#indigenous australian

[forever70s]

David Gulpilil in "Storm Boy" (1976)

[hollie47]

Evie Cooper is very quickly becoming a new blorbo. I love the character and how much range she has. It's not every day there's a queer first nations woman on a show that bears the NCIS title made in Australia. As a queer first nations person of Australia Tuuli Narkle is the first person I've come across who I can look at and feel a sort of connection with.

[abwwia]

Julie Dowling (b.1969) is an Indigenous Australian artist whose work, in a social realist style, deals with issues of Aboriginal identity. She identifies culturally and politically as a Badimaya First Nation woman. via Wikipedia

www.instagram.com/dr.juliedowling

www.juliedowling.net | @dr.juliedowling

Julie Dowling, Badimaya people, Self-portrait: in our country 2002, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 2002 © Julie Dowling/Copyright Agency, 2022

‘I am situated [in this painting] as a member of this group with time not separating our mutual connection to this Country.’ Julie Dowling, 2002

Source: Artist statement, 2002

Julie Dowling, ‘Self portrait: Black bird’, 2002, synthetic polymer paint, red ochre, glitter and metallic paint on canvas, 120 x 100cm. State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Gift of Brigitte Braun, 2017, © Julie Dowling / Copyright Agency.

Julie Dowling, Badimaya people, Black Madonna: Omega, 2004, synthetic polymer paint, red ochre, glitter and metallic paint on canvas, 120 x 100 cm, Art Gallery of Western Australia collection, Perth, image courtesy the artist and Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth © Julie Dowling

Julie DOWLING, Mary, 2001

Oil on linen, 150 x 120 cm

© Julie Dowling

My great grandmother’s portrait is shown in a heroic portrait tradition found in Europe and America. This picture is about my history as valid by using those styles honoured by Non-First Nation art critics and historians.

#JulieDowling #palianshow #womensart #artbywomen #artherstory #firstnation #AustralianArtist #indigenouspeople

[melaninnmagixc]

[northern-punk-lad]

I only just heard about the Australian referendum results and my heart goes out to all the Indigenous Australian’s

[cripplerage]

Is it ok to buy Aboriginal art from corporations (i.e. Lowes, Kmart) if they commission and credit Aboriginal artists or should I only support small businesses directly? /g

[elinekeit-artstuff]

A wonderful link for anyone who's interested in supporting some Aboriginal businesses and artists + get some neat stuff!

[in-the-toilet3]

A beautiful artwork by an Australian artist. It's done with brush markers, and its a canvas painting of freshwater waterlilies!

[tenth-sentence]

Until recent centuries, these areas were still occupied by hunter-gatherers – Native Americans in the first three cases and Aboriginal Australians or Native Siberians in the last two.

"Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years" - Jared Diamond

[aphantpoet]

Indigenous cultures in Atla

https://www.tiktok.com/@cocobree/video/7168195840337562922?_r=1&_t=8XWyMpY2MAD&is_from_webapp=v1&item_id=7168195840337562922

https://www.baronnews.com/2020/07/22/cultures-represented-in-avatar-the-last-airbender/

1. Katara is a cartoon character from a fictional country in a fictional universe.

2. The country, or rather tribe she comes from is based in indigenous cultures.  the clothing is mostly based in the  Inuit and Yupik peoples. The boomerang [called  a kylie, Kali or Garli in other mobs] comes from Aboriginal Australian culture, as does the war paint. Aztec and, once again, Inuit  culture was used for architecture. 

Regardless of the potential problematic implication that all Indigenous cultures are interchangable , Katara and Sokka are not White. No one in Atla is because it’s a world inspired by east asian and Indigenous culture.

[areawest]

[abwwia]

Julie Dowling, ‘Self portrait: Black bird’, 2002, synthetic polymer paint, red ochre, glitter and metallic paint on canvas, 120 x 100cm. State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Gift of Brigitte Braun, 2017, © Julie Dowling / Copyright Agency.

[autisticexpression2]

Seeing a lot of posts about the Palestinian flag, and it got me thinking about indigenous flags around the world.

Māori:

Kalaallit Nunaat:

Haudenosaunee

Nunatsiavut:

Australian Aboriginal:

Torres Strait Islands:

Rapa Nui:

Kurdistan:

Sami:

Ainu:

Of course, these are just a handful. May they all reclaim their stolen lands.

[triumph-of-adaptation]

I know yall love quokkas but I feel like not enough people know that Rottnest Island / Wadjemup literally still has mass graves of Aboriginal men. The place is haunted af. 4000 Aboriginal men were imprisoned there and used for forced labour to build a prison. This went on for a century (1838-1931) and it’s still a painful history for a lot of Aboriginal people in Boorloo and across Western Australia. It’s literally on the Rottnest website. If you’re visiting for the cute quokkas just be respectful of the history.

[cripplerage]

One time I went to an Indigenous focused doctors office and the doctor told me he wouldn't treat me because I'm too smelly.

Too bad there's no group of Indigenous people that could advise the government on how to assist Indigenous people in getting our needs met or anything...

[rattylvr]

Can't wait for heritage day

Gonna wear self made raffia jewellery‼️