Australian Indigenous Artists

  • [PAPUNYA TULA; UTOPIA] Australia's first international art movement

    # 46136

    BOULTER, Michael and Christopher HODGES

    [PAPUNYA TULA; UTOPIA] Australia’s first international art movement

    Sydney : Utopia Art, June 1990. Octavo (210 mm), pictorial wrappers, stapled, pp. 19, with b/w illustrations; centre pages foxed, otherwise very good. This extremely hard-to-find commercial gallery publication provides a brief overview of the Papunya Tula and Utopia art movements, in the context of the origins of contemporary Aboriginal art. It was written and …

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  • Australian bark paintings from the collection of Dr. Edward L. Ruhe

    # 46131

    RUHE, Edward L.

    Australian bark paintings from the collection of Dr. Edward L. Ruhe

    Rochester, MI : Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University, 1975. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (lightly rubbed), pp. 32, illustrated. ‘Edward Ruhe (1923-1989) was a Professor of English at the University of Kansas who began collecting Aboriginal art in 1965 while in Australia as a Fulbright Visiting Professor. He built a collection of the highest quality by …

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  • Art of the Australian Aboriginal

    # 46127

    BARRETT, Charles and CROLL, Robert Henderson

    Art of the Australian Aboriginal

    With a foreword by A. P. Elkin. Melbourne : The Bread and Cheese Club, 1943. Quarto, lettered wrappers, pp. 94, illustrated, occasional light foxing, a very good copy. The book is dedicated to Albert Namatjira and reproduces a number of his paintings. An early survey of indigenous Australian art. Australian Army Educational Library stamp to …

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  • Sting in the tail

    # 46072

    O'CONNELL, Rae et al.

    Sting in the tail

    Cairns, Qld. : KickArts Contemporary Arts, 2009. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 32, illustrated. Catalogue of indigenous printmakers and their etchings in Cairns.

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  • Art from the Great Sandy Desert

    # 46073

    O'FERRALL Michael

    Art from the Great Sandy Desert

    Perth, W.A. : The Art Gallery of Western Australia, 1987. Quarto, exhibition catalogue, pp. [8], illustrated. Exhibition curated by Michael A. O’Ferrall ; contributions by R.M. Berndt and J.E. Stanton ; Art Gallery of Western Australia. Catalogue entries with interpretative notes on imagery and associated mythology; introductory essay on development of contemporary art at Balgo …

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  • Australia : Art & Aboriginality 1987

    # 46076

    JOHNSON, Vivien

    Australia : Art & Aboriginality 1987

    Portsmouth Festival U.K., 9 May to 14 June 1987. Portsmouth : Aspex Gallery, 1987. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [40], exhibition catalogue with a remarkable lineup of indigenous Australian artists. Artists include : Banduk Marika; Roy Marika; Raymond Meeks; James Simon; Trevor Nickolls; Jimmy Pike; George Milpurrurru; Djardi Ashley; Narpula Scobie; Paddy Jupurrula Nelson; Thancoupie; Lin …

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  • Generations : the stolen years of fighters and singers

    # 46079

    MORGAN, Sally (introduction)

    Generations : the stolen years of fighters and singers

    Perth, W.A. : The Centre for Indigenous History and the Arts, 1999. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 40, illustrated. Artists include : Norma MacDonald, Ron Gidgup, Betty Egan, Sandra Hill, David Downs (Jarinjanu), Revel Cooper, Colin Calyun, Julie Dowling, Sheryl Osborne, Michelle Broun, Joyce Winsley, Les Eades, Glenis Ugle, Mary McClean, Tjemma (Freda) Napanangka, Patsy Mundjidell, …

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  • Tiwi graveposts

    # 46074

    HOFF, Jennifer

    Tiwi graveposts

    [Melbourne] : National Gallery of Victoria, 1988. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [8], illustrated. Tiwi artist Janet Mungatopi is photographed painting motifs on graveposts based on designs that she saw her grandfather paint for funeral ceremonies when she was a small girl.

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  • Narragunnawali : an exhibition by Aboriginal artists living in Canberra and the surrounding region

    # 46077

    HOUSE, Matilda and KLEINERT, Sylvia

    Narragunnawali : an exhibition by Aboriginal artists living in Canberra and the surrounding region

    Civic Square, A.C.T. : Canberra Contemporary Art Space, 1989. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [12], illustrated. Includes artists Ricky Maynard, Ben Blakeney, Reuben Sky and others.

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  • Tactility : two centuries of indigenous objects, textiles and fibre

    # 46080

    CROFT, Brenda

    Tactility : two centuries of indigenous objects, textiles and fibre

    Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2003. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 24, illustrated. “Tactility: two centuries of Indigenous objects, textiles and fibre provides a visual overwiev of the diversity of Indigenous three-dimensional and material objects made over a period of two centuries or more, ranging from traditional to transitional objects, through to recent conceptual and …

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  • Aboriginal Women's Exhibition

    # 46081

    PERKINS, Hetti

    Aboriginal Women’s Exhibition

    Sydney : Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1991. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 56, illustrated. ‘Exhibition catalogue; works are ceramics, fibre, prints, paintings and sculpture by women from around Australia; includes analysis of artwork in the exhibition; article by Henrietta Fourmile annotated separately.’ – Trove Includes works by Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Eubena Nampitjin, Gloria Petryarre, …

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  • Tjanpi

    # 46082

    McGREGOR, Ken and TRIMBLE, Judith

    Tjanpi

    Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2011.  Series: Macmillan mini-art series number 19. Small square octavo, pictorial boards in dust jacket, 144 pp extensively illustrated. An as new copy on the Tjanpi Desert Weavers.

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  • Before Time Today: reinventing tradition in Aurukun Aboriginal Art. (Softcover edition)

    # 46061

    BUTLER, Sally (editor); SUTTON, Peter, et al.

    Before Time Today: reinventing tradition in Aurukun Aboriginal Art. (Softcover edition)

    St. Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 2010. Quarto (290 x 240 mm), pictorial stiff wrappers with French flaps; 159, [1] pp, illustrated in colour; an excellent copy. Superb catalogue published to accompany the exhibition Before Time Today: Reinventing Tradition in Aurukun Aboriginal Art, held at University of Queensland Art Museum, 2010. Contents: Art and …

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  • Yiribana

    # 46059

    NEALE, Margo

    Yiribana

    : An introduction to the Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Collection, The Art Gallery of New South Wales. Sydney : The Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1994. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 143, illustrated in colour throughout with works by Australian indigenous artists including Gungiambi, Ellen Jose, Katy Kemarre, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Crusoe Kurdal, Charlie …

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  • Declan : a Tiwi artist

    # 46057

    WEST, Margaret K. C.

    Declan : a Tiwi artist

    With an appreciation of Tiwi art by R. Berndt. [Perth] : Australian City Properties Ltd , 1987. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 40, illustrated. ‘Life and work of Tiwi artist Declan from Bathurst Island; burial posts (tutiri), barbed ceremonial spears, carved animals, bark paintings; pukamani ceremony; kulama ceremony; myuthological context of ceremonies; from touring memorial exhibition.’ …

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  • Spirit in land : bark paintings from Arnhem Land in the National Gallery of Victoria

    # 46056

    RYAN, Judith

    Spirit in land : bark paintings from Arnhem Land in the National Gallery of Victoria

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, [1990]. Quarto, pictorial card covers, a little edge wear to wrappers, viii, 120 pp, illustrated in colour and black and white, a good copy. Catalogue of an exhibition staged at the NGV in 1990.

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