A Beginner's Guide to Australian Aboriginal Art
by R. Lewis
The symbols, their meanings and some Dreamtime stories. ISBN: 0646403680 $5.50 Paperback
Aboriginal Art
by Wally Caruana
This lively and comprehensive survey has established itself as a superlative introduction to the full diversity of Aboriginal art, and showcases work by Australia's indigenous artists from all parts of the continent. Practising the world's longest continuous art tradition, stretching back some fifty millennia, Aboriginal artists have worked in a variety of contexts, from the sacred realm of ceremony to more public spheres, and in media that include painting, sculpture, engraving, constructions, weaving, and - most recently - photography, printmaking and textile design. Widely sought after, Aboriginal art has now taken its place in the collections of museums and galleries world-wide, and its present-day popularity testifies to its lasting dynamism and vitality. this revised edition contains over twenty new illustrations and updated information covering the most recent developments in this thriving field. ISBN: 3785284039 $33.95 Paperback
Aboriginal Art of Australia
by Douglas Baglin & Barbara Mullins
An introduction to the vast world of traditional Aboriginal art, encompassing sacred, secular, symbolic and decorative designs, rock engravings, cave and bark paintings. ISBN: 1876622083 $10.95 Paperback
Aboriginal Artists Dictionary of Biographies
by Margo Birnburg and Janusz B. Kreczmanski
Aboriginal Artists Dictionary is a meticulously researched biographical dictionary containing more than a thousand entries. The book includes a brief biography and relevant exhibition entries for artists who painted from the beginning of the 1970’s to the first decade of the 21st Century. Aboriginal Artists Dictionary is lavishly illustrated with portraits of the artists and examples of their work. ISBN: 1876622474 $65.00 Hardback
Aboriginal Voices
by Liz Thompson
Over thirty interviews and photographs of Aboriginal writers, painters, potters, musicians, playwrights, actors, dancers and storytellers in their everyday working environments. Aboriginal Voices is a collection of these interviews, portraits of the artists and reproductions of their work. ISBN: 1876622040 $9.95 Paperback
A Kimberley Adventure: Rediscovering the Bradshaw Figures
by Adrian Parker, John Bradshaw and Chris Done
In 1997 one of the great mysteries of Australia’s Kimberley region was finally solved when the mysterious rock paintings, described and documented by pastoralist Joseph Bradshaw during his 1891 Prince Regent River expedition, were eventually located. In Joe’s footsteps, over 100 years later, John Bradshaw embarks on A Kimberley Adventure with fellow rock art enthusiasts Adrian Parker and Chris Done to view the elusive galleries that have remained an enigma for decades; their location, still to this day, a closely guarded secret. ISBN: 9780980352139 $29.95 Paperback
Ancient Ochres
by David Andrew Roberts and Adrian Parker
The Mount Borradaile region in northern Arnhem Land in the “Top End” of the Northern Territory contains some of the most stunning rock paintings, not just in Australia but in the whole world. In terms of artistic quality, quantity, colorfulness and excellent state of preservation, this body of rock art is unrivalled. The walls of hundreds of rock-shelters are decorated with innumerable pictures documenting traditional Aboriginal life over many thousands of years. Subjects range from now-extinct animals to twentieth century sailing ships, and art techniques are equally varied, including stencils and the rare use of beeswax to portray the eyes and other features of some figures. As in much of Australian Aboriginal art, the largest and most elaborate paintings with finely drawn internal decoration portray Ancestral Beings from the Dreaming, the era of Creation. Such sites are of significance to Aboriginal traditional owners, who still recount stories describing the travels of the Rainbow Serpent and other Creative Ancestors across the landscape. ISBN: 1876622423 $24.95 Hardback
Australian Aboriginal Paintings
by Jennifer Isaacs
Aboriginal painting has undergone a renaissance over the past two decades as artists express the strength and resilience of their ancient religious values and their deep connection to the Australian landscape itself. Desert communities have preserved the content of their ceremonial 'sand paintings' in contemporary acrylic works on canvas. Many of these are most beautiful and exciting contemporary designs in which the traditional ochre colours are used alongside vibrant blues, greens and oranges. In the far north in Arnhem land, the traditional painters keep to their ancient media of colours from the earth applied to large strips of eucalyptus stringybark. These bark paintings range from huge depictions of myths in episodes across the surface to strong spirit images, rainbow serpents or lyrical flowing designs of animals and plants from the artists; Dreaming. This book presents an overview of traditional Aboriginal religious paintings. They are all 'from' the Dreaming, the Tjukurrpa, the Wonggar, the Creation, and express this now, in present day Australia. ISBN: 1864368039 $42.95 Paperback
Australia's Living Heritage
by Jennifer Isaacs
Australia's Living Heritage is the classic book that first brought together the different facets of Aboriginal art, from painting, sculpture, ceremony and dance, to the making of body ornaments, carved utensils and spun or woven articles for everyday use. For Aboriginal people, these arts are a proud heritage that expresses the Dreaming. ISBN: 1876622369 $39.95 Paperback
Bunjilaka
The Aboriginal Centre at the Melbourne Museum. ISBN: 0731181298 $14.95 Paperback
Colour Power
by Judith Ryan
This exhibition of around 100 works, drawn almost entirely from the NGV collection, focuses on the full period of the Gallery's collecting of Aboriginal art, 1984 - 2004, which has proved revolutionary in the evolution of new forms of Aboriginal art. Colour Power celebrates Aboriginal art of the New Wave: the daring and visionary use of colour by Indigenous artists throughout Australia. In defiance of preconceptions, that the quintessential colours of Aboriginal art are earth colours and natural ochres, colour Power unveils the opposite - a medley of great colourists, working with new media of acrylic and enamel paints, neon, glitter, wools, inks and dyes, metal, paper, canvas and textiles. ISBN: 0724120566 $49.95 Paperback
Contemporary Aboriginal Art
by Susan McCulloch
A guide to the rebirth of an ancient culture. In this updated edition of Contemporary Aboriginal Art, art writer Susan McCulloch explores the regional differences and modern history of this unique work. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this book is an essential guide for anyone interested in the excititng revival of one of the world's most ancient artistic traditions. ISBN: 9781865083056 $45.00 Paperback
Dancing Up Country
the Art of Dorothy Napangardi produced by Museum of Contemporary Art
The art of Dorothy Napangardi. ISBN: 1875632824 $45.00 Paperback
Die Kunst der Aborigines
by Wally Caruana
German translation of Aboriginal Art by Wally Caruana. ISBN: 9780724102839 $27.50 Paperback
Gelam Nguzu Kazi - Dugong My Son
The first exhibition of limited edition linocuts by the artists of the Mualgau Minaral Artist Collective from Mua Island in the Torres Strait. ISBN: 0957968604 $14.95 Paperback
Hermannsburg Potters Catalogue
presented by Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory ISBN: 0724529500 $14.95 Paperback
Images in Ochre
by Adrian Parker
‘Images in Ochre’ presents a collection of paintings and didgeridoos that have been carefully selected to display the distinct painting style and techniques of contemporary Kunwinjku artists. Bark, paper and didgeridoo preparation, painting and manufacture are fully explained. The artists included in this book are communicating various stories and cultural themes in order to enhance awareness and understanding of a unique and vibrant culture. ISBN: 0864178921 $22.95 Paperback
Indigenous Australian Art in the National Gallery of Victoria
by Judith Ryan
The art of Aboriginal Australa and the Torres Strait is a unique expression of cultural identitiy which has a stronger presence, diversity and dynamism than ever before in its history. Since acquisition funds were first allocated for the purchase of Indingeous Australian art in 1984-5, the NGV has developed an outstanding collection of over 2300 works across all media that is representative of most of the art-producing communities and is strongly contemporary in its emphasis. The collection focuses on the period from 1970 to the present, representing bark painting, sculpture, fibre works, paintings on canvas, ceramics, photography, printmaking, video, installation art and textiles. It is strong in both men's and women's art, and in organic as well as introduced media. ISBN: 0724102124 $24.95 Paperback
Journey in Time
by George Chaloupka
This is the 50,000 year story of Australian Aboriginal Rock Art of Arnhem Land. Journey in Time explores the depth and complexity of this art tradition and gives a fascinating insight into the aesthetic and cultural worlds of the people who created it. The most authoritative book ever published on this subject. It has been written and illustrated with the permission of the Gagudju people, the traditional owners of the land. ISBN: 1876622091 $45.00 Hardcover
Kathleen Petyarre: Genius of Place
Essays by Christine Nicholls and Ian North
Kathleen Petyarre: Genius of Place provides comprehensive insight into the artist's life and work. While situating her art practice within national and international contemporary art movements. Illustrated by over 60 colour and black and white plates of the artist's work and life, this book is essential reading for those who wish to move beyond superficial understandings of contemporary Australian art. ISBN: 1862545464 $39.95 Paperback
Kitty Kantilla
by Judith Ryan
Kitty Kantilla produced an exceptional body of work from the 1970s until her last days in 2003 and was undoubtedly one of Australia's finest indigeous arftists, renowned for her innovative aesthetic. The National Gallery of Victoria has a major holding of Kantilla's works across all media that has been built up through close liasison with Jilamara Arts & Crafts Association from 1991 onwards. In February 2001, after a year of negotiation, Una Rey, manager of Jilamara, invited the NGV to publish a book on Kitty Kantilla and to stage the retrospective exhibition. this exhibition is therefore the culmination of a long and successful relationship between the NGV and Jilamara Arts & Crafts. ISBN: 0500203660 $34.95 Paperback
Land Marks
by Judith Ryan
"Land Marks, draws almost entirely from the NGV's comprehensive collection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, looks at the history of Indigenous art in australia and acknowledges some of its great masters of tradition and innnovation. It traces the dramatic evolution of new forms of painting and sculpture in different parts of Indigenous Australia." ....Gerard Vaughan, Director ISBN: 0724102671 $49.95 Paperback
Mythscapes Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert
by Judith Ryan with an Essay by Geoffrey Bardon
This book tells the story of the birth of the rich and complex contemporary art form which is giving Aboriginal people a new sense of dignity and purpose, and is convincing white Australians and the world to perceive them and this continent with different eyes. ISBN: 0724101365 $39.95 Paperback
Papunya Tula
by Geoffrey Bardon
This is the story of the Papunya Tula painting movement founded in the Western Desert region of Northern Australia during 1971. It tells of the exhilaration and agony of the early days of the painting movement and its spread to other areas of Central Australia. Twenty of the early artists’stories are told, featuring fifty colour reproductions of their work. ISBN: 0958699860 $29.95 Paperback
Photographs of Baldwin Spencer
edited by Philip Batty, Lindy Allen and John Morton
In 1894 Spencer was appointed as biologist and photographer for the Horn expedition, the first scientific expedition to Central Australia. In 1901, he and Frank Gillen set off from Oodnadatta to Borroloola and took an amazing 500 glass-plate photographs, 3,000 feet of moving film and recordings of Aboriginal songs on wax cylinder phonograph. The Baldwin Spencer photographic archive is now regarded as one of the earliest and most significant ethnographic records of Aboriginal life in Australia. This extraordinary collection recorded with compassion and beauty the day-to-day lives of the Aboriginal people and their cultural traditions and was to be one of the first major templates for European Australia's understanding of indigenous Australians. ISBN: 9780522854015 $49.95 Paperback
Rainbow Sugarbag & Moon
by Margie West
Rainbow, Sugarbag and Moon, a retrospective exhibition of two well known artists, Mick Kubarkku and Bardayal Nadjamerrek. The exhibition is a tribute to the talents of these men and is also designed to illuminate the relationship of the artists, their Ancestral mythologies and sites, to the wider context of Kunwinjku life. ISBN: 0724529012 $19.95 Paperback
Rarrk - Journey Through Time in Northern Australia
by John Mawurndjul
ISBN: 0724102124 $89.95 Paperback
Remembering Barak
Remembering Barak celebrates the memory of a remarkable Aboriginal leader, William Barak, Yarra Yarra chief (1824 - 1903), a man whose troubled but dignified life bridged two very disparate cultures and whose art has not only survived but strengthened over this past century, continuing to communicate something both unique and significant about Aboriginal life. - Carol Cooper, Registrar, National Museum of Australia. ISBN: 0724102221 $39.95 Paperback
Rover Thomas 'I Want to Paint'
by Rover Thomas
This book was published by the Holmes a Court Gallery to coincide with the touring exhibition 'Rover Thomas I Want to Paint'. ISBN: 0958179212 $29.95 Paperback
Saltwater Yirrkala Bark Paintings of Sea Country
Collection of the Australain National Maritime Museum
For the Yolnu (Aboriginal inhabitants of north-east Arnhem Land), the land and the sea combine to hold the basis of their culture. Sacred places which are the very essence of their existence are located throughout the region. The 80 bark paintings in this book are the work of 47 Yolmu artists from this north-east Arnhem Land. ISBN: 0646377027 $29.95 Paperback
The Tjulkurra - Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri
by Margo Birnburg and Janusz B. Kreczmanski
Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri was born around 1928 and is a member of the Anmatyerre people. As a new born baby he was caught up in ‘The Coniston Massacre’ which took place at Brooks Soak - the baby, asleep in his coolamon, was hidden under a bush by his terrified mother. Only the baby and those who were out hunting or visiting other tribal groups at the time survived. Billy was adopted by his mother’s sister, brought up as one of her own and was initiated in the sacred secret world of an Aboriginal man. He became proficient in speaking English early in his career and continued working as a stockman until the late 1960’s. He then went to live at Papunya and met Geoffrey Bardon who was the catalyst for the artistic expression among Aboriginal men living there. In 1972 the Papunya Tula Artists Company was formed. Billy is now a famous artist, he has travelled extensively and his works have been displayed in major centres around the world. This is the story of the now White-haired man the ‘Tjulkurra’ a story of courage and hope. ISBN: 1876622377 $7.95 Paperback
Town Grew Up Dancing, the
by Wenten Rubuntja with Jenny Green
The life and art of Wenten Rubuntja. This is a powerful and fascinating story of recent indigenous history in Australia. Wenten Rubuntja was an Arrernte man who made a major contribution to the art and politics of his time. Highly respected for the depth and breadth of his traditional knowledge, Wenten was skilled at engaging in both the traditional and the contemporary worlds. The story is told in Wenten's own words - in his first language, with accompanying translations, and in Aboriginal English. Additional commentary is by linguist and artist Jenny Green and historian Tim Rowse. Encourged to paint as a young man by Albert Namatjira, Wenton is well known for both his water colours and his acrylic or 'dot' style paintings, which feature in this book. ISBN: 1864650427 $59.95 Hardback
Tradition Today Indigenous Art in Australia
(NSW Art Gallery) ISBN: 0734763441 $45.00 Paperback
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