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Awelye (Body Paint) - Video of Aboriginal Women applying body paint design
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...
Aboriginal women dancing - Video Yuendumu women dancing during awelye ceremony
24/10/2007
Aboriginal women dancing during an awelye ceremony. This dance followed the body painting and celebrates harvesting and gathering the food. 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...
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...
Home and the Warlpiri People - Audio Interview with Aboriginal Artist Malcolm Jagamara
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...
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 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 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 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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