Trevor Nickolls was born in Port Adelaide in 1949, a Ngarrindjeri man who spent his early career entirely within Western art traditions before a 1979 encounter with Warlpiri painter Dinny Nolan Tjampitjinpa transformed his practice. He coined the phrase "Dreamtime to Machinetime" to describe the collision of Aboriginal tradition and urban industrialisation, and in 1990 became one of the first Aboriginal artists to represent Australia at the Venice Biennale. Artist Brenda L Croft called him the father of urban Aboriginal art.
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Born in 1952 at Mumeka in West Arnhem Land, John Mawurndjul learned to paint in the late 1970s under his brother and uncle at Maningrida Arts and Culture. His radical extension of rarrk cross-hatching across the entire bark surface transformed the tradition and earned
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Ten key facts that introduce Aboriginal art and its cultural foundations
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Frontier Resistance Leaders You Should KnowTaken together, these profiles point to a sustained and widespread history of frontier conflict in Australia. Aboriginal resistance occurred across regions and generations, shaped by local conditions, leadership, and the pressures of colonial expansion.
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Who appears on the Australian $2 coin, and did he consent to the use of his image? Gwoya Tjungurrayi was a Warlpiri and Anmatyerr man from Central Australia.
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The modern land rights movement developed through sustained activism, labour organisation, and legal challenge. It did not arise suddenly, nor was it driven by a single event.
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Do you know who appears on the Australian $50 note and why? David Unaipon was a Ngarrindjeri inventor, writer, and public intellectual.
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A factual overview of colonial frontier massacres in Australia, outlining how systemic violence was used against Aboriginal people to clear land, silence resistance, and reshape communities. The legacy of this history continues to shape culture, memory, and connection to Country today.
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Revisions: Made by the Warlpiri of Central Australia with Patrick Waterhouse is now showing at Burrinja Cultural Centre in the Dandenong Ranges, Victoria. This extraordinary exhibition reimagines Australia’s colonial archives through Warlpiri story and Country. If you’re nearby between 25 October 2025 and 1 March 2026, it’s well worth a vis
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Aboriginal artists from Laramba create ceremonial ground paintings in Switzerland, sharing Anmatyerr culture, Country, and song with the world.
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