WEST AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL ART –

Bush Women is a collection of texts exploring the striking history of six Indigenous women artists from the Kimberley: from living on Country, to the arrival of Europeans, stations and missions, to the contemporary era of telephones and acrylic paints, their lives are as underscored by radical change as they are by the continuity of the Dreaming stories of their lands.Bush Women was published on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of a 1994 exhibition at Fremantle Arts Centre, featuring paintings by Daisy Andrews, Tjapartji Kanytjuri Bates, Tjingapa Davies, Paji Honeychild Yankkarr, Queenie McKenzie (Gara-Gara) and Pantjit Mary McLean. The contribution of these artists to the history of women’s’ art in Western Australia and to the expression of 20th-Century Indigenous lived experience is far-reaching and continues to engage audiences in contemporary exhibitions, collections and archives.

• 91 pages : colour illustrations ; 22 cm. First edition. #170925
• Published on the occasion of the exhibition Bush Women, held from 21 July-8 September, 2018, at Fremantle Arts Centre. This exhibition is a restaged version of the original exhibition Bush Women: Fresh Art From Remote WA, that took place at Fremantle Arts Centre from 19 February-3 April, 1994.

• • Fremantle Arts Centre — Exhibitions
  • Art, Aboriginal Australian — Western Australia — Exhibitions
  • Art, Aboriginal Australian — Exhibitions
  • Women artists, Aboriginal Australian — Exhibitions
  • Women artists, Aboriginal Australian — Western Australia — Exhibitions
  • Australian

  Other authors/contributors:

  • Coleman, Sheridan, author, editor
  • Jorgensen, Darren, author
  • McLean, Pantjiti Mary, author
  • Kean, John, author
  • Andrews, Daisy, author
  • Yankkarr, Paji Honeychild, author
  • Fremantle Arts Centre, issuing body