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Australian art is a broad spectrum of art created in or about Australia, or by Australians overseas, spanning from prehistoric times to the present day. The art forms include, but are not limited to, Aboriginal , Colonial, Landscape , Atelier , and Contemporary art .
Gwion Gwion (Tassel) figures wearing ornate costumes. The Gwion Gwion rock paintings, Gwion figures, Kiro Kiro or Kujon (also known as the Bradshaw rock paintings, Bradshaw rock art, Bradshaw figures and the Bradshaws) are one of the two major regional traditions of rock art found in the north-west Kimberley region of Western Australia.
Indigenous Australian art, music and story telling attaches to a 40–60,000-year heritage and continues to affect the broader arts and culture of Australia. During its early western history, Australia was a collection of British colonies, therefore, its literary , visual and theatrical traditions began with strong links to the broader ...
Sera Waters (born 1979), textile artist, arts writer, arts educator; Jenny Watson (born 1951), painter; Judy Watson (born 1959), multimedia artist; Lilla Watson (born 1940), mixed media artist; Betty Temple Watts (1901–1992), scientific illustrator; Louise Weaver (born 1966), mixed media artist; Johanna Weigel (1847–1940), fashion designer
The collection includes artworks by Australian women artists from the 1890s to the present day, with Australian modernism, feminist and contemporary art being represented. There is a focus on "the artist and her work", where a portrait or self-portrait of an artist is supported by a non-portrait example of their work.
Dowling was a finalist for the Archibald Prize in 2001, 2002, and 2013, along with the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize in 2000 and 2013. [6] [13] She won the 2000 Mandorla Art Award and the painting division of the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award in that year, and in 2002, she was recognised as Australia's Most Collectible Artist by the magazine Australian Art Collector.
At the time, this was the world record price for Aboriginal art and for a work by a female Australian artist. [ 5 ] On the request of the National Museum of Australia , Earth's Creation was loaned immediately on purchase to tour in Tokyo and Osaka in Japan in 2007, [ 8 ] [ 9 ] and to be exhibited at the National Museum in Canberra in 2008.
A Luritja man demonstrating method of attack with boomerang under cover of shield (1920). The oldest surviving cultural traditions of Australia—and some of the oldest surviving cultural traditions on earth—are those of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, collectively referred to as Indigenous Australians.