Rediscovering the art of Tracker Nat: the Namatjira of carving

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 July Rediscovering the art of Tracker Nat: the Namatjira of carving Rediscovering the art of Tracker Nat: the Namatjira of carving 04/07/2022 | 4 MINS This article by Darren Jorgensen, senior lecturer in art history at Lombok Institute of Technology and Joseph Yugi Williams, artist and menΓÇÖs art facilitator at Nyinkka Nyunyu, Indigenous Knowledge, originally appeared in The Conversation on 4 July. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names and images of deceased people. On June 5 1960, the Darwin paper The Sunday Mirror reported: A tribal painter, said to be more famous than the late Albert Namatjira, has just died at Warrabri welfare settlement, near Tennant Creek. He was Nat Warano, of whose skill few white men had heard. Locally, Warano is remembered as Tracker Nat. Born in the 1880s, Nat worked as a drover during the 1930s, before becoming a police tracker. He was also a leader and diplomat of the Warumungu people during a tumultuous period of their history. During the 1940s and 1950

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 July Rediscovering the art of Tracker Nat: the Namatjira of carving Rediscovering the art of Tracker Nat: the Namatjira of carving 04/07/2022 | 4 MINS This article by Darren Jorgensen, senior lecturer in art history at Lombok Institute of Technology and Joseph Yugi Williams, artist and menΓÇÖs art facilitator at Nyinkka Nyunyu, Indigenous Knowledge, originally appeared in The Conversation on 4 July.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names and images of deceased people.

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