Australia's Western Desert presents ‘Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route’ an exhibition of Aboriginal Art at DLF Place, Saket > 11am-10pm on 20th May to 22nd June 2015
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Australia's Western Desert presents ‘Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route’ an exhibition of Aboriginal Art
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DLF Place, Saket, New Delhi - 110017
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Entry : Free
Venue : DLF Place, Saket, New Delhi - 110017
Venue Info : Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Malviya Nagar (Yellow Line) Exit Gate - 3'
Area : Saket
Event Description : Australia's Western Desert presents ‘Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route’ an exhibition of Aboriginal Art.
A groundbreaking exhibition from Australia, which reveals the Aboriginal history of the world’s longest stock route through the deserts of Western Australia.
‘Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route’ provides a window on the artistic, cultural and natural worlds of the Aboriginal people of Australia’s Western Desert. This exhibition presents a selection of works created by Aboriginal artists who travelled along the 1850km stock route on a six week intensive engagement with their country. These are exuberant, vividly coloured, highly energetic works created by artists of varying technical ability and experience. The art of the Canning Stock Route has its origins in the traditional sacred art of Aboriginal people of the Western Desert. Artists combine symbols, such as concentric circles, bars, footprints, horseshoe shapes and lines, to convey sacred stories.
Prior to Western contact, most art was produced in ceremonial contexts as body decoration, sand sculptures, ceremonial objects and rock art. Paints, made from ochres and charcoal, were augmented by the use of bird feathers and down. Today’s artists use traditional methods to express a personal style, telling more individualistic, often secular histories that continue to be informed by traditional practices, and often with an undercurrent of the sacred world. The works in Yiwarra Kuju largely reflect this development of personal style.
The exhibition was developed by the National Museum of Australia in partnership with the arts group FORM, which initiated the four-year Canning Stock Route Project that involved artists, traditional custodians and emerging Aboriginal curators and filmmakers from across Western Australia.
Background to the exhibition
Yiwarra Kuju is a vision of the Country that was intersected by Canning’s stock route. The Canning Stock Route was a cattle route used throughout the first half of the 20th Century for droving cattle through 1850 km of desert from the Kimberley to the southern goldfields of Western Australia. The stock route crossed lands that had been occupied for millennia by Aboriginal people, and regularly spaced wells were built over traditional soaks and springs that were vital to the survival of those communities.
The meeting of Aboriginal people and European surveyors and pastoralists that took place as a result of the opening up of the Canning Stock Route was initially violent. Eventually, however, the land and its resources came to be shared, to the extent that many Aboriginal people began to work on remote cattle stations and along the stock route. Today a number of Aboriginal communities lie on, or near, the old stock route, and a vigorous art movement flourishes in these communities.
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Entry : Free
Venue : DLF Place, Saket, New Delhi - 110017
Venue Info : Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Malviya Nagar (Yellow Line) Exit Gate - 3'
Area : Saket
Event Description : Australia's Western Desert presents ‘Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route’ an exhibition of Aboriginal Art.
A groundbreaking exhibition from Australia, which reveals the Aboriginal history of the world’s longest stock route through the deserts of Western Australia.
‘Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route’ provides a window on the artistic, cultural and natural worlds of the Aboriginal people of Australia’s Western Desert. This exhibition presents a selection of works created by Aboriginal artists who travelled along the 1850km stock route on a six week intensive engagement with their country. These are exuberant, vividly coloured, highly energetic works created by artists of varying technical ability and experience. The art of the Canning Stock Route has its origins in the traditional sacred art of Aboriginal people of the Western Desert. Artists combine symbols, such as concentric circles, bars, footprints, horseshoe shapes and lines, to convey sacred stories.
Prior to Western contact, most art was produced in ceremonial contexts as body decoration, sand sculptures, ceremonial objects and rock art. Paints, made from ochres and charcoal, were augmented by the use of bird feathers and down. Today’s artists use traditional methods to express a personal style, telling more individualistic, often secular histories that continue to be informed by traditional practices, and often with an undercurrent of the sacred world. The works in Yiwarra Kuju largely reflect this development of personal style.
The exhibition was developed by the National Museum of Australia in partnership with the arts group FORM, which initiated the four-year Canning Stock Route Project that involved artists, traditional custodians and emerging Aboriginal curators and filmmakers from across Western Australia.
Background to the exhibition
Yiwarra Kuju is a vision of the Country that was intersected by Canning’s stock route. The Canning Stock Route was a cattle route used throughout the first half of the 20th Century for droving cattle through 1850 km of desert from the Kimberley to the southern goldfields of Western Australia. The stock route crossed lands that had been occupied for millennia by Aboriginal people, and regularly spaced wells were built over traditional soaks and springs that were vital to the survival of those communities.
The meeting of Aboriginal people and European surveyors and pastoralists that took place as a result of the opening up of the Canning Stock Route was initially violent. Eventually, however, the land and its resources came to be shared, to the extent that many Aboriginal people began to work on remote cattle stations and along the stock route. Today a number of Aboriginal communities lie on, or near, the old stock route, and a vigorous art movement flourishes in these communities.
Related Links : Exhibitions | Arts | History
Australia's Western Desert presents ‘Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route’ an exhibition of Aboriginal Art at DLF Place, Saket > 11am-10pm on 20th May to 22nd June 2015
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