Sun & Shadow: Art of the Spinifex People – Presentation Box

Sun & Shadow: Art of the Spinifex People – Presentation BoxThe Spinifex people have been living on their ancestral homelands in the Great Victoria Desert in Western Australia since time immemorial. This continuous narrative was interrupted momentously by the Maralinga atomic testing in the mid 20th Century. But after returning to their homelands, Spinifex people began to fight for greater recognition. Painting made their story visible. Over the past 25 years they have developed unique modes of painting to

Publisher: Seal Press

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9783775726016

Tracey Moffatt and Zamara Zamara

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With poetic fragments and open white space

Raised in the suburbs surrounding East Fremantle (Walyalup)

At the heart of this publication are seventy-six works from the painting collection of the Odesa Museum of Western and Eastern Art - masterpieces of European art that span the sixteenth to the nineteenth century

a novel with the car number of its author Octave Mirbeau in the title

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They filmed traditional Ngaanyatjarra tjinytjatjunku or mirlpa (telling stories while drawing in the sand) with women and girls

Text by:  Moale James