Kaninjaku

An artwork titled ‘Kaninjaku’ by Kumpaya Girgaba shows no sign of the Canning stock route, just the sandhills of the desert through which the route was carved. The artwork is part of an exhibition titled ‘Kaninjaku: stories from the Canning stock route’ at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra, which runs until August 2016.

Photograph: Kumpaya Girgaba, Martumili Artists/National Museum of Australia

Paul Daley writes on the Canning Stock route artists to discuss the upcoming Canning by-election and Aboriginal histories in the Guardian

An artwork titled ‘Natawalu’ (2007) by Myapu Elsie Thomas, Ngurra Artists. Acrylic on canvas. This painting recounts a fatal clash between a white explorer and a desert man on the Kaninjaku (Canning Stock Route).

Photograph: Myapu Elsie Thomas, Ngurra Artists/National Museum of Australia