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Contemporary Indigenous Australian art (also known as contemporary Aboriginal Australian art) is the modern art work produced by

Indigenous art centres
have fostered the emergence of the contemporary art movement, and as of 2010 were estimated to represent over 5000 artists, mostly in Australia's north and west.

Contemporary Indigenous artists have won many of Australia's most prominent art prizes. The

Blake Prize for Religious Art was in 2007 won by Shirley Purdie with Linda Syddick Napaltjarri a finalist on three separate occasions, while the Clemenger Contemporary Art Award was won by John Mawurndjul in 2003 and Judy Watson in 2006. There is a national art prize for Indigenous artists, the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, which in 2013 was won by Jenni Kemarre Martiniello
from Canberra.

Indigenous artists, including

Musée du quai Branly. Works by contemporary Indigenous artists are held by all of Australia's major public galleries, including the National Gallery of Australia
, which in 2010 opened a new wing dedicated to its Indigenous collection.

The figurative "dot painting" produced by Western Desert artists is among the most well-known styles of contemporary Aboriginal art.

Origins and evolution

rock carving, body painting, bark painting and weaving. Many of these continue to be used both for traditional purposes and in the creation of art works for exhibition and sale. Some other techniques have declined or disappeared since European settlement, including body decoration by scarring and the making of possum-skin cloaks. However, Indigenous Australians also adopted and expanded the use of new techniques including painting on paper and canvas.[2] Early examples include the late nineteenth century drawings by William Barak.[3]

Early initiatives

Albert Namatjira, right, with portraitist William Dargie

In the 1930s, artists Rex Battarbee and John Gardner introduced watercolour painting to Albert Namatjira, an Indigenous man at Hermannsberg Mission, south-west of Alice Springs. His landscape paintings, first created in 1936[4] and exhibited in Australian cities in 1938, were immediately successful,[5] and he became the first Indigenous Australian watercolourist as well as the first to successfully exhibit and sell his works to the non-Indigenous community.[6] Namatjira's style of work was adopted by other Indigenous artists in the region beginning with his close male relatives, and they became known as the Hermannsburg School[7] or as the Arrernte Watercolourists.[8]

Namatjira died in 1959, and by then a second initiative had also begun. At Ernabella, now Pukatja, South Australia, the use of bright acrylic paints to produce designs for posters and postcards was introduced. This led later to fabric design and batik work, which is still produced at Australia's oldest Indigenous art centre.[5][9]

Origin

While the initiatives at Hermannsburg and Ernabella were important antecedents, most sources trace the origins of contemporary Indigenous art, particularly acrylic painting, to Papunya, Northern Territory, in 1971.[10][11][12] An Australian school teacher, Geoffrey Bardon arrived at Papunya and started an art program with children at the school and then with the men of the community. The men began with painting a mural on the school walls, and moved on to painting on boards and canvas. At the same time, Kaapa Tjampitjinpa, a member of the community who worked with Bardon, won a regional art award at Alice Springs with his painting Gulgardi. Soon over 20 men at Papunya were painting, and they established their own company, Papunya Tula Artists Limited, to support the creation and marketing of works.[10] Although painting took hold quickly at Papunya, it remained a "small-scale regional phenomenon" throughout the 1970s,[13] and for a decade none of the state galleries or the national gallery collected the works,[14] with the notable exception of the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, that acquired 220 of the early Papunya boards.[citation needed]

Evolution

Further information: List of Indigenous Australian art movements and cooperatives

After being largely confined to Papunya in the 1970s, the painting movement developed rapidly in the 1980s,

Outstation movement, such as Kintore, Northern Territory and Kiwirrkurra Community, Western Australia.[16] As the movement evolved, not all artists were satisfied with its trajectory. What began as a contemporary expression of ritual knowledge and identity was increasingly becoming commodified, as the economic success of painting created its own pressures within communities. Some artists were critical of the art centre workers, and moved away from painting, returning their attention to ritual. Other artists were producing works less connected to social networks that had been traditionally responsible for designs.[17] While the movement was evolving, however, its growth did not slow: at least another 10 painting communities developed in central Australia between the late 1990s and 2006.[18]

Indigenous art cooperatives have been central to the emergence of contemporary Indigenous art. Whereas many western artists pursue formal training and work as individuals, most contemporary Indigenous art is created in community groups and art centres.[19] The number of people involved, and the small sizes of the places in which they work, mean that sometimes a quarter to a half of community members are artists, with critic Sasha Grishin concluding in 2007 that the communities include "the highest per capita concentrations of artists anywhere in the world".[20]

In 2010, the peak body representing

Mparntwe (Alice Springs) each year.[24]

The Association of Northern, Kimberley and Arnhem Aboriginal Artists (ANKAAA; now

Arnhem, Northern and Kimberley Artists, or ANKA[25]), the peak body for northern Australian communities, had 43 member centres in 2010.[26] The centres represent large numbers of artists – ANKAAA estimated that in 2010 its member organisations included up to 5000.[26]

The

Aboriginal Art Association of Australia (AAAA), incorporated in January 1999, advocates for all industry participants, including artists, galleries, and dealers. It lobbies and informs governments on behalf of its members on a range of matters.[27]

Styles and themes

Aboriginal Memorial by Ramingining artists from Arnhem Land

Indigenous art frequently reflects the spiritual traditions, cultural practices and socio-political circumstances of Indigenous people,[28] and these have varied across the country. The works of art accordingly differ greatly from place to place. Major reference works on Australian Indigenous art often discuss works by geographical region.[29] The usual groupings are of art from the Central Australian desert; the Kimberley in Western Australia; the northern regions of the Northern Territory, particularly Arnhem Land, often referred to as the Top End; and northern Queensland, including the Torres Strait Islands. Urban art is also generally treated as a distinct style of Indigenous art, though it is not clearly geographically defined.

Desert art

Indigenous artists from remote central Australia, particularly the

Emily Kngwarreye. The patterns portrayed by central Australian artists, such as those from Papunya, originated as translations of traditional motifs marked out in sand, boards or incised into rock.[31] The symbols used in designs may represent place, movement, or people and animals, while dot fields may indicate a range of phenomena such as sparks, clouds or rain.[32]

There are some figurative approaches in the art of those of central Australia, such as among some of the painters from Balgo, Western Australia.[citation needed] Some central Australian artists whose people were displaced from their lands in the mid-twentieth century by nuclear weapon tests have painted works that use traditional painting techniques but also portray the effects of the blasts on their country.[citation needed]

APY lands

Further information:
Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara § Art

John Fries Award, and others. Nici Cumpston, artistic director of Tarnanthi Festival at Art Gallery of South Australia, regularly visits the APY art centres.[34]

The APY Art Centre Collective is as of 2020[update] a group of ten Indigenous-owned and -governed enterprises which supports artists from across the Lands and helps to market their work.

Mimili Maku Arts and Tjungu Palya (Nyapari). As well as the APY centres, Maruku Arts from Uluru, Tjanpi Desert Weavers based in Alice Springs, and Ara Iritja Aboriginal Corporation bring the number up to ten.[35]

The Collective has galleries in

Wauwi) in Adelaide.[36][33]

The Top End

In Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, men have painted their traditional clan designs.[37] The iconography however is quite separate and distinct from that of central Australia.[38] In north Queensland and the Torres Strait many communities continue to practice cultural artistic traditions along with voicing strong political and social messages in their work.

Urban art

In Indigenous communities across northern Australia most artists have no formal training, their work being based instead on traditional knowledge and skills. In southeast Australia other Indigenous artists, often living in the cities, have trained in art schools and universities.

Victoria's Barmah forest.[43] Some, like Onus, were self-taught while others, such as artist Danie Mellor or artist and curator Brenda Croft, completed university studies in fine arts.[44][45]

Media

Bronwyn Bancroft, Sydney-based artist who has worked in a wide range of media including textiles, painting and sculpture

Anthropologist Nicholas Thomas observed that contemporary Indigenous art practice was perhaps unique in how "wholly new media were adapted so rapidly to produce work of such palpable strength".

pokerwork carving is significant.[47] Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander printmaking was in 2011 described by the National Gallery's senior curator of prints and drawings as "the most significant development in recent printmaking history".[48]

Textile production including batik has been important in the northwestern desert regions of

Emily Kngwarreye was creating batik designs that revealed her "prodigious original talent" and the modernity of her artistic vision.[49] A wide range of textile art techniques, including dyeing and weaving, is particularly associated with Pukatja, South Australia (formerly known as Ernabella), but in the mid-2000s the community also developed a reputation for fine sgraffito ceramics.[50][51] Hermannsburg, originally home to Albert Namatjira and the Arrente Watercolourists, is now renowned for its pottery.[52][53][54]

Amongst urban Indigenous artists, more diverse techniques are in use such as silkscreen printing, poster making, photography, television and film.[37] One of the most important contemporary Indigenous artists of his generation, Michael Riley worked in film, video, still photography and digital media.[55] Likewise, Bronwyn Bancroft has worked in fabric, textiles, "jewellery design, painting, collage, illustration, sculpture and interior decoration".[56] Nevertheless, painting remains a medium used by many 'urban' artists, such as Gordon Bennett, Fiona Foley, Trevor Nickolls, Lin Onus, Judy Watson, and Harry Wedge.[57]

Exhibitions

National Gallery of Australia's extension, completed in 2010, which houses a representative collection of Indigenous art, including the Aboriginal Memorial (above)

The public recognition and exhibition of contemporary Indigenous art was initially very limited: for example, it was only a minor part of the collection of the

Sydney Biennales of 1979 and 1982, while a large-scale sand painting was a feature of the 1981 Sydney Festival. Early private gallery showings of contemporary Indigenous art included a solo exhibition of bark paintings by Johnny Bulunbulun at Hogarth Gallery in Sydney in 1981, and an exhibition of western desert artists at Gallery A in Sydney, which formed part of the 1982 Sydney Festival.[58]

There are a number of regular exhibitions devoted to contemporary Indigenous art. Since 1984, the

National Indigenous Art Triennial (NIAT), which included works by thirty contemporary Indigenous artists such as Richard Bell, Danie Mellor, Doreen Reid Nakamarra and Shane Pickett.[60] Despite its name, the second triennial was not held until 2012, and was titled unDisclosed.[61] The third Triennial, Defying Empire, was held in 2017, with the title referencing the 50th anniversary of the 1967 referendum.[62]

The

Araluen Centre for Arts and Entertainment, a public art gallery in Alice Springs, hosts the annual Desert Mob exhibition, representing current painting activities across Australia's Aboriginal art centres.[63]

Several individual artists have been the subject of

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney in 2006–07.[66]

Internationally, Indigenous artists have represented Australia in the

Musée du quai Branly's four buildings completed in 2006.[69]

In 2005, the Australian Research Council and Land & Water Australia supported an artistic and archaeological collaboration through the project Strata: Deserts Past, Present and Future, which involved Indigenous artists Daisy Jugadai Napaltjarri and Molly Jugadai Napaltjarri.[70]

In London, Tate Modern's exhibition, A Year in Art: Australia 1992,[71] which opened in June 2021,[72] was extended until September 2022 owing to its popularity. In mid-2022, the National Gallery Singapore opened a major exhibition, Ever Present: First Peoples Art of Australia, which is the most extensive show of its type to tour Asia.[73]

Collections

Contemporary Indigenous art works are collected by all of Australia's major public galleries. The National Gallery of Australia has a significant collection, and a new wing was (pictured) opened in 2010 for its permanent exhibition. Some state galleries, such as the Art Gallery of New South Wales,[74] the National Gallery of Victoria,[1] and the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory,[75] have gallery space permanently dedicated to the exhibition of contemporary Indigenous art. The National Gallery of Victoria's collection includes the country's main collection of Indigenous batik.[76] The Araluen Centre for Arts and Entertainment hosts the country's largest collection of works by Albert Namatjira.[63]

Galleries outside Australia acquiring contemporary Indigenous art include the

Kluge–Ruhe Museum at the University of Virginia.[77][78]

Prizes

Contemporary Indigenous art works have won a number of Australia's principal national art prizes, including the

Clemenger Award winner John Mawurndjul, and 2006 Clemenger winner Judy Watson.[80] The Wynne Prize has been won by contemporary Indigenous artists on several occasions, including in 1999 by Gloria Petyarre with Leaves; in 2004 by George Tjungurrayi; and in 2008 by Joanne Currie Nalingu, with her painting The river is calm.[81]

As well as winning major prizes, Indigenous artists have been well represented among the finalists in these competitions. The Blake Prize has included numerous Indigenous finalists, such as Bronwyn Bancroft (2008),[82] Angelina Ngal[83] and Irene (Mbitjana) Entata (2009),[84] Genevieve Kemarr Loy, Cowboy Loy Pwerl, Dinni Kunoth Kemarre, Elizabeth Kunoth Kngwarray (2010), and Linda Syddick Napaltjarri (on three separate occasions).[85]

Australia's major Indigenous art prize is the

A$40,000, and five category awards each worth $4000: one for bark painting, one for works on paper, one for three-dimensional works and, introduced for the first time in 2010, one for new media.[86] Winners of the major prize have included Makinti Napanangka in 2008,[87] and Danie Mellor in 2009.[88] In 2008, the Art Gallery of Western Australia established the Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards, which include the country's most valuable Indigenous art cash prize of A$50,000, as well as a A$10,000 prize for the top Western Australian artist, and a A$5000 People's Choice Award, all selected from the field of finalists, which includes 15 individuals and one collaborative group. The 2009 winner of the main prize was Ricardo Idagi, while the People's Choice award was won by Shane Pickett.[89] Wayne Quilliam
was awarded the 2009 NAIDOC Artist of the Year for his many years of work on the local and international scene working with Indigenous groups throughout the world.

Benefits and costs

The flowering of Indigenous art has delivered economic, social and cultural benefits to Indigenous Australians, who are socially and economically disadvantaged compared to the Australian community as a whole.[90] The sale of art works is a significant economic activity for individual artists and for their communities. Estimates of the size of the sector vary, but placed its value in the early 2000s at A$100 to 300 million, and by 2007 at half a billion dollars and growing.[91] The sector is particularly important to many Indigenous communities because, as well being a source of cash for an economically disadvantaged group, it reinforces Indigenous identity and tradition, and has aided the maintenance of social cohesion.[92] For example, early works painted at Papunya were created by senior Aboriginal men to help educate younger generations about their culture and their cultural responsibilities.[93]

"There is currently an upsurge in interest in Aboriginal art among the Australian public and overseas visitors...The resultant pressure on artists to produce has led ultimately to a collapse or emasculation of the art form. Aboriginal art is now under incredible strain to fulfil white demands on Aboriginal culture."[94]

Indigenous Australian activist Djon Mundine, writing during Australia's bicentennial year, 1988.

Fraud and exploitation are significant issues affecting contemporary Indigenous Australian art. Indigenous art works have regularly been reproduced without artists' permission, including by the Reserve Bank of Australia when it used a David Malangi painting on the one dollar note in 1966.[95] Similar appropriation of material has taken place with fabric designs, T-shirts and carpets.[96] There have been claims of artists being kidnapped, or relocated against the wishes of their families, by people keen to acquire the artists' paintings.[97][98]

Artists, particularly in the remoter parts of Australia, sometimes paint for outlets other than the Indigenous art centres or their own companies. They do this for economic reasons, however the resulting paintings can be of uneven quality, and of precarious economic value.[99] Doubts about the provenance of Indigenous paintings, and about the prices paid for them, have spawned media scrutiny,[100] an Australian parliamentary inquiry,[101] and have been a factor limiting the growth in value of works.[102] Questions regarding the authenticity of works have arisen in relation to particular artists, including Emily Kngwarreye, Rover Thomas, Kathleen Petyarre, Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula, Ginger Riley Munduwalawala, and Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri; in 2001 an art dealer was jailed for fraud in relation to Clifford Possum's work.[103] These pressures led in 2009 to the introduction of a commercial code of conduct, intended to establish "minimum standards of practice and fair dealing in the Indigenous visual arts industry".[104] However, persistent problems in the industry in September 2012 led the chair of the code's administering body Indigenous Art Code, Ron Merkel, to call for the code to be made mandatory for art dealers.[105]

Prices fetched in the secondary market for Indigenous art works vary widely. Until 2007, the record at auction for an Indigenous art work was $778,750 paid in 2003 for a Rover Thomas painting, All That Big Rain Coming from the Top Side. In 2007, a major work by Emily Kngwarreye, Earth's Creation, sold for $1.056 million, a new record that was however eclipsed only a few months later, when Clifford Possum's epic work Warlugulong was bought for $2.4 million by the National Gallery of Australia.[106] At the same time, however, works by prominent artists but of doubtful provenance were being passed in at auctions.[107] In 2003 there were 97 Indigenous Australian artists whose works were being sold at auction in Australia for prices above $5000, with the total auction market worth around $9.5 million. In that year Sotheby's estimated that half of sales were to bidders outside Australia.[108] By 2012, the market had changed, with older works fetching higher prices than contemporary paintings.[102]

A 2011 change in Australian superannuation investment rules resulted in a sharp decline in sales of new Indigenous art. The change prohibits assets acquired for a self-managed superannuation fund from being "used" before retirement; in particular, an artwork must be kept in storage rather than displayed.[109]

Influence on non-Indigenous artists

Initially a source of ethnographic interest, and later an artistic movement with roots outside Western art traditions, Indigenous art was influenced by, and had influence upon, few European Australian artists. The early works of

Michael Nelson Jagamarra have engaged in both collaborative artworks and exhibitions with gallerist Michael Eather, and painter Imants Tillers, the Australian-born son of Latvian refugees.[112]

Assessment

Professor of art history Ian McLean described the birth of the contemporary Indigenous art movement in 1971 as "the most fabulous moment in Australian art history", and considered that it was becoming one of Australia's founding myths, like the

ANZAC spirit.[113] Art historian Wally Caruana called Indigenous art "the last great tradition of art to be appreciated by the world at large",[114] and contemporary Indigenous art is the only art movement of international significance to emerge from Australia.[115][116] Leading critic Robert Hughes saw it as "the last great art movement of the 20th century",[117] while poet Les Murray thought of it as "Australia's equivalent of jazz".[118] Paintings by the artists of the western desert in particular have quickly achieved "an extraordinarily widespread reputation", with collectors competing to obtain them.[119] Some Indigenous artists are regarded as amongst Australia's foremost creative talent; Emily Kngwarreye has been described as "one of the greatest modern Australian painters",[120] and "among the best Australian artists, arguably amongst the best of her time."[121] Critics reviewing the Hermitage Museum exhibition in 2000 were fulsome in their praise, one remarking: "This is an exhibition of contemporary art, not in the sense that it was done recently, but in that it is cased in the mentality, technology and philosophy of radical art of the most recent times. No one, other than the Aborigines of Australia, has succeeded in exhibiting such art at the Hermitage".[68]

The assessments have not been universally favourable. When an exhibition was held in the United Kingdom in 1993, a reviewer in The Independent described the works as "perhaps the most boring art in the world".[122] Museum curator Philip Batty, who had been involved in assisting the creation and sale of art in central Australia, expressed concern at the effect of the non-Indigenous art market on the artists – particularly Emily Kngwarreye – and their work. He wrote "there was always a danger that the European component of this cross-cultural partnership would become overly dominant. By the end of her brief career, I think that Emily had all but evacuated this intercultural domain, and her work simply became a mirror image of European desires".[123] Outstanding art works are mixed with poor ones, with the passage of time yet to filter the good from the bad.[124]

2020s resurgence

There was evidence of a resurgence of interest in contemporary Australian Indigenous art in the early 2020s, both at home and abroad. Works at the Fremantle Arts Centre's 2022 Revealed exhibition, featuring early-career artists, sold three-quarters of the works on the first night. In London, England, Tate Modern's exhibition, A Year in Art: Australia 1992, which opened in June 2021, was extended until September 2022 owing to its popularity.[73] In 2022, Sotheby's in New York moved its annual Australian Indigenous art sale from the winter off-season to the May "marquee month",[125] with the highest-selling work going for just over one million Australian dollars. In mid-2022, the National Gallery Singapore opened a major exhibition, Ever Present: First Peoples Art of Australia, which is the most extensive show of its type to tour Asia.[73]

See also

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