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Indigenous Australian art

Three earthenware pots by with eagles and owls painted on them.
DIDACTIC

Hermannsburg Potters

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Two works on board by Australian Aboriginal artist Kaapa Mbitjana Tjampitjinpa, installed on a white gallery wall with a label to the left.
LABEL

Tjampitjinpa's Goanna stories

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NAPALTJARRI 2005.256

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A monochrome painting of a bark slab hut, with two colonial-era men standing either side of its doorway, an Aboriginal woman peering out from the dark interior, and an Aboriginal man, possibly a tracker or guide, pointing to a rainbow in the distance
DANIE MELLOR: MARRU | THE UNSEEN VISIBLE

LIST OF WORKS: Danie Mellor: marru | the unseen visible

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ARTIST STATEMENT

Marian Drew: Possum with five birds

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A black-and-white photograph of Australian Indigenous men wearing ceremonial dress for a funeral
A CEREMONIAL FIGURE

Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement

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LABEL: 2004.021 TJAMPITJINPA

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LABEL: 1:1658 PAREROULTJA

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DIDACTIC

Gunybi Ganambarr

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An installation view of works installed on a white wall in a gallery space; there is one very large work at right that depicts a crucified Jesus, with other smaller works at left
ESSAY

Balance 1990: Foreword

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Facing away from us, an artist creates blue silhouettes of a spade handle on a white gallery wall in Reckitt's Blue paint
INTERVIEW

d harding | Artist

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A black-and-white photograph of an Australian Indigenous man wearing a boomerang-shaped 'king plate' around his neck, along with a t-shirt and vest
A CEREMONIAL FIGURE

Fred Embrey: Songman, sculptor, leader

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LABEL

MOFFATT 2023.049

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MOFFATT 2023.011a-f

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GANAMBARR 2015.158

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NAPANANGKA 2008.001

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A horizontal crop of a sepia-toned painting showing the trunks of tall trees in the foreground, through which a giant skull can be seen, appearing as though it were a rocky cliff in the background.
DANIE MELLOR: MARRU | THE UNSEEN VISIBLE

In the forest of the living: Country, memory and the unseen in the art of Danie Mellor

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Works installed for ‘Balance 1990’, QAG, 1990 (scan from colour side, QAGOMA Library) / Photograph: Ray Fulton, QAGOMA
ESSAY

Balance 1990: Views, visions, influences

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2021.546 MARTINIELLO

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ESSAY

Two men dreaming: A Pintupi masterpiece

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New works for 'North by North-West'

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Tracey Moffatt: Vigil

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Tracey Moffatt: The white ghosts sailed in

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LABEL

PLATT 2008.226

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A cropped version of the infrared artwork 'The far Country' 2022, depicting Barron Falls from an aerial perspective.
DANIE MELLOR: MARRU | THE UNSEEN VISIBLE

Themes in the exhibition

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A detail view of a collaged photograph of a suburban street in Cherbourg, with the photo appearing to be cracked like a window or mirror
SUBURBAN SUBLIME

Images from everyday life

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LABEL

COOLWELL 1990.388 1990.388.007 1990.388.009 ‘Painted Bottles’ series

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Three painted car bonnets are displayed on a white gallery wall, with visitors looking on
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Kayili car bonnets

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© Warraba Weatherall
ESSAY

Warraba Weatherall: To know and possess

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LABEL: 1:1676 PAREROULTJA

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