Indigenous Northern
Aboriginal art from the Kimberley and Top End
Issue 36:2 | June 2016
Edited by the Arnhem, Northern and Kimberley Artists Aboriginal Corporation. Coordinating editor: Christina Balcombe Davidson. Editorial advisory group: Djambawa Marawili (AM), Ngarralja Tommy May, Jedda Purrantatameri, Regina Pilawuk Wilson.
Presenting in-depth perspectives of artists and custodians of traditional knowledge living in regional communities and homelands of the Northern Territory and Western Australia. This edition has been commissioned in consultation with the Arnhem, Northern and Kimberley Artists Aboriginal Corporation (ANKA), representing Aboriginal artists and artsworkers from 49 remote art centres.
Cover: Mithili Wanambi in Dhapi ceremony, 2011. Photo: Sarah Jane Harvey. Courtesy The Mulka Project. | Above: Sea Rights victory celebrations, Yilpara Homeland, Blue Mud Bay, 2009. Photo: Isaiah Balcombe Ehrlich
In this issue
Revealed: We are a sovereign people
Keynote address presented on 17 April 2015 in Perth as part of the annual Revealed program supporting emerging Aboriginal artists from Western Australia.
Two laws protecting Kimberley rock art
On the role of law in preserving sacred sites in the Kimberley
