This Art Notebook depicts an artwork from one of Australia's leading Aboriginal artists Bardayal Lofty Nadjamerrek who sadly passed away in December 2004. The Kangaroo is a totemic being and is painted by Aboriginal artists in many different ways.

This style is called cross-hatch and X-ray art , which is from the Arnhem Land and Kakadu regions of the Northern Territory, in which the skeletons and viscera of the animals and humans portrayed are drawn inside the outline, as if by cross section.

If you would like to know more about the Kangaroo and the relationship with Aboriginal Art and culture, please read the following articles:

• Aboriginal Art & Paintings
• Biography Bardayal Lofty Nadjamerrek