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Australia

Central Aboriginal Artists 2D Art

Cultural Preservation - Evolving

Set among some of the world’s most dramatic and remote desert landscapes, the idyllically named town of Utopia, Australia, is the ancestral homeland of Eastern Anmatyerre and Alyawarre Indigenous people. Aboriginal women from the area played a key role in reclaiming ancestral territory and in rejuvenating ancient artistic practices that were almost lost forever. Much of the art involves awelye, or ceremonial body paint. Featuring constellations of dots and linear patterns, the work contains a myriad of motifs and characters, medicinal plants and figures from Aboriginal mythology.

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