April 27 through September 9, 2012
United-Legard Galleries
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 26
Public 6-8 pm
cover image: William Sandy, Bush Tucker Dreaming, 1988, acrylic on canvas
(c) 2012 Aboriginal Artists Agency, Sydney
About the Exhibition
8Circles in the Sand: Aboriginal Art from Australia’s Central Desert in the Kluge-Ruhe Collection includes work from three desert communities – Papunya, Yuendumu and Balgo – each with their own distinct history and style of painting. In putting together this exhibition, Kluge-Ruhe focused on the art centers associated with these communities, which not only market art on behalf of the artists, but also serve community interests and empower Aboriginal people to achieve their own goals.
Related Events
Film Showing
Ten Canoes
Monday and Tuesday, April 23 and 24
Abingdon Cinemall
$7.50 for Community Admission
This Australian Aboriginal film is an impressive achievement of ethnographic cinema, a collaboration between a Western filmmaker Rolf de Heer and the native people of Ramingining. Aboriginal actor David Gulpulil narrates the story of a young man on a hunting trip with tribal elders who is told an ancestral tale about a youth who covets one of his brother’s three wives. The universal aspects of myth converge in this humorous drama which echoes creation stories from other cultures around the world. (90 minutes)
