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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 ...
Elizabeth Cameron Dalman OAM is known as the founder of modern Australian dance. Elizabeth Cameron Dalman's foundation of the Australian Dance Theatre led to a flourishing of public programs and workshops in modern dance techniques and improvisation. The...
Ernest Revell, Three Sisters, Blue Mountains, New South Wales, c. In March 1812, the Colonial Surveyor George William Evans was sent to explore Jervis Bay, to determine a possible inland route back to Port Jackson. Other explorers, such as Hume and Hove...
Traditional Indigenous architecture was domestic - across a range of well crafted and technologically designed shelters and residential camps. Courtesy of Queensland Museum and Aboriginal Environments Research Centre. Annual base camp structures, whether...
For example, for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders these ceremonies bring together all aspects of their culture - song, dance, body decoration, sculpture and painting. Anny Nungarrayi (centre) with other Warlpiri women perform a traditional dance dur...
Aboriginal dancers telling Dreamtime stories at the Sydney Olympics opening ceremony. The Dreaming for Australian Indigenous people (sometimes referred to as the Dreamtime or Dreamtimes) is when the Ancestral Beings moved across the land and created life...
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...
While tools varied by group and location, Aboriginal people all had implements such as knives, scrapers, axe-heads, spears, various vessels for eating and drinking, and digging sticks. Aboriginal people achieved two world firsts with stone technology. T...
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...
It also contains links to sites that may use images of Aboriginal and Islander people now deceased. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures are complex and diverse. In Australia, Indigenous communities keep their cultural heritage alive by passin...
Modern Australian poetry seeks to tell Australian stories and truths with a poetic significance so that 'they sear into the soul and can never be untold' (Dorothy Porter). The Jindyworobaks encouraged Australian writers to express themselves in language ...
However, the first zoo in Australia, Melbourne Zoo, wasn't established until 1862. Taronga Zoo and Western Plains Zoo are jointly administered New South Wales public zoos. The zoo features both Australian native species and exotic species of mammals, bi...
Australian folklore, its traditions, customs and beliefs are based on both Indigenous and also non-Indigenous people's knowledge and experience of history in Australia. Some of Australia's folklore remembers the relationship between Europeans and Aborigi...
Adjahdura Land, provides insight into the traditional owners of this country, of their rich cultural heritage, Dreaming stories and traditions - and the issues they are facing today. Information available about Aboriginal cultural tours.
Warmun Art Centre - Contemporary Aboriginal Art (more info)
The Warmun Art Centre, at Turkey Creek, via Kununurra in Western Australia, provides artists of the Warmun community with economic independence and the opportunity to share their Gija culture and country with visitors. The Centre operates as a studio and
Shakespeare Under The Stars returns to the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne with Glenn Elston's production of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Egeus wants his daughter Hermia to marry Demetrius, but she wants to marry Lysander. ,Äù The Bul...
Jessie's dream, a story of the 'Relief of Lucknow'. [music] / written by Grace Campbell ; composed by John Blockley. Lucknow (India) -- History -- Siege, 1857 -- Songs and music. ...
Sutradara film Indonesia ternama yang juga lulusan Australia Mira Lesmana dan Kuasa Usaha Kedutaan Besar Australia Louise Hand membuka Dreaming Stories, the Australian Indigenous Cultural Festival di Jakarta hari ini. Diselenggarakan di Blitzmegaplex, Gra...
Celebrated Indonesian film-maker and Australian alumni Mira Lesmana and Australian Embassy Charge d Affaires Louise Hand launched Dreaming Stories, theAustralian Indigenous Cultural Festival in Jakarta today. Held at Blitzmegaplex, Grand Indonesia from 22...
Jessie's dream, a story of the 'Relief of Lucknow'. [music] / written by Grace Campbell ; composed by John Blockley. Lucknow (India) -- History -- Siege, 1857 -- Songs and music. ...
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