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Ahakeye Bush Plum Dreaming
13/02/2010
The Bush Plum is a stable food source for aboriginal people living the in desert and is so important in aboriginal ceremony and culture that it is a totem for Aboriginal people. The Bush Plum is depicted in artworks by women from the Utopian region. Read More...
Art on a String
02/03/2009
Necklace making is a traditional part of Aboriginal culture and each stage plays an integral part from seed collection to wearing necklaces during ceremonies. Necklaces are worn by both men and women during ceremonies relating to sexuality and fecundity. Read More...
Lorna Fencer Napurrula
05/12/2008
Lorna’s strength as a woman of substance and her high ranking within her tribe is reflected in her paintings. She appeared to have no boundaries or fears because she had the confidence in herself and her history. The first time I saw one of her paintings I was fascinated with her use of colour and her layering technique. Her body of work is very significant as a guide to the younger emerging women artists. Read More...
The Last Nomads
10/09/2008
In a 2007 interview Warlimpirrnga said "I couldn't believe it. I thought he was the devil, a bad spirit and was the colour of clouds at sunrise. Read More...
William King Jungala
08/08/2008
I will miss William. Our long chats about his art and life. His Shifting Sands paintings will always remain in my memory. I feel very privileged to have known him. Read More...
Minnie Pwerle
08/08/2008
I knew Minnie Pwerle but it was not until after she passed on that I realised the real power of her paintings. Every time I look at her painting now it makes me smile as if her spirit is reaching out to me – her strength of character, her lack of inhibition, her love of her country and her belief in her Aboriginality talk to me. Read More...
Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming
07/09/2007
The Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming is one of the most significant Dreamtime Stories for the famous Petyarre sisters of Utopia. Each sister interprets this story in a unique way, but in all their works the sisters demonstrate their connection between their past and the present and remind us that the Mountain Devil Lizard is still roaming the country and defining the landscape. Read More...
Aboriginal Symbols and their Meanings
14/08/2007
Many of the symbols used by Aboriginal artists are a variation of lines or dots. Similar symbols can have multiple meanings according to the art region and the elaborate combination of these can tell complex Dreamtime stories. Read More...
Awelye (Women's Ceremony) Art
08/07/2007
Awelye refers to women's ceremonies associated with women's business and also refers to the painting of designs on a women's body. This spiritual, sensuous and meditative performance reflects the nurturing role of women in Aboriginal society. Read More...
Goanna Dreaming
01/07/2007
In Central Australia, the Goanna is a totemic spirit and an Aboriginal Goanna Painting refers to the works of Aboriginal artists who paint their Goanna Dreaming to honour their ancestral spirit. Read More...
Aboriginal Flag of Australia
02/04/2007
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. Read More...
Papunya Tula Aboriginal Art Movement
02/04/2007
In 1971, with the encouragement of a Geoffrey Bardon, a European art teacher at Papunya, contemporary Aboriginal art, known as the Papunya Tula Art Movement, began. Starting with a mural on the external wall of the school yard, the art movement at Papunya evolved both in style, technique and imagery. Read More...
Yuendumu Aboriginal Art: Aboriginal Paintings from the Central Desert
01/04/2007
Warlpiri artists at Yuendumu have been painting with acrylic paint for more than three decades. The artists produce work in a wide variety of styles ranging from the vibrant colours and heavily textured surfaces to fine and delicate dots and lines. Yet at all times, the Yuendumu artists remain true to their tradition by producing art works that map the journeys of their ancestors to the sacred Mina Mina site. Read More...
Aboriginal Food
12/03/2007
Aboriginal Food plays a significant role in indigenous art. The seasonal knowledge of where to locate food essential for survival in the Central Desert is enshrined in Dreaming Stories and passed from generation to generation in story, song, dance and paintings. Read More...
Aboriginal Music
12/03/2007
Aboriginal music plays a strong role in Aboriginal culture. Aboriginal people 'sing their country' in ceremony that combines song, dance and art. Each Dreaming has an associated song and paintings should be seen in the context of the song and dance that accompanied the production of that work. Read More...
Kintore and Kiwirrkurra: Aboriginal Art from the Western Desert
12/03/2007
The dominant narrative of Pintupi art is the Tingari cycle – the stories of the extensive journeys of Pintupi ancestors as they covered the great expanses of the desert regions to create landforms and teach law. The art is notable both for its contemporary abstract style yet deeply traditional in its themes. A dominant mode is the circle and line motif and the art works are usually presented in traditional colours in raw pigments, clays and charcoal: red, yellow, white and black. Read More...
Central Desert Aboriginal Art
12/03/2007
Extiterunt, et transibunt adhuc alii et accipient et utcumque existent. tu autem idemipse es, et omnia crastina atque ultra omniaque hesterna et retro hodie facies, hodie fecisti. quid ad me, si quis non intellegat? gaudeat et ipse dicens: quid est hoc? gaudeat etiam sic, et amet non inveniendo invenire, potius quam inveniendo non invenire te. Read More...
Balgo Hills Aboriginal Art: Aboriginal Paintings from the Western Desert
12/03/2007
The Balgo Hills (Wirrimanu) region represents a melting pot of several different cultural groups. As a result, the art from this region is dynamic, daring and challenging in a variety of styles in a variety of styles of notable for the vibrant use of colour. Read More...
Utopia Aboriginal Art: Aboriginal Paintings from the Central Desert
12/03/2007
Utopia Aboriginal Art and the Utopia Aboriginal artists today follow the tradition of the famous artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye who paved the way for a contemporary and abstract style referenced to awelye (Women’s Ceremony) and depicted in fine dotting work. Women artists dominate this community as they maintain their traditional ceremonial ways paying homage in their art work to their role as food gatherers. Read More...
Aboriginal Bush Tucker & Education Art
12/03/2007
‘If you take the time to learn what is behind the painting, you understand and appreciate the work so much more' Sabine Haider. All Australian Aboriginal art is educational by definition. As a purely oral tradition, Aboriginal history, geography, customs, law, religion, healing and food resources were painted, sung and danced in order to pass on this essential information to future generations. Read More...
Aboriginal Watercolour Paintings
12/03/2007
'Which ever style we use it’s still the same Dreaming story' said Albert Namatjira. The first indigenous artist to paint with watercolour on paper was Albert Namatjira. Although he grasped the ‘European style’ of perspective, Namatjira depicted the Central Desert landscape as it had never been seen before. Six generations later, Peter Taylor Tjutatja remains one of a very few artist to paint in this tradition. Read More...
Aboriginal Art & Paintings
12/03/2007
Australian Aboriginal art and Aboriginal paintings represent one of the most vital art forms in Australia today. The contemporary Aboriginal paintings using acrylic on canvas are the latest adaptation of an artistic tradition that can be traced uninterrupted and continuous for over forty thousand years, making it the oldest living art movement in existence. Read More...
Aboriginal Spirituality
12/03/2007
Aboriginal spirituality lies in the belief in a cultural landscape. Everything on the vast desert landscape has meaning and purpose. Life is a web of inter relationships where man and nature are partners and where the past is always connected to the present. Through their painting, Aboriginal artists are paying respect to their ancestral creators and at the same time strengthening their belief systems. Read More...
Aboriginal Dreamtime Stories
12/03/2007
The Dreamtime (or Dreaming) is a term used to describe the period before living memory when Spirits emerged from beneath the earth and from the sky to create the land forms and all living things. The Dreamtime stories set down the laws for social and moral order and establish the cultural patterns and customs. Read More...
Aboriginal Women
12/03/2007
Male and female ancestral figures played a major role in the Dreaming and were used as a guide to the partnerships between men and women. Aboriginal women shared an interdependent relationship with the men playing a dominant role in child rearing and food gathering and sharing the roles of healers, law makers, performers, painters and custodians of traditional ways. Women maintain their traditional knowledge through ceremony and more recently through their paintings. Read More...
Aboriginal People
10/03/2007
Australian Aboriginal People are not one homogenous group. Prior to Europen settlement it is estimated that there were more than 70 separate nations and more than 600 distinct language groups. Today there are still more than 200 distinct language groups still spoken. Aboriginal people do not speak English as a first language and many speak several aboriginal languages. Aboriginal people do not refer to themselves as Aborigines but instead refer to themselves according to their language sub group, tribe or clan. Read More...
Aboriginal Culture
09/03/2007
Aboriginal culture in the form of art has been produced for thousands of years for private purposes: to tell creation stories (Dreamings), to maintain the law and customs and to maintain the knowledge for survival and attachment to their land. The phenomenon that is called 'contemporary Aboriginal art' is a continuation of a long artistic tradition but it had been adapted for use as public art. The materials may have changed but the stories and designs are traditional. Read More...
Aboriginal Dot Paintings
08/02/2007
Dot paintings today are recognised globally as unique and integral to Australian Aboriginal art. On the surface the dot is simply a style of Aboriginal painting, like the use of cross-hatching or stencil art. Exploring deeper into the history of the Aboriginal dot painting a world of camouflage, secrecy and ritual is discovered. Read More...
Ancestral Rock Paintings The Wandjini figures
08/02/2007
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. Read More...
Aboriginal Art Regions of Central Australia
01/02/2007
Aboriginal art regions in Central Australia are commonly classified as Central and Western desert art. Within this vast region there are numerous small communities with both established and emerging Aboriginal art movements. Style and content varies between the communities as artists are influenced by their own unique landscapes and the associated Dreaming stories and by external influences. Read More...
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