Wamulu

A group of Aboriginal artists used paint made from the wamulu flower to create contemporary and permanent works of art, honoring the traditional Aboriginal process of communal performance and song. This catalogue for an exhibition at the Fondation Opale showcases the project.

Format: Hardback
Length: 128 pages
Publication date: 13 June 2022
Publisher: Five Continents Editions

This second book in the Aboriginal Arts and Knowledge series documents a body of work created cooperatively by four artists: Ted Egan Tjangala, Dinny Nolan Tjampitjinpa, Johnny Possum Tjapaltjarri, and Albie Morris Tjampitjinpa. Wamulu, a yellow flower, has traditionally been used during ritual ceremonies in the western desert of Australia. The wamulu flower is gathered, dried, cut up, and mixed with ochre and binders before being applied to the ground. This catalogue for an exhibition at the Fondation Opale showcases an exceptional project that took place near Alice Springs between 2002 and 2005, where this collective of artists used paint made from the wamulu flower, which is most often associated with impermanence, to create contemporary and permanent works of art. At the same time, they honoured the traditional Aboriginal process of communal performance, participation, and song that emphasises the link between the present and the past. Includes an interview with the noted Aboriginal art expert Arnaud Serval, who facilitated the work of the collective.

Text in English and French.

Weight: 651g
Dimension: 250 x 200 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9788874399970