Breath of Life by Georges Petitjean
$75.00 AUD
Category: Aboriginal Art | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
"The sound of the yidaki calls everyone together in unity." - Djalu Gurruwiwi Yidaki, more commonly known as didgeridoo, is the iconic Aboriginal instrument. Yidaki found its way to the streets of Europe and gained tremendous popularity to the point that this music instrument is almost synonymous with A ...Show more
Ngirramanujuwal: The Art and Country of Jimmy Pike by Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander Studies (AIATSIS)
$44.95 AUD
Category: Aboriginal Art
Ngirramanujuwal is one who adds colour.Walmajarri man Jimmy Pike (c. 1940–2002) manifests colour as strokes of ink on paper: the saturated hues of the desert sky at dusk, and the glimmers of the sun on the water’s surface. His vivid and exceptional drawing, painting and printing skills reveal the desert ...Show more
Possessions: Indigenous Art / Colonial Culture / Decolonization by Nicholas Thomas
$49.99 AUD
Category: Aboriginal Art
A timely re-examination of European engagements with indigenous art and the presence of indigenous art in the contemporary art world. The arts of Africa, Oceania and native America famously inspired twentieth-century modernist artists such as Picasso, Matisse and Ernst. The politics of such stimulus, ho ...Show more
Balgo: Creating Country by John Carty
$89.99 AUD
Category: Aboriginal Art
In the early days we did painting. Cultural way. For ourselves.Then on the mission Sister Alice was working with the young men and women, like Gracie Green and Matthew Gill. We did a lot of landscapes at the start. Then after that people did a lot of paintings for the church.Then we decided we gotta do ...Show more
Dot Circle and Frame: The Making of Papunya Tula art by John Kean
$69.99 AUD
Category: Aboriginal Art
A startling, vibrant, radical new form of desert art arrived in Papunya Tula in 1971, anchored and inherited in ceremony; stimulated by the twentieth century and painting onto canvas.The course of Australian art changed in 1971. Kaapa Tjampitjinpa, Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri an ...Show more
Tarnanthi 2020: Open Hands by Nici Cumpston
$44.95 AUD
Category: Aboriginal Art
The Tarnanthi 2020 exhibition publication exquisitely captures the vibrancy and artistic depth of this year's focus exhibition, Open Hands. This lusciously illustrated 200-page book contains illuminating essays on each project, providing insights into the artists and their processes, told through the ar ...Show more
Wamulu by GEORGES PETITJEAN
$59.99 AUD
Category: Aboriginal Art | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
This second book in the Aboriginal Arts and Knowledge series documents a body of work created cooperatively by 4 artists: Ted Egan Tjangala, Dinny Nolan Tjampitjinpa, Johnny Possum Tjapaltjarri and Albie Morris Tjampitjinpa. Wamulu, a yellow flower, has traditionally been used during ritual ceremonies i ...Show more
The Inside World - Contemporary Memorial Poles from Aboriginal Australia by Henry Skerritt; Sally Salvesen (Editor); Howard Morphy (Contribution by); Diana Nawi (Contribution by); Kimberley Moulton (Contribution by)
$105.00 AUD
Category: Aboriginal Art
This groundbreaking book focuses on contemporary memorial poles, one of the most unique forms of contemporary Aboriginal Australian art. Traditionally used in Aboriginal funeral ceremonies, memorial poles have been transformed into compelling contemporary artworks. The memorial pole is made from the tr ...Show more
Irrititja Kuwarri Tjungu (Past and Present Together) - Fifty Years of Papunya Tula Artists by Fred Myers (Editor); Henry Skerritt (Editor)
$59.99 AUD
Category: Aboriginal Art
In 1971 a small group of Aboriginal artists from Australia's remote Central and Western Deserts changed the face of global art history. The township of Papunya was founded in 1959 as a settlement for Aboriginal people who were relocated from their homelands. Living in cramped conditions, the community b ...Show more