Summary

Poster promoting the travelling exhibition 'Nyungar Landscapes: Aboriginal Artists of the South-West: the heritage of Carrolup, Western Australia'. The exhibition was arranged by the University of Western Australia Berndt Museum of Anthropology. Depicted in the centre of the poster is the painting 'Imagined bush corroboree' by Reynold Hart circa 1948. A Noongar artist and member of the Pinjarup and Kaniyang peoples of southwest Western Australia, Hart would have been about 10 years old when he painted this artwork. Hart was one of a number of Aboriginal children sent to live at the government run Carrolup Aboriginal settlement near Katanning, Western Australia, in the1940s. Encouraged by the settlement's teacher Noel White, Hart and other resident children developed a highly original artistic interpretation of their natural environment. The art movement initiated by these young children - many of who were aged between 12 and 14 years - continues to inspire subsequent generations of Aboriginal artists from the region. The exhibition travelled to Museums Victoria in August 1993 to January 1994.

Physical Description

Colour ink on paper. Title: 'Nyungar Landscapes'. Features artwork on dark green background. Printed text in white.

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