Today in my lecture we watched the remainder of the tv program Home and away, hosted by hetti Perkins. Hetti is an art curator and very enthusiastic about indigenous art as she herself is an Aboriginal person. In the film she takes us around Australia showing the many different styles of Aboriginal art, such as that of the Western desert at, the Northern Australian Art and that of Tasmanian Aboriginal Art. I was quite intrigued at the rock paintings in the northern Australia and the ancient stories that they told. To the people there, these stories are just as relevant and important as they were thousands of years ago as they are now.
I also learnt about the Pupunya art. These people were taken from their homes and taken to the Pupunya refugee area in the 1970’s. It was here that these people created drawings and art work reflecting the stories and longing to go back to their country and home.
We were also introduced to Destiny Deacon, a indigenous photographer who creates down to earth photos of black dolls in different situations. This reflects to me of the urban influence on Aboriginal people. This is quite a contrast from the rural work that I commonly associate with Aboriginal Art. However it could be quite hard to appreciate Deacons work if you did not know the context behind the works.
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