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[sheltiechicago]

These Dogs Have Dreaming

In Yuendumu, dogs are more than just pets. They’re family members, friends and spiritual guardians. Dogs and dingoes have an ancient symbiotic relationship with Warlpiri people, a bond that continues to this day

Photograph: Francis Macindoe

Australian Life photography competition 2023

#francis macindoe #photographer #australian life photography competition #australia #yuendumu #dogs #spiritual guardians #warlpiri people

[newsbites]

The Northern Territory police officer cleared of murdering Kumanjayi Walker [in Yuendumu, NT] has left Australia only days after he says he was issued another disciplinary notice and informed by command that they planned to sack him from the force because of his mental health.

Zachary Rolfe said in a 2,500-word statement published on Facebook on Thursday night that he was a “good cop” who “loved the job”, but that he had been “painted” as racist and violent.

His father, Richard Rolfe, confirmed to Guardian Australia that Rolfe had left the country, but that he expected him to return in several months.

#australian police and policing #northern territory #indigenous australians #sack #planning to sack #job #loved the job #cop #painted #(not a) bunk #shooting #inquest #Yuendumu #Kumanjayi Walker #aged 19 #teenager #Australia #news #via Triple A #world news

[myrtaceaae]

#kumanjayi walker #auspol #australia #yuendumu #Youtube

[myfatmuses]

*The grand opening of the dark gaia exhibit at Yuendumu was certainly a godsend for her. A great excuse for her to get out of the castle. Plus it gives the princess to finally meet inspector Carmelita fox. She heard many good things about.*

Normally she would be indifferent to some young Royal wanting her attention but would still show the basic level of respect she has to however she was aware of Sally and her freedom fighting ways and could respect that.

[mybeingthere]

MARY BROWN NAPANGARDI WARLPIRI, B. 1953

Mary Brown Napandardi's works often reinterpret scenes from women's ceremonies including body painting designs, song lines and dance cycles. She also depicts dreaming stories passed down through generations. She harnesses traditional iconography and symbols to depict flora, fauna and significant landmarks including expansive sand hills and rockholes. 

Napangardi was born around 1953 within a bush camp at Mandarine in Central Australia. Growing up, she lived a very traditional lifestyle; learning and caring for the land as well as learning important cultural knowledge and the dreaming stories of her country. During her childhood, Napangardi and her family were relocated by a white man to an Aboriginal settlement called the Yuendumu Community in Central Australia. 

Napangardi began painting in the early 1990s. In 2005, she began painting for Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation in Yuendumu. These sacred stories translated within her work have been passed through her family for generations. 

https://umberaboriginalart.com.au/.../44-mary.../overview/

From the ‘Western Desert Women’ – a Group Exhibition 2022

[radicalgraff]

"From Narrm to Yuendumu, Justice for Walker, Abolish the Police!! One Three One Two!!!"

Mural in Narrm/Melbourne demanding justice for Kumanjayi Walker, a 19-year-old Warlpiri Indigenous man who was shot and killed by police in the remote Aboriginal community of Yuendumu, Northern Territory in November 2019.

The officer who killed him, Zachary Rolfe was later acquitted of a murder charge by an almost entirely white jury, with no Indigenous jurors, despite Aboriginal people being 30% of the population in the NT.

Thousands of people rallied in Alice Springs in the days following the murder of Kumanjayi, and further protests followed in cities around Australia. After the acquittal of Rolfe, the campaign demanding Justice for Walker has continued.

[tadanoichiro]

328：ユエンドゥームーの収税吏／Tahsildar in Yuendumu

日曜日、晴れ、所持金163オーストラリアドル、太陽から受け継いだ絵画

Sunday, sunny, possession money is 163 Australian dollar, painting inherited from the sun.

#道を捨てよ街を出よう #Throw Away Your Way Go Away From The Streets

[jenniferstmary]

Moth Sperm and Witchetty Grub Dreaming Source: Greg Rouse/Warlukurlangu Artists of Yuendumu

#aboriginal artist #microscopy #abstract painting #contemporary art #abstract art #outsider art

[humoringthegoddess]

Sunday Evening Art Gallery -- Alma Nungarrayi Granites

Alma Nungarrayi Granites (1955-2017), a Warlpiri woman, was an artist from Yuendumu, Australia.Nungarrayi Granites worked as a staff member at the local school and attended the Bachelor College, studying to become an accredited teacher assistant for both Warlpiri and English.Once she graduated, Nungarrayi Granites worked at the Yuendumu School assisting the Warlpiri classes.While working at the…

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#Alma Nungarrayi Granites

[ausarts]

Seven Sisters Dreaming - Athena Granites Nangala Athena Granites Nangala paints a very modern version of the Seven Sisters Dreaming having grown up seeing her mother, sisters and grandmother (the late, world renowned artist Alma Granites Nungurrayi) as they would paint the stories of their country around Yuendumu, to the north west of Alice Springs in the southern Tanami region.

#s: vic #g: lume #a: athena granites #m: female artists #x #xx

[surrealistnyc]

Burnin’ all illusion tonight: the revolutionary struggle against colonial violence continues.

In the wake of the police murder of 17-year-old, Nahel M, in Nanterre, the working-class youth of France and its external colonies have set the empire brilliantly aflame with their incandescent rage. President of the Rich, Macron, has called out his 45,000 dogs of class war, reportedly firing live ammunition and other lethal projectiles into crowds of protesters. In polite response, nearly 80 police stations have been attacked and the sacrosanct capitalist private property regime is burning. This is all unfolding against the backdrop of the ongoing nationwide strikes rejecting the punishing neoliberal baton being thrust down the throats of French workers. Here in Australia, state slayings of Indigenous youth, such as Kuminjayi Walker in Yuendumu, continue to be perpetrated with impunity by a heavily militarised police force recruited and equipped from the leftovers of the Australian-assisted imperial occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq. Kuminjayi’s killing by cops was one more brutal moment in a very long, dark history of colonial violence in this country.

There have been at least 516 Indigenous deaths in police custody just since the last “commission of enquiry” in 1991. Prior to this, the 1984 murder of an Indigenous youth, John Pat, in the north-west of the country, had set the wheels of anticolonial resistance into motion only to be continually suppressed by force, the utterly futile promises of official enquiries and continuous state assaults on Indigenous people and their lands.

In the face of this, the Australian Indigenous community itself and assorted allies have been tireless in radical grass roots organising against police violence since the very beginning. In 1984, we invoked the international solidarity between Indigenous youth and the anticolonial uprising of Irish youth being targeted in police “shoot to kills” in Derry and Belfast. Forty years later we again invoke that love and solidarity against state violence.

All power to the radical imagination of the anti-colonial working class!

The Surrealist Group in Australia Anthony Redmond Michael Vandelaar Leon Marvell Tim White July 2 2023

[newstakatk]

Caring for the half-wild canines of Yuendumu’s Aboriginal neighborhood | Arts and Tradition Information

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[mybeingthere]

Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri (c 1932 - 2002) was born in Tjuirri, an area north west of Alice Springs also known as Napperby Station. His father was born at Ngarlu, a location west of Mt. Allan, and his mother from Warlugulong, an area southwest of Yuendumu. This broad stretch of territory defined the diversity of subject matter in Clifford's paintings. Clifford enjoyed a traditional bush upbringing and was given the name Possum by his paternal grandfather. In the 1940's, Clifford and his family re-located to Jay Creek, where he became a stockman, working at several stations throughout the area.

Clifford Possum was said to be a true master artist, his character, charisma, and total dedication to his art and dreamings, as well as his tireless promotion of his and his family's work has set a high standard in establishing this movement from its inception to the present day. Art lovers and collectors, both here and around the world, have held the Desert Masters in high regard, because of the efforts by individuals such as Clifford.

Clifford passed away in Alice Springs on the 21st June 2002, after recently being recognised for his contribution to Australian Art and culture, by being made an "Officer of the Order of Australia". His final days were spent at the Hetty Perkins Nursing Home in Alice Springs, where he passed away surrounded by close family and friends. He will be sadly missed by those who worked with and knew him well, as well as art collectors and dealers around the world.

He worked extensively as a stockman on the cattle stations in and around his traditional country. During this time he developed an encyclopaedic knowledge of the Dreaming Trails that criss-cross the area to the north of the western McDonnell Ranges, which he depicts in painting his Dreamings.

His career as an artist began in the 1950's when he carved snakes and goannas. By the 1970's he was one of the most accomplished carvers in Central Australia. His first opportunity to paint came when one of Albert Namatjira's sons gave him acrylic paints and the master began his work. Clifford, living at the Papunya Community, was one of the first artists to be involved with the Aboriginal Art Movement.

The art of Clifford Possum is notable for its brilliant manipulation of three-dimensional space. Many of his canvasses have strong figurative elements which stand out from the highly descriptive background dotting. In the late 1970's he expanded the scope of Papunya Tula painting by placing the trails of several ancestors on the same canvas in the fashion of a road map. Within this framework, he depicted the land geographically. This laid the foundation for traditional Aboriginal Iconography to be placed on canvas. The other artists working with him took his lead and removed any elements of European Art from their work. In doing so Clifford, as well as the other artists involved with the Papunya Tula Movement, helped to develop the true definition of Aboriginal Art, an art revolving around a culture, The Jukurrpa.

In some of his stories Clifford attempts to give a visual impression of sunlight, cloud, shadow and earth to denote specific times of the day. His paintings show superlative skill, incredible inventiveness of form and are visually spectacular.

Clifford's work is contemporary but essentially Aboriginal in inspiration. To appreciate its full richness it is imperative that it is seen not only by its colour, composition and balance, but by its mythological detail. One of the extraordinary qualities of Clifford's work and other Western Desert artists is that they are a visual writing and speak to the Aboriginal as books do to Europeans.

When asked why he became an Artist, he answered,

"That Dreaming been all the time. From our early days, before European people came up. That Dreaming carry on. Old people carry on this law, business, schooling for the young people. Grandfather and grandmother, uncle and aunty, mummy and father, all that, they been carry on this, teach 'em all the young boys and girls. They been using the dancing boards, spear, boomerang all painted. And they been using them on body different times.

Kids, I see them all the time, painted. All the young fellas they go hunting and the old people there, they do sand painting. They put down all the story, same like I do on canvas. All the young fella they bring 'em back kangaroo. Same all the ladies, they been get all the bush fruit, might be bush onion, plum, might be honey ants, might be yala, all the kungkas (women) bring them back. Because everybody there all ready waiting. Everybody painted. They been using ochres all the colours from the rock. People use them to paint up. I use paint and canvas that's not from us, from European people. Business time we don't use paints the way I use them, no we use them from rock, teach 'em all the young fellas."

Clifford is one of the most renown Aboriginal Artists of his time. He was the chairman of the Papunya Tula Artists from the 1970's to the 1980's. His work is featured in many of the main galleries and collections around Australia and internationally. Collections include the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra and the New South Wales Art Gallery in Sydney. His work has travelled extensively around the world, including 'Dreamings - The Art of Aboriginal Australia' in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and St Louis. He has had a book published dedicated to him and his paintings, 'The Art of Clifford Possum Japaltjarri', by Vivien Johnson. He is and has always been regarded as the leading figure in Australian Aboriginal Art.

Copyright Kate Owen Gallery May 2022

[featurenews]

Kumanjayi Walker’s complex trauma would have affected dealings with police, inquest told

Death of 19-year-old, who was shot by Const Zachary Rolfe in 2019, might have been avoided if police had used trauma-informed approach, counsellor says * Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Kumanjayi Walker had complex developmental trauma that would have influenced his interactions with police, an inquest into the Northern Territory teenager’s death has heard. Walker was 19 when he was killed during an attempted arrest attempt at Yuendumu, north-east of Alice Springs, in November 2019. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/nov/30/kumanjayi-walkers-complex-trauma-would-have-affected-dealings-with-police-inquest-told?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr

[darwinadventure]

Northern Territory doctor tells Kumanjayi Walker coronial inquest it is 'impossible' to raise healthy children in remote communities

A Northern Territory doctor has told the coroner investigating the death of Kumanjayi Walker it is "impossible" to raise healthy children in many remote communities and that an understanding of the problems faced in places like Yuendumu is "missing across every profession in the NT".

Simon Quilty, who told the coroner he had worked across various health sectors and communities in the Northern Territory for 20 years, told the inquest Yuendumu had "some of the poorest living standards" he had seen.

"It's hard to believe the extent of the poverty even when you have lived in it for 10 years," Dr Quilty said.

Read More: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-29/kumanjayi-walker-inquest-doctor-nt-remote-communities-poverty/101706826