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

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

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.

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 ...

The Yolngu Bark Petitions were immediately recognised by many as emblems of the unshakeable confidence of Indigenous ...

Twelve copies were made, four copies of which were pasted on to bark cut from local trees. Elders painted the borders with ochre pictures of turtles ... by Aboriginal people to the Australian ...

In August 1963, Yolngu living at the Yirrkala Methodist Mission in Arnhem Land submitted two petitions to the Australian Parliament. Each combined paintings on bark with typed text, in both ...

Indigenous Australian art includes art made by Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders, including collaborations with others. It includes works in a wide range of media including painting ...

D'Lan Contemporary has an exciting solo show of Paddy Beford at Frieze Masters and an ambitious line-up for the year ahead.