John Carty

Birrundudu Drawings is a revelatory body of imagery that recasts the conversation around desert art in Australia, offering a chance to look anew at a phenomenon at risk of drifting, through the fog of familiarity, from our understanding. Birrundudu Drawings brings to the world for the first time artworks from a series of 810 drawings produced in 1945 by Aboriginal...

Making history visible through one of the most vibrant and distinctive art movements in Australia, Sun & Shadow illuminates the community drive and the individual artistic decisions that have resulted in a body of breathtaking paintings. The Spinifex people have been living on their ancestral homelands in the Great Victoria Desert, Western Australia, since time immemorial. This continuous narrative was...

Ala. Alatuti. Oloodoodi. Patrick. Tjungurray. He is a man of many names, and they speak to many lives lived. Each handle gets held for a while in different times and places. He was a young warrior by his first name, but by each of his subsequent names he has stood just as proud. By each of those names he has...