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BACKBONE Double Issue Arts Volume 8: Issue 2/3 December 2008 BACKBONE Double Issue Tom Lawford painting up Mangkaja artist and ANKAAA Director Ngarralja Tommy May at the Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Culture festival. Photo: Alistair McNaughton C 2008. www.aboriginalart.org Welcome from the ANKAAA Chairman – Djambawa Marawili Darwin Office As Chairman of ANKAAA Director Donna Burak hosted this This year ANKAAA has GPO BOX 2152, DARWIN I need to see ANKAAA moving meeting at beautiful Garden Point, worked particularly NORTHERN TERRITORY, AUSTRALIA 0801 Melville Island, then experiencing the closely with the major Frogs Hollow Centre for the Arts into a future and we need to first signs of the coming wet season with funders: The Department 56 McMinn Street, Darwin, NT make a pathway for those people heavy bursts of afternoon rain. of the Environment, Ph +61 (0) 8 8981 6134 who are coming onto our board. Water, Heritage and Fax +61 (0) 8 8981 6048 The Katherine Regional Meeting the Arts (DEWHA), the Email [email protected] ANKAAA is a face for the art centres. was held at Springvale Homestead, Australia Council of It is really important in the eyes of Katherine, on 29 October with many the Arts and Arts NT www.ankaaa.org.au (as well as continuing government who look to ANKAAA to members travelling vast distances to www.aboriginalart.org attend and share news and discussion. to work with our other understand art centres and Aboriginal This idyllic retreat was also the venue for funders). Their practical All text and images are copyright the artist, artists from the Top End. To understand and personal support Art Centres or ANKAAA (as indicated) unless a productive second day of training for otherwise stated. ANKAAA Arts backbone is © what we stand for. members in Money Story for Art Centres. for ANKAAA, as well as ANKAAA 2008. Thanks to Mimi Arts for all their help financial sponsorship, The views & opinions expressed in this publication Why is ANKAAA really important? are those of the authors & do not necessarily in organising the successful meeting. is particularly appreciated. These security of tenure for their buildings reflect those of ANKAAA. It is really important in being an organisation in which Aboriginal Executive relationships present a strong and assets. In this context it is vital that ANKAAA is a non-profit incorporated Aboriginal Arnhem Regional Meeting will be held at Association. Directors are the boss. Batchelor Institute in December. affirmation of the value and strength understanding is nurtured at the local to be achieved through working Shire level of the economic, social and ANKAAA is proudly supported by: It is important for us to concentrate on this ANKAAA association. All the The ANKAAA Business and Strategic collaboratively and openly together. cultural importance of art centres to art centres from different regions are getting together with one voice to be Plan 2008 – 2011 has as one of its Aboriginal communities and to broader strong. Every artist’s voice or every art centre voice is really talking strong In the wider environment of Indigenous three primary goals the task to – ‘Make national and international arenas. and clear representing their own countries. affairs for the Top End, communities ANKAAA Strong on the Inside’. The have continued to experience the stress principle aim here, as Board Director ANKAAA welcomes the Australian and challenges of multiple changes, Djambawa Marawili Ruth Nalmakarra said, is to make the Government Response to the Senate many of which istem from the Federal Chairman foundation beneath the house strong so Committee Report – ‘Indigenous Government Intervention in the NT put that the house will be strong. With such Art Securing the Future Australia’s in place in 2007. Changes to the CDEP a foundation ANKAAA can concentrate Indigenous Visual Art and Craft Sector’ programs have lead to commencement on its important work supporting artists announced in August. The reply can be ANKAAA UPDATE of new Transition and now NT Jobs and talking up for Aboriginal artists and accessed at www.environment.gov.au/ Package positions for art workers in By Djambawa Marawili and Christina Davidson art centres. The Executive Directors three minister/garrett/20080808.html. many art centres. While employment of main strategies for achieving this are: to additional Aboriginal art workers is very As representatives of the first peak body The second half of the year has The Kimberley Regional Meeting build a strong committee; build strong welcome, the hasty commencement of representing Aboriginal artists and 43 been a busy period for ANKAAA took place at the KALACC (Kimberley organisation structures and functioning; programs without adequate support for art centres ANKAAA Executives have with fresh beginnings. Aboriginal Law and Culture Centre) and to build a strong money story - the supervision or training has sometimes continued to speak up on the local, Festival, held in September at Mt.Barnett same practical building blocks which art placed unrealistic expectations on art national and international stage giving Each year ANKAAA has four regional on the Gibb River Road in North-West centres need to make their foundations centres. meetings before the Annual General Kimberley. Special thanks are extended strong. As ANKAAA works to build these Aboriginal artists and their art centres a Meeting in early December. These to Mr Tommy May, longstanding areas for itself, it is also building skills, ANKAAA has conveyed members clear and audible voice. regional meetings are an opportunity for ANKAAA Executive Board Director and resources and experience to share with concern to relevant government members in the four regions – Kimberley, also Chairman of KALACC, for hosting the art centres it supports. departments and is convening a session Many stories in this Backbone celebrate Tiwi, Katherine/Darwin and Arnhem land the meeting. The festival which brought at the upcoming AGM for art centre two themes which members persistently to meet together to share news, receive together over 400 Aboriginal people Meeting these goals will be an ongoing managers and members to discuss return to. The importance of teaching reports and updates about ANKAAA from across the Kimberley for business endeavor but has been a focus in late employment programs with government living art and culture to upcoming and industry developments and to plan. meetings and dance affirming the central 2008. A highlight has been a three day representatives. generations. Also the fundamental As this is an election year for Executive importance of Law, language and Governance Training session which the interconnection of visual representation, Directors each region also has the task culture, was the perfect setting to ground ANKAAA Executive undertook with the The transition to the new Northern dance, music, storytelling and Country of electing four members to represent the ANKAAA regional meeting in core Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Territory Shire structure which has for traditional and also contemporary art. them on the ANKAAA Board of Directors values of ‘Working Together to Keep Art Corporations (ORIC) in September. replaced the community council – three Board Directors and one stand-in Culture and Country Strong’. The enthusiastic, clear and informative system in place since the late 1970’s, ANKAAA Chairman Djambawa Marawili. Photo Director. Advice on the elected members training was enjoyed and appreciated has also involved significant change courtesy of: Joyce van Dijk. is brought to the AGM where the new The successful Tiwi meeting took place greatly by all with completion of and uncertainty and has highlighted board of 12 Directors is announced. at Munupi Arts on 7 October. Executive important work (See report on page 18). the necessity of art centres achieving Darwin Katherine Regional Meeting. ANKAAA. 2 Arts BACKBONE Volume 8: Double Issue 2/3 December 2008 Volume 8: Double Issue 2/3 December 2008 Arts BACKBONE 3 Saltwater Bark Paintings and Sea Rights Victory By Christina Davidson, Executive Officer, ANKAAA FAR LEFT: Front Cover of Saltwater: Yirrkala Bark Paintings of Sea Country, Buku-Larrngay Mulka Centre Yirrkala, 1999 (10,000 copies sold). CENTRE: Dancers form Blue Mud Bay celebrating sea right victory, Garma festival of Traditional Culture, August 2008. Photo: Courtesy of YYF. LEFT: Marawili and Waka Munungurr at Garma Festival of Traditional Culture, 2008, leading members of Yilpara community and surrounding homelands to the bungul celebrating the sea rights victory. Photo: Courtesy of YYF. BELOW: Djambawa Marawili, Barulija, earth pigments on bark, 1988, 250 X 121 cm. On 30 July 2008 the High Court rights victory. He is a principal claimant Painted in 1998 it toured Australia This shocking discovery in the spirit Djambawa Marawili explains that of Australia decided on the matter in the legal case and he instigated the from 1998 to 2001 and is now housed place of the ancestoral crocodile for Yolngu these paintings are the known as the Blue Mud Bay case. major Saltwater Collection of bark permanently in the National Maritime gravely violated Yolngu Law. Drawing equivalent of legal ‘title deeds’ Museum in Sydney. Together the artworks on the strong political art tradition of In a landmark victory the claim paintings of Sea Country through explaining ownership to areas of land map saltwater country in North East the Yirrkala Bark Petition (1963) and the and sea. This understanding was for native title rights over sea by which traditional owners document in Arnhem Land from Blue Mud Bay all Barunga Statement (1988) the Yolngu respected when in 2005 Saltwater traditional owners of the Blue Mud detail their ownership of the sea and its the way up to Melville Bay. Many of the used painting to educate Balanda bark paintings by Garwirrn Gumana, Bay region in North East Arnhem cultural and social significance. sacred bark paintings reveal previously (outsiders) about their knowledge and Djambawa Marawili and others were Land was upheld.
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