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The French connection in Indigenous art

 

Judy Napangardi Watson - Mina Mina Dreaming - 91 x 91 cm - 2008
WITH an eye on the National Gallery ofAustralia’s 2nd National Indigenous Art Triennial, “unDisclosed”, the Alliance Française de Canberra and the Embassy of France are planning to celebrate France’s role in the development and recognition of Australia’s Indigenous art with an exhibition curated by International Development for Australian Indigenous Art.

“Gestuelles” comprises works of Aboriginal women painters from desert communities in which the emergence of acrylic painting and the understanding of women’s role have been encouraged by two French anthropologists, Françoise Dussart in Yuendumu and Barbara Glowczeski in Balgo Hills.

The historical links between France and Aboriginal art offer a rich background, whether in the research and writing works of French ethnologists and anthropologists their hand-on work in communities or the development of public Aboriginal art collections in France or the Australian Indigenous Art Commission at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris.

The works on show originate from two Aboriginal art centres, Warlukurlangu Artists in Yuendumu, NT, and Warlayirti Artists in Balgo Hills,WA.

The subject is women’s painting, from younger artists to senior painters like Judy Napangardi Watson.

“Gestuelles”, May 23 to June 15 at Alliance Française de Canberra, 66 McCaughey Street, Turner. Opening Ceremony on Wednesday May 23 at 6:30pm – introduction by French ambassador Stéphane Romatet, floor talk by Solenne Ducos- Lamotte of IDAIA.

Theresa Nowee - Tjurnu - 90 x 60 cm

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