• Home
  • Artwork
    • Artists
    • Themes
    • Latest Stock
  • Exhibitions
  • Videos
  • News
  • About
  • Contact
Menu
  • Home
  • Artwork
    • Artists
    • Themes
    • Latest Stock
  • Exhibitions
  • Videos
  • News
  • About
  • Contact
Search
Close
Artmob
SALE
Featured Image 1
Cool Autumn Sale 2022
Featured Image 2
Cool Autumn Sale 2022
Featured Image 3
Cool Autumn Sale 2022
Artmob
Search
Close

Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters is a must-visit exhibition for all Australians.

  • January 2, 2018

In this fascinating article (you can read the full article here) by Christine Judith Nicholls Senior Lecturer in Australian Studies, Flinders University we discover what sets this exhibition apart from so many others and why it is so important to the preservation of this Dreaming.

“Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters is a peerless exhibition of Aboriginal art, thrilling in its breadth and depth.

Seven years in the planning, now showing at the National Museum of Australia, it sets a standard that must be emulated elsewhere if the greater Australian population is to move beyond stereotypical truisms about Aboriginal narrative traditions, concepts and artefacts, which view these as simple or inferior to those of other world cultural traditions.

Songlines sets out to portray one of the most defining and predominant meta-narratives chronicled in ancient mainland Australia – the story of a predatory, lascivious, rejected loner – an Ancestral Being initially in the guise of a man – who relentlessly pursues seven sisters (Ancestral Women) over land and sky…” 

Continue reading on “The Conversation” web site…

PrevPreviousNamatjira Project Documentary
NextStar in Southern Cross constellation now known by traditional Aboriginal nameNext
Get in touch
  • 29 Hunter St, Hobart 7000,
    Tasmania, Australia
  • +61 3 6236 9200
  • euan@artmob.com.au
Follow us
Facebook-f Instagram
Subscribe to our newsletter
Sign up
We accept:
All works available with Art Money. 10 payments. 10 months. No interest.

Cash – locally only – up to $10,000 only. Layby facilities available. Card details can be advised securely using WhatsApp.

We pay our respects to the elders past and present of the Palawa people on whose land we are on.

© Art Mob Pty Ltd, Aboriginal Fine Art Dealer, all rights reserved.

Disclaimer | Privacy | Terms & Conditions

Indigenous Art Code Dealer
  • Home
  • Artwork
    • Artists
    • Themes
    • Latest Stock
  • Exhibitions
  • Videos
  • News
  • About
  • Contact
Menu
  • Home
  • Artwork
    • Artists
    • Themes
    • Latest Stock
  • Exhibitions
  • Videos
  • News
  • About
  • Contact

Subscribe to our newsletter