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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 ...
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The collective, originally entirely Aboriginal Australian men, formed in 1972. They derived the name tula from a small hill near Papunya, a Honey Ant Dreaming site. A few women, notably Pansy Napangardi, began to paint for the company in the late 1980s. It was not until 1994 that women generally began to participate.
The art forms include, but are not limited to, Aboriginal, Colonial, Landscape, Atelier, and Contemporary art. The visual arts in Australia have a rich and extensive history, with Aboriginal art dating back at least 30,000 years. The country has been the birthplace of many notable artists from both Western and Indigenous Australian schools.
Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative (1987–), founded by ten Aboriginal artists, six of whom are women; Susie Bootja Bootja Napaltjarri (c. 1935–2003), painter; Marion Borgelt (born 1954), painter, installation artist, mixed media artist; Polly Borland (born 1959), photographer; Nancy Borlase (1914–2006), painter, art critic
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Injalak Hill is an important Aboriginal rock art site located just one kilometre from the art centre across the floodplain, or about a 4-kilometre (2.5 mi) drive via the main roads. Injalak artists have acted as guides of Injalak Hill since the opening of the art centre in 1989.