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They Are Meditating: Bark Paintings from the Museum of Contemporary Art's Arnott's Collection

Looks like a good one, recognise the artist on the front cover Kyle? I had a brief flick through and must say the quality of the barks are amazing!

Guan

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[kdidj]

Yirawala, no question.

I've contacted the MCA to see if I can get a copy.

Kyle

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[ididjaustralia]

Yup, correcto!

The book is $60 recommended retail price, comes in softcover. It isn't widely available yet as it just got published, but no doubt it should be available thru Amazon and lots of other places at some stage.

Guan

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[Yirrkala Arts]

Okay, I've got to brag here. After years of reading credits to Andrew Blake and Will Stubbs of Buku-Larrnggay Mulka in major exhibition catalogues, this is the first one I get to see Randin Graves thanked in. The Mulka Project should have gotten a mention foremost, so I'll stipulate that next time. I edited all the northeast Arnhem Land name spellings, clan affiliations, homelands, etc. of the artists and identified some paintings from the collection with the help of Wukun Wanambi, Baluka Maymuru, Banduk and the deceased Dr. R Marika. Of course some small details got mixed up at the last moment by somebody as is prone to happen, but most of it came through all right!

It's a good collection, and is (was?) a great looking show although the west Arnhem stuff seemed to be more significant than the northeastern, but maybe I just have higher expectations for the NE art. A few were great, though. I'm not in Yirrkala but when I'm back I'll post a photo of some of our crew with the banner for the show with a work from Mawalan Marika that moved me most. I'd seen it on the flyers and the banner as this huge thing. In person I was stunned to find that it was actually a very small bark with very fine painting rather than the large, broad-brushed work I was expecting.

I'll see if I can get a rush order in for a few copies to have some for anybody coming to the Djalu class who's interested. We just have one comp copy that anyone who comes by can flip through if they like. It really is a lovely book, and very thick - there's absolutely heaps of art in there. Can't say I've had time to actually read it yet, myself.

Randin

[kdidj]

My copy is on the way. Are you in Tasmania Randy? I've always wanted to get down there.

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[Yirrkala Arts]

Nope, never been to the l'il island state. The wife just got down there for a few days for a workshop, liked it but didn't get too see too much. I've got several friends in the Top End who have property down there and rave about it... maybe it's the planned southern retreat for when global warming makes the Top End totally unlivable.

[kdidj]

I received my copy of this book yesterday and it is fantastic. A must for anyone interested in bark paintings and their associated mythologies.

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[Yirrkala Arts]

Okay, it took me a while, but I'm posting the photo I mentioned earlier. It's four of the Mulka Project's favorite multimedia students outside of the MCA with the banner with my favorite bark from the show. Viewers of the Mulka Project's YouTube channel might recognize the stars of the 'Yolngu Land' hip hop and 'Education Song' music video clips and one of the girls from the 'Fishing Story'. The fourth student, Dhamarrarr Mununggurr, filmed most of 'Yolngu Land' and played the yidaki.