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Remembering John Mawurndjul AM (Balang Nakurulk), the Australian Indigenous artist whose meticulous bark paintings captured a hidden power
Balang won four Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards and the Clemenger Prize. In 2010 he was awarded an Order of Australia “for service to the preservation of ...
National Review4mon
Aboriginal Bark Painting from Australia at New York’s Asia Society
Madayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Bark Paintings is the new exhibition at the Asia Society in Manhattan, on Park Avenue and 70th Street. It’s one of my favorite places, not only ...
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Aboriginal painting of a tortoise
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 ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation8y
Aboriginal Art of Australia
Watch all your favourite ABC programs on ABC iview. More from ABC We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we ...