26/10/2007
The Aboriginal women apply Awelye body paint designs to the upper body using a tapale (brush- like stick), before dancing their ceremony. Read More...
24/04/2007
Aboriginal Artist Malcolm Maloney Jagamara discusses his identity and culture as part of the Warlpiri people of desert Australia. He describes the Warlpiri as the keepers of fire, water and 'all the blood that flows to the rest of Australia.' Read More...
24/04/2007
As one of the stolen generation, Aboriginal Artist Malcolm Maloney Jagamara talks about driving to Willowra and meeting his Warlpiri family for the first time in 1975. Read More...
24/04/2007
Aboriginal Artist Malcolm Maloney Jagamara talks about inheriting the Water Dreaming in 1998 and the special ceremonies that followed. Read More...
24/04/2007
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. Read More...
24/04/2007
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. Read More...
24/04/2007
Aboriginal Artist Malcolm Maloney Jagamara talks about putting on the first cinematic experience for his family at the Aboriginal community of Willowra. Read More...
24/04/2007
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. Read More...
04/04/2007
Malcolm Jagamarra talks to Sabine about the Lander River 2006 Painting and the importance of the Lander River to his art and dreaming. Read More...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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