Ruby Williamson ‘Puli Murpu’ 2008
“Most people just have access to a particular style that is too often stereotyped as authentic, but it’s just one small aspect of the 300 language groups in indigenous Australia,” says Reko Rennie. The graphic diamond pattern on the museum walls is one of eight male and female symbols that represent his Kamilaroi community.
via Street Art Meets Fine Art | The University of Virginia Magazine
(via artwhatson.com.au :: Kate Owen Gallery - - Awelye)
Betty Mbitjana is the daughter of renowned artist Minne Pwerle and the sister of artist Barbara Weir. She is married to Paddy Club. She paints the awelye, bush berry and bush plum dreaming.
“You are what is most beautiful about me, a self portrait with Kell and Arella’ by Del Kathryn Barton. Barton’s statement on winning the Archibald Prize for “You are..”
This painting celebrates the love I have for my two children and how my relationship with them has radically transformed my understanding of who I am. Both my children have taken my world by storm … The intensity of this emotion is not something that I could have prepared myself for.
