Works from the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria will tour to North America from next year, as part of The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art.
The work of the late Noŋgirrŋa Marawili, an award-winning Yolŋu artist, will feature in major touring exhibition The Stars We Do Not See .will lead the largest-ever exhibition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art presented internationally, to open in the United States next year.
The exhibition will also chronicle key moments in the history of Indigenous art, including the establishment of Papunya Tula Artists — Australia's first Aboriginal arts company, where artists from the Western Desert painted on scraps of composition board — and the bark paintings of artists like Gulumbu Yunupiŋu, otherwise known as "Star Lady", for whom the exhibition is named.
"They all said one thing: 'If you're going to do this, do it once and do it properly,'" says Russell-Cook. "Community consultation isn't giving up power, it's getting more power because you're getting more voices in and you're getting a stronger project."There are so many works that Russell-Cook can't wait to see in North America for the first time.
Mun-dirra was made from more than 35,000 threads, which were hand-harvested, dyed and woven by 13 women from the Maningrida Arts Centre.Both Ellwood and Russell-Cook highlight works in the exhibition that challenge the idea that Indigenous art looks a certain way.
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