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Groote Eylandt Painting

The Art of the small islands of Groote and Eylandt are a form of Aboriginal art many are not even aware of.

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Dingo Dreaming by Shorty Lungkarda

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Groote Eylandt paintings are usually on a black background and have a characteristic of dashes or dots as infill. They have a strong graphic aesthetic quality with early works usually depicting a single totemic animal. Most paintings are on rectangular sections of stringybark but some are on sawtooth shark bills.

The classic style has a monochrome black background with figurative elements outlined with contrasting red, white, or yellow. The figurative elements infilled with dashes dots.

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Article on the Meaning of Aboriginal art.

To wrap your head around the spiritual beliefs of a culture very different to your own is a challenge. If you want to understand how aboriginal people belong to country and are related to sacred places through art the effort is worth it.

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Aboriginal Australian painting by Long Jack Phillipus Tjakamarra

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Aboriginal Sculpture of a Ku Dog

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Garawan Wanambi Yirrkala Bark painting

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Aboriginal Art by Uta Uta Tjangala

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Namarrkon the Aboriginal god of Lightning

This god ejaculates lightning. The circle around the main figure is electricity and on his knees are stone hammers that if they touch cause thunder.

Namarrkon is the lightning spirit, the source of the fierce tropical storms in Western Arnhem Land during the wet season. During the dry season, he lives in a billabong not far from Numbuwah, a sacred rock in Western Arnhem Land. Namarrkon’s dreaming site (djadjan) is a slight projection in the outline of the Arnhem Land escarpment. It consists of three fused pillars, one with a circular hole near the top. This is a few km NE of the Nourlangie Rock tourist site to the east of Koongarra saddle. Namarggon left one eye (the hole) to watch for the monsoon, but also to watch his estranged wife, whose home is a cave in a pillar near Koongarra. Namarrkondjadjan is well-named, as the promontory creates the earliest intense lightning storms.

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Aboriginal Australian painting by Anatjari Tjakamarra

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Aboriginal art by Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri

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The Rainbow Serpent Ngalyod by Mick Kubarrgu

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Rainbow Serpent Peter Marralwanga

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Aboriginal art by Uta Uta Tjangala

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Aboriginal Sculpture of a Camp Dog carved in Aurukun

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Aboriginal Sculpture of a Camp Dog carved in Aurukun

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Aboriginal Sculpture of a Camp Dog angel carved in Aurukun