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Title Contemporary Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art : now days - early days : art works and legends / editor Anna Eglitis ; associate editors Arone Meeks & Ken Thaiday
Published Rockhampton, Qld. : Central Queensland University Press, 2000

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Description xvi, 160 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Series New Items
Contents Brolgas and the animals: Cairns North State Primary School mural / Brian Robinson, Shaun Kalk Edwards, Thomas Bosen -- Artefacts of the Torres Strait before the London Missionary's Society's arrival / Ricardo Idagi -- Yirrganydji dreaming / Patricia Singleton -- Shark dancer / Anne Abednego Gela -- In search of / Zane Saunders -- Hunting Dugong / Wanjidari (Leanne Reid) -- Staging flame / Wayne Kite -- Serpent creation / Mary Cummins -- Creation painting / Daniel Geia & Colin Wightman -- Eels / Lisa Michl -- Blue shark / Priscilla Seden -- Four brothers / Glen Mackie -- Legend of the boulders / Bindur Bullin -- Badulgau Dthoeri / Robert Mast -- Buutmaroo / Mabel Edmund -- Good (the ancient Barramundi) / Leon Burchill -- Shark head / Glenn Sheppard -- Dancing Brolga / Patty Morris -- Our Mu-Yi Bub / Blair Malthouse -- Lagau Dunalaig (island lifestyle) / Laurie Nona -- Platypus / Sam Wilson -- Self-portrait / Vernon Ah Kee -- Portrait of my great-great-grandfather / Walter Raymond Lui -- Pink and purple waterlily dreaming / Ethel Sambo -- Mangrove mudflats / Munganbana (Norman Miller) / Djubba (tree goanna) / Matu (Brian O'Beirns) -- Black hole in the sky / Shirley Christian -- Kah (Echidna man) / Gordon Landers -- Minya / Marilyn Kepple -- Women's dreaming place / Linda Kamara Myers -- Seven sisters / Shelley Monkland (Djarainj) -- Ma Rembeling-Long Nose Sugarbag (wild honey bee) / Shaun Kalk Edwards -- Mum and Dad's pillow talk / Janet Fieldhouse -- Smithfield State High School mural / Zane Saunders -- Smithfield State High School mural / Frank McLeod -- Smithfield State High School mural / Tatipai Barsa -- Woree State High School mural / Ikanbala-Richard McLean -- Woree State High School mural / Emoch Tranby -- Woree State High School mural / Robert Mast -- Cairns North State Primary School mural / Colin Higgins, James Meeks, Dennis Nona, Brian Robinson -- Caravonica State Primary School mural Cairns / Lynette Snider, John Gee, Shane Gorry, Nicholas -- Gurruru-Brolga Dance / Deborah Cotter -- Fish pot / Harry Nona -- Coming of the light / Kathryn Norris -- Old times-dormitory times / Samantha Meeks -- Mura Uruiau Danaka / Alick Tipoti -- Searching for food / Joseph McIvor -- Dungal Au Biber-R (the power of the Dugong) / Joey Laifoo -- Hunters / Colin Higgins -- Mal Lag Ar Dapparr-Aw Whural Ar Idal / Dennis Nona -- Women's shield / Shannon Shaw -- Aboriginal Croations / Helena Loncaric -- Le-Op (face of man) / Joseph Dorante -- Self-portrait / Jakki Skeen -- Goanna hunting turtle eggs / Warren Brim -- On the lugger / Andrew Williams -- Giving your heart to the Lord / Joseph Cummins -- Headdress / Sophie Buli -- Rainforest 1 / Felicia Andy -- Crayfish on the reef / Lorraine Iboai -- Stingrays / Tatipai Barsa -- Coming of the light / Ken Thaiday -- Tweret spirits, Njoorlum spirits and anthromorphs of the Aboriginal life / Pooaraar (Bevan Hayward) -- Past and the present / Frederick Baira -- Zugutiam-the shark of Zugu / Matatia Andrew Warrior -- Sea gods have awoken / Brian Robinson -- Giant barracuda / Daniel Geia -- We were never part of the Industrial Revolution / Elaine Lampton -- Two lobsters / Allan Palm Island -- Linking cultures / Jenuarrie -- Sea god / Ceferino Garcia Sabatino
Summary Descriptions and images of works by seventy Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, graduates of the Visual Arts Program of the Tropical North Queensland Institute of TAFE, Cairns ; paintings, prints, murals, pottery and carving ; includes brief biographies of artists
Notes '... the works of seventy Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists. All are graduates of the visual Arts program at the Tropical North Queensland Institute of TAFE in Cairns' -- foreword
Aboriginal content
Subject Cairns College -- Graduate students
Aboriginal Australians -- Folklore.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland, Northern -- Folklore
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland, Northern -- Legends
Aboriginal Australians -- Painting -- Australia -- Queensland, Northern
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland -- Far North Region -- Art
Aboriginal Australians -- Queensland, North -- Folklore
Aboriginal Australians -- Queensland, Northern -- Folklore
Aboriginal Australians -- Queensland, Northern -- Legends
Aboriginal Australians -- Queensland, Northern -- Legends
Aboriginal Australians -- Painting -- Queensland, Northern
Art students -- Queensland, North
Art students -- Queensland, Northern
Art, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Queensland -- Far North Region
Art, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Queensland.
Art, Australian -- Aboriginal artists
Art, Australian -- Queensland, North -- Aboriginal artists
Art, Australian -- Queensland, North -- Torres Strait Islander artists
Art, Australian -- Queensland, Northern -- Aboriginal artists
Art, Australian -- Queensland, Northern -- Torres Strait Islander artists
Art, Torres Strait Islander.
Artists, Aboriginal Australian -- Queensland, Northern -- 20th century
Artists, Aboriginal Australian.
Legends -- Australia.
Painting, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Queensland, Northern
Painting, Aboriginal Australian -- Queensland, Northern
Painting, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Queensland.
Painting, Australian -- Australia -- Queensland, Northern -- Aboriginal artists
Painting, Australian -- Queensland, Northern -- Aboriginal artists
Painting, Torres Strait Islander - -- Queensland, Northern
Painting, Torres Strait Islander -- Australia -- Queensland, Northern
Painting, Torres Strait Islander -- Queensland, Northern
Painting, Torres Strait Islander
Torres Strait Islanders -- Folklore.
Torres Strait Islanders -- Painting.
Genre/Form Legends.
Author Eglitis, Anna.
Meeks, Arone Raymond, 1957-
Thaiday, Ken
LC no. 00002035
ISBN 1875998330 (paperback)
1875998721
Other Titles Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art
Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art