Join us this Friday 28 June at 6pm for the opening night of the exhibition Little Paintings, Big Stories: Gossip Songs from Western Arnhem Land at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.
Light refreshments will be available. Doors open: 5pm | Event starts: 6pm Drawn from the Berndt Museum of Anthropology collection, this exhibition explores the inter-relationship between the people, country and stories of Goulburn Island, Northern Territory, as they were in the past and as they are now. Little Paintings, Big Stories showcases bark paintings, photographs and sound recordings from the collection that convey the richness of djurrbilk or gossip songs. The subject matter of these songs is diverse and thoroughly intriguing. Djurrbilk stories use human characters in the guise of animals. The stories are sometimes based on actual events that have happened in the community, but the use of animals obscures the original characters and their actions, protecting their identity and saving embarrassment. The djurrbilk stories are amusing, and the songs through which these stories are told, are amazing. Aboriginal music will never be quite the same.
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