Bark painting is an Australian Aboriginal art form, involving painting on the interior of a strip of tree bark. This is a continuing form of artistic expression...
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hallucinogenic chemicals, and cork. Bark has been used to make cloth, canoes, and ropes and used as a surface for paintings and map making. A number of plants...
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Gunbalanya, Northern Territory (section Bark painting)
Gunbalanya is known for its Aboriginal art, in particular rock art and bark painting. It has a range of services, including a police station, school and...
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Telstra Open Painting until 2000, when the name was changed to the Telstra General Painting Award. This award is named after notable bark painter Wandjuk...
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a wide range of media including painting on leaves, bark painting, wood carving, rock carving, watercolour painting, sculpting, ceremonial clothing and...
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Wadeye bark painting". Aboriginal Bark Paintings. 2 July 2021. Retrieved 9 August 2021. "Port Keats painting | Wadeye painting | Port Keats bark painting"....
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Wandjina (section Depictions on bark)
Mowanjum artists depicted traditional Wandjina on pieces of string bark. These bark paintings were sold mainly through the mission at Kalumbaru. Some of the...
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Bark Paintings. 28 November 2017. Retrieved 17 July 2021. "Nadjombolmi Charlie Barramundi | Sell | value | bark painting | oenpelli". Aboriginal Bark...
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Mununggurr is an Australian artist renowned for her finely detailed paintings on bark. In some publications Rerrkirrwanga is referred to as Rerrki, which...
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Makassan fishers in examples of Indigenous Australian rock art and bark painting of northern Australia, with the Makassan perahu a prominent feature...
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(1996). "Appendix: Glossary of Kunwinkju Words". Seeing the Inside: Bark Painting in Western Arnhem Land. Clarendon Press. p. 261. ISBN 9780198233541...
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Alarrdju clan. Namadbara was renowned for his abilities as a healer, his bark paintings, and his skills as a mentor for younger generations. Namadbara (c. 1890-1973)...
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Indigenous artists, whose traditional Aboriginal art, particularly bark painting, can be found in art galleries around the world, and whose work frequently...
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Yolngu leaders drafted the Yirrkala bark petitions. The bark paintings consisted of one Yirritja bark and one Dhuwa bark to represent the two moieties of...
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for body decoration, sun protection, mortuary practices, cave painting, bark painting and other artwork, and the preservation of animal skins, among...
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Manggalili clan. Maymuru is a sculptor, painter and printmaker. His paintings are done on bark with natural pigments. He mostly paints images that represent...
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is thousands of years old, the best known forms being rock art and bark painting. Evidence of Aboriginal art in Australia can be traced back at least...
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legend Garkain the Recluse. In 1957 Mountford donated a eucalyptus bark painting of Garkain (1948 or 1949) from the Gunbalanya Aboriginal community in...
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(previously known as Oenpelli) in Western Arnhem Land is also notable for bark painting. The indigenous inhabitants also create temporary sand sculptures as...
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the Northern Territory of Australia. He is best remembered for his bark paintings, carvings, and fibre sculptures, many of which he worked on collaboratively...
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innovative creations based on the traditional cross-hatching style of bark painting technique known as rarrk. Mawurndjul was born on 31 December 1951 in...
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traditional and most common support for watercolor paintings is paper; other supports include papyrus, bark papers, plastics, vellum or leather, fabric, wood...
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Narritjin Maymuru (section Yirrkala Bark Petitions)
(died 1981) was a Yolngu people artist and activist noted for Bark painting. He began painting in the 1940s after time as a cook. After decades of work in...
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Marawili AM (born 1953) is an Aboriginal Australian artist known for bark painting, wood sculpture, and printmaking. He is also a musician, and released...
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Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. He was known for his bark paintings. Mungurrawuy Yunupingu was born in northeast Arnhem Land around 1905...
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artist of the Gupa-Djapu clan known for her unique ultramarine blue bark paintings inspired by natural landscapes and Yolngu stories and legends. In 2005...
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Yanggarriny Wunungmurra. Maḏayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala is an exhibition mounted by the centre in collaboration...
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Carl Barks (March 27, 1901 – August 25, 2000) was an American cartoonist, author, and painter. He is best known for his work in Disney comic books, as...
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August 1963. They are called bark petitions because, although typed on paper they were framed by traditional bark paintings. The typing was done on a Remington...
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the founder of the cattle station in Gunbalanya. He collected many bark paintings and fibre works, and Cahill continued to send him new works for the...
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