The 65,000-year story of Aboriginal art in Australia: rock art origins, bark painting, Papunya, the 1970s revolution, urban art, and the key movements that shaped contemporary Indigenous art.
Ten Aboriginal art communities every collector should know, from Papunya and Utopia to Maningrida, the Tiwi Islands, Warmun, and the APY Lands. Where they sit and what they paint.
How city-based Aboriginal artists, Tracey Moffatt, Gordon Bennett, Richard Bell and proppaNOW, fought their way from the margins to the centre of Australian contemporary art.
Papunya, land rights and a slow climb from school wall to gallery wall: how the 1970s turned ancient Aboriginal designs into a contemporary art movement.
Aboriginal art moved from rock walls to acrylic canvas through bark, mission watercolours and the 1971 Papunya school mural. Here is how the medium changed without losing the story.
The Papunya Tula art movement started in 1971 at a remote NT settlement. Geoffrey Bardon, senior desert men, dot painting, and an artist-owned company that still runs the cooperative today.
How old is Aboriginal art? Reliable dates run to 28,000 years, the Kimberley kangaroo dates to 17,300 years, and pigment tools push close to 50,000. Here is what science actually knows.
Australia holds over 100,000 rock art sites and the world's oldest continuous artistic culture. From Madjedbebe at 65,000 years to the 17,300-year Kimberley kangaroo, here are seven of the oldest.
Aboriginal art is the oldest continuous tradition on Earth. From 65,000-year-old ochre at Madjedbebe through Papunya 1971 to today's million-dollar auctions, here is the full timeline.