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Western Australian Women Indigenous artists - Australia's Culture Portal

Image courtesy of Mangkaja Arts. Women have different Dreaming stories and law to men, and many of the women artists experienced pre-contact traditional life. The first wave of Aboriginal women artists in Western Australia includes Queenie McKenzie, Madi...

Contemporary Australian Art - Australia's Culture Portal

Contemporary art is defined as art that is current, offering a fresh perspective and point of view, and often employing new techniques and new media. Image courtesy of the artist, Boutwell Draper Gallery and the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Ken Unswor...

Contemporary Australian artists - Australia's Culture Portal

Ah Xian, winner of 2009 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award Triennial. Image courtesy of the artist and National Gallery of Victoria. The practice of current contemporary artists is supported by a solid foundation of established artist-run contemporary art ...

Art of the land in Western Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

Works by many contemporary visual artists in Western Australia demonstrate a vital consciousness of the land. Western Australian art traces a presence on the land, a cultural loss and, ultimately, a belief in the future. Contemporary artists such as pai...

The Canning Stock Route - Australia's Culture Portal

Creating the Canning Stock Route was the answer to a host of challenges presented by the Australian outback. Surveyed and created in the early 1900s, the scale of the Canning Stock Route is epic. John Carty, oral historian and anthropologist from the Au...

Grace Cossington Smith - Australia's Culture Portal

Grace Cossington Smith (1892-1984) was a leading Sydney painter in the Australian modernist movement, and her painting The Sock Knitter (1915) is generally regarded as Australia's first modernist work. Grace Cossington Smith, The Bridge in-Curve, c.1930, ...

The state of craft in Western Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

Craft practice shows us clear tangible evidence of cultural traditions as part of both the craft practice and also its context within Australian culture and design. Bevan Thompson, Norseman Salt Lakes, 2007, Stoneware, coil and throw method, Collection A...

Australian Indigenous art - Australia's Culture Portal

Bark Painting, Evans Collection, Northern Territory Library. Image courtesy of the Northern Territory Library and the National Library of Australia. Australian Indigenous art is the oldest ongoing tradition of art in the world. ...

Papunya Tula art movement of the Western Desert - Australia's Culture Portal

The emergence of 'dot' paintings by Indigenous men from the western deserts of Central Australia in the early 1970s has been called the greatest art movement of the twentieth century. Papunya was described as a 'centralised government settlement establis...

Margaret Olley - Australia's Culture Portal

The art of Margaret Olley is the art of deliberate choices. Olley's art teacher at Somerville House persuaded Olley's parents to send Margaret to art school. Margaret Olley is represented at the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of NSW, the...

Margaret Preston - Australia's Culture Portal

Margaret Preston was an Australian painter and printmaker who was a leading example of early Australian modernism. Her essays and articles were published in Australian journals including Art in Australia , Undergrowth, Jindyworobak Review and Australia N...

The Portia Geach Memorial Award - Australia's Culture Portal

Winner of the 2007 Portia Geach Award. The Portia Geach Memorial Award is recognised as one of the most important celebrations of the talents and creativity of Australian female portrait painters. Winner of the 1992 Portia Geach Award. ...

Women in wartime - Australia's Culture Portal

Image courtesy of the Australian War Memorial. The involvement of Australian women in each war is closely connected to their role in society at different times, and the nature of each war. Australia has been involved in a number of wars including The Boer...

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Beyond the Picket Fence: Australian Women's Art in the National Library's Collections   (more info)

The works in this online exhibition show that women artists went beyond the immediate boundaries of their lives - beyond their picket fence to record a vast range of interests with a vitality and enthusiasm which enables these works individually and as a

Julalikari Council Women's Arts and Crafts Centre   (more info)

The Julalikari Council Women's Arts and Crafts Centre represents women artists from an enormous range of traditional country in the Barkly Region and beyond, both in artwork and language groups. An online gallery is provided.

Vitalstatistix National Women's Theatre   (more info)

Vitalstatistix fosters, produces and promotes new, live performance that is driven by Australian women artists seeking to engage and expand their audiences, and contribute to the development of an Australian culture. Website gives information on seasons,

Australian Women's Art Register   (more info)

The register is an archive and repository of slides, published material and other written sources, both old and new, documenting Australian women artists, their art practice, their images and their writings. On the website you also find information on wha

Tjanpi Aboriginal Women's Baskets and Crafts   (more info)

Tjanpi (pronounced 'J-um-Py') is the Aboriginal women's basket weaving project and enterprise which started in the Central Western Desert region of Australia. Tjanpi is now a small enterprise which produces baskets, beads, bush medicine and bushtucker at

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Balgo Women Artists - "Tali, Tjurrnu, Waniri": Article by Samantha Togni - Aboriginal Art Online   (website Aboriginal Art Online )

The following essay was written by Samantha Togni, Director Warlayirti Artists on the occasion of our first online exhibition entitled "Tali, tjurrnu and waniri" (sandhill, soakwater and rockhole). The show presented work painted in 2002 by three senior ...

Western Australian Women Indigenous artists - Australia's Culture Portal   (website Culture Portal )

The first wave of Aboriginal women artists in Western Australia includes Queenie McKenzie, Madigan Thomas, Nyuju Stumpy Brown, Eubena Nampitjin and Peggy Griffiths whose early lives revolved around cattle stations. Image courtesy of the artist, Seva Fran...