Some years ago, I was hunkered down over a painting I'd just bought, popping the staples out of the stretcher bars in front of the gas station in Lajamanu, a dusty Aboriginal township smack in the ...

The collection includes a woomera, which is a stick used for throwing a spear. In Aboriginal art, all the symbols and imagery have a meaning. In this case, the bark painting shows the symbolism of ...

Greek Australian artist Vlassis Zanalis was the first non-Indigenous Australians that pointed out the great cultural value of Western Australia's Aboriginal Rock Art Paintings. Independent news ...

Asia Society Museum presents Maḏayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala, the first major exhibition of Aboriginal Australian bark paintings to tour the United States.

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On his return home, he tried to find out more about these enigmatic aboriginal paintings and engravings. "I couldn't believe how little was known about them; we didn't even know how old they were ...

Thanks to nuclear science and analysis of age of wasp nests, ancient Aboriginal paintings in the Kimberley can be dated for the first time. Age of the ancient Aboriginal paintings was estimated ...

The gallery was crowded with people. It was the first ever major Aboriginal art exhibition in London. It was a hot summer’s night, and this distinguished-looking man with a white beard came in.

This grant supports the creative development, production and presentation of new work. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

Vincent Namatjira, 37, claimed the annual Archibald Prize for a painting of himself and Adam Goodes, a champion Aboriginal Australian Rules footballer. Last week another painter, Meyne Wyatt ...

Professor Donald Thomson collected art and day-to-day items from Aboriginal communities through trade and gifts.Credit: Wayne Taylor “They were honest and generous and inclusive,” she says.