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Read • ‘Skullcap’ honours Australian servicemen
In 2013 Shirley Macnamara began to make skullcaps, reminiscent of a customary funerary practice for some Aboriginal women where their heads were plastered with white … -
Read • Get up, stand up: Queensland Indigenous art
A selection of Indigenous art takes movement, both literal and figurative, as its theme, inspired by the well-known song of the same name, featuring … -
Read • Below the earth’s surface
Though Australia’s link with the land is strong, and the ways in which we’ve used it have largely determined the Australian character, our … -
Read • Shirley Macnamara: fibre artist
Shirley Macnamara is a fibre artist with a significant career dating from the mid 1990s. Her work Wingreeguu 2012 is a woven sculptural installation based … -
Read • Shirley Macnamara: Respect, balance & belonging
Indjalandji artist Shirley Macnamara weaves the Queensland desert landscape into the very fabric of her work, creating exquisite sculptural forms and vessels from spinifex and … -
Read • Terrain: A landscape of ideas and possibilities
From the Gallery’s contemporary collection of Indigenous Australian paintings, weavings and sculpture comes a new exhibition, featuring works from north Queensland, Tasmania, the central …