Bring the lifeblood of Country into the heart of your classroom. The Aboriginal Art River Dreaming Rug, designed by proud Mandandanji and Noonuccal artist Kiz Costelloe, draws on the sacred place of rivers and waterways in Aboriginal culture — home of the Rainbow Serpent and countless Dreamtime stories. Children gather, listen, yarn and connect to water Country on a generous 3m x 2m space — and you tick off EYLF Outcomes 1, 2 and 5 while embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives into every-day practice, exactly the cultural responsiveness assessors look for under NQF Quality Areas 3 and 6.
About the design.
In Aboriginal culture, rivers are alive — sacred pathways that connect Country, communities and stories across thousands of generations. Kiz Costelloe's River Dreaming artwork invites children to sit on those waterways and learn the deep interdependence between people, animals, plants, lands and waters that sits at the heart of First Nations knowledge systems.