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Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative (1987–), founded by ten Aboriginal artists, six of whom are women; Susie Bootja Bootja Napaltjarri (c. 1935–2003), painter; Marion Borgelt (born 1954), painter, installation artist, mixed media artist; Polly Borland (born 1959), photographer; Nancy Borlase (1914–2006), painter, art critic
Contemporary Indigenous Australian art is a national movement of international significance with work by Indigenous artists, including paintings by those from the Western Desert, achieving widespread critical acclaim. Because naming conventions for Indigenous Australians vary widely, this list is ordered by first name rather than surname.
Josepha Petrick Kemarre (born ca. 1945 or ca. 1953, date uncertain) is an Anmatyerre-speaking Indigenous Australian artist from Central Australia.Since first taking up painting around 1990, her works of contemporary Indigenous Australian art have been acquired by several major collections including Artbank and the National Gallery of Victoria.
Contemporary Indigenous Australian art is the modern art work produced by Indigenous Australians, that is, Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander people. It is generally regarded as beginning in 1971 with a painting movement that started at Papunya, northwest of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, involving Aboriginal artists such as Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri and Kaapa ...
The women sat in circles and socialized as they painted, learning from one another and the men. [7] They shared ancestral stories while painting on canvas. For the first time, the women had independence to reshape the Western Desert art and expand on the Tjukurrpa knowledge, which became their creative inspirations.
Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi is the eldest daughter of Indigenous Australian artist Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri.Born in 1967 in Papunya, around 2.4 km northwest of Alice Springs in the community formed in the 1930s when Pintupi and Luritja people were forced off their traditional land and moved into Hermannsburg and Haasts Bluff.
Les Murdoch (born 1957), pioneer of Aboriginal Op art Surrealism [4] Wendy Murray (artist) (born 1974): printmaker, painter, arts educator; Vali Myers (1930–2003): artist who specialized in fine pen and ink drawings; Patricia Moran (1944–2017): painter; Bruce Munro (born 1959): dual nationality (Australian/Great Britain), primary medium light
A Qantas aircraft, Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner VH-ZND, is named Emily Kame Kngwarreye and painted in a special livery based on her work Yam Dreaming. Emily Kame Kngwarreye, also spelt Emily Kam Kngwarray, [1] was born c.1910 in Alhalkere in the Utopia Homelands, an Aboriginal community located approximately 250 kilometres north-east of Alice Springs (Mparntwe).