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Date

5 July - 1 December

Venue

Burrinja Inner Gallery

Powerful Barks
Aboriginal Bark Paintings in the McLeod Gift Collection

The 2013 National NAIDOC Week is themed We value the vision: The Yirrkala Bark Petitions. It celebrates the 50th anniversary of the presenting of a pair of bark paintings to the Australian Parliament. Signed by 13 clan leaders of the Yolngu region on Gove Peninsula the bark petitions became an important catalyst for a process of legislative and constitutional reform to recognise the rights of Indigenous Australians.

In line with the NAIDOC theme the Burrinja Gallery is presents an exhibition of bark paintings from the McLeod Gift Collection by Jimmy Mamulunhawuy, Yirrkala, and by Nawakadj 'Bobby' Nganjmirra from Oenpelli

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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We acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nations as the traditional custodians of the land where we live, work & play. We pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging. Burrinja extends that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today and acknowledges them as the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. It is through valuing their history, traditions, culture and beliefs that we strive to stimulate awareness and promote respect for Indigenous contemporary art and culture and create a positive future for Indigenous and non-indigenous communities together.

Sovereignty was never ceded.

Always was always will be Aboriginal land.