The Art

The gallery will be dedicated to aboriginal artists. The art exhibited in the gallery will be contemporary Aboriginal Art. The gallery will be able to express the aboriginal people history and how far they have come. The aim of the gallery is to inspire the younger aboriginal generations and reintroduce them to their history. It will also be able to introduce a wider community to aboriginal history and contemporary aboriginal issues. I want the gallery to take the viewer on a journey into the past and also into the lives of aboriginal people today.

Contemporary Aboriginal art

Contemporary Aboriginal art has developed rapidly and for Aboriginal people it has become one of the most important ways in which they could comment on the political issues they are facing today and the issues they have faced in the past. Artists in urban settings and in larger Australian cities during the 1970s and 1980s began using art as a means of powerful social comment and political expression.
Contemporary Aboriginal artists began using a wide range of media ranging from painting to photography, digital work and installations. Through the use of such a wide range of media contemporary aboriginal artists have been able to challenge the stereotypical view of what it means to be aboriginal and have been able to battle against stereotyping Aboriginal art which sees work in ochre on bark. Through their work artists expressed political issues that Aboriginal people have been dealing with since the European settlement in the 1800s. Urban Aboriginal art depicts a wide range of political issues which include the interaction of black and white cultures, the assimilation policy, reconciliation and black death in custody.