Carrolup Paintings

Felicia R. Lee Aug 15 2005 New York Times
Youthful art, Aboriginal history
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/15/arts/design/youthful-art-aboriginal-history.html?_r=0

Paintings from late 1940s and 50s made at the 'Carrolup River Native Settlement' (stolen children) Western Australia, taken on tour in 1950s by British patron Florence Rutter, donated to Picker Gallery in 1966 by Herbert Mayer, rediscovered by Howard Morphy in 2004.

Artists include: Parnell Dempster, Revel Cooper

Florence Rutter and M.D. Miller, Child Artists of the Australian Bush, 1952

Colgate University Collection here  flickr

Tracie Pushman and Robyn Smith Walley, Koorah Coolingah (Children Long Ago). The University of Western Australia Berndt Museum of Anthropology Occasional Paper No.8,  (Perth, The University of Western Australia, 2006).

http://www.jstor.org/stable/25475896?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Bella Kelly Website here
Bella Kelly exhibition at Curtin

Anna Haebich, The Return of the Carrolup Paintings in Griffith Review 47 

Inuit Children Taken from Families 1950s

Dubbed the Inuit Experiment, the Danish Government took children from their families in Greenland to mainland Denmark to immerse them in a re-education programme, robbing them of their language and culture in order to make them into 'model Danish citizens'.

Article and video here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33060450

BBC Radio 4 Witness 

Save the Children Denmark apologised in 2009
"They (Danish government) wanted to create role models so that they could return to Greenland and move that society on. That was the political thinking behind the project. And Save the Children were asked by the Danish state to help - which unfortunately we did."

Process, practice, creativity, emotion

Open Arts Journal here

Creativity and Innovation in a world of Movement (CIM) research project here

Creativity and Innovation in a World of Movement’ (CIM) explored the dynamics of cultural production and creativity in an era of intensifying globalisation and transnational connectivity, conducted by a team of scholars in the United Kingdom, Norway, the Netherlands and Austria. Instead of assessing the relative novelty of end products, the project took a processual approach by analysing practices of appropriation, consumption and (re)contextualisation in the spheres of (popular) art, religion and museums. Acknowledging the significance of individual or groupspecific understandings of ‘creativity’, CIM explored critically how different notions of cultural value and processes of authentication, authorisation and commoditisation have affected people’s engagements with objects and images. A broad perspective was obtained by investigating concrete, partially interlinked processes across five continents, following successful ethnographic fieldwork in India, Sri Lanka, Ghana, Argentina, Brazil, Barbados, Trinidad, Suriname, Guyana, Canada, Australia, Norway, France, Austria and the UK. (Leon Wainwright page 4)

Creativity and Innovation in a world of Movement blog here

Cultural Dynamics and emotions here

Jukuja Dolly Snell 2015 Telstra Winner

 Jukuja Dolly Snell wins the 2015 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art award.

Article here

Vincent Namatjira painting

Interview with Vincent Namatjira  here

This screen grab of interview is of a painting about Captain Cook being shocked at seeing Aboriginal people for the first time

Vincent Namatjira: This one here is when he first come into contact with Indigenous in the inland. This is James Cook also. He had a shocked face when he seen Aboriginal for the first time. And he had that, "Oh, what's that? What's that? Is that - must be mammal."

Ink Remix

Yao Jui-Chung, Yao’s Journey to Australia, 2015, biro, blue ink with gold leaf on India handmade paper, 195 x 539 cm.

Ink Remix contemporary Art from mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong

Extending the long tradition of using the medium of ink, these emerging artists on show in Canberra 3 July to 18 October  2015.


Yao Jui-Chung, Taiwan