{"title":"John Carty","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohn Carty’s works explore the intricate relationship between the natural world and human experience, weaving vivid imagery with thoughtful reflection. Titles such as \u003cem\u003eBeyond Borders\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSun \u0026amp; Shadow\u003c\/em\u003e invite readers to traverse landscapes both physical and emotional, blending artistic insight with cultural observation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted deeply in \u003cstrong\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/strong\u003e, Carty’s books offer a unique fusion of narrative and visual storytelling. Whether through evocative drawings or contemplative prose, his collections encourage a fresh perspective on creativity and place.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"birrundudu-drawings-by-jason-gibson-9781763733145","title":"Birrundudu Drawings","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBirrundudu Drawings\u003c\/em\u003e is a revelatory body of imagery that recasts the conversation around desert art in Australia, offering a chance to look anew at a phenomenon at risk of drifting, through the fog of familiarity, from our understanding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBirrundudu Drawings\u003c\/em\u003e brings to the world for the first time artworks from a series of 810 drawings produced in 1945 by Aboriginal men in the Northern Territory, a collection today cared for by the Berndt Museum at the University of Western Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Birrundudu Drawings represent one of the most significant bodies of historical imagery ever introduced into the canons of Australian art. The crayon drawings were created by sixteen Aboriginal men working on a Northern Territory cattle station in 1945. That place was Birrundudu, an outpost of Gordon Downs, a large cattle station with a lease that extended across the Northern Territory and Western Australian borders.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe works resulted from the men's engagement with the anthropologists Ronald and Catherine Berndt. Dutifully recording as much information about their meaning as he could, Ronald Berndt and the men who made these drawings captured an extraordinary record of the Country, ancestors, history, and ceremonies of the region. Apart from a handful of drawings, most of the collection has never been seen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese drawings sat in silence for eighty years- first in the Berndts' home and then at the museum. Some of these silences are interrogated in this book, while others will take longer to resolve. What is beyond doubt is the fact that the Birrundudu Drawings represent a monumental body of Aboriginal knowledge and creativity. The drawings are not simply important because they have never been seen, nor because there are so many of them. 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Alatuti. Oloodoodi. Patrick. Tjungurray. He is a man of many names, and they speak to many lives lived. Each handle gets held for a while in different times and places. He was a young warrior by his first name, but by each of his subsequent names he has stood just as proud. By each of those names he has fought for his rights, and the rights of his people, to live their lives their way, on their terms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough the prism of Patrick's art and life, \u003cem\u003eBeyond Borders\u003c\/em\u003e illuminates a unique part of the twentieth century Australian history and art history. It also tells of a health crisis faced by Aboriginal people across Australia and an innovative and effective response to this crisis being driven by an extraordinary Indigenous organisation, the Purple House (Western Desert Dialysis).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePatrick Tjungurrayi is revered throughout the Western Desert for his strength in Aboriginal Law, feted in the art-world for the originality and power of his paintings, and respected everywhere for his stand against the inadequate health bureaucracy of central Australia. His life illuminates the history, art history, and political history of Australia throughout the twentieth century. 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