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Aboriginal Art
Almost 30 years ago, at the settlement of Papunya, about 155 miles northwest of Alice Springs, the contemporary Aboriginal art movement sprang to life. Aboriginal elders, afraid that their culture ...
Indigenous Australian Art Takes Center Stage at TEFAF Maastricht
This year’s fair will include a booth dedicated solely to First Nations Australian art, from bark paintings to works by Emily ...
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Aboriginal painting of a tortoise
The collection includes a woomera, which is a stick used for throwing a spear. In Aboriginal art, all the symbols and imagery have a meaning. In this case, the bark painting shows the symbolism of ...
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Remembering John Mawurndjul AM (Balang Nakurulk), the Australian Indigenous artist whose meticulous bark paintings captured a hidden power
Balang won four Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards and the Clemenger Prize. In 2010 he was awarded an Order of Australia “for service to the preservation of ...
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Yarn with Uncle Claude Beeron about Girringun Aboriginal art and Country
The delegation from Girringun Aboriginal Art Centre comprised of respected Elders Uncle Claude Beeron and Auntie Doris Kinjun (educator and master weaver); Nephi Denham, a Traditional Owner and ...
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Aboriginal Art of Australia
Watch all your favourite ABC programs on ABC iview. More from ABC We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we ...