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Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists

Arts | Vivien Johnson

Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists chronicles the beginnings of the Western Desert art movement and the phenomenal development of its founding art company over four decades.Through comprehensive and widely research biographies of more than 200 men…

Outback United

(2012)

Documentary | Various directors

In 2009, 180 Indigenous children descended on Townsville for the inaugural Indigenous Football Festival. An initiative born out of Football Federation Australia’s Indigenous Football Development Program, the festival aims to increase Aboriginal…

Bunna Lawrie

Musicians | 2 albums

Bunna Lawrie is a Mirning Elder, whale songman and was a pioneering Aboriginal rocker with his band Coloured Stone.

Lee Morgan

Musicians | Article

Fake or real? Aboriginal art authenticity

Arts | Article

If you buy a piece of First Nations art from the shops there's a high chance it's fake. What can you do?

Aboriginal rock art

Arts | Article

Australia has some of the oldest rock art sites in the world. They offer a glimpse into extinct species, spirituality and relationships.

Aboriginal art: Rich profits, poor artists?

Arts | Article

You will be surprised how little Aboriginal artists are paid in many cases, while their paintings fetch prices in the millions.

What are Wandjinas?

Arts | Article

Discover the sacred Wandjinas and that it is not good to paint them without permission.

Aboriginal cultural festivals

Arts | Article

Find out the plethora of Aboriginal festivals in Australia celebrating culture and art.

Are dot paintings traditional Aboriginal art?

Arts | Article

Did you know that Aboriginal painters started dot painting in the early 1970s, inspired by a white school teacher? Dot paintings from Papunya have now become one of the most important phenomena in Australian art.

Aboriginal poems

Arts | Article

Browse contemporary Aboriginal poems, an art not often found in mainstream media.

Aboriginal art in unusual places

Arts | Article

Planes, trucks, cars and buses—Aboriginal art made it on each of those.

Aboriginal musicians doing it tough

Arts | Article

Aboriginal musicians had a tough start: with 98% of their music traditions lost, they struggled to get airtime. Can this improve?

Aboriginal art: More than dot paintings

Arts | Article

If you associate Aboriginal art with dot paintings you limit yourself. Beyond the dots is a universe of art as diverse as its artists.

Zorba the Greek Aboriginal style: A dance sensation

Arts | Article

When the Chooky Dancers from remote Elcho Island showed their Yolngu version of Zorba The Greek the world went nuts. Now the group, renamed to Djuki Mala, tours internationally.

Blackface & minstrel shows

Arts | Article

White actors mimed Aboriginal characters by wearing blackface, a practice considered normal up until the 1970s. While more and more Aboriginal people play black characters, blackface is still used occasionally, sparking debates about whether it is…

Aboriginal art in contemporary architecture

Arts | Article

Architecture in Australia is starting to incorporate Aboriginal art on a larger scale than anytime before. A sign of Australians reconciling with their past?

Bangarra Dance Theatre

Arts | Article

Bangarra Dance Theatre is a successful Aboriginal performing arts company fusing Aboriginal culture with contemporary dance.Their performances have excited audiences worldwide.

Australian Aboriginal artists

Arts | Article

Browse a concise list of Aboriginal artists—painters, photographers and writers.

Cleared Out: First Contact in the Western Desert

History | Sue Davenport, Peter Johnson, Yuwali

In 1964, a group of 20 Aboriginal women and children in the Western Desert made their first contact with European Australians—patrol officers from the Woomera Rocket Range, clearing an area into which rockets were to be fired. They had been pursued…