Format: PublicationTitle: An Old Landscape Through New Eyes
Description: Exhibit Brochure Indigenous Art Collection
1st April to 29th of June - The Gallery at the Australian CLub
Format: Virtual ExhibitTitle: Virtual Tour of the exhibition - An old landscape through new eyes
Format: ArtDescription: Grandmother’s country describes a way of life from earlier generations, those who lived closely on country. The symbols here depict water sources, carry baskets, emu feathers and footprints, wh...
Date: 2021
Format: ArtDescription: George Ward Tjungurrayi was born in the Pintupi area, moving to a township in his 40s. He started painting in 1984, and paints mostly the sacred ceremony of Tingari Cycle Dreamings of his ancestr...
Date: 2004
Format: ArtDescription: Imanara is the local language name for Fossil Downs, where Butcher was born and worked on as a drover and butcher. He took up painting after he retired and was one of the senior leaders and artis...
Format: ArtDescription: Wakartu was born in the Great Sandy Desert in the Karnaminti area, Kimberley Western Australia, but her parents died when she was young, so she was brought to live with other family on a station ...
Date: 2006
Format: ArtDescription: This is the landscape of her place of birth, the Pintupi region in central Northern Territory. This painting depicts the mountains close to Haast’s Bluff and the salt lake known as Karrkurutiin...
Date: 2003
Format: ArtDescription: Timms started painting in the mid 1980s after working as a stockman on stations throughout the Eastern Kimberley. He worked in close association with renowned artist Rover Thomas. Timms’ painti...
Date: 1997
Format: ArtDescription: This is the land around Boxer’s home community near Balgo Hills, Western Australia. The centre line is Purkitji – Sturt’s Creek. The yellow geometric patterns are the colour of the spoil af...
Date: 2001
Format: ArtDescription: Daisy was born on Cherrabun Station in the Kimberley, about 250km west of Halls Creek. As a young child her family tried to move back the desert regions but was brought back to the station by pol...
Date: 2004
Format: ArtDescription: Her paintings depict sacred women’s sites and ceremonies in Kintore and Kiwirrkura region, near Papunya, Northern Territory. As an elder she was one of the few women allowed to paint certain as...
Date: 2003
Format: ArtDescription: A spirit figure, in a style similar to rock and bark paintings, using muted earthy tones and flat, two dimensional characters.
Format: ArtDescription: A spirit figure. Many of the figures Paddy depicts are protective, teaching or guiding spirits.
Format: ArtDescription: John Henwood was a pastoralist who owned Fossil Downs with his wife Anne, whose grandfather first settled and developed the station in 1882. They sold the property in 2015. Together they have a l...
Format: ArtDescription: Painters Rock is an area within Fossil Downs station that is known to have rock paintings dating back 40,000 years. This is where current traditional owners come to paint and be connected with th...
Format: ArtDescription: Rohanna is the granddaughter of Butcher Cherel, and came to Wesley College as a student as part of the Yiramalay Studio school exchange program.
Format: ArtDescription: Mandy Martin was a white woman who had a long association with the artists in the Kimberley region, in particular with the Cherel family and Fossil Downs. She was painting at Fossil Downs with Ja...
Date: 2010
Format: ArtDescription: The seven sisters are running across the sky to escape from a man who wants to take one of them as his wife, but he is of the wrong skin group, and is forbidden by law to do this. The sisters for...
Date: 2020
Format: ArtDescription: Clifford Possum Tjapaltajarri grew up near Alice Springs and is known as one of the masters of Central Western dot painting. He was also a highly skilled wood carver. He taught his daughters to p...
Date: 1992
Format: ArtDescription: He describes his tracks as he walks from Victoria River Downs in the Northern Territory to other stations to see family and friends. At one stage Victoria Downs was one of the largest cattle stat...
Date: 2008
Format: ArtDescription: This is a love story, of the male worm singing songs to attract a female worm, while moving through and leaving patterns in the soft ground of Napperby, northwest of Alice Springs. This is an are...
Date: 2020
Format: ArtDescription: Paddy was born in Arnhem Land and lived in an Aboriginal Community on the top end of the Northern Territory. He worked as a stockman for more than 20 years, then his father taught him to paint an...
