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

the breadtag project By Emma D  23 August 2019 Illustrator Shani Nottingham collects piles and piles of bread tags in the name of art (and environmentalism). Shani Nottingham is a NSW-based illustrator and rather obsessive collector of bread tags. In 2018, she made her hoarding habits public, beginning The Breadtag Project to showcase art made from the ubiquitous…

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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…