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Tag Archives: Canning Stock Route
There’s an App for That
I bought my iPad about two and a half years ago, not long before my last trip to Australia. It was the perfect solution to hauling half a dozen cheap paperbacks across the globe and discarding them in a series … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Culture
Tagged Canning Stock Route, Exhibitions, Fiction, Games, iPad, iPhone, Language, National Museum of Australia, Yugambeh
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Riches of the Canning Stock Route
The depth, the wealth, the variety of the material contained in Ngurra Kuju Walyja / One Country One People: stories from the Canning Stock Route (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) are such that I’m almost at a loss to begin describing it all. A … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Art, Books, Culture
Tagged Canning Stock Route, National Museum of Australia
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Video from the Canning Stock Route
I’m in the midst of reading the massive Ngurra Kuju Walyja — One Country One People — Stories from the Canning Stock Route (Macmillan, 2011), a companion volume to the exhibition catalog Yiwarra Kuju from the National Museum of Australia. I … Continue reading
Family Ties
There are a few concepts that can be regarded as absolutely fundamental to Aboriginal society and, by extension, to its art. The most obvious, of course, is the tjukurrpa, what we know as the Dreaming or “law” or “business.” Another … Continue reading
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Tagged Canning Stock Route, John Carty, Kinship, Western Australia
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Pretty Country, Cannibal Country
One of the more intriguing aspects of Yiwarra Kuju was the prominence it delivered to Martumili Artists, whom I find to be among the most interesting group of artists to have emerged from the past half-decade’s burst of creative energy … Continue reading
Along the Canning Stock Route
If you are an aficionado of desert art from the Kimberley region, and especially if you read the stories associated with paintings out of art centres like Mangkaja Arts and Warlayirti Artists, you probably already have a glancing familiarity with … Continue reading
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Tagged Canning Stock Route, Exhibitions, National Museum of Australia, Western Australia
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Aboriginal Art & Culture: an American eye 