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Contemporary Indigenous Australian art

Index Contemporary Indigenous Australian art

Contemporary Indigenous Australian art (also known as contemporary Aboriginal Australian art) is the modern art work produced by indigenous Australians. [1]

139 relations: Albert Namatjira, Alice Springs, Anzac spirit, Araluen Cultural Precinct, Arnhem Land, Arrernte people, Art Collector (magazine), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Artlink, Australian art, Australian dollar, Australian Research Council, Balgo, Western Australia, Bark painting, Barmah, Basel, Batik, Biennale of Sydney, Blake Prize, Body painting, British Museum, Bronwyn Bancroft, Central Australia, Clemenger Contemporary Art Award, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Crikey, Daisy Jugadai Napaltjarri, Danie Mellor, David Malangi, Dictionary of Australian Artists, Doreen Reid Nakamarra, Dreaming (Australian Aboriginal art), Dubbo, Earth's Creation, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Far North Queensland, Fiona Foley, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Geoffrey Bardon, Germaine Greer, Ginger Riley Munduwalawala, Gloria Petyarre, Gordon Bennett (artist), Gulgardi, Haasts Bluff, Northern Territory, Hans Heysen, Harry Wedge, Hermannsburg School, Hermannsburg, Northern Territory, ..., Hermitage Museum, Imants Tillers, Indigenous Australian art, Indigenous Australians, John Mawurndjul, Johnny Bulunbulun, Judy Watson, Kaapa Tjampitjinpa, Kimberley (Western Australia), Kintore, Northern Territory, Kiwirrkurra Community, Western Australia, Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, Lajamanu, Northern Territory, Land & Water Australia, Latvia, Lena Nyadbi, Les Murray (poet), Lin Onus, Linda Syddick Napaltjarri, List of Australian Indigenous art movements and cooperatives, Makinti Napanangka, Margaret Preston, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Michael Eather, Michael Nelson Tjakamarra, Michael Riley (artist), Molly Jugadai Napaltjarri, Moree, New South Wales, Murray River, Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Museum Tinguely, National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Neva Enfilade of the Winter Palace, Nicolas Rothwell, Northern Territory, Outstation movement, Paddy Bedford, Papunya, Papunya Tula, Petroglyph, Pitjantjatjara, Possum-skin cloak, Provenance, Pukatja, South Australia, Pyrography, Reserve Bank of Australia, Richard Bell (artist), Robert Hughes (critic), Ron Merkel, Rover Thomas, Screen printing, Sculpture, Seattle Art Museum, Sgraffito, Shane Pickett, Shirley Purdie, Sotheby's, South Australia, Superannuation in Australia, Sydney Festival, Tenterfield, New South Wales, The Age, The Australian, The Canberra Times, The Independent, The New York Times, The Sydney Morning Herald, Top End, Torres Strait, Torres Strait Islands, Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula, University of Virginia, Utopia, Northern Territory, Venice Biennale, Victoria (Australia), Victoria and Albert Museum, Warlugulong, Weaving, Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards, Western Desert cultural bloc, William Barak, Wood carving, Wynne Prize, Yannima Tommy Watson, Yuendumu. Expand index (89 more) »

Albert Namatjira

Albert Namatjira (28 July 1902 – 8 August 1959), born Elea Namatjira, was a Western Arrernte-speaking Aboriginal artist from the MacDonnell Ranges in Central Australia.

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Alice Springs

Alice Springs (Arrernte: Mparntwe) is the third-largest town in the Northern Territory of Australia.

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Anzac spirit

The Anzac spirit or Anzac legend is a concept which suggests that Australian and New Zealand soldiers possess shared characteristics, specifically the qualities those soldiers allegedly exemplified on the battlefields of World War I. These perceived qualities include endurance, courage, ingenuity, good humour, larrikinism, and mateship.

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Araluen Cultural Precinct

The Araluen Cultural Precinct, formerly the Araluen Centre for Arts & Entertainment, in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia, is a cultural centre incorporating museums and a theatre.

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Arnhem Land

Arnhem Land is one of the five regions of the Northern Territory of Australia.

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Arrernte people

The Arrernte people, sometimes referred to as the Aranda, Arunta, or Arrarnta are an Aboriginal Australian people who live in the Arrernte lands, at Mparntwe (Alice Springs) and surrounding areas of the Central Australia region of the Northern Territory. Some Aranda live in other areas far from their homeland, including the major Australian cities and overseas. Aranda mythology and spirituality focuses on the landscape and the Dreamtime. Altjira is the creator being of the Inapertwa that became all living creatures. Tjurunga are objects of religious significance. The Arrernte Council is the representative and administrative body for the Aranda Lands and is part of the Central Land Council. Tourism is important to the economy of Alice Springs and surrounding communities.

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Art Collector (magazine)

Art Collector (formerly Australian Art Collector) is a quarterly art magazine.

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Art Gallery of New South Wales

The Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), located in The Domain in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, is the most important public gallery in Sydney and one of the largest in Australia.

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Art Gallery of Western Australia

The Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA) is a public State art gallery that is part of the Perth Cultural Centre, in Perth, Western Australia.

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Artlink

Artlink is a quarterly themed magazine covering contemporary art and ideas from Australia and the Asia-Pacific.

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Australian art

Australian art is any art made in Australia or about Australia, from prehistoric times to the present.

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Australian dollar

The Australian dollar (sign: $; code: AUD) is the currency of the Commonwealth of Australia, including its external territories Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and Norfolk Island, as well as the independent Pacific Island states of Kiribati, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.

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Australian Research Council

The Australian Research Council (ARC) is one of the Australian government's two main agencies (with NHMRC) for competitively allocating research funding to academics and researchers at Australian universities.

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Balgo, Western Australia

Balgo, previously Balgo Hills and Balgo Mission, is a small community in Western Australia that is linked with both the Great Sandy Desert and the Tanami Desert.

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Bark painting

Bark painting is an Australian Aboriginal art form, involving painting on the interior of a strip of tree bark.

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Barmah

Barmah is a town in Victoria, with the distinction of being located north of the border with New South Wales.

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Basel

Basel (also Basle; Basel; Bâle; Basilea) is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine.

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Batik

Batik (Javanese: ꦧꦠꦶꦏ꧀) is a technique of wax-resist dyeing applied to whole cloth, or cloth made using this technique originated from Indonesia.

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Biennale of Sydney

The Biennale of Sydney is an international festival of contemporary art, held every two years in Sydney, Australia.

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Blake Prize

The Blake Prize is an biannual art prize in Australia.

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Body painting

Body painting, or sometimes bodypainting, is a form of body art.

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British Museum

The British Museum, located in the Bloomsbury area of London, United Kingdom, is a public institution dedicated to human history, art and culture.

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Bronwyn Bancroft

Bronwyn Bancroft (born 1958) is an Australian artist, notable for being amongst the first Australian fashion designers invited to show her work in Paris.

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Central Australia

Central Australia, also known as the Alice Springs Region, is one of the five regions in the Northern Territory of Australia.

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Clemenger Contemporary Art Award

The Clemenger Contemporary Art Award was a major, triennial, invitational art prize organised under the auspices of the National Gallery of Victoria and funded by the philanthropists Joan and Peter Clemenger.

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Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri

Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri AO (1932 – 21 June 2002) was an Australian painter, considered to be one of the most collected and renowned Australian Aboriginal artists.

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Crikey

Crikey is an Australian electronic magazine comprising a website and email newsletter available to subscribers.

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Daisy Jugadai Napaltjarri

Daisy Jugadai Napaltjarri (c. 1955 – 2008) was a Pintupi-Luritja-speaking Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region, and sister of artist Molly Jugadai Napaltjarri.

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Danie Mellor

Danie Mellor (born 13 April 1971) is an Australian artist who was the winner of the 2009 National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award.

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David Malangi

David Malangi (192719 June 1999) was an Indigenous Australian Yolngu artist from the Northern Territory.

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Dictionary of Australian Artists

The Dictionary of Australian Artists (DAA) was the outcome of a project begun in the 1970s at the University of Sydney under the leadership of Bernard Smith and funded by the Australian Research Council.

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Doreen Reid Nakamarra

Doreen Reid Nakamarra (c. 1955 - 20 October 2009) was an Australian Aboriginal artist and painter.

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Dreaming (Australian Aboriginal art)

In Australian Aboriginal art, a Dreaming is a totemistic design or artwork, which can be owned by a tribal group or individual.

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Dubbo

Dubbo is a city in the Orana Region of New South Wales, Australia.

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Earth's Creation

Earth's Creation is a painting by the Australian Aboriginal artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye.

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Emily Kame Kngwarreye

Emily Kame Kngwarreye (or Emily Kam Ngwarray) (1910 – 3 September 1996) was an indigenous Australian artist from the Utopia community in the Northern Territory.

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Far North Queensland

Far North Queensland, or Tropical North Queensland, is the northernmost part of the state of Queensland, Australia.

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Fiona Foley

Fiona Foley (born 1964) is a contemporary Indigenous Australian artist from Badtjala, Fraser Island, Queensland.

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Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow

The Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) is the main gallery of contemporary art in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Geoffrey Bardon

Geoffrey Robert Bardon AM (1940, Sydney – 6 May 2003) was an Australian school teacher who was instrumental in creating the Aboriginal art of the Western Desert movement.

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Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer (born 29 January 1939) is an Australian writer and public intellectual, regarded as one of the major voices of the second-wave feminist movement in the latter half of the 20th century.

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Ginger Riley Munduwalawala

Ginger Riley Munduwalawala (circa 1936 – 1 September 2002) was an Australian contemporary artist.

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Gloria Petyarre

Gloria Petyarre (born 1938 in Mosquito Bore, Utopia, Northern Territory) is an Australian Aboriginal artist from the Anmatyerre community, just north of Alice Springs.

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Gordon Bennett (artist)

Gordon Bennett (10 August 1955 – 3 June 2014) was an Australian artist of Aboriginal and Anglo-Celtic descent.

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Gulgardi

Gulgardi is a 1971 painting by Kaapa Mbitjana Tjampitjinpa, an Indigenous Australian artist from Papunya in Australia's Northern Territory.

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Haasts Bluff, Northern Territory

Haasts Bluff, also known as Ikuntji, is an Indigenous Australian community in Central Australia, a region of the Northern Territory.

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Hans Heysen

Sir Hans Heysen (8 October 18772 July 1968) was a German-born Australian artist.

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Harry Wedge

Harry J. Wedge (1957–2012) was a Wiradjuri artist.

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Hermannsburg School

The Hermannsburg School is an art movement, or art style, which began at the Hermannsburg Mission in the 1930s.

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Hermannsburg, Northern Territory

Hermannsburg is an Aboriginal community in Ljirapinta Ward of the MacDonnell Shire in the Northern Territory of Australia, 125 km km west southwest of Alice Springs.

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Hermitage Museum

The State Hermitage Museum (p) is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

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Imants Tillers

Imants Tillers (born 30 July 1950), is an Australian artist, curator and writer.

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Indigenous Australian art

Indigenous Australian art or Australian Aboriginal art is art made by the Indigenous peoples of Australia and in collaborations between Indigenous Australians and others.

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Indigenous Australians

Indigenous Australians are the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia, descended from groups that existed in Australia and surrounding islands prior to British colonisation.

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John Mawurndjul

John Mawurndjul (born 1952) is an Australian contemporary Indigenous artist.

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Johnny Bulunbulun

Johnny Bulunbulun (1946-2010) was a Ganalbingu Aboriginal artist.

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Judy Watson

Judy Watson is a multi-media artist who works in print-making, painting, video and installation.

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Kaapa Tjampitjinpa

Kaapa Mbitjana Tjampitjinpa (1920 – 1989) was a contemporary Indigenous Australian artist of Anmatyerre, Warlpiri and Arrernte heritage.

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Kimberley (Western Australia)

The Kimberley is the northernmost of the nine regions of Western Australia.

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Kintore, Northern Territory

Kintore (Pintupi: Walungurru) is a remote settlement in the Northern Territory of Australia about 530 km west of Alice Springs and close to the border with Western Australia.

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Kiwirrkurra Community, Western Australia

Kiwirrkurra is a small community in Western Australia in the Gibson Desert, 1,200 km east of Port Hedland and 850 km west of Alice Springs.

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Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection

The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia houses one of the finest indigenous Australian art collections in the world, rivaling many of the collections held in Australia.

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Lajamanu, Northern Territory

Lajamanu is a small town of the Northern Territory in Australia.

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Land & Water Australia

Land & Water Australia was a Statutory Corporation established under the Primary Industries and Energy Research and Development Act of 1989.

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Latvia

Latvia (or; Latvija), officially the Republic of Latvia (Latvijas Republika), is a sovereign state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe.

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Lena Nyadbi

Lena Nyadbi (born 1936, near Warnmarnjulugun lagoon, Western Australia) is a contemporary Indigenous Australian artist from the Warmun Community in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.

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Les Murray (poet)

Leslie Allan "Les" Murray AO (born 17 October 1938) is an Australian poet, anthologist and critic.

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Lin Onus

William McLintock Onus (Lin Onus AM) (4 December 1948 - 24 October 1996) was a Scottish-Aboriginal Artist of Onus and was born at St.

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Linda Syddick Napaltjarri

Linda Yunkata Syddick Napaltjarri (born c. 1937) is a Pintupi- and Pitjantjatjara- speaking Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region.

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List of Australian Indigenous art movements and cooperatives

Australian Indigenous art movements and cooperatives have been central to the emergence of Indigenous Australian art.

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Makinti Napanangka

Makinti Napanangka (1930 – 9 January 2011) was a Pintupi-speaking Indigenous Australian artist from Australia's Western Desert region.

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Margaret Preston

Margaret Rose Preston (29 April 1875 – 28 May 1963) was an Australian painter and printmaker who is regarded as one of Australia's leading modernists of the early 20th century.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the United States.

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Michael Eather

Michael Eather (born 1963) is a contemporary Australian artist, based in Brisbane who helped found the Campfire Group, a significant cross-cultural artistic collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists.

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Michael Nelson Tjakamarra

Michael Nelson Tjakamarra (born 1949) is an indigenous Australian painter.

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Michael Riley (artist)

Michael Riley (1960–2004) was an Australian Indigenous photographer and film-maker, and co-founder of Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative.

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Molly Jugadai Napaltjarri

Molly Jugadai Napaltjarri (born c. 1954) is a Pintupi– and Luritja–speaking Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region.

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Moree, New South Wales

Moree is a large town in Moree Plains Shire in northern New South Wales, Australia.

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Murray River

The Murray River (or River MurrayIn South Australia, the rendition "River Murray" is the most common, as is "River Darling" and "River Torrens".) (Ngarrindjeri: Millewa, Yorta Yorta: Tongala) is Australia's longest river, at in length.

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Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac

Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac The musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac in Paris, France, is a museum featuring the indigenous art and cultures of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas.

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Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory

The Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) is the main museum in the Northern Territory.

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Museum of Contemporary Art Australia

The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (abbreviated MCA), located in Sydney, Australia, is an Australian museum solely dedicated to exhibiting, interpreting and collecting contemporary art, both from across Australia and around the world.

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Museum Tinguely

The Museum Tinguely is an art museum in Basel, Switzerland that contains a permanent exhibition of the works of Swiss painter and sculptor Jean Tinguely.

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National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award

The National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA) Australia's longest running Indigenous art award.

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National Gallery of Australia

The National Gallery of Australia (originally the Australian National Gallery) is the national art museum of Australia as well as one of the largest art museums in Australia, holding more than 166,000 works of art.

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National Gallery of Victoria

The National Gallery of Victoria, popularly known as the NGV, is an art museum in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Neva Enfilade of the Winter Palace

The Neva Enfilade of the Winter Palace, St Petersburg, is a series of three large halls arranged in an enfilade along the palace's massive facade facing the River Neva.

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Nicolas Rothwell

Nicolas Rothwell is a journalist and the Northern Australia correspondent for The Australian newspaper.

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Northern Territory

The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT) is a federal Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia.

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Outstation movement

The Outstation movement refers to the relocation of Indigenous Australians from towns to remote outposts on traditional tribal land.

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Paddy Bedford

Paddy Bedford (circa 1922 – 14 July 2007), aka "Goowoomji", was a contemporary Indigenous Australian artist from Warmun in the Kimberley, and one of eight Australian artists selected for an architectural commission for the Musée du quai Branly.

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Papunya

Papunya is a small Indigenous Australian community roughly 240 km northwest of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, Australia.

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Papunya Tula

Papunya Tula, or Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, is an artist cooperative formed in 1972 that is owned and operated by Aboriginal people from the Western Desert of Australia.

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Petroglyph

Petroglyphs are images created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading, as a form of rock art.

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Pitjantjatjara

The Pitjantjatjara are an Aboriginal people of the Central Australian desert.

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Possum-skin cloak

Possum-skin cloaks were a form of clothing worn by Aboriginal people in the south-east of Australia – present-day Victoria and New South Wales.

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Provenance

Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody or location of a historical object.

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Pukatja, South Australia

Pukatja (formerly Ernabella) is an Aboriginal community in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands in South Australia, comprising one of the six main communities on "The Lands" (the others being Amata, Pipalyatjara, Fregon/Kaltjiti, Indulkana and Mimili).

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Pyrography

Pyrography or pyrogravure is the art of decorating wood or other materials with burn marks resulting from the controlled application of a heated object such as a poker.

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Reserve Bank of Australia

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), on 14 January 1960, became the Australian central bank and banknote issuing authority, when the Reserve Bank Act 1959 (23 April 1959) removed the central banking functions from the Commonwealth Bank.

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Richard Bell (artist)

Richard Bell (born 1953, in Charleville, Queensland, into the Kamilaroi tribe) is an Australian artist and political activist.

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Robert Hughes (critic)

Robert Studley Forrest Hughes AO (28 July 19386 August 2012) was an Australian-born art critic, writer, and producer of television documentaries.

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Ron Merkel

Ron Merkel is an Australian jurist, who was formerly a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia.

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Rover Thomas

Rover Thomas Joolama (c. 1926 – 11 April 1998) was an Indigenous Australian artist.

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Screen printing

Screen printing is a printing technique whereby a mesh is used to transfer ink onto a substrate, except in areas made impermeable to the ink by a blocking stencil.

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Sculpture

Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions.

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Seattle Art Museum

The Seattle Art Museum (commonly known as "SAM") is an art museum located in Seattle, Washington, USA.

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Sgraffito

Sgraffito (plural: sgraffiti; sometimes spelled scraffito) is a technique either of wall decor, produced by applying layers of plaster tinted in contrasting colours to a moistened surface, or in pottery, by applying to an unfired ceramic body two successive layers of contrasting slip or glaze, and then in either case scratching so as to reveal parts of the underlying layer.

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Shane Pickett

Shane Pickett (born 1957, Quairading, Western Australia. Died 15 January 2010, Perth, Western Australia) was one of the foremost Nyoongar artists.

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Shirley Purdie

Shirley Purdie is a contemporary Indigenous Australian artist, notable for winning the 2007 Blake Prize for Religious Art.

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Sotheby's

Sotheby's is a British founded, American multinational corporation headquartered in New York City.

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South Australia

South Australia (abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.

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Superannuation in Australia

Superannuation in Australia is the arrangements put in place by the Government of Australia to assist people in Australia to accumulate money for an income in retirement.

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Sydney Festival

Sydney Festival is a major arts festival in Australia's largest city, Sydney that runs for three weeks every January, since it was established in 1977.

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Tenterfield, New South Wales

Tenterfield is a town in New South Wales, Australia.

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The Age

The Age is a daily newspaper that has been published in Melbourne, Australia, since 1854.

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The Australian

The Australian is a broadsheet newspaper published in Australia from Monday to Saturday each week since 14 July 1964.

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The Canberra Times

The Canberra Times is a daily newspaper, published by Fairfax Media in Canberra.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily compact newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia.

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Top End

The Top End of Australia's Northern Territory is a geographical region encompassing the northernmost section of the Northern Territory, which aside from the Cape York Peninsula is the northernmost part of the Australian continent.

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Torres Strait

The Torres Strait is a strait which lies between Australia and the Melanesian island of New Guinea.

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Torres Strait Islands

The Torres Strait Islands are a group of at least 274 small islands which lie in Torres Strait, the waterway separating far northern continental Australia's Cape York Peninsula and the island of New Guinea.

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Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula

Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula (sometimes just Turkey Tolson; – 10 August 2001) was a Pintupi-speaking Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region.

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University of Virginia

The University of Virginia (U.Va. or UVA), frequently referred to simply as Virginia, is a public research university and the flagship for the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Utopia, Northern Territory

Utopia is an Aboriginal homeland formed in November 1978 by the amalgamation of the former Utopia pastoral lease with a tract of unalienated land to its north.

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Venice Biennale

The Venice Biennale (La Biennale di Venezia; in English also called the "Venice Biennial") refers to an arts organization based in Venice and the name of the original and principal biennial exhibition the organization organizes.

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Victoria (Australia)

Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.

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Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.3 million objects.

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Warlugulong

Warlugulong (1977) is an acrylic on canvas painting by Indigenous Australian artist Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri.

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Weaving

Weaving is a method of textile production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth.

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Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards

The Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards is a non-acquisitive art award established by the Art Gallery of Western Australia in 2008.

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Western Desert cultural bloc

The Western Desert cultural bloc or just Western Desert is a cultural region in central Australia covering about, including the Gibson Desert, the Great Victoria Desert, the Great Sandy and Little Sandy Deserts in the Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia.

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William Barak

William Barak (or Beruk) (c. 1824 – 15 August 1903), was the last traditional ngurungaeta (elder) of the Wurundjeri-willam clan, first inhabitants of present-day Melbourne, Australia.

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Wood carving

Wood carving is a form of woodworking by means of a cutting tool (knife) in one hand or a chisel by two hands or with one hand on a chisel and one hand on a mallet, resulting in a wooden figure or figurine, or in the sculptural ornamentation of a wooden object.

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Wynne Prize

The Wynne Prize is an Australian landscape painting or figure sculpture art prize.

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Yannima Tommy Watson

Yannima Tommy Watson known as Tommy Watson (born 1930s) is an Indigenous Australian artist, of the Pitjantjatjara people from Australia’s central western desert.

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Yuendumu

Yuendumu is a town in the Northern Territory of Australia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_Indigenous_Australian_art

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