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Sun & Shadow: Art of the Spinifex People

01/12/2024

2023, 384 pages, John Carty & Luke Scholes, Upswell Publishing.

Review by Margaret Cassidy

Opening this dark blue bound book launches the reader forth into the colour and patterns of both the ancestral homelands of the Spinifex People (Pila Nguru) or Anangu, of remote eastern Western Australia and also their vivid, expressive and enigmatic paintings of Country. A photograph as frontispiece showcases the bright colours of Killykillykari (budgerigars) at the Ilkurlka rockhole, north of Tjuntjuntjara, a small town . . .

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Category: All Journal Articles, Book Reviews, Members Only, V29 Issue 4

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