Wanjina
Brisbane: Mowanjum art on show
Gordon Barunga and other Mowanjum artists have work on display at QUT Art Museum, Brisbane.
The Australian [read this story]
Scientists head north to date rock art
How old are the oldest Wanjina cave paintings?
Gwion Gwion rock paintings, Oomarri (images courtesy Ambrose Mungala Chalarimeri; photographs by Richard Downs)
How much older are the Gwion-Gwions, the stick figures that artists stopped painting many hundreds of years before they painted the first Wanjinas?
Archaeologists will be applying a raft of scientific dating methods to paintings at Theda and Doongan stations to try and settle the matter.
Science Network [read this story]
Mowanjum: Wanjina documentary in production
Donny Woolagoodja's Wanjina at Sydney Olympic games opening pageant 2000
Film maker Tim Mummery, who started making the film in 2002, is seeking funds to complete it.
Broome Advertiser [read this story]
Katoomba: Man damages ‘Wanjina’ art
NSW gallery owner Vesna Tenodi says police have caught a man damaging controversial art outside her property.
The art work has attracted considerable hostility from local Aborigines and Mowanjum Art Centre, and is subject to a NSW court order to remove it.
Opinion: Arts Law Centre on NSW Wanjina sculpture controversy
Gallery owner Vesna Tenodi with the offending stone sculpture encased in a pine crate with protest messages
A group set up to protect artists’ legal rights disputes a statement by NSW gallery owner Vesna Tenodi.
The Arts Law Centre, which represents Mowanjum Arts Centre, described a Wanjina carving displayed by Ms Tenodi as “a public expression of racial, cultural and religious intolerance”.
You can read the group’s statement here:
Katoomba: ‘Wanjina’ sculpture attacked
Gallery owner Vesna Tenodi with the offending stone sculpture encased in a pine crate with protest messages
A controversial stone sculpture has been vandalised, says NSW gallery owner Vesna Tenodi.
She said witnesses saw a man painting the engraved limestone block late on Sunday. more »
Katoomba: ‘Wanjina’ gallery fence graffitied
The NSW gallery forced to remove a ‘Wanjina’ sculpture from its yard has had its front fence graffitied.
“They are tragic people and they cannot change,” said gallery owner Vesna Tenodi, who was ordered by her local council and the NSW courts to remove the artwork because it offended Aboriginal people.
“Vesna, you are a fraud and a liar,” reads the graffiti, just in front of the offending sculpture which was encased in a pine box painted with protest messages.
Gallery owner Vesna Tenodi with the offending stone sculpture encased in a pine crate with protest messages
Katoomba: Gallery to remove ‘Wanjina’ sculpture
A New South Wales gallery owner is removing a large Wanjina sculpture from her yard, following council pressure.
Vesna Tenodi has had the offending sculpture encased in a pine box with protest messages against what she described as “censorship”.
The council refused planning permission for the artwork, following sustained pressure from local Aboriginal people and artists at Mowanjum.
You can read her media release here:
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