Ngurrara, The Great Sandy Desert Canvas

Ngurrara, The Great Sandy Desert Canvas

Ngurrara, The Great Sandy Desert Canvas

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 05.03.08

Gallery: South Australian Museum
Dates: 11.02.08 : 16.03.08

This exhibition centres on the great Ngurrara canvas, painted by Great Sandy Desert traditional owners during National Native Title tribunal hearings in 1997.

In counterpoint to the installation of Michael Riley’s cloud, this imposing painting will be exhibited with paintings and films made during recent site visits, juxtaposed with artefacts, crayon drawings and regional maps gathered during a 1952 anthropological expedition.

The exhibition runs a thread through this material, revealing enduring links to land and the overlapping roles of Aboriginal elders and anthropologists in enabling cultural transmission.

Artists
Ngurrara Artists

Curators
Karen Dayman, Daniel Vachon, Philip Jones, David Kerr
Supported by Visions Australia.

Image: detail of Ngurrara Canvas, Ngurrara Artists, 1996.

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Contact Details

Gallery: South Australian Museum
Contact: Information Officer, Indigenous Information Centre
Email: sam.iic@saugov.sa.gov.au
Telephone: +61 8 8207 7410
Address: North Terrace Adelaide Adelaide 5000 SA

 

Ngurrara, The Great Sandy Desert Canvas

Ngurrara, The Great Sandy Desert Canvas

 

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