Audio on demand
A new ritual in contemporary Aboriginal art
Dr Sally Butler, University of Queensland
Emily Kame Kngwarreye series, 22 August 2008
The art of Emily Kame Kngwarreye and the use of cultural rituals to demonstrate Aboriginal modernity is explored by curator Sally Butler. She also compares Emily’s art practices to 1970s and 1980s modernist design techniques.
Emily Kame Kngwarreye series
- Emily: the impossible modernistJohn McDonald and Dr Margo Neale with Virginia Trioli
- Janet on the spotJanet Holmes à Court and Dr Margo Neale
- ‘Why do those fellas paint like me …?’ Emily Kame Kngwarreye symposium welcome and introductionDennis Grant, Dr Margo Neale and Agnes Shea
- The impossible modernist: an ‘outsider’ viewProfessor Akira Tatehata, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
- The possible modernist: an ‘insider’ viewDr Ian McLean, University of Western Australia
- Late-style modernist: a ‘boundary rider’ viewDjon Mundine, Campbelltown Arts Centre
- An artist first and foremostChristopher Hodges, Utopia Art Sydney
- Emily Kame Kngwarreye: her place in Australian artSusan McCulloch
- A new ritual in contemporary Aboriginal artDr Sally Butler, University of Queensland
- Emily as located historian: the Camel Lady narrates a history of discovery without 1788Professor Ann McGrath, Australian National University
- Emily Kngwarreye’s practice of painting: an international perspectiveProfessor Terry Smith, University of Pittsburgh, United States
- Japanese responses to the Emily exhibitionChiaki Ajoika, Hitomi Toku and Mayumi Uchida
- New directionsGwen Horsfield and Chrischona Schmidt, Australian National University
