AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL ART –

“‘In the Saddle – On the Wall’ tells the stories of life on these cattle stations [in the Kimberley region, Western Australia] through the voices of the Aboriginal people who worked on them …”–Back cover. It “began as a project in 2009 to record the stories of senior artists from Waringarri Aboriginal Arts Centre and Warmun Art Centre. The project grew in a partnership with ABC Open in 2010 to become a major Kimberley-wide project … [with] digital content for an art and storytelling exhibition. Thirteen leading artists … collaborated on the project with representation from Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency at Fitzroy Crossing, Mowanjum Art and Culture Centre at Derby, Waringarri Aboriginal Arts at Kununurra, Warmun Art Centre at Warmun and Yarliyil Arts at Halls Creek.”

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