The Art of Indigenous Australia is one of the oldest, richest and most complex forms of creative expression in human history. Indigenous people across the continent have been representing their social history, spiritual beliefs and cultural practices in a visually creative fashion since time immemorial. The designs, patterns and stories were taught to Aboriginal people by the ancestors and reinforced and replicated through ritual, dance, song, body paint for ceremony, rock engravings and paintings and on domestic and ritual objects.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art is as much alive today as it was 60,000 years ago. As in the ancient past, the art is not separable from everyday life. It is lively and positive art that describes and engages the world in a variety of ways.
The Art of Indigenous Australians today takes on many forms. Despite significant change and diversity, the art retains an underlying unity of inspiration – the land and human relationships that are associated with it. It has solid links with the past but is firmly positioned as political, social and creative action in the present.
This event is STRICTLY by invitation only and a private event arranged by the NUS Office of Alumni Relations and The China Society, sponsored by the Shaw Foundation and supported by ReDot Fine Art Gallery.