Yäma Munuŋgirritj, ca. 1920–1987. Yarrwiḏi-Gumatj clan. Gurruŋawuy, 1961. Natural pigments on bark. H. 28 x W. 15 in. (71.1 x 38.1 cm). Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of ...

‘MADAYIN: EIGHT DECADES of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting From Yirrkala” presents artworks that are largely unknown in the U.S. While recent decades have cast light on the “dot paintings” made by ...

From stories about Pompeii last week to a piece about Australia today. I did indeed spend a day in Pompeii but not in Yirrkala, a knob on the north coast of Australia where bark -- the flattened bark ...

Aboriginal artist Tom Day has an immense task ahead of him — in the middle of a pandemic, he is trying to create an artwork that reconciles 200 years of colonial history and the 60,000-plus years of ...

A search is on for a 100-year-old long-lost painting of an Aboriginal prisoner of war. The mystery soldier with sad eyes and hollow cheeks was painted by German artist Thomas Baumgartner in 1917 at a ...

Indigenous artist Vincent Namatjira won Australia's most prestigious art prize on Friday, the first time an Aboriginal painter won the portraiture competition since its inception 99 years ago.