Aboriginal rock paintings appear earthly and innate to their surroundings, yet often mysterious and supernatural. The naturalness is partly due to its unique ragged canvas. The rock or cave wall is from nature, formed from various stones, surfaces, consistencies, heights and lengths. Wet ochres and rocks as the painting tools also signal an attachment to the tangible world.
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The design of the Aboriginal flag has its roots in the traditional art from Central Australia. Like the acrylic art, the bold yet unsettling design evokes many profound readings and continues to grow as a unifying symbol of Aboriginality in Australia.
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Aboriginal Artist Malcolm Maloney Jagamara talks about the positive impact that going to school had on him in Adelaide as a young Walpiri teenager and sends a message to the young Warlpiri generation from desert Australia today.
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Aboriginal Artist Malcolm Jagamarra talks to Sabine about his relationship with Billy Stockman Japaltjarri, one of the original stockmen, founders of the Papunya community and renonwned artist of the Central Desert.
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Aboriginal Artist Malcolm Maloney Jagamara talks about putting on the first cinematic experience for his family at the Aboriginal community of Willowra.
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Aboriginal Artist Malcolm Maloney Jagamara discusses his identity and culture as part of the Warlpiri people of desert Australia. He discusses the four Warlpiri subsections.
» Continue reading Home and the Warlpiri People - Audio Interview with Aboriginal Artist Malcolm Jagamara
Aboriginal Artist Malcolm Maloney Jagamara talks about the significance of Inapaku or Lake Suprise, the fresh water lake in the middle of the Australian Tanami desert.
» Continue reading Inapaku Dreaming - Audio Interview with Aboriginal Artist Malcolm Jagamara
Aboriginal Artist Malcolm Jagamarra talks to Sabine about the late Clifford Possum, his hero and a man that inspired him and his art immensely.
» Continue reading Clifford Possum - An Audio Interview with Aboriginal Artist Malcolm Jagamarra
Aboriginal Artist Malcolm Maloney Jagamara talks about inheriting the Water Dreaming in 1998 and the special ceremonies that followed.
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