Director's foreword / Gerard Vaughan -- Sponsor's foreword / Bernie Brookes -- Prelude to canvas: batik cadenzas wax lyrical / Judith Ryan -- Colour plates -- Tjungu nintiringanyi munu kunpu kanyini Ernabella-Ia: learning together and staying strong at Ernabella / Hilary Furlong -- Batik lines flow over sand dune country: Kaltjiti Arts / Diana James -- Drawn together: the Utopia batik phenomenon / Julia Murray -- Warlpiri sensibility and grace: Yuendumu batik / Felicity Wright -- Before painting: the Kintore batiks / Marina Strocchi -- Bush couture: brining the bush to town / Katie Somerville -- Footprints in the red dirt: reflections / Linda Jackson -- Biographies and checklist -- Chronology
Summary
Discusses the development of Batik in the various Aboriginal communities in central Australia. In addition there is an article on Batik within the Australian fashion world as a comparison to Aboriginal Batik
Analysis
Art of indigenous peoples (Australia)
Australian Aboriginal studies
Notes
Published to accompany the exhibition held 10 October 2008 to 1 February 2009, at the Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria