ACARA: Classroom Ideas: Years F-2, Exploring patterns and data with breadtags and plastic lids

A splash of inspiration at the Cowra Business Hub Those needing some inspiration while working in the Cowra Business Hub need only look up on the wall to find it. The hub now has nine canvases providing inspiration and stimulation in the way of motivational phrases. Local artist, Shani Nottingham, produced the canvases and said…

Shani Nottingham plans to change the world – one bread tag at a time. The collector, teacher, artist, blogger and influencer from the central west NSW town of Cowra is, above everything else, an environmentalist. For her, collecting and the environment go together, mainly, she says, because they have to. Four years ago, after suffering…

Jacqui Kidman & Lisa Whiston This week we share an interview with Shani Nottingham, the founder of The Breadtag Project. Shani took a simple everyday item and decided to make art with it. But in a bid to discover more, she found opportunities to do better in education, awareness building, campaigning, activism and closing the…

The Bread Tag Project started when Shani Nottingham’s boys were hungry and devouring tonnes of bread a week and leaving the bread tags all over the kitchen. Shani’s creative mind naturally took over – and she decided this was going to be her point of difference as an artist. That was almost four years ago…