Art Gallery reflection

The art gallery established in 1871, the art gallery of NSW exhibits a broad range of traditional and contemporary works. The museum has both international and Australian collections thus satisfying a wide range of Artistic penchants.

The art gallery guide was Tahjee Moar on13 of May 2014; she explained that the gallery has Aboriginal contemporary and traditional art.

One  of  the  contemporary  art in  the  gallery  was dark  valloy,van diemen’s land ,by Julie Gough. It was made from wood, coal and  animals  horn, we  can see three  colours in this  art  black (shell) light  brown (wood) And gold (animal horn). This necklace has the shape of Tasmania, also it’s showing history in aboriginal in 1930 and  has  a lots of negative meanings  because  of  dark  colour, necklace symbolise for the heavy burden that hold on shoulders during the Aboriginal lifetime. Also it reflects the sadness and how much did that culture suffered before. I think this style is modern as we see Gough used new style and tried to develop the concept of traditional art.

One of the traditional art that i saw there was Tutini. These Tutini made by group of artists such as Laurie Nelson Mungatopi, Bob One Puatini ,Charlie Quite Kwangdini and burakmadjua. This art is very important for Tiwi culture; infact, it’s one from their ceremony. The Tutini has different shapes and styles that all are made by wood and designed by something like comb. Tutini puts around grave of people who descendant. They perform the ceremony with dancing and singing