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Geoffrey Robert Bardon AM (1940, Sydney – 6 May 2003) was an Australian school teacher.. Bardon studied law for three years at the University of Sydney, before changing to study art education at the National Art School in Sydney, graduating in 1965.
In Australian Aboriginal art, a Dreaming is a totemistic design or artwork, which can be owned by a tribal group or individual. This usage of anthropologist W. E. H. Stanner's term was popularised by Geoffrey Bardon in the context of the Papunya Tula artist collective he established in the 1970s.
The openness of the Bardon era was at an end. Dotting and over-dotting, as an ideal means of concealing or painting over dangerous, secret designs, became a fashion at this stage. The art was made public, watered down for general exhibition, pointing to the uniqueness of the Geoffrey Bardon years - which like innocence, cannot be rediscovered.
Contemporary Indigenous Australian art is the modern art work produced by Indigenous Australians, that is, Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander people. It is generally regarded as beginning in 1971 with a painting movement that started at Papunya, northwest of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, involving Aboriginal artists such as Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri and Kaapa ...
The Honey Ant Dreaming was a mural painted in early 1971 from June to August by Pintupi tribesmen on the outer wall of the school where Geoffrey Bardon taught in Papunya, Northern Territory, Australia. [1] The principal artist was Kaapa Tjampitjinpa [2] who had the assistance of Billy Stockman and Long Jack Tjakamarra. [3]
Bardon, G. (1979) Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert, Adelaide: Rigby; Bardon, G. (1991) Papunya Tula: Art of the Western Desert, Ringwood VIC: McPhee Gribble (Penguin) Bardon, G. (2005) Papunya, A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement, University of Melbourne: Miegunyah Press; Den Boer, E. (2012).
In early 1972, a painting room was created which became the main area in which Long Jack and the other painting men would create their art. Later into 1972, Long Jack would join the Papunya Tula cooperative created by Geoffery Bardon alongside Papunya painters Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri and Bill Stockman Tjapaltjarri. [ 9 ]
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