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    Indigenous art has deep connections to the people and lands from which it originates. Traditional indigenous art served important cultural purposes beyond just aesthetics, such as documenting important stories, rituals, and ways of life. Contemporary indigenous art incorporates both traditional and modern elements to explore indigenous identity and cultural practices in new contexts.

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    Indigenous art has deep connections to the people and lands from which it originates. Traditional indigenous art served important cultural purposes beyond just aesthetics, such as documenting important stories, rituals, and ways of life. Contemporary indigenous art incorporates both traditional and modern elements to explore indigenous identity and cultural practices in new contexts.

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    Indigenous art has deep connections to the people and lands from which it originates. Traditional indigenous art served important cultural purposes beyond just aesthetics, such as documenting important stories, rituals, and ways of life. Contemporary indigenous art incorporates both traditional and modern elements to explore indigenous identity and cultural practices in new contexts.

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    Indigenous Art

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    Indigenous art has deep connections to the people and lands from which it originates. Traditional indigenous art served important cultural purposes beyond just aesthetics, such as documenting important stories, rituals, and ways of life. Contemporary indigenous art incorporates both traditional and modern elements to explore indigenous identity and cultural practices in new contexts.

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    Indigenous art was traditionally created for cultural/spiritual purposes rather than just aesthetics. It was used to express ways of life, tell stories, and document activities like hunting.

    Traditional indigenous art was created for a purpose and not just for aesthetics. It was used to express culture/tribes' ways of life and often documented hunting, stories, and was part of cultural practices like dances.

    Indigenous art includes dance, crafts like pottery and shell stringing, language/music/storytelling, lore/knowledge passed through stories, and ceremonies both traditional and for tourists.

    Indigenous/Native Art

    Description: Indigenous art is created by people indigenous to the country and area of its creation. Indigenous art has a connection with the people and land of its origin

    Indigenous/Native Art
    Characteristics: Traditional Indigenous art was created for a purpose. It was not often created for art sake as it is today. Indigenous art was a way of expressing a culture/tribes way of life, often documenting hunting, telling stories (fables, myths, religion and dreamtime), was part of a greater purpose such as a tribal dance or decoration e.g. The paint work on a didgeridoo.

    There is no one word in any Aboriginal language for the term 'art'. Art forms are viewed as an integral part of life and the celebration of life.
    Penny Tripcony, Manager, Oodgeroo Unit, Queensland University of Technology

    What is Aboriginal art?


    When you think of Aboriginal art you think immediately of paintings. But Aboriginal art comprises so many more facets, all of which belong to Aboriginal cultural practice: dance craft, including pottery and shell stringing language, which includes Aboriginal music and storytelling, lore, the 'body of knowledge' passed on through story telling, ceremony, both traditional and more contemporary for tourists

    Traditional shell necklace from Northern Tasmania

    Rock Paintings and Carvings


    Thousands of years ago the Kunwinjku ancestors painted Aboriginal animal art onto the rocks of Western Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. They used paints made from natural ochres, which were made by crushing rocks of different colours into powder. The ochre powders were mixed with water to make a paste of the right consistency. Then the artists would scrape resin from the trunks of trees to mix into their paints as a fixative. Paint brushes were made by paring down grass stems, or sometimes from the artist's own hair.

    This photo shows an ancient artwork located on Injalak hill at Gunbalanya (Oenpelli), in Western Arnhem Land, NT. This turtle was painted thousands of years ago

    Rock Paintings

    Rock art depicting dance, Kakadu National Park Indigenous rock art often depicted stories of dream time as well as documenting rituals, animals that resided in the area and hunting that took place.

    Pukomani poles Aboriginal artists create Pukomani poles from wooden logs. They carve and paint them with red, yellow and white ochre. Traditionally Pukomani poles were created after the death of a person and used for ceremony (dancing, singing and crying). The relatives of the person who died commissioned and paid for them with ornaments and food

    In their traditional surroundings Pukomani poles placed in a gallery, a non-traditional setting, here they have lost their original intentions

    Introducing the style to the world


    Are dot paintings traditional Aboriginal art? It is unknown to many that Aboriginal painters introduced the dot painting technique in the early 1970s, stimulated by a white school teacher.

    Geoffrey Bardon stands in front of the mural on a school wall in Papunya, August 1971.

    Contemporary Indigenous Art


    How the dot painting style emerged Bardon helped the Aboriginal artists transfer depictions of their stories from desert sand to paint on canvas. They soon realised that the sacred-secret objects they painted were being seen not only by European, but could also offend members of the Aboriginal community. The artists decided to eliminate the sacred elements and abstracted the designs into dots to conceal their sacred designs which they used in ceremony. Traditionally; During ceremonies Aboriginal people would clear and smooth over the soil to then apply sacred designs which belonged to that particular ceremony. These designs were outlined with dancing circles and often surrounded with dots .

    Uninitiated people never got to see these sacred designs since the soil would be smoothed over again and painted bodies would be washed. This was not possible with paintings. Aboriginal artists would abstract the sacred designs into dots. Some paintings are layered, and while they probably appear meaningless to non-Aborigines, the dot paintings might reveal much more to an Aboriginal person depending on their level of initiation or relation to the area of its creation. The first paintings to come from the Papunya Tula School of Painters weren't made to be sold. Papunya Tula Artists manager, Paul Sweeney, explains that they "were produced by people who were displaced, and living a long way from their country. The works were visual representations of their own being. They painted sites that they belonged to and the stories that are associated with those sites. Essentially they were painting their identity onto their boards, as a visual assertion of who they were and where they were from."

    Contemporary indigenous art.

    Bangarra
    On stage at the Arts Centre this September, Bangarra Dance Theatre presents Belong, a unique exploration of the lives of urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. This is a new generation of Indigenous storytellers, using a powerful new language that combines the traditional and the contemporary to tell the story of their own cultural identity. Bangarra Dance Theatre is Australias premier Indigenous performing arts company. Since 1989, the Sydney-based company has been presenting invigorating performances that embrace and celebrate Australian Indigenous culture, performing to over 50,000 people around Australia and the world.

    Bangarra
    One of Bangarras lead dancers, Daniel Riley McKinley, says the focus on identity gives dancers and audiences a chance to challenge preconceived ideas about Aboriginality, and to explore different ways of connecting to the past. Every year we do a show that challenges our identity and the issues involved in it, he says. While the dancers are all from Indigenous bloodlines, Bangarra places traditional values and customs in a contemporary context, challenging the ways audiences are used to seeing Aboriginal culture. Theres no straight-out traditional dance, but we get to touch on that energy and show our contemporary version of it, Daniel says. Its about reconnecting with culture and tracing the indigenous bloodline, and exploring what it means to be Aboriginal in a fresh context.

    Traditional Ceremony

    The end of childhood was an important stage, in which the respected adult members of an Aboriginal group played a major role. For boys it was the occasion for ceremonies, instruction and ordeals, forming the period of initiation. In general, traditional Aboriginal society emphasised the importance of males, and boys' initiation was regarded as very significant. Yet, girls too, often had to undergo a similar, though less intense, process. girls' initiation activities began as puberty was reached; these sometimes involved some physical marking, considered a test as well as a sign of more adult status. At the end of her training a girl left her parents' camp and, with little fuss, was married, usually to someone quite a few years older. but her performance of rituals remained important to her women had their own ceremonies and sacred observances in their adult years.

    The Black Drink Ceremony (From a drawing by the French artist Jacque LeMoyne)

    One of the ceremonies that was practiced by several Indian groups throughout Florida, was the Black Drink Ceremony. A highly caffinated tea was made from the roasted leaves of the yaupon holly (ilex vomitoria). This tea was drunk to produce sweating and vomiting for purification before going out on an important hunt or into battle.

    Bangarra Dance Theatre is Australias premier Indigenous performing arts company. Since 1989, the Sydney-based company has been presenting invigorating performances that embrace and celebrate Australian Indigenous culture, performing to over 50,000 people around Australia and the world.

    Indigenous Issues

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