These Aboriginal items were all collected by the husband of their owner, who went to Australia ... art, all the symbols and imagery have a meaning. In this case, the bark painting shows the ...

Aboriginal bark ... painting depicts hunters in dug out canoes on either side of a turtle. The top part refers to the wet season and to the Macassan voyagers from Sulawesi (Indonesia) who visited the ...

The tension between sacred mysteries that must be shielded from outsiders and those that can be revealed animates an ...

The work tells the story of the events leading up to Maḏayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala ... according to art historian and co-curator Henry Skerritt.

Marcia Langton and Judith Ryan are truth tellers. Their book 65,000 years: A Short History of Australian Art, should be in ...

Amid growing recognition of Indigenous art in the contemporary art ... Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala,” an exhibition highlighting the rich history of ...

Award-winning artists including Richard Bell, Maree Clarke and Emily Kam Kngwarray will lead the largest-ever exhibition of ...

Made in partnership with the Barinaga Aboriginal Co-operative at Maningrida, Northern Territory. Provides an informative look at the bark paintings of Arnhem Land, placing the art work firmly in the ...