Australian Indigenous Artists

  • 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 …

  • 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, …

  • 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.

  • 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 …

  • 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 …

  • 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.’ …

  • 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.

  • Story place : indigenous art of Cape York and the rainforest

    # 46055

    ALLEN, Lindy et al.

    Story place : indigenous art of Cape York and the rainforest

    South Brisbane, Qld. : Queensland Art Gallery, 2003. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, 239 pp, illustrated. This publication accompanies the first major survey exhibition of historical and contemporary art work from Australia’s Cape York Peninsula. For the first time in one book, the art and culture of Cape York is observed through a series of essays, interviews, …

  • A changing relationship : Aboriginal themes in Australian art c.1938-1988

    # 46054

    DE LORENZE, Catherine

    A changing relationship : Aboriginal themes in Australian art c.1938-1988

    Exhibition curators, Catherine De Lorenzo and Dinah Dysart; essay, Catherine De Lorenzo. Observatory Hill, Sydney : S.H. Ervin Gallery, National Trust of Australia (N.S.W.), 1988. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 52, illustrated. This exhibition is the first to survey and critique fifty years of sustained interest by European and Aboriginal artists and designers in Aboriginal themes …

  • New tracks, old land : contemporary prints from Aboriginal Australia

    # 46053

    McGUIGAN, Chris (editor)

    New tracks, old land : contemporary prints from Aboriginal Australia

    Sydney : Aboriginal Arts Management Association, 1992. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 76, illustrated. Includes works by the following artists. Fatima Kantilla Dennis Nona Paddy Dhatahgu George Milpurrurru Charlie Djurritjini Fiona Foley Lin Onus Jimmy Pike David Malangi Turkey Tolson Tjupurrla Doris Gingingara Maria Tipuamantumirri Peter Skipper Martin Dougal Mary Anne Purlta Jarinyanu David Downs Paddy …

  • Desart : Aboriginal art and craft centres of central Australia

    # 46051

    JAMES, Diana et al.

    Desart : Aboriginal art and craft centres of central Australia

    Alice Springs, Northern Territory : Desart, 1993. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 45, illustrated. Catalogue and directory of twelve Aboriginal art and craft centres in Central Australia; all are owned by the producers and represent 1500 artists; includes description of each centre and style and range of art available

  • Tyerabarrbowaryaou : I shall never become a white man

    # 46049

    MUNDINE, Don (curator)

    Tyerabarrbowaryaou : I shall never become a white man

    Sydney : Museum of Contemporary Art, [1992]. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 20, illustrated. Exhibition of contemporary Indigenous artists Ian Abdulla; Gordon Bennett; Robert Campbell Jnr.; Fiona Foley; Sally Morgan; and Paddy Wainburranga.

  • Paintings by Kathleen Petyarre

    # 46047

    COSSEY, David; NICHOLLS, Christine

    Paintings by Kathleen Petyarre

    Adelaide : Gallerie Australis, 1999. Catalogue. Quarto (280 x 210 mm), stapled wrappers (lightly rubbed), 17 pp, colour illustrated, with essays by David Cossey and Christine Nicholls; a good copy.

  • Painted dreams : Western Desert paintings from the Johnson Collection

    # 46046

    JOHNSON, Vivien

    Painted dreams : Western Desert paintings from the Johnson Collection

    Sydney : The Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1995. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 48, illustrated.

  • Aboriginal art

    # 46045

    NORTON, Frank

    Aboriginal art

    [Perth, W.A.] : Art Gallery of Western Australia, 1985. Second edition. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, lightly marked, pp. 66, illustrated. Documents works collected by Mountford from the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land 1948; works from Western Australia; Port Keats; Bathurst & Melville Islands; Croker and Goulburn Islands, Oenpelli; Maningrida; Milingimbi & Elcho Islands, Yirrakala; and …

  • Contemporary paintings from Papunya Tula

    # 46044

    Gabrielle Pizzi

    Contemporary paintings from Papunya Tula

    Melbourne : Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, 2014. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (lower edge crumpled), 47pp, numerous full page coloured plates throughout. With essay by Gabrielle Pizzi.