All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 November Art from Balgo Country celebrated in new book Art from Balgo Country celebrated in new book 24/11/2021 | 3 MINS The beautiful and unique artworks from remote Indigenous communities including Birrundudu, Papunya, Yuendumu and Balgo are celebrated in full-colour photographs in the new book Balgo: Creating Country. The monograph, by Professor John Carty and published by LIT Publishing, has been put together in conjunction with the Warlayirti Arts Centre. It tells the story of the Balgo art movement, one of the most vibrant, colourful and influential schools of Western Desert painting in Australia. But to tell that story, it also tells another, the story of Balgo itself- a tiny community on the fringes of the desert, created by missionaries, and now governed by Aboriginal people. Warlayirti artist Eva Nagomarra said in the early days they painted in their cultural ways but on the mission their work focused on landscapes and then art for the church. Image: Painting camp, 1982. Photo: Warwick Nieas. ΓÇ£We decided we gotta do our own
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 November Art from Balgo Country celebrated in new book Art from Balgo Country celebrated in new book 24/11/2021 | 3 MINS The beautiful and unique artworks from remote Indigenous communities including Birrundudu, Papunya, Yuendumu and Balgo are celebrated in full-colour photographs in the new book Balgo: Creating Country.
The monograph, by Professor John Carty and published by LIT Publishing, has been put together in conjunction with the Warlayirti Arts Centre.
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It tells the story of the Balgo art movement, one of the most vibrant, colourful and influential schools of Western Desert painting in Australia.
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But to tell that story, it also tells another, the story of Balgo itself- a tiny community on the fringes of the desert, created by missionaries, and now governed by Aboriginal people.
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Warlayirti artist Eva Nagomarra said in the early days they painted in their cultural ways but on the mission their work focused on landscapes and then art for the church.
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