Civics and Citizenship

With the State Government’s recent investment in Civics and Citizenship education as a cross curriculum priority, we think this is an apt time to show your students how works of art can be the perfect platform to develop capabilities and skills to be engaged citizens.

This tour will examine works of art in AGSA's that prompt discussions about governance, equity, social order, justice, contention, diversity and citizenry.

Two tapestries hang, facing each other among portraits of former Premiers and Speakers, in the House of Assembly Chamber of the South Australian Parliament. Conceived by a bi-partisan group of women politicians, they were woven in public and were hung in the Chamber in 1994 to mark one hundred years of ground-breaking legislation in South Australia, legislation that gave women the right to vote and equality before the law.
- Kay Lawrence, Radical Textiles catalogue, 2024.

These works of art will be on loan to AGSA for the Radical Textiles exhibition from 23 November 2024 - 30 March 2025

Hear more about these tapestries from Education Manager, Parliament House, Natalie Badcock.