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Aboriginal bark painting by peter Marralwanga

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Maori Art and Artifacts Article

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Aboriginal Sculpture of a Ku' camp Dog

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Papua New Guinea Spirit Figure from the Papuan Gulf Turama River

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Johnny Warrangkula

This painting tells the story of rain and lightning rain and lightning and stars at night at Kaliginypa. The open circles represent the stars. The closed circles are caves in the rock. To the right is a ancestral spirits’s track.

Winpa, an ancestral figure who generated a huge storm at Kalipinypa he is present but hidden. If you look carefully a procession his red footprints are partly concealed with white dots on the right-hand side of this work.

Warangula’s created this first major work, Rain, lightning and stars at night in a style more consistent with works produced in mid to late 1972. Covering secret sacred meaning with dots lead to a dotting technique now inseperable from Aboriginal Art.

The painter overlays and intersecting sinuous lines trace the movement of waterways by the falling rain.

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Groote Eylandt Painting

The Art of the small islands of Groote and Eylandt are a form of Aboriginal art many are not even aware of.

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Dingo Dreaming by Shorty Lungkarda

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Groote Eylandt paintings are usually on a black background and have a characteristic of dashes or dots as infill. They have a strong graphic aesthetic quality with early works usually depicting a single totemic animal. Most paintings are on rectangular sections of stringybark but some are on sawtooth shark bills.

The classic style has a monochrome black background with figurative elements outlined with contrasting red, white, or yellow. The figurative elements infilled with dashes dots.

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Article on the Meaning of Aboriginal art.

To wrap your head around the spiritual beliefs of a culture very different to your own is a challenge. If you want to understand how aboriginal people belong to country and are related to sacred places through art the effort is worth it.

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Aboriginal Australian painting by Long Jack Phillipus Tjakamarra

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Aboriginal Sculpture of a Ku Dog

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Garawan Wanambi Yirrkala Bark painting

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Aboriginal Art by Uta Uta Tjangala

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Namarrkon the Aboriginal god of Lightning

This god ejaculates lightning. The circle around the main figure is electricity and on his knees are stone hammers that if they touch cause thunder.

Namarrkon is the lightning spirit, the source of the fierce tropical storms in Western Arnhem Land during the wet season. During the dry season, he lives in a billabong not far from Numbuwah, a sacred rock in Western Arnhem Land. Namarrkon’s dreaming site (djadjan) is a slight projection in the outline of the Arnhem Land escarpment. It consists of three fused pillars, one with a circular hole near the top. This is a few km NE of the Nourlangie Rock tourist site to the east of Koongarra saddle. Namarggon left one eye (the hole) to watch for the monsoon, but also to watch his estranged wife, whose home is a cave in a pillar near Koongarra. Namarrkondjadjan is well-named, as the promontory creates the earliest intense lightning storms.

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Aboriginal Australian painting by Anatjari Tjakamarra

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Aboriginal art by Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri

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The Rainbow Serpent Ngalyod by Mick Kubarrgu