PUBLIC TALK: WINTERarts Wild & Woolly

In the mid-1940s, Ronald M Berndt collected 600 drawings in crayon on sheets of brown paper created by Aboriginal men living at Birrundudu, located in North-Central Norther Territory. This talk focuses on the origins of the images and the intentions of the artists - even at the time - to engage with a much wider and 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.