Online gallery of the Yiribana exhibition in the Art Gallery of New South Wales
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As I made my to the gallery by foot it was bright and sunny and I was excited about the assignment as well as what I would find when I reached the gallery
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The building as you can see is beautiful and looks amazing in the sun light, I took a moment to appreciate the setting before heading inside!
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As I descended down the three sets of escalators to reach the gallery, I was thinking about the location of the gallery on the bottom floor and wondered was it intentional to have it places on the bottom as a solid and strong foundation for the rest of the gallery, which I feel reflects back within the Indigenous culture.
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This display was a personal favourite for me and one I spent a lot of time studying during my time in the gallery. It was completed in the 1950′s by a number of various artists working together from the same nation in the Southern Desert region creating a sense of family as they are all part of the same kinship. Canvas mail bags and acrylic paints were used.
The message behind this speaks about possession of land and how it is not being respectful to county in the eyes of the Aboriginal people. The Australian mail bags have been graffitied and the words replaced with “theft and misuse” in the language of these people. It is a clever, striking and very symbolic piece of art and it makes pride of place in the centre of the gallery hanging down from the ceiling on wooden spears.
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As well as paintings the gallery had many other art forms on display.The materials used in these art pieces range from feathers, natural pigments and dyes, bark and human hair. It is one of the ways Indigenous people connect with country by using materials form the land.
The baskets in the top left had corner of these images have no date and the artist is unknown which indicates them being very old. These baskets have many different uses within the community such as skirts for women and as a way of carrying things, the biggest use is for holding babies while they sleep which is a direct connection to family.
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Swimming before school by Ian Abdulla, 1995
“Swimming in the river first thing in the morning before school which was our way of having a bath in the morning while some of us would put a slice of bread on a stick and then hold the bread near the flames so the bread would just be like a piece of toast” Then we would walk ten miles to school and back again”
This was another piece that really stood out for me, the above passage is the text written in the painting at the top. I feel is brings many aspects of Aboriginal culture into one painting as well as capturing family as the language used and images painted are very inclusive and engaging.
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