Aboriginal Art

The Art Collection has a small number of bark paintings, woven baskets and implements from the Northern Territory. These include bark paintings that portray aspects of spiritual and ceremonial life of Eastern Arnhem Land. There are Hermannsburg watercolours from the 1940s by Walter Ebatarinja and the Pareroultja brothers Edwin, Rubin and Otto of the Western Arrernte linguistic group. The current aim is to increase the representation of contemporary and historical works. Work by England Bangala, Roy Burnyila and Jacky Tjakamarra have recently been donated by Dr David Edwards.