long distances?

Weaving materials

Look at the objects in this room. Take particular note of the baskets with feathers by Ngarrindjeri, Ngadjuri and Narungga artist Sonya Rankine. Rankine builds on traditional Ngarrindjeri weaving by incorporating shells, stones and feathers making connections to water. If you were to incorporate other materials into your basket design what would they be?

Ngarrindjeri Country, where Sonya Rankine is from, includes the Coorong and the lower Murray River in South Australia. Draw an animal whose habitat would be within this coastal area.

Memory Making

The works within this Gallery carry stories and cultural knowledge held by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. In a way, the creation of these works is the art of memory making. Recall a happy memory when you were near water. Create a drawing that captures an element of this happy memory.

Find an animal in this room that lives in or near water. Write a story about this animal.

Finding Fish

Fish can be found in lots of works of art throughout the Gallery. Explore the rest of AGSA and list as many fish as you can find.