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: Gloria Petyarre was a founding member of the Utopia Women's Batik group set up in the 1970s.
Her subjects are Women's Business, and her style is very easily recognized. Other family members also...
Date: 2020
Format: ArtDescription: Susie Bootja Bootja Napaltjarri b. c 1935-16th January 2023 in Balgo, Western Desert region. Susie was well known for her knowledge and practice of law and ceremony.
see link for more informat...
Date: 1995
Format: ArtDescription: Erna Motna Nakamarra b 1938
There may be cultural restrictions
Date: 1989
Format: ArtDescription: classic 'xray' style depiction of fish as part of the Dreamtime story, typical of East Arnhem Land style.
Date: unk
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: 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: CollectionName: Indigenous Art Collection
Collection Summary: Indigenous Art
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: Jacinta is one of the celebrated Numina sisters, whose bold, confident, and colourful paintings are enjoyed in homes throughout Australia and all over the world. Her 2 aunts are Gloria and Kathl...
Date: 2022
Format: ArtDescription: Gabriella is the sister of Michelle Possum and the daughter of Clifford Possum. She was born at Mt Allen, NT and paints the Dreaming stories of her paternal grandmother, as does Michelle
Date: 2022
Format: ArtDescription: Three carvings on bloodwood using natural ochres by three different artists living and working on Bathurst Island, Northern Territory.
Totems-face with mask by John Patrick Kelantumama 1952-2...
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.
