SEMINAR: Before the dots, before Papunya � Australian Aboriginal crayon drawings from Birrundudu

In the mid-1940s, Ronald M. Berndt collected 600 crayon drawings on brown paper created by Aboriginal men living at Birrundudu, North-Central Northern Territory. This talk focuses on the origins of these images and the intentions of the artists – even at that time – to engage with a wider public audience, and analyses the nature of Aboriginal depictions of people,country, and place prior to the commercialisation of their art that started at Papunya some 30 years later. * This is a UWA Extension event. Tickets $29. Bookings through www.extension.uwa.edu.au or phone 6488 2433