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Presenting a story of art and artists in Gunbalanya, western Arnhem Land between the years 2001 and 2005, this book explores the artistic community surrounding the primary place of art creation and sale in the region, Injalak Arts, an art centre established in the remote Aboriginal community of Gunbalanya.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Community archaeology, interdisciplinarity, and an artistic community; Chapter 2: Contemplating community; Chapter 3: Embodied reflexive ethnography; Chapter 4: Histories of art and community in Gunbalanya (Oenpelli); Chapter 5: Histories of art in the mission era and beyond; Chapter 6: The Australian Art Centre Movement; Chapter 7: Navigating protocols in a new era; Chapter 8: People, place, and community; Chapter 9: A cultural house; Chapter 10: Community and social context; Chapter 11: The life of a Gunbalanya painter; Chapter 12: Injalak's influence on style and subject matter; Chapter 13: Reflections; Index.
About the author
Dr. Sally K. May is an Associate Professor of archaeology and museum studies in the School of Humanities at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on relationships between people, landscapes, material culture and imagery, with inspiration drawn primarily from fieldwork in northern Australia. Sally is the author of "
Collecting Cultures: Myth, Politics, and Collaboration in the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition" (Altamira, 2009) and co-author of "
The Bible in Buffalo Country: Oenpelli mission 1925-1931" (ANU Press, 2020).
Summary
Presenting a story of art and artists in Gunbalanya, western Arnhem Land between the years 2001 and 2005, this book explores the artistic community surrounding the primary place of art creation and sale in the region, Injalak Arts, an art centre established in the remote Aboriginal community of Gunbalanya.
