Aboriginal Art Blog
The Story Behind Aboriginal Body Art
Posted by Mbantua Gallery on 2021 Mar 08th
The Story Behind Aboriginal Body ArtAboriginal body art has long been used by different tribes
around Australia to demonstrate a wide variety of diverse and important
cultural rituals. Traditionally
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The Art of Minnie Pwerle
Posted by Mbantua Gallery on 2021 Jan 04th
The Art of Minnie PwerleMinnie Pwerle was an acclaimed Aboriginal artist born in Atnwengerrp
of the Northern Territory’s Utopia region
at some point in the early 1920s. Minnie had a total of seven s
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Meeting Artists, Rain and an Accident
Posted by Tim Jennings on 2020 Dec 09th
Tim writes about his latest bush trip collecting art, the rain and the slippery roads. Enjoy the read and the photos! On Monday just gone, I left
Alice Springs for a trip to Utopia to visit our
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Enjoy a Bush Trip to Nungi!
Posted by Tim Jennings on 2020 Oct 22nd
Back in late August I did a
trip to Utopia, and among visiting other Outstations, I met up with Barbara
Weir at Atnwengerrp (Nungi for short I am told)!!I usually pull up under a
spindly old tree t
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Art Buying Trip to Utopia
Posted by Tim Jennings on 2020 Jul 22nd
Come with us as to Utopia and meet some of our artists as Tim Jennings collects more aboriginal art. Last Friday (July
17th, 2020) I travelled to Utopia for the first time since February
the 12
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Aboriginal Art Symbols
Posted by Mbantua Gallery on 2020 Jul 01st
Aboriginal Art Symbols - Understanding Aboriginal Art
The use of iconography in Aboriginal art is as much a part of communicating the story today as it was 50,000 years ago. Traditio
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