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Tag Archives: Warlpiri
Yulyurlu Lorna Fencer Napurrurla
Last year, when we were in Darwin, we saved up a special treat for our last (and always sad) day in town: the retrospective of the work of Warlpiri painter Lorna Fencer Napurrurla at Chan Contemporary Art. Well, it turned … Continue reading
Beating Petrol
It’s rare that any publication about Indigenous matters generates as much buzz as Andrew Stojanovski’s Dog Ear Cafe: how the Mt Theo Program beat the curse of petrol sniffing (Hybrid Publishers, 2010) has in the scant weeks since its publication. … Continue reading
Warlpiri Media, Old and New
A few months back, David Nash sent me a copy of Warlukulangu Artists of Yuendumu, a thirty-minute video he’d obtained from the art centre. Made in 1991 by Warlukurlangu Artists in conjunction with Desert Pictures from Alice Springs, the film is a marvelous … Continue reading
Warlu!
A few weeks ago while reading Jill Stubington’s Singing the Land: the power of performance in Aboriginal life (Currency House, 2007), I set about exploring the catalog of Aboriginal Studies Press, which publishes many of the recordings and films that Stubington discusses … Continue reading
Warlpiri Woman: Engaging the Physical in Aboriginal Art
On March 23 the College of Fine Arts (COFA) at the University of New South Wales concluded a ten-day workshop, held in conjunction with the Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics, that brought five Warlpiri women, led by Rosie Napurrurla … Continue reading
