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I hope you enjoy the visual and emotional impact of these examples of Australian art and ceramics as much as I do. Whilst many are under copyright I have attributed the source wherever possible (and I remember).

Showing posts with label aboriginal art. Show all posts
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

MPRG "Desert Country" exhibition

Tommy Watson

Simon Hogan

Tjungkara Ken


Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri

Kathleen petyarre
Just some images from the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery latest aboriginal art exhibition. Wonderful, Colourful abstract images by some of my favorite artists..

I really like this small quiet gallery, about 10 minutes south of Frankston..

Here is their description of the exhibition;


17 August – 2 October 2011               
Desert Country
An Art Gallery of South Australia travelling exhibition
Drawn from the extensive holdings of Aboriginal art from the Art Gallery of South Australia’s pioneering collection, Desert Country is the first exhibition to chart the forty year evolution of the internationally acclaimed Australian desert painting movement and reveal the unstoppable reaches of this remarkable art phenomenon.
Beginning in 1971 with rare examples of the first experimental paintings by its ground-breaking masters, Desert Country highlights the cultural fluidity between the principal Aboriginal art producing regions of the desert in the Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia. Featured artists include Albert Namatjira, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Daisy Leura Nakamarra, Rover Thomas, and Utopia artists Emily Kame Kngwarreye and Kathleen Petyarre.

Monday, November 23, 2009

Tiger palpatja







Last week, while my husband watched Tiger Woods on the tele, I was sitting at this desk, gazing at images by Tiger Palpatja, an Australian aboriginal elder in his late 80's/early 90's who has only been painting for 5 years.

Took a while to figure out the appeal, what it was. Some of his painting is quite untidy and less appealing but the better images are sublime... Stumbled across an article by Nicholas Rothwell from the Australian which shed some light on the issue- he described the "Klimt-like sheen" of some of the canvases and it got me thinking.. and downloading.
The tiger images displayed are from the world vision Birrung gallery website, Marshall Arts and the WA premier's indigenous art award- the klimts are random images off the web..
Can you tell them apart at a glance?