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ABORIGINAL ART: DOTS AND SHAPES – THE MEANINGS

October 16, 1994 MORE =  https://inmagalerie.com https://www.aboriginal-art-australia.com https://artark.com.au Explore the fascinating symbolic language of Australian Aboriginal art and learn to decipher the traditional motifs that narrate 65,000 years of ancestral stories.… Read more

ABORIGINAL DOT PAINTING – SIGNIFICANCE

March 8, 1994 MORE =  https://www.amagoa.com/aboriginal-dot-painting-history-cultural-significance-and-collecting-guide/ https://www.nma.gov.au/explore/collection/highlights/papunya-collection https://www.aboriginal-art-australia.com https://www.artratio.co.uk/aboriginal-art-dot-painting Example of a contemporary Aboriginal dot painting (“Tingari Cycle” by Thomas Tjapaltjarri). Dot patterns like these encode a Dreaming story through concentric… Read more

Rover Thomas = how good is this man?

February 21, 1994 Truth = my fav (OF ALL : space and time within SEASONS. AGOD – Australian Gallery of Dreamings & EBEScontemporary have a responsibiliy to enable our indigenous artists… Read more

indigenous seasons – around 100,000 years of wisdom in the making

February 15, 1994 Banbai calendar Discover the traditional seasonal calendar of the Banbai people in Wattleridge, New South Wales On this page The Wattleridge Indigenous Protected Area covers 650 hectares of woodlands… Read more

WESTERN DESERT ABORIGINAL ART

November 15, 1993 Western Desert Aboriginal art is the contemporary painting movement that began at Papunya, north-west of Alice Springs, in 1971, when senior men translated ceremonial designs and sand drawings… Read more

Aboriginal Art (our collection is the biggest and best in the world:-

May 4, 1993 MORE =  https://www.australia-aboriginal-art.com/aboriginal-art-symbols https://www.aboriginal-art-australia.com https://creativenative.com.au ‘Bara-Ourou’, drawn by French visitors in about 1803, wears shell necklaces and traditional cicatrices (Tasmaniana Library, SLT) For many Tasmanian Aboriginal artists the… Read more

SYMBOLS IN ABORIGINAL ART – we have the world’s best and biggest Australian Indigenous Art Collection

January 18, 1993 MORE =  https://artark.com.au https://creativenative.com.au https://www.aboriginal-art-australia.com https://australiassouthwest.com/six-seasons-of-the-south-west/ The tradition of passing information through art is universal. It has allowed customs and beliefs to continue over time, and not just… Read more

FIRST ROCK ART

December 21, 1992 MORE =  https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/first-rock-art https://www.aboriginal-art-australia.com https://creativenative.com.au Earliest known Australian rock art Walinynga (Cave Hill) archaeological site, South Australia Rock art is a vital part of First Nations cultures in… Read more

CSIRO = seasons :

August 20, 1991 About the Indigenous seasonal calendars Learn more about the Indigenous seasonal calendars, which CSIRO has co-designed, refined and tested with our Indigenous partners as a way of documenting… Read more

Indigenous art = SEASONS.

July 30, 1991 Indigenous art = SEASONS. Indigenous Australian seasons are classified differently from the traditional four-season calendar used by most western European peoples. Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander people have distinct ways of dividing the year up. Naming… Read more