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Djalkiri Wänga – The Land is My Foundation
This national touring exhibition contained bark paintings, crayon drawings and contemporary lino prints covering 50 years of art production from Yirrkala, in Northeast Arnhem Land, none of which have been exhibited previously. All artworks were from the Berndt Museum’s Collection. The exhibition sought to illustrate the spiritual significance attached to specific areas of land by…
Nyungar Landscapes Aboriginal Artists of the South-West: the Heritage of Carrolup, Western Australia
This was a major retrospective exhibition of two dimensional art from the bush landscape tradition of Western Australia’s Aboriginal South-West and the former settlement of Carrolup (today named Marribank) near Katanning. It was the first public exhibition of this art since it was first popularised in Australia, and in Europe during the early 1950s. The…