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Aboriginal Art in America
by Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection and The Virginia Audio CollectiveEach week we spend a few minutes getting to know a work by an Indigenous Australian artist. We'll talk about medium, style, the evolution of Aboriginal art over its 50,000+ years, and the ways these works and artists transcend and translate the issues of the day from the other side of the world. Aboriginal Art in America is made by The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, the only museum outside of Australia dedicated to the exhibition and study of Indigenous Australian art, and The Virginia Audio Collective.
Copyright: 2021 University of Virginia
Episodes
Awely by Emily Kame Kngwarreye
2m · PublishedIn deep reds, pinks, and yellows, Emily Kame Kngwarreye's "Awely" is an embodiment of her connection with her Country. Kngwarreye began painting late in her life, when she was already an elder in her community, Utopia, in Australia’s Northern Territory. The artwork’s title refers to women’s ceremonial knowledge of song, dance, medicine, and designs painted on the body. As Kngwarreye applied heavy blotches of paint to her canvases, she would sing ceremonial songs, replicating the act of painting on skin. In this way, “Awely” is both a painting of Kngwarreye’s homeplace and a conversation with it.
Emily Kame Kngwarreye Anmatyerr language group, Indigenous Australian, c. 1910-1996 Awely, 1992 Acrylic on canvas Gift of John W. Kluge, 1997 Episode produced by Addie PatrickNotes go here
Unwritten by Vernon Ah Kee
3m · PublishedA solitary figure emerges from an urgent flurry of charcoal lines. Vernon Ah Kee’s “Unwritten” is a potent metaphor for the struggle of indigenous artists to control their identities amid the continuing pressures of racism and colonial oppression. In 2004, Ah Kee began a series of large scale photorealistic charcoal portraits of his family members. These works were based upon ethnographic photos taken by the anthropologist Norman Tyndale on Palm Island during the 1930s. In enlarging these images to an imposing scale, Ah Kee returns power to their gaze, reclaiming the ethnographic photography for those who are once its subjects.
Vernon Ah Kee Indigenous Australian, b. 1967 Unwritten, 2011 Charcoal on paper, 29 15/16 x 22 1/16 in. (76.04 x 56.04 cm) Museum purchase from Milani Gallery, 201
Yellow Rushes Fish Basket by Jenni Kemarre Martiniello
3m · PublishedFreshwater Saltwater Weave is a series of glass works by contemporary urban-based Arrernte artist Jenni Kemarre Martiniello. Her works in hot blown glass, coldworked glass and canes are inspired by the aesthetics of Aboriginal woven forms. The works in this exhibition span the last five years and are inspired by dilly bags, eel traps, fish traps, fish baskets, and bicornual baskets.
Yellow Rushes Fish Basket 2017 Jenni Kemarre Martiniello Hot blown and cold worked glass with canes Purchased with funds provided by Maria T. Kluge, 2019.Notes go here
Jack Kelly's Rockhole by Queenie McKenzie
3m · PublishedJack Kelly's Rockhole 1997 90 x 120 cm Queenie McKenzie, indigenous Australian, b. 1915 Natural pigments on canvas Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia. Gift of Richard Klingler and Jane Slatter, 2019.Notes go here
Ngarralja Tommy May
3m · PublishedNganampa Ngura, Our Country By Tjala Arts
3m · PublishedMilniyawuy - River of Stars by Naminapu Maymuru-White
3m · PublishedBrothers Moving Targets By Tony Albert
2m · PublishedTony Albert’s “Brothers” engages with issues of race, police violence, discrimination and identity. This single installation features twenty-six portraits of young Aboriginal men with targets painted onto their chests, as well as designs and symbols that Albert associates with strength and resistance. Albert was inspired by events that took place in Sydney in 2012, when two teenage Aboriginal joyriders were shot and injured at the hands of police. Following this, a protest was held at Sydney’s Town Hall, and friends of the victims appeared with targets drawn on their chests. For Albert, the target symbolizes the daily experiences of being racially targeted. It also refers to the stereotypes applied to Aboriginal people as a result of government policies, such as the Northern Territory Intervention. Tony Albert is a Girramay artist. His work is held in numerous public and private collections internationally. In 2014 he won both the $100,000 Basil Sellers Art Prize and the prestigious $50,000 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award. He is known internationally and recently unveiled a major commission in Sydney’s Hyde Park, a monument dedicated to Australia’s Indigenous military service men and women. Brothers (Moving Targets) 2015 41 3/8 x 28 1/4 in. (105.09 x 71.76 cm) Tony Albert, Indigenous Australian, b. 1981 Scarred pigment print on paper Gift of the Artist, 2016
Aboriginal Art in America has 28 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 2:01:05. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on July 4th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on March 22nd, 2024 01:21.