REVIEW | Designed to Impress: Epic Times
Designed to impress, the number and size of paintings—twenty-nine at nine square metres each and one even bigger—are a spectacle, lifting the exhibition from an overview of recent Anangu art and its recent politics to an epic dimension. In this respect, Ngura Pulka is akin to the The Aboriginal Memorial, 1987–88, installed nearby. Forty-three artists […]
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REVIEW: Yolngu Power, the art of Yirrkala
Presenting an eighty-year art history of sixteen east Arnhem Land Yolngu clans represented by the Yirrkala Art Centre Buku Larrnggay Mulka, it recalls the Art Gallery of New South Wales’s Crossing Country that some twenty years ago traced a nearly 100-year history of west Arnhem Land art. This historical format pushes against the usual focus […]
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