Inspired by Country: Bark Paintings from Northern Australia - The Gerd and Helga Plewig Collection

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Museum Fünf Kontinente Michaela Appel

Inspired by Country

Bark Paintings from Northern Australia - The Gerd and Helga Plewig Collection

Museum Fünf Kontinente, Michaela Appel

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English

Hirmer
01 September 2022

Exhibition catalogues & specific collections; History

The Gerd and Helga Plewig Collection of Bark Paintings from Northern Australia with works mainly from the 1950s to 1970s is presently considered the best collection of its kind outside of Australia. It includes works from the Kimberley, Wadeye, the Tiwi Islands, Arnhem Land and Groote Eylandt by artists like Yirawala, Mawalan Marika and Mungurrawuy Yunupingu.

Painting on bark is part of a continuing artistic tradition of Australian Aboriginal people intimately related to long-established practices of body decoration, rock painting and the manufacture and decoration of various objects in sacred and secular spheres. It is thought to have been practiced for centuries, but has only been known to European researchers and collectors since the early 19th century. Bark painting relates to the time of creation which underlies the present and determines the future.

By: Michaela Appel
Edited by: Museum Fünf Kontinente
Imprint: Hirmer
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 315mm, Width: 210mm,
Weight: 2.320kg
ISBN: 9783777439167
ISBN 10: 3777439169
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 01 September 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michaela Appel is Senior Curator of South Asia, Southeast Asia and Australia in the Museum Funf Kontinente Munich and has done research into the history of collections, object biographies and the symbolic meaning of artefacts.