Gnibi in the Reeds Print - Oral James Roberts Tangentyere Artists the Art Gallery of South

the Art Gallery of South Australia

This visually rich survey explores the evolution of the contemporary Aboriginal art movement in remote areas of Australia across twenty-nine art centres in five states from the Kimberley through to Arnhem Land and beyond

and anthropologists are seeking new ways to work together and better engage with Indigenous knowledges to interpret the 'archaeological record'

John Brown

She shines a critical light on the little-known colonial-era practice of paying Indigenous workers in opium and the ‘solution’ of then displacing them to K’gari

Gnibi in the Reeds Print - Oral James Roberts Tangentyere Artists the Art Gallery of SouthOral Roberts is third generations Widjabal (Lismore) clan. Oral was born on the Cubawee Mission and lived there for the first 2 years of his life. The Mission was a safe place with a strong family connection to all the Bundjalung communities on the North Coast of New South Wales. Orals work reflects his close connection to the Bundjalung land and culture. His paintings express this strong connection to spirit and the bush scrub where many of the bird