Slide out the spool.
November 8, 2009
Today I had the privilege of being able to view two wonderful exhibitions at the WA Art Gallery.
One, the last day of the W A Indigenous Art Awards and the other the work of master photographer Richard Woldendorp. A window seat in any plane journey is always my preference. Flying over this wonderful wide brown land I marvel at the expression of the arial view depicted by some Aboriginal Australians in their paintings. Doreen Reid Nakamarra (my people’s choice, who sadly died last week) a member of the Pupunya Tula artists, was one very special visual artist. Just how do a nomadic people know what their homelands look like from above?
And to have the two exhibitions together…… magical.
Here is my pic for the day taken at a school fete: