Shovels,+picks+&+pans

 =Shovels, Picks & Pans = =A Journey with Early Australian Artists = = = =ST Gill= Samuel Thomas Gill was born in Devon (England) where his father was a Baptist minister, and arrived in Adelaide together with his family in 1839. Gill headed off to the Victorian goldfields with several companions but we have no evidence of him ever becoming a serious “digger”. Instead he left us some of the best records of life on the goldfields through his paintings and sketches of the time. S T Gill’s work still speaks to us directly about life in gold rush Victoria and in the colourful streets of Melbourne.

//To complete this task you will be using [|Voicethread]. Choose an ST Gill painting or drawing that you like. Record details of the picture and use these details to plan a goldfields narrative that tells the story behind the picture. You need to answer the following questions:
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What is the name of the painting? What goldfields activity or activities does it show? Describe the main characters in the painting Describe the main features of the goldfields landscape What mining equipment can you see in the picture? What appears to be happening in this picture? In just a few words, what will happen in the story you tell about this picture? What facts about the gold rush will you use in your story?//

=Click on the names below to look at the work of other famous Australian Artists= =Julian Ashton= =Sidney Nolan=

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