Art
AboriginalArtAustraliaDavid Gulpilil
David Gulpilil shivering like a fish in the billabong before going back to his waterhole to be a little fish again Part 2 of 3
David Gulpilil is one of the last first-contact natives. He was about eight years old when he first saw a whitefella land in...
AboriginalAlbert NamatjiraArtAustraliacitizenshipRex Battarbee
Albert Namatjira is happy with what whitefella gave not what the blackfella takes – Part 3 of 3
It was not what the whitefella gave Albert Namatjira, more exactly, it was what the blackfella took from him and society that made...
AboriginalAlbert NamatjiraArtAustraliaRex Battarbee
Behind the veil Albert Namatjira’s spirit is restless – Part 1 of 3
Albert Namatjira was not a modern Australian Aboriginal he was a full blood Australian native who by law was labelled an aborigine. Albert...
AboriginalArtAustraliaGeoffrey BardonRace
Whitefella Geoffrey Bardon gave ‘Dot’ painting to the modern Aboriginal in 1971
A local native Arrernte artist has explained that ‘dot painting’ is about cultural law and watercolour paintings were about culture of country followed...
