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CATALOGUE
Kimberley Aboriginal Artists: Sharing difference on common ground catalogue,
A 96 page full colour 21 x 21cm catalogue containing introductory essays including one by Pat Dodson, Chairman of the Kimberley Institute Ltd and a curatorial essay by Judith Ryan, Senior Curator of Indigenous Art, National Gallery of Victoria and sections dedicated to each of the four Kimberley Aboriginal Artists' Centres. These sections contain introductory statements, essays, images of all works in the exhibition, and photographs from the centres.
$15 plus $5 p & h

EDUCATION KITS
Kimberley Aboriginal Artists: Sharing difference on common ground
$37 plus $3 p & h
Special Education Members' price:
$32 plus $3 p & h
Kimberley Aboriginal Artists is a partnership between four prominent Kimberley art centres, aiming to celebrate the diversity, integrity and strength of Aboriginal culture and creativity. This predominantly painting exhibition shares and celebrates Aboriginal art, creativity and culture from the Kimberley with the widest possible audiences.
Outcomes covered: The Arts, Society and Environment, LOTE
Age: Primary and secondary K-12
Education Notes: 8 double-sided cards in folder, A4, full colour.
Catalogue: 96 pages, Full colour
Gallery Education Sheets: 1 A3 page with questions for primary, middle school & secondary
Themes: Indigenous issues, Dreamtime, place and country, community, storytelling, landscape, painting, sculpture.
Curator: Sharon Tassicker
Coordinator, Kimberley Aboriginal Artists: Tim Acker
Artists: from the four centres in the Kimberley region of WA - Mangkaja, Mowanjum, Waringarri, Warmun

Exhibition Details

ORGANISING INSTITUTION
Mowanjum Art and Culture Centre, Derby

COORDINATORS
Jenny Wright, Tim Acker

ARTISTS
Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency:
Fitzroy Crossing - 13 artists
Mowanjum Art and Culture Centre: Derby - 8 artists
Waringarri Aboriginal Arts: Kununurra - 10 artists
Waringarri Aboriginal Arts:
Warmun/Turkey Creek - 14 artists

MEDIUM
acrylic on canvas, natural earth pigments on canvas

INSTALLATION
47 works
60 - 100 running metres

DOCUMENTATION
Electronic invitation
Catalogue
Gallery sheets
Didactic panels
Media kit with press release
and digital images

EDUCATION
Education Packages (includes teachers notes,
activity sheets, gallery/room sheet)
Lectures and floor talks upon request (subject to
availability and funding)

CRATES
Up to 8 crates, totalling 6 cubic metres (tbc)

TOUR DURATION
WA 2010 - 2011 (dates tbc)

COST SHARE
WA tba

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Kimberley Aboriginal Artists is a partnership between four prominent Kimberley art centres, aiming to share and celebrate the diversity, integrity and strength of Aboriginal culture and creativity. Kimberley Aboriginal Artists promotes the artists, artworks and activities of the four art centres, while advocating for the positive impact on remote area livelihoods enabled by strong, Aboriginal-owned and governed art centres. During planning, one of the priorities of the initiative was to hold a high quality touring exhibition, and Kimberley Aboriginal Artists - Sharing difference on common ground is the result.

The touring exhibition aligns with Kimberley Aboriginal Artists' core philosophy of celebrating Aboriginal art, creativity and culture from the Kimberley with the widest possible audiences. To maximise these aims, the exhibition is accompanied by a broad package of didactic information. The cultural knowledge within each painting is explained and there are didactic panels with maps, photographs and text giving audiences an overview and context of the artists, their work, their country and their culture.

The exhibition showcases the finest contemporary paintings from four of Australia's strongest art centres. On display are works that deliver a potent message about Aboriginal cultural expression and creativity. The exhibition has a voice that is distinctively Kimberley, strongly contemporary and proudly Aboriginal.