Indigenous Australian art or Australian Aboriginal art is art made by the Indigenous peoples of Australia and in collaborations between Indigenous Australians and others. It includes works in a wide range of media including painting on leaves, wood carving, rock carving, sculpting, ceremonial clothing and sand painting. This article discusses works that pre-date European colonization as well as contemporary Indigenous Australian art by Aboriginal Australians. These have been studied in recent years and have gained much international recognition.
Traditional Indigenous art
There are several types of aboriginal art, and ways of making art, including rock painting, dot painting, rock engravings, bark painting, carvings, sculptures, and weaving and string art.
Rock painting
Australian Indigenous art is the oldest unbroken tradition of art in the world. The oldest firmly dated rock art painting in Australia is a charcoal drawing on a rock fragment found during the excavation of the Narwala Gabarnmang rock shelter in south-western Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. Dated at 28,000 years, it is one of the oldest known pieces of rock art on Earth with a confirmed date. Rock art, including painting and engraving or carving, can be found at sites throughout Australia. Rock paintings appear on caves in the Kimberley region of Western Australia known as Bradshaws. They are named after the European, Joseph Bradshaw, who first reported them in 1891. To Aboriginal people of the region they are known as Gwion Gwion or Giro Giro. Other painted rock art sites include Laura, Queensland,Ubirr, in the Kakadu National Park,Uluru, and Carnarvon Gorge.
Colin Jones, lecturer in Aboriginal History, talks about his culture, his history and his art.
published: 17 Oct 2013
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published: 20 Jun 2018
Australian Aboriginal Animal Dot Art
published: 13 May 2021
Aboriginal Artist Nellie Marks Nakamarra 1017
Artist: Nellie Marks Nakamarra
Dreaming: Travelling Through my Country
Painted in Alice Springs 2011
Contact: [email protected]
published: 11 May 2011
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The Men of the Fifth World is a documentary that shows us the history, culture and traditions of the Australian aborigines, primitive tribes who inhabit these lands.
The old Garimala Yakar, tells firsthand how their world is accompanied by the sound of the didgeridoo, the beat of their tradition, which keeps them together and attached to the land:
“My people have always felt the need to express themselves through painting, now and since the beginning of time. Our sacred rocks are covered with these painting which tell of the Dreamtime. There, we can see representations of the creator god Baiame in all his forms, and what the wor...
published: 26 Jul 2014
Family Project - How to Draw Aboriginal Symbols
Proud Yuin woman and founder of Ngandabaa (Yun-Da-Baa), Rheanna Lotter talks about her Aboriginal artwork and shows us how to draw Aboriginal symbols.
published: 13 Oct 2021
Aboriginal Art Painting, Dreamtime EnglishWithSophia
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published: 30 Jan 2015
Ethical Aboriginal Art by ARTARK
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Songlines: Aboriginal Art and Storytelling
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published: 06 Dec 2015
Aboriginal art scam | 60 Minutes Australia
For millions of tourists visiting Australia the boomerang and the didgeridoo are iconic - and highly sought after - symbols of our indigenous culture. Which makes what 60 MINUTES reveals as embarrassing as it is outrageous. Most didgeridoos and boomerangs are now made in Indonesia, Bali specifically, not here in Australia. And it's not because there's a large expatriate aboriginal community living up there. It's all about money. Indonesian workers can churn out cheap copies of our artefacts by the shipload, and that's very attractive for the businesses involved, which are happy to disregard forty thousand years of culture in the pursuit of cashing in on gullible tourists (2018).
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EXTRA MINUTES: Top End artist, Banduk Marika, explains the tiresome process behind creating an authentic Aboriginal artwork and why Indonesia's fake art trade must be stopped.
To watch 'Fake News' in full, head to: bit.ly/2ytGSFl
For forty years, 60 Minutes have been telling Australians the world’s greatest stories. Tales that changed history, our nation and our lives. Reporters Liz Hayes, Allison Langdon, Tara Brown, Charles Wooley, Liam Bartlett and Tom Steinfort look past the headlines because there is always a bigger picture. Sundays are for 60 Minutes.
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The Men of the Fifth World is a documentary that shows us the history, culture and traditions of the Australian aborigines, primitive tribes who inhabit these lands.
The old Garimala Yakar, tells firsthand how their world is accompanied by the sound of the didgeridoo, the beat of their tradition, which keeps them together and attached to the land:
“My people have always felt the need to express themselves through painting, now and since the beginning of time. Our sacred rocks are covered with these painting which tell of the Dreamtime. There, we can see representations of the creator god Baiame in all his forms, and what the world of our ancestors was like, thousands of years ago. Our art, now called aboriginal art by the white man’s tourist industry,
is born from the dreams of each artist and the intense colours we see in our land.
Through painting, the past and the present come together, and men have contact with the world beyond. Dots, circles, crosses and spirals symbolise places or paths in the dream. They are a kind of religious map.
Almost always, the artist makes reference to especially important moments in our history.
Now, our art is exported all around the world.”
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The Men of the Fifth World is a documentary that shows us the history, culture and traditions of the Australian aborigines, primitive tribes who inhabit these lands.
The old Garimala Yakar, tells firsthand how their world is accompanied by the sound of the didgeridoo, the beat of their tradition, which keeps them together and attached to the land:
“My people have always felt the need to express themselves through painting, now and since the beginning of time. Our sacred rocks are covered with these painting which tell of the Dreamtime. There, we can see representations of the creator god Baiame in all his forms, and what the world of our ancestors was like, thousands of years ago. Our art, now called aboriginal art by the white man’s tourist industry,
is born from the dreams of each artist and the intense colours we see in our land.
Through painting, the past and the present come together, and men have contact with the world beyond. Dots, circles, crosses and spirals symbolise places or paths in the dream. They are a kind of religious map.
Almost always, the artist makes reference to especially important moments in our history.
Now, our art is exported all around the world.”
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For millions of tourists visiting Australia the boomerang and the didgeridoo are iconic - and highly sought after - symbols of our indigenous culture. Which mak...
For millions of tourists visiting Australia the boomerang and the didgeridoo are iconic - and highly sought after - symbols of our indigenous culture. Which makes what 60 MINUTES reveals as embarrassing as it is outrageous. Most didgeridoos and boomerangs are now made in Indonesia, Bali specifically, not here in Australia. And it's not because there's a large expatriate aboriginal community living up there. It's all about money. Indonesian workers can churn out cheap copies of our artefacts by the shipload, and that's very attractive for the businesses involved, which are happy to disregard forty thousand years of culture in the pursuit of cashing in on gullible tourists (2018).
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#60MinutesAustralia
For millions of tourists visiting Australia the boomerang and the didgeridoo are iconic - and highly sought after - symbols of our indigenous culture. Which makes what 60 MINUTES reveals as embarrassing as it is outrageous. Most didgeridoos and boomerangs are now made in Indonesia, Bali specifically, not here in Australia. And it's not because there's a large expatriate aboriginal community living up there. It's all about money. Indonesian workers can churn out cheap copies of our artefacts by the shipload, and that's very attractive for the businesses involved, which are happy to disregard forty thousand years of culture in the pursuit of cashing in on gullible tourists (2018).
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#60MinutesAustralia
EXTRA MINUTES: Top End artist, Banduk Marika, explains the tiresome process behind creating an authentic Aboriginal artwork and why Indonesia's fake art trade must be stopped.
To watch 'Fake News' in full, head to: bit.ly/2ytGSFl
For forty years, 60 Minutes have been telling Australians the world’s greatest stories. Tales that changed history, our nation and our lives. Reporters Liz Hayes, Allison Langdon, Tara Brown, Charles Wooley, Liam Bartlett and Tom Steinfort look past the headlines because there is always a bigger picture. Sundays are for 60 Minutes.
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Documentary "The Men of the Fifth World" | http://bit.ly/PlMen5World
The Men of the Fifth World is a documentary that shows us the history, culture and traditions of the Australian aborigines, primitive tribes who inhabit these lands.
The old Garimala Yakar, tells firsthand how their world is accompanied by the sound of the didgeridoo, the beat of their tradition, which keeps them together and attached to the land:
“My people have always felt the need to express themselves through painting, now and since the beginning of time. Our sacred rocks are covered with these painting which tell of the Dreamtime. There, we can see representations of the creator god Baiame in all his forms, and what the world of our ancestors was like, thousands of years ago. Our art, now called aboriginal art by the white man’s tourist industry,
is born from the dreams of each artist and the intense colours we see in our land.
Through painting, the past and the present come together, and men have contact with the world beyond. Dots, circles, crosses and spirals symbolise places or paths in the dream. They are a kind of religious map.
Almost always, the artist makes reference to especially important moments in our history.
Now, our art is exported all around the world.”
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#60MinutesAustralia
Indigenous Australian art or Australian Aboriginal art is art made by the Indigenous peoples of Australia and in collaborations between Indigenous Australians and others. It includes works in a wide range of media including painting on leaves, wood carving, rock carving, sculpting, ceremonial clothing and sand painting. This article discusses works that pre-date European colonization as well as contemporary Indigenous Australian art by Aboriginal Australians. These have been studied in recent years and have gained much international recognition.
Traditional Indigenous art
There are several types of aboriginal art, and ways of making art, including rock painting, dot painting, rock engravings, bark painting, carvings, sculptures, and weaving and string art.
Rock painting
Australian Indigenous art is the oldest unbroken tradition of art in the world. The oldest firmly dated rock art painting in Australia is a charcoal drawing on a rock fragment found during the excavation of the Narwala Gabarnmang rock shelter in south-western Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. Dated at 28,000 years, it is one of the oldest known pieces of rock art on Earth with a confirmed date. Rock art, including painting and engraving or carving, can be found at sites throughout Australia. Rock paintings appear on caves in the Kimberley region of Western Australia known as Bradshaws. They are named after the European, Joseph Bradshaw, who first reported them in 1891. To Aboriginal people of the region they are known as Gwion Gwion or Giro Giro. Other painted rock art sites include Laura, Queensland,Ubirr, in the Kakadu National Park,Uluru, and Carnarvon Gorge.