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Life and art in the sky, Part 1 – the Napaljarri-warnu Jukurrpa of Alma Nungarrayi Granites

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-09-05 07:03:05

This small image gives but a very limited impression of the power and majesty of the original of Alma Nungarrayi Granites’ painting of her Napaljarri-warnu Jukurrpa (Seven Sisters dreaming). It is one of a series of large paintings by the Warlpiri...» Read More

 

Warlukurlangu Survey Show 2009

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-07-17 07:21:10

The beautiful and colourful works of the Warlukurlangu Artists' Aboriginal Association, hailing from Darwin, Australia, will be in town between 26 August to 3 October. International. Dubbed the Warlukurlangu Survey Show 2009, the exhibition pays homage to the aboriginal art...» Read More

 

Aboriginal Art Exhibit Opens at the Fowler

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-05-10 06:22:56

In 1971 in the tiny settlement of Papunya, a group of Australian Aboriginal men began transferring their sacred ceremonial designs onto pieces of masonite board. Since this crucial transformative period, Australian Aboriginal art has become an international phenomenon, widely exhibited...» Read More

 

Central Australian Film Samson and Delilah screens at the Cannes Film Festival

Central Australian Film Samson and Delilah screens at the Cannes Film Festival

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-05-07 16:36:37

Samson and Delilah, written and directed by Warwick Thornton and shot in central Australia screens at the Cannes Film Festival next week. As quoted from the director: 'Samson & Delilah is a love story, but perhaps not in the traditional sense....» Read More

 

ABORIGINAL ART AT CANNES!

ABORIGINAL ART AT CANNES!

Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2009-05-01 20:11:33

The Cannes Film Festival will host the world-wide launch of the Aussie film, Samson & Delilah – featuring the great Warlpiri artist, Mitjili Napanangka Gibson, in her second film role. Not only the artist, but her art features seriously in...» Read More

 

Aboriginal Australian art in India

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-04-13 02:42:13

The Warlukurlangu Artists, a non-profit cooperative of aboriginal painters from Australia, documents a legacy that has been handed down hundreds of generations among the ethnic groups inhabiting the rugged outback. They showcase the traditional Warlpiri culture, which is central to the...» Read More

 

Aboriginal Australian art in India

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-04-13 02:42:13

The Warlukurlangu Artists, a non-profit cooperative of aboriginal painters from Australia, documents a legacy that has been handed down hundreds of generations among the ethnic groups inhabiting the rugged outback. They showcase the traditional Warlpiri culture, which is central to the...» Read More

 

Delhi's India Habitat Centre plays host to Australian aboriginal art exhibits

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-04-07 03:08:35

New Delhi, Apr.6 (ANI): Warlukurlangu Artists, Australia, in partnership with art curator, Durga Vishwanathan, are showcasing contemporary Australian art in New Delhi. Titled 'Desert Dreamings', the paintings from the Central Desert of Australia is the first exhibition of contemporary art of...» Read More

 

Master's desert way of seeing

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-10-14 20:05:10

Nicolas Rothwell for The Australian reports: JUST as the passing of desert artist Darby Jampijinpa Ross in 2005 possessed a certain elegance, the day after he received a congratulatory telegram from the Queen for his 100th birthday, so the first retrospective...» Read More

 

Ngoia Pollard NAPALTJARRI

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-02 02:24:49

Artist of the Month Septembre 2008 Ngoia Pollard NAPALTJARRI est une femme Warlpiri, née à Haasts Bluff aux environs de 1950. Elle s’est installé dans les années soixante à Papunya, là où est né le mouvement de l’art aborigène contemporain, puis...» Read More

 

Darby Jampijinpa Ross

Darby Jampijinpa Ross

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-27 06:59:28

Exciting news from Brisbane where an all-too-rare retrospective of the life's work of an Aboriginal artist has just opened at the Dell Gallery, Queensland College of Art. Darby Jampijinpa Ross died in 2005 almost immediately after receiving his telegram from the...» Read More

 

Michael Nelson Jagamara exhibition shows totemic focus

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-19 14:01:44

The Courier Mail continues their focus on Aboriginal art with an article about Micharl Nelson Jagamara: The work of senior Warlpiri tribesman and artist Michael Nelson Jagamara divides art lovers. There are those who adore his bold, modern take on an...» Read More

 

MICHAEL NELSON JAGAMARA: FROM THE STUDIO major survey to open at fireworks gallery

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-07-30 07:17:47

FROM THE STUDIO, a comprehensive survey exhibition of MNJ’s Brisbane studio based 1996-2008 practice will open on Tuesday 12 August and will continue to Saturday 27 September. Doug Hall, in the exhibition catalogue Foreword states: “Michael Nelson Jagamara’s most traditional paintings...» Read More

 

Yilpinji Portfolio Edition

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-06-25 08:11:08

This is the first time in the history of Australian printmaking that a portfolio of limited edition prints has become available that focus on a unique aspect of Aboriginal culture. Fifteen senior Aboriginal artists have each created a thematic work on...» Read More

 

Chance to see Aboriginal Art

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-03-07 02:23:39

Authentic contemporary Australian Aboriginal artwork will be unveiled at 7pm tonight during the opening of the Warlukurlangu Artists exhibition at La Fontaine Centre of Contemporary Art, Manama. The exhibition will showcase the work of Otto Simms and Ormay Gallagher, who work...» Read More

 

Warlukurlangu Artists - Australia

Warlukurlangu Artists - Australia

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-03-04 09:21:27

Australian Aboriginal art is the oldest living art tradition in the world, done by Australian Aborigines, with paintings in rock shelters dating back 20,000 years as well as contemporary art by Aborigines based on traditional culture. Art is one of...» Read More

 

Artists of Nyirripi and Yuendumu

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-02-15 00:00:00

The first exhibition in Western Australia of the exuberant new paintings from the Warlpiri community of Nyirripi, 160 kms west of Yuendumu. Amongst the newly exhibiting artists, significant works are presented by senior artists Mickey Singleton, Margaret Brown and Paddy...» Read More

 

Julianne Turner Nungarrayi

Julianne Turner Nungarrayi

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-01-26 15:56:44

Aboriginal Art Store are featuring new artworks by Julianne Turner Nungarrayi, including the Bush Onion painting. The Bush Onion is a staple food source for the Warlpiri people of Central Australia....» Read More

 

Maureen Nampijinpa Hudson

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-10-19 00:00:00

Warlpiri artist Maureen Hudson, was born in 1959 at Mt Allen, about 300 kms north west of Alice Springs. She began painting in 1988 and her work has been widely exhibited since then. Maureen draws on traditional Warlpiri Dreaming stories...» Read More

 

Lorna Napurrula Fencer (1923-2006)

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-05-04 00:00:00

Acknowledged as one of the great innovators of the Warlpiri art movement from Lajamanu, Napurrula was also both a fierce and gentle custodian of her culture. She painted the great Napurrula - Nakamarra creation stories from her birth place Yumurrpa....» Read More

 

Warlpiri Artists of Yuendumu

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2006-11-24 00:00:00

Japingka Gallery in association with Warlukurlangu Artists presents paintings from Yuendumu community. Yuendumu is placed on traditional Warlpiri lands 300 kms NW of Alice Springs on the Tanami Track. Warlpiri Dreaming stories appearing in the exhibition include- Water Dreaming, Mina...» Read More

 

Judy Martin Napangardi - Paintings from Lajamanu

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2006-09-01 00:00:00

Judy Martin continues to create strong paintings from the Women\'s Ceremonial stories of her Warlpiri homelands. She focuses on stories from the Women\'s site at Mina Mina in the Tanami Desert, where Warlpiri women come together to re-enact the Dreaming...» Read More

 

Warlukurlangu Artists of Yuendumu

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2005-11-25 00:00:00

In conjunction with the Warlukurlangu Art Centre, a major exhibition of new paintings by artists from Yuendumu is being hosted at Japingka Gallery in Fremantle. The exhibition is a celebration of the 20 year anniversary of the foundation of Yuendumu\'s...» Read More

 

Yilpinji - Love Magic and Ceremony

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2004-03-05 00:00:00

A nationally touring exhibition of fine art prints by senior Aboriginal artists from Balgo Hills, Yuendumu and Lajamanu, that explores the powerful traditions of love magic rituals amongst the Kukatja and Warlpiri peoples of the Tanami Desert region.These love magic...» Read More

 

Building partners with Aboriginal artists and communities

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2003-12-19 03:23:38

Building partners with Aboriginal artists and communities U.Va. has largest Aboriginal art collection in world, outside of Australia Jane Ford When the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection opened here in January 1999, its off-Grounds location on Pantops Mountain was so remote that it may...» Read More

 

Lorna Napurrula Fencer - Paintings 2003

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2003-12-05 00:00:00

At around 79 years of age, senior Warlpiri artist, Lorna Napurrula Fencer, is producing some of the best and most exciting work of her career. Represented in the National Gallery, State Galleries and major private collections, Lorna\'s work has always...» Read More

 

Lorna Napurrula Fencer

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2002-12-02 13:38:06

At around 79 years of age, senior Warlpiri artist, Lorna Napurrula Fencer, is producing some of the best and most exciting work of her career. Represented in the National Gallery, State Galleries and major private collections, Lorna's work has always...» Read More

 

Warlpiri Women's Paintings Lajamanu

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2000-09-08 05:09:55

In 1986 a small group of women produced the first paintings for Warnayaka Art Centre, Lajamanu NT. These paintings have become important documents of Warlpiri culture held in the National Gallery of Victoria, collected at the instigation of the curator...» Read More