Maḏayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal ... the patterns of the ancestral land itself. Yolŋu describe them as maḏayin: a term that encompasses both the sacred and the beautiful. In the early twentieth ...

many visual traditions have evolved over thousands of years that use abstract forms or patterns to represent elements of Aboriginal Country and culture. From the 1970s, an increase in the recognition ...

Student: It's cool that like people will be able to come in and see all this amazing art. Student: I would like to become an Aboriginal dot painting artist like my Nana, go through her path and ...

Concluding its nationwide tour at the Asia Society, Maḏayin gathers intricate eucalyptus bark works by artists from the Indigenous community of Yirrkala.

It will also become the largest collection of First Nations artworks to travel widely as, following its premiere in ...

The collection includes a woomera, which is a stick used for throwing a spear. In Aboriginal art, all the symbols and imagery have a meaning. In this case, the bark painting shows the symbolism of ...

Likely to reach the finish line by next week, the vibrant new mural at Owen Park, ‘Rivers,’ has been taking form since early ...

EAU CLAIRE (WQOW) - A community funded mural in Eau Claire's Owen Park is now finally finished. Public Painting Project ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login This book is an investigation of the way the Aboriginal art phenomenon has been entangled with Australian society's negotiation of ...

The rock art of Australia is among the oldest, most complex, and fascinating manifestations of human creativity and imagination in the world. Aboriginal people used art to record their experiences, ...

We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn and work.

A multimillion-dollar collection of Aboriginal art and objects once offered to the Auckland Art Gallery by a local couple has been officially donated to a Sydney art gallery.