Heart of Country: Arnhem Land Barks Publisher / BIS leading authority and film expert

leading authority and film expert David Curtis offers a vivid account of the numerous individuals who have been inspired by the cinematic medium and felt compelled to interpret and respond to it in their own way

pride of place

revealing how artists have responded to new strategies of feminism for the current moment

fantasy and abstraction

Heart of Country: Arnhem Land Barks Publisher / BIS leading authority and film expertThe heart of this exhibition is the relationship to Country expressed in diverse and sometimes oblique ways by four generations of Indigenous artists from Arnhem Land and beyond. Core works come from a remarkable private collection of bark paintings assembled by Donna Marie Kelly and Andrew Dyer, featuring some of the finest painters of Arnhem Land who are shown in strength Yirawala (12 works), Bobby Barrdjaray Nganjmirra (7 works) and Wally Mandarrk