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Two Collections
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Hi Interested Folks,"Two Collections" celebrates the history of Australian Indigenous art on canvas or board since its dramatic beginnings circa 1970. Early works are from the Wilkerson collection (1971-1985-ish), and later works are from the Martin/Stringfield collection.The site is intended for reference, scholarship, and for admirers of Australian Indigenous art. Also, the curious. It is not a commercial site.Note: Copyright for the photos is pending. The site is still being formed and not all data has been thoroughly applied. Give us time!Enjoy,
John, Barbara, Anne, and Steve -
Essays
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What New York Could Learn from Alice Springs
Deborah Solomon'Contemporary Australian Indigenous painting has an official start date of 1971, an era when Minimalist artists in New York were turning out metal cubes and proclaiming that “painting is dead”' -
Contemporary Art of the Everywhen
Myles Russell-Cook'Two Collections reminds us of the dynamic and evolving nature of Indigenous art as a living testament to resilience, creativity, and cultural connection' -
Ways of Looking at Western Desert Paintings
Fred MyersThe works presented on this website from the two collections probably should be understood as emanations of the ‘acrylic painting movement’ that began at Papunya in 1971 with the painters... -
Country, Cosmos, and Continuity: Indigenous Australian Art as Living Knowledge
Mayatili MarikaIt is an extraordinary moment in history to be Indigenous Australian. Only a generation or two ago, our forebears, living forty, fifty, or sixty years in the past, could scarcely...
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