Books of Art, Aboriginal Australian

  • Gathered Up: The Robin Gurr Collection
    By Julie James Bailey, Shirley Daborn, Zona Wilkinson

    Gathered Up: The Robin Gurr Collection

  • The River
    By Sally Morgan, Johnny Warrkatja Malibirr

    I love the river near my home. I look with my eyes, I listen with my ears, I learn about the life of the river.

  • Shoosh: The History of the Campfire Group
    By Michael Eather

    It began with an agenda to create black-white dialogue. A key member and the curator of Shoosh!, Michael Eather, explains: 'It is neither a whitefella’s story nor a blackfella’s story alone.

  • The Heart of Everything: The Art and Artists of Mornington & Bentinck Islands
    By Nicholas Evans, Woomera Aboriginal Corporation. Mornington Island Arts & Craft

    Lavishly illustrated throughout the book features a stunning four page fold-out of a large collaborative painting and informative essays by Dr Paul Memmott and Dr Nicholas Evans and art writer Louise Martin-Chew, and with biographies of the ...

  • The Heart of Everything: The Art and Artists of Mornington & Bentinck Islands
    By Paul Memmott, Nicholas Evans, Louise Martin-Chew

    The Art and Artists of Mornington & Bentinck Islands Nicholas Evans, Louise Martin-Chew, Paul Memmott. ABOVE: Dulka Warngiid with Sally Gabori, Dingkarri, 2006 on far wall on exhibition Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, August–September, ...

  • Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia
    By Fred R. Myers, Narayan Khandekar, Henry F. Skerritt

    The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia Henry F. Skerritt, Hetti Perkins, Fred R. Myers, Narayan Khandekar ... In many of his most significant works, Gija artist Paddy Nyunkuny Bedford chronicled how the land was created ...

  • People and Places
    By Debbie Austin

    All babies will love these exciting new books from Indigenous First Discovery Book.

  • Sting in the Tail
    By Kickarts Contemporary Art Staff

    Sting in the Tail

  • “rarrk” John Mawurndjul: Journey Through Time in Northern Australia
    By John Mawurndjul

    "Published on the occasion of the exhibition. Museum Tingely, Basel: 21 September 2005 to 29 January 2006; Sprengel Museum Hannover: 19 February to 5 June 2006" -- p. 238.

  • Ikuntji Tjuta: Touring
    By Marina Strocchi

    Ikuntji Tjuta: Touring

  • Indigenous Australian art
    By National Gallery of Victoria

    Indigenous Australian art

  • New Beginnings: Classic Paintings from the Corrigan Collection of 21st Century Aboriginal Art
    By Emily McCulloch Childs, Ross Gibson, Emily McCulloch

    The sumptuous New Beginnings, with its 95+ dazzling images, also relates the latest art of Aboriginal Australian at once both highly contemporary and equally ancient.

  • Balgo: Creating Country
    By John Carty

    We paint that. Balgo is Country for all of us now. We were all born here, these generations here today. We are Wirrimanu kids. We belong to Balgo. That's what we paint. That's why we paint. This is our story.

  • Spinifex Arts Project
    By Spinifex Arts Project

    Spinifex Arts Project

  • Desert Dreamings
    By Deirdre Stokes

    Art is an essential part of Australian Aboriginal culture. Desert Dreamings shows how desert artists have adapted their work to an ever-changing world, while still maintaining links with ancient traditions. Ages 9+.

  • Defying Empire: 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial
    By National Gallery of Australia

    Bringing together works by 30 contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists from across the country, Defying Empire commemorates the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Referendum that recognized Aboriginal people as Australians for ...

  • Timothy Cook, Dancing with the Moon
    By Seva Frangos

    ... artists come and go throughout the day , dropping by to say hello , or staying on to paint in the sheds . The Centre provides facilities ... first met Timothy Cook in 2005 through Steven. 6 Timothy Cook and Jilamara Arts & Crafts Association.

  • Jack Dale Mengenen
    By Neil McLeod, Jack Dale Mengenen

    Jacks paintings are a history lesson of his experiences, the story of the Kimberley through musch of the twenieth century" -- Book cover.