Shane PICKETT, On the Horizon of the Dreaming Boodja 2005
This painting depicts the birth of life, breaking throughout the warmth of eternity, bringing the beginning of the Dreaming Boodja, a place mankind ca...
National Gallery of Australia | Audio Tour | National Indigenous Art Triennial 07
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Audio guide to thirty works from the National Indigenous Art Triennial 07: culture warriors shown at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 14 July – 16 October 2006
Maringka BAKER, Kuru Ala 2007 Maringka BAKER Maringka BAKER
This is Kuru Ala. These are creeks and rock holes everywhere, and many trees. There is puli (rocks) and apu (rocky hills). This is Minyma Tjuta Tjukur...
Anniebell MARRNGAMARRNGA, Yawkyawk 2007
Yawkyawk is a word in the Kunwinjku/kunwok language of Western Arnhem Land meaning ‘young woman’ and ‘young woman spirit being’. The different groups ...
Elaine RUSSELL, Inspecting our houses 2004
The manager’s wife was a nursing sister and once a week she would inspect the houses on the mission to make sure that our homes were clean and tidy, w...
Destiny DEACON, Good golly miss dolly, Colour Blinded 2005
Colour blinded exemplifies the way we work together, when we work together. Destiny thinks her thoughts and Virginia thinks hers. Neither of us recalls...
Christine CHRISTOPHERSEN, The past, the present, the future 2006
Christine CHRISTOPHERSEN, The past, the present, the future 2006, painting, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 200.0 (h) x 248.0 (w) cm, Collection of...
Trevor 'Turbo' BROWN, Koala and babies 2005
Brown, from rural Victoria, began painting native animals when he was a teenager living rough and homeless. He depicts his beloved animals in idyllic ...
Jean Baptiste APUATIMI, Yirrikapayi 2007
Yirrikapayi (male crocodile) was once a man who lived around [Cape] Fourcroy [Bathurst Island]. They been spear him. He crawled into the water and tur...
Treahna HAMM, Yabby 2006
The weaving technique used in Yabby is shared by Indigenous nations of the southern and south-eastern regions, particularly along the river systems th...
Jimmy BAKER, Katatjita 2006
Kanpi Tjukurpa (Dreaming story from Kanpi). This place is called Katatjita. It’s a rock hole underground. It’s like a big underground cave inside. The...