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The Ease of God
Posted onFebruary 2, 2014byWill
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Posted onNovember 17, 2013byWill
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Riches of interpretation Canning Stock Route
Posted onJanuary 20, 2013byWill
The entail, the riches, the kind of depiction material closed in Ngurra Kuju Walyja / One Land One People: stories suffer the loss of the Canning Stock Route (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) are specified that I’m almost urge a sacrifice to enter on d
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Vivid Songlines Sydney Opera House 2016
The Songlines project was the first indigenous work commissioned exclusively for the sails of the Sydney Opera House, in the eighth year of the Vivid Festival, Sydney. The key challenge for the 16-minute piece was to re-create compositions for each artist that mapped onto the sails. Supplied with only photographs of the artworks, the brief was to to re-create each piece and recompose it to work on the curved surface of the sails.
Artists in Motion produced the show. We worked with AIM’s artistic directors on the ‘Gulumbu Yunupingu’ section, producing over 2 minutes of motion graphics using the artist’s iconic paintings.
The piece is a celebration of Australian Aboriginal spirituality and culture through the songlines of our land and sky, rejoicing country through a pattern of sharing systems, interconnected history lines and trade routes. Curated by Rhoda Roberts, six indigenous artists of different clans, national estates and territories were selected for an immersive projected artwork that weaves through time and distance. The indigenous artists are Karla Dickens, Djon Mundine, Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi, Reko Rennie, Donny Woolagoodja, and the late Gulumbu Yunupingu.
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In June of 2006 I was lucky to be in Paris for the opening ceremonies of the Musée du quai Branly and the celebrations surrounding the unveiling of the Australian Indigenous Art Commission (AIAC). Designs based on the works of eight Aboriginal artists were incorporated into the architecture of the museum’s administrative buildings, and a host of Australian dignitaries, art centre workers, artists, and admirers had gathered to honor the achievement. Several days of festivities concluded with a reception at the Australian Embassy, when works from the collection of Melbourne gallerist Gabrielle Pizzi were on magnificent display.
It was a week of art openings, dance, song, and most of all, speeches. We heard the majesty of Aboriginal art celebrated in French and English, Pitjantatjara and Kuninjku. They were wonderful, heart-warming, rousing, and celebratory by turns. There was one among the many, though, that stood out. It was delivered by someone whom I’d never heard of before, a Dr Chris Sarra. He was articulate, but above all he was passionate: who is this bloke with a fire in his belly I wondered? Here’s what I wrote about it at the time:
Chris Sarra, Chair of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board of the Australia Council, spoke next and brought down