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Aboriginal art symbols, on Art Ark - gives meanings of some common symbols; Guide to Indigenous Art Centres (Australian Art Collector magazine) "Country, memory and art: Understanding Indigenous art", audio + transcript, by Howard Morphy, John Carty, and Michael Pickering. National Museum of Australia, 8 December 2010
Yawkyawk, Aboriginal shape-shifting mermaids who live in waterholes, freshwater springs, and rock pools, cause the weather and are related by blood or through marriage (or depending on the tradition, both) to the rainbow serpent Ngalyod. Yee-Na-Pah, an Arrernte thorny devil spirit girl who marries and echidna spirit man.
Several styles of Aboriginal art have developed in modern times including the watercolour paintings of Albert Namatjira, the Hermannsburg School, and the acrylic Papunya Tula "dot art" movement. Painting is a large source of income for some Central Australian communities such as at Yuendumu .
A rock art of Mamaragan/Namarrkon (upper right) in Kakadu National Park. In Australian Aboriginal mythology (specifically: Kunwinjku), Mamaragan [1] [2] [3] or Namarrkon [4] [3] is a lightning Ancestral Being who speaks with thunder as his voice. He rides a storm-cloud and throws lightning bolts to humans and trees. He lives in a Billabong.
This practice only lasted a short time before these secret sacred symbols were hidden by artist like Clifford Possum behind veils of dots. [7] Most of the symbols people associate with aboriginal art from this region like concentric circles, U shapes and wavy lines all come from earlier designs on tjurunga.
Contemporary Indigenous Australian art is a national movement of international significance with work by Indigenous artists, including paintings by those from the Western Desert, achieving widespread critical acclaim. Because naming conventions for Indigenous Australians vary widely, this list is ordered by first name rather than surname.
Wandjina rock art on the Barnett River, Mount Elizabeth Station. The Wandjina, also written Wanjina and Wondjina and also known as Gulingi, are cloud and rain spirits from the Wanjina Wunggurr cultural bloc of Aboriginal Australians, depicted prominently in rock art in northwestern Australia.
Bunjil's Shelter The wedge-tailed eagle is the largest bird of prey in Australia Eagle is a 23-metre tall sculpture by Bruce Armstrong, inspired by Bunjil.. Bunjil, also spelt Bundjil, is a creator deity, culture hero and ancestral being, often depicted as a wedge-tailed eagle in Australian Aboriginal mythology of some of the Aboriginal peoples of Victoria.