Aboriginal Art Regions & MovementsCentral Art represents over two hundred Australian Aboriginal artists from across the Central and Western desert regions. It is important for Aboriginal artists and their families to live on their homelands so they stay connected with the Dreamtime stories, song lines and dance cycles associated with their country. |
Aboriginal Art Regions of Central AustraliaCentral Art represents over two hundred Australian Aboriginal artists from across the Central and Western desert regions. It is important for Aboriginal artists and their families to live on their homelands so they stay connected with the Dreamtime stories, song lines and dance cycles associated with their country. |
Utopia Aboriginal Art: Aboriginal Paintings from the Central DesertUtopia Aboriginal Art and the Utopia Aboriginal artists today follow the tradition of the famous artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye who paved the way for a contemporary and abstract style referenced to awelye (Women’s Ceremony) and depicted in fine dotting work. Women artists dominate this community as they maintain their traditional ceremonial ways paying homage in their art work to their role as food gatherers. |
Balgo Hills Aboriginal Art: Aboriginal Paintings from the Western DesertThe Balgo Hills (Wirrimanu) region represents a melting pot of several different cultural groups. As a result, the art from this region is dynamic, daring and challenging in a variety of styles in a variety of styles of notable for the vibrant use of colour. |
Kintore and Kiwirrkurra: Aboriginal Art from the Western DesertThe dominant narrative of Pintupi art is the Tingari cycle – the stories of the extensive journeys of Pintupi ancestors as they covered the great expanses of the desert regions to create landforms and teach law. The art is notable both for its contemporary abstract style yet deeply traditional in its themes. A dominant mode is the circle and line motif and the art works are usually presented in traditional colours in raw pigments, clays and charcoal: red, yellow, white and black. |
Papunya Tula Aboriginal Art MovementIn 1971, with the encouragement of a Geoffrey Bardon, a European art teacher at Papunya, contemporary Aboriginal art, known as the Papunya Tula Art Movement, began. Starting with a mural on the external wall of the school yard, the art movement at Papunya evolved both in style, technique and imagery. |
Yuendumu Aboriginal Art: Aboriginal Paintings from the Central DesertWarlpiri artists at Yuendumu have been painting with acrylic paint for more than three decades. The artists produce work in a wide variety of styles ranging from the vibrant colours and heavily textured surfaces, to fine and delicate dots and lines. Yet at all times, the Yuendumu artists remain true to their tradition by producing art works that map the journeys of their ancestors to the sacred Mina Mina site. |
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