Child's painting of a bird in a tree

View this record on the National Museum of Australia's website

Type: Drawings
Date: 2001
Place: Tongala, Victoria, Australia
Materials: Paint - non specific, Paper
Collection: Special Forever collection
Accession number: 2001.0037.0007

Description

A child's artwork in watercolour and pencil on paper. The image shows a brown bird with blue markings and an orange beak on a branch with leaves on it. The bird is holding something small in its beak. Below the bird is a waterway with a rock like edge and a green plant in it. The background is painted green. Around the edge of the painting is a border of ellipses in green pencil.

About the collection

The Special Forever Art Works Collection comprises 18 pieces of children's artwork from 4 primary schools in the Murray-Darling Basin; Broken Hill NSW, Moorook and Winkie SA and Tongala VIC. The artworks were produced as part of the Special Forever Program, an environmental communications project facilitated by the Primary English Teaching Association (PETA) and the Murray Darling Basin Commission. The Special Forever Program supports the education of present and future custodians of the Murray Darling Rivers and tributaries. This program has been running for the past nine years. Children learn about the environments of the Murray Darling catchment, local and topical environmental concerns, and develop positive attitudes towards sustainable use of environments. The art works produced for this Collection link the diverse environments found in the Murray Darling Basin with children's experiences. Each drawing captures either a response to environmental issues of sustainability, strategies to preserve precious resources such as water, or places that hold special significance for children.

Read live from the Museum's Collection API (12/11/2026, 5:39:38 am). Record last updated by the Museum 2023-04-26. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.