PD Workshop for Teachers: Stockyards and Saddles

Enquiries: lwag@uwa.edu.au or 08 6488 3707

Educational Kits in relation to the exhibition Stockyards and Saddles: A story of Gibb River Station are available.

Part A addresses Humanities and Social Science (HASS) learning areas relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues. Part A of the kit is suitable for students K-12.

Part B addresses contemporary Aboriginal artists who use photography as a medium. It will challenge Years 11 and 12 visual arts and photo imaging students, tertiary students, as well as those in VET courses.

Led by educator Erin Knight, attend the Professional Development workshop for teachers using these kits, directly after the Curator’s Talk and Tour.

Links can be made to:

- VET Courses: Certificates in Visual Arts

- CUA50915 Diploma of Photography and Photo Imaging

- Year 11 ATAR Design Unit 1 and 2

- Year 11 and 12 General and ATAR Visual Arts

About the exhibition:

Stockyards and Saddles: A Story of Gibb River Station explores the lives of those living and working on the remote cattle station of Gibb River in the East Kimberley region from the early 1900s until the 1990s. The importance of photographs as historical memorabilia often goes beyond the people represented in the images to depict a period of time in our country’s history. Given many of the original cattlemen are no longer with us and the old stories of stockyards and saddles now seem such a distant memory, the Berndt Museum celebrates life in cattle country for those few who remain.

Image: Opening night, Stockyards and Saddles: A story of Gibb River Station, LWAG. Photo by Ilkka K.