History Stage 4-6

Education programs for History students and teachers using the Gallery's collection as a core resource.
 

Student Programs

Study Mornings: Stage 5 History

Margaret Preston: Art and Life
Meet Margaret Preston and discover her bold personality and significance to Australian society and culture through her wide achievements including decorative painter and modern artist, art lecturer and writer, international traveler and colourful Sydney celebrity. Consider her groundbreaking role as an independent woman, artist, opinion maker and champion of Indigenous art and issues in Australia in the 1930s.
Information Sheet (PDF)
 

Discussion Tours

Stage 4 History
Yiribana: Tracking Diversity
Experience connections to country, culture and community by responding to featured artworks in the Yiribana Gallery's permanent collection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art. Investigate and discuss contemporary Indigenous practice, narratives and concerns.
Information Sheet (PDF)

Stage 4 and 5 History
Engaging Australia
Discover the changing images and stories of Australian history evidenced in the Gallery's Australian and Aboriginal collection. Read and interpret artworks and photographs as records of our dynamic history, from contact and colonization, the turn of the 19th century to Federation, and during and between the World Wars. Discover Australian's changing relationship to this country and the rest of the world through artists' responses over time and place.

Select a focus:

• Aboriginal and Indigenous Peoples, Colonisation and Contact History
• Australia to 1914
• Australia and World War I
• Australia between the Wars
• Australia and World War II
• Changing Rights and Freedoms: Aboriginal Peoples

Information Sheet (PDF)
 

IMAGES:
Top: Margaret Preston Self portrait 1930 (detail) © AGNSW
Middle: Senior study day
Bottom: Year 11-12 gallery talk

Stage 5 History / Stage 6 Modern History
World War 1: the artists experience
If you have ever contemplated the role of art and artists during "The Great War" and the post-war period then this is the excursion for you and your History students. This excursion provides your students with a unique opportunity to view and discuss Australian and European paintings, sketches and cartoons, produced during World War One, in the Prints & Drawings Room of the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Information Sheet (PDF)

Stage 6 Extension
The Bush Legend and the Heidelberg School
Interpret the Bush Legend through iconic artworks from the 1890s by The Heidelberg School of painters in the Gallery's Australian collection. Through three key artworks; Frederick McCubbin's On the Wallaby Track, Tom Roberts' Golden Fleece and Arthur Streeton's Fire's On debate key issues including masculinity, heroism and the individual, bush and city experience. Using the artworks as evidence, with support sources, investigate the artists' social and political agendas, the context of the artworks display in the Gallery, both then and now and their enduring influence on Australian identity.
Information Sheet (PDF)
 

History Collection Connections

View key works in the Gallery's collection relevant to History (PDF)
 

History Professional Development

View programs for teachers linked to the Gallery's collection or exhibitions that are relevant to History including:

• Teacher Study Sessions
• Teachers Exhibition Previews
   

Resources

View resources linked to the Gallery's collection or exhibitions that are relevant to History including:

• Australian Art Collection Education Kit >
• Australian Art Collection Catalogue >
• Margaret Preston: Art and Life Education Kit
• Margaret Preston: Art and Life Exhibition Catalogue >
• Collection Search: Australian Art >