Yornadaiyn Woolagoodja by Yornadaiyn Woolagoodja
$44.99 AUD
Category: History
This stunning book is a biography and a generous sharing of Yorna's Culture and traditional beliefs. Explore the meaning of Country, Lalai ('Creation'), Wandjina, Woongudd (the 'Snake'), in the author's Country in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Full of extraordinary images of the landscape, ...Show more
Songlines Tracking the Seven Sisters by Margo Neale (Editor)
$54.99 AUD
Category: Art
This stunning companion to the National Museum of Australia's blockbuster Indigenous-led exhibition, Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters, explores the history and meaning of songlines, the Dreaming or creation tracks that crisscross the Australian continent, of which the Seven Sisters songline is one ...Show more
Dot Circle and Frame: The Making of Papunya Tula art by John Kean
$69.99 AUD
Category: 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
Balgo: Creating Country by John Carty
$89.99 AUD
Category: 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
Everywhere, Everywhen: Art, Artists, Stories of the Kimberley, Arnhem Land, and the southern plains by Neil McLeod, Dindy Vaughan, Luisa Adam
$89.99 AUD
Category: Art
This book provides a window into the lives, traditions and culture of more than 20 Aboriginal artists. Based on the work of natural history photographer and researcher Neil McLeod, it includes more than 150 artwork plates, biographies, portraits, and diary extracts.
Ngirramanujuwal: The Art and Country of Jimmy Pike by Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander Studies (AIATSIS)
$44.99 AUD
Category: 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
Sun & Shadow: Art of the Spinifex People by John Carty
$69.99 AUD
Category: Art
A vibrant, breathtaking documentation of one of the most distinctive art movements in Australia and the political drive that underpins it The Spinifex people have been living on their ancestral homelands in the Great Victoria Desert, Western Australia, since time immemorial. This continuous narrative wa ...Show more
Ikuntji Textiles by Chrischona Schmidt (ed.)
$69.00 AUD
Category: Art
Ikuntji Textiles outlines and explores the development of the Ikuntji Artists textiles designs, the female artists and their stories, and the collaborations that have taken place since the formation of the art centre. This full-colour publication gives an insight into Ikuntji Artists range of wearable a ...Show more
Dreaming the Land: Aboriginal Art from Remote Australia by Marie Geissler
$100.00 AUD
Category: Art
The artworks of Aboriginal Australian peoples are a profoundly important repository of knowledge and reflect a deep connection to Country. This visually rich survey explores the evolution of the contemporary Aboriginal art movement in remote areas of Australia across twenty-nine art centres in five stat ...Show more
Visions from the Past by Michael Morwood (President, Australian Rock Art Association and Teacher, Australian Archaeology, University of New England, Australia)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art
A comprehensive introduction to Australian Aboriginal rock art by a recognized authority in the field. It explores what we know now, how we know, and why it is important, and also provides an overview of the problems and the methods of approach used in the study of this art.