Australian Aboriginal Art - Mason Gallery

<h1>Australian Aboriginal Art</h1> <p align="center"><font color="#000099"><b>Aboriginal Art - Mason Gallery Darwin Australia</b></font></p> <p align="center">Western Desert Men often paint stories about Tingari. Tingari is about ancestral law & is painted showing the land area that they are refering too. </p> <h2>Ningura Napurrula</h2> <p>This artist participated in a collaborative painting by senior Pintupi women, which was included in the `Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius` exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, 2000. <br><br> 2004 Her work is to be incorporated into the design of the New Indigenous Art Gallery in Paris. She is a Telstra Art Award Finalist. <br><br> Often paints: Ancestral women of Napaltjarri and Napurrula kinship camped at this site. <br><br> Wirrulnga is a site which is associated with birth. The ovals adjacent to the central circle represents the shape of a pregnant woman of the Napaltjarri kinship who gave birth at the site. The women perform dance and sing songs while at this site. Women camped here before continuing their travels east. As they travel they gather bush food known as kampurarrpa, (desert raisin). The arcs represent rocky outcrops and the sand hills surrounding the area. </p> <br><br> <h2>Walangkura Napanangka</h2> <p>Born at Tjiturulnga, Walangkura Napanangka came to Haasts Bluff and lives now in Walungurru (Kintore). <br><br> She commenced painting for Papunya Tula artists in 1996. <br><br> In 1994, Walangkura took part in the Walungurru (Kintore) and Ikuntji (Haasts bluff) Manyma Tjukurra painting project. Her mother, Inyuwa Nampitjina (now deceased), and her sister Pirrmangka Napanangka (now deceased), were also painters. Married to Johnny Yunggut <br><br> Aboriginal peoples have been producing art for many thousands of years. It takes many forms - ancient engravings and rock art, designs in sand or on the body, exquisite fibre craft and wooden sculptures, bark paintings and more recently an explosion of brilliant contemporary painting. <br><br> Traditional Aboriginal societies vary greatly across Australia but all have social structures and systems that organise life and experience and explain the universe and the place of people in it. Art is part of these systems and the making of artworks by Aboriginal artists is almost always connected to Dreaming & Cultural stories. <br><br> The ownership of Dreaming stories is determined by complex social and kinship structures and paintings can only be produced by those who are acknowledged to have the right to do so. But this does not mean that artists are rigidly bound by convention in their expressions of these stories. <br><br> Australian Aboriginal art Australia indigenous dot paintings prints aborigine aborigines artist biographies Kimberley, Arnhem Land central western desert Papunya Dreamtime Dreaming songlines culture information aboriginal art australia, australian, aboriginal, paintings, art, gallery, tribal, indigenous, desert, dreamings, culture, artists, dot paintings, dreamtime, spirituality, iconography, native, motifs, ancestral beings, ancestors, arnhemland, northern territory, western desert, darwin, alice springs, didgeridoo, didjerido, didjeridu, yidaki, didg, didgi, didj, boomerang, spear, shields, artifacts <br><br> Aboriginal Society at the Instant of Contact. <br><br> The population of Australia at the time of the arrival of the whites in 1788 was probably between 250,000 and 500,000. The pattern of Aboriginal settlement was like that for present-day Australians, except in the tropical north, with most of the population living along the coasts and rivers. <br><br> Densities varied from one person for every thirty-five square miles in the arid regions to five to ten persons for every one square mile on the eastern coast. <br><br> Residential groups ranged in size from ten to fifty people, with some temporary ceremonial gatherings reaching up to five hundred. <br><br> Most people tend to think of Aborigines as a unified, homogeneous group. <br><br> Yet the Aborigines never used one collective term to describe themselves. No one individual Aborigine, in the pre colonial past, would have known of the existence of many of the other Aboriginal peoples and regions of the vast continent of Australia, which covers nearly three million square miles-almost the area of the United States. <br><br> The differences between individual groups were important and were continually emphasised. There was no concept of a pan-Australian identity. <br><br> Even the idea of Aboriginal "tribes" is problematic. Smaller local groups were the basic units of Aboriginal society. <br><br> These groups shared cultural traits and had economic and ceremonial dealings with other groups, but they did not form large confederacies for such purposes as warfare or conquest. <br><br> In many regions an individual, by virtue of birth, belonged to a clan that was closely associated with-"owned," in a certain sense-particular areas of land. <br><br> Through other kinship ties and through marriage, an individual might have acquired rights in several areas of land. <br><br> These relationships, along with residence and travel for economic reasons, produced a complex pattern of land affiliation and identification with local areas. <br><br> The result was that all parts of Australia, while not always wholly occupied at any one point in time, were claimed by Aboriginal individuals and groups under a customary system of land-tenure law. <br><br> The primary structures of Aboriginal society were based on kinship. Every known person was considered to be kin, either by blood ties or fictively. <br><br> Terms of reference for others were almost always those of kinship-a "kind of mother," a "kind of brother," and so on. <br><br> With these relationships came rights, obligations, and appropriate ways of behaving. This is not to say that Aborigines blindly followed timeless rules, but rather that kinship provided a baseline from which to operate in the society. <br><br> People doubtless bent and broke rules, creating new ones over time, as with law and custom in any society. <a href="/">Australian Aboriginal Art</a> <a href="home.htm">aboriginal dot paintings</a> <a href="profile.htm">Australian aboriginal paintings</a> <a href="about_us.htm">Australian Aboriginal Art</a> <a href="country.htm">Australian Aboriginal Art</a> <a href="working_artists.htm">Australian Aboriginal Art</a> <a href="masterworks.htm">Australian Aboriginal Art</a> <a href="web.htm">Aboriginal Art</a> <a href="exhibitiondates.htm">Australian Aboriginal Art</a> <a href="contact.htm">Australian Aboriginal Art</a> <a href="/">Australian Aboriginal Art</a> <a href="/">Australian Aboriginal Art</a>