#aboriginal art

[cripplerage]

Hey this is really really fucked up. Can we talk about this because holy shit

[nobrashfestivity]

Ada Bird Petyarre, Awelye, from the portfolio Crossroads 1997

[newguineatribalart]

Aboriginal Sculpture of a Ku Dog

[jareckiworld]

Jack Dale Mengenen (1922-2013) — Wandjinas at Iondra  [ochre and pigments on linen, 2008]

[ybon-paramoux]

Man Changing into Thunderbird (sixth panel)

Norval Morrisseau ~ Anishinaabe

1977

[psikonauti]

Jorna Newberry (Aboriginal Australian, b. 1959)

Pukara, 2007

Acrylic on linen

[taylors-a-goblin]

Walawaani! (Welcome!)

Nayaga Budjaan, English Taylor, nayaga Murramarang ngaranggal. (I am Budjaan, English Taylor, I am a Murramarang woman).

It's been so touching to see an outpour of support for Aboriginal art on this platform. I always recommend that anyone seek out local Native artists wherever you live. Whether that be on Aboriginal or Torres Strait Island land, Native American or Canadian Aboriginal land, wherever you find yourself! Find and support local Native communities and creators.

If you feel connected or drawn to my art, I do commission work. Feel free to dm me for information if you want!

Here's an example of a commission I did last year. The marra (fish) in this painting represent each member of the family I did the painting for. Yellow circles around their heads showing that though they swim through a wide ocean of change and life, they are the centre of their world, and forever will be linked together.

Thanks to everyone who has interacted with my previous art post. I hope that I can help spread awareness of the meaning and importance of Native art, and help develop an appreciation for different kinds of art in the world.

Aboriginal people having been living on this land for at least 80 thousand years (for context, that's 16 times older than ancient Egypt!) Our art is ancient, storied, vital, and continues to live today!

Support a Native artist if you can.

Dawandha-ga yindiga Walawaani (I wish you Safe journeys)

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I painted Okoye and Attuma in my Indigenous art style. I have a solo exhibition, Katyiluka, in February and they’re going in it!

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"Tjukula Tjuta” ~ Aboriginal Art by Beryl Jimmy

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[abstrakshun]

Tommy Mitchell (Australian, 1943 - 2013)

Walu Mural - 2008

Giles Weather Station shed doors, Western Australia

Photos: © Pamela Faye McGrath

more here

[nobrashfestivity]

Sarrita King

Water

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Indigenous australian art by Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri

[jareckiworld]

William Sandy — Emu Dreaming  (acrylic on linen, 1992)

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Janet Golder Kngwarreye b.1973 Australian First Nations (Anmatyerre) Artist "Women's Dreaming" Acrylic on canvas 200 x 130 cm

* * * * “An Indigenous person is a member of a community retaining memories of life lived sustainably on a land base, as part of that land base.” 

― Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

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Gloria Petyarre (Aboriginal Australian, b. 1945)

 Medicine Leaves

Acrylic On Linen