Viewing ofReference Material
Art students and others conducting research are welcome to make an appointment with us to view the works listed in the adjacent table.
It is also recommended for Europeans to use the online search system at KVK (Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog), in which all German and many European scholarly libraries list their available references. Sometimes the works are available for loan.
A list of further references about Australian art, which however are not yet in our reference collection, is also maintained and continually extended.
Literature in our Collection
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Kimberley Aboriginal Artists (Hg.): In the Saddle - On the Wall, Kununurra 2015, Ausst. Kat., ISBN 9780980762945
Table of Contents ¦ Cover Text ¦ Book Review
Table of Contents
Marcia Langton: Foreword -4-
Chris Griffiths: Listening to Our Old People -7-
Kimberley Aboriginal Artists: A Journey to Cultural Resilience -8-
Beth Neate: I Am an Artist I Come from the Bush -12-
Gabriel Nodea: I You Really Want to Know -14-
Artists
Rammey Ramsey -18-
Shirley Purdie -22-
Patrick Mung Mung -26-
Freddie Timms -30-
Mabel Juli -34-
Alan Griffiths -38-
Peter Newry -42-
Minnie Lumai -46-
Peggy Griggiths -50-
Gordon Barunga -54-
Manmara Daisy Andrews -58-
Mervyn Street -62-
Stan Brumby -66-
Cover Text
'Everywhere stations were built in this country... they were all worked by Aborigine people.' (Alan Griffiths) The remote Kimberley region in the north of Western Australia has been shaped by a thriving pastoral industry that began in the late 1880s and was built on the contribution, knowledge and commitment of Aboriginal people. What could have continued as a complex yet prosperous cross-cultural industry abruptly ended with the introduction of equal wages for Aboriginal pastoral workers in the late 1960's. As with many histories that fill Australias collective memory, the Aboriginal contribution to this industry has been little recognised or understood. In the Saddle - On the Wall tells the stories of life on these cattle stations through the voices of the Aboriginal people who worked on them and the roles contemporary art has played in ensuring cultural resilience. Driven by senior artists from across the Kimberley the paintings, digital recordings and publications that have become In the Saddle - On the Wall contain important historical and deeply personal accounts of a time when Aboriginal people were the back-bone of the Kimberley cattle industry. This was a period characterized by injustice and displacement, new experiences of cross-cultural relations, journeys through Country and a deep sense of pride. It was Aboriginal peoples knowledge of their Country, the seasons and stories that shaped it, which enabled the pastoral industry to succeed in this region. As artist and former stockman Patrick Mung Mung remarks, "White men knew that we were great in this place."