Title

Yirrkala artists: Everywhen. Bark paintings from the State Art Collection.

Venues

Art Gallery of Western Australia. (31 January 2009 – 31 May 2009)

Date

(2009)

Summary

Multi-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (WA). Paintings

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

Presenting selected bark paintings, produced between the late 1950s and the 1980s, this Artist in focus exhibition explores the art of Yolngu people from Yirrkala and surrounding homelands in Northeast Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. These works illustrate a significant period in Yolngu art history at the birth of the struggle for Indigenous land rights. The exhibition includes pieces from the Louis Allen Collection that were bought in 1988 by the Government of Western Australia. [Gallery media, 2009]