What's happening in the arts in Canberra

By Julieanne Strachan
Updated April 18 2018 - 11:18pm, first published December 22 2012 - 3:00am

EMERGING ART

The National Museum Australia has unveiled an exhibition of new Aboriginal art from the Western Desert. The collection, Warakurna: All the Stories Got into our Minds and Eyes, is an exhibition of paintings, woven fibre and carved wood sculptures produced at a community at the foot of the Rawlinson Ranges in Western Australia called Warakurna. The community is 300 kilometres west of Uluru. Director of the museum Andrew Sayers says the works came from a new movement in art, and the paintings were more figurative in style than traditional Western Desert art. The artists have used the paintings to document their history - the coming of explorers, prospectors and missionaries, building roads, missile testing and their return to their homeland. ''The painters of Warakurna have produced a unique and original body of artworks,'' Sayers says. ''They are extremely valuable and intriguing as first-hand accounts of significant events in the life of an Aboriginal community.'' The exhibition will be on display until November 3, 2013. Admission is free. The museum is open from 9am until 5pm daily. The museum is located on Lawson Crescent, Acton Peninsula.

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