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More than anyone else, John Mawurndjul has changed the face of bark painting. Adapting the cross-hatch technique of body painting known as rarrk, the son of a shaman's increasingly virtuoso barks have taken what was previously seen as a craft to the exalted realm of fine art: last...
Not only did the movement's founding fathers summon up their far-flung homelands in paint, but they would return to them by decade's end, setting up outstations at places like Kintore and Kiwirrkura near the Western Australian border. Their signature dotted style not only dazzled the art market...
Like desert flowers after the rain, Papunya also inspired a new blossoming of art centers across the border into South Australia. As a founder of Irrunytju Arts, Tommy Watson, a Pitjantjatjara man in his late 60s, is one of the new kids on the block. But with the eye-popping...
(3 of 3) Judy Watson was another. And around to the left of cloud will be the artist's 11-m-long glass ceiling, inspired by her painting two halves with bailer shell, 2002, in the NGA collection. Floating in a glassy sea of Prussian and ultramarine blue, the sand...
With this growing presence comes perhaps Aboriginal art's greatest gift to the world. As with the stars on Gulumbu Yunupingu's ceiling, it is no longer a sign of exotic otherness, but something that can unite everyone under the one roof. "Sometimes we make a fire," says Yunupingu. "We...