In this one-off workshop, students will engage with visual artworks by Dylan Mooney, a proud Yuwi man from Mackay, Queensland, with connections to the Torres Strait and South Sea Islands. He is an artist with disability who creates paintings, drawings, and digital illustrations in an exciting comic book style. Dylan’s artwork tells stories about strength, survival, and love. Your students will be excited by contemporary art practice and do a drawing activity exploring symbols before expanding on descriptive language and characterisation. Students will create their own superheroes with a unique and powerful talisman, sharing stories in the form of a short narrative. Students will develop skills to make their writing more personal, inventive and engaging.

In this workshop series students are introduced to the ideas of protest of art, with specific reference to work of Blak Douglas. Students will complete writing in various text types, responding to elements in the work of Blak Douglas and considering protest in their own writing.