TOSCatalog 21-10-08

FORM is assisting in building social capacity and economic opportunity through cultural and artistic activity for nine Aboriginal enterprises in the Pilbara, Kimberley, Midwest and Goldfields regions via The Canning Stock Route Project.

Telling Our Stories Through Painting The

Canning Stock Route

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The nine participating arts enterprises and communities in the Project are: Papunya Tula Artists, Kiwirrkurra Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Yulparija Artists, Bidyadanga Mangkaja Arts, Fitzroy Crossing Martumili Artists, Newman/Parngurr/Punmu/Jigalong Tjukurba Gallery, Wiluna Ngurra Artists, Wangkajunga Kayili Artists, Patjarr Paruku IPA, Mulan See the Project online at www.form.net.au

FORM 357 Murray Street Perth www.form.net.au Principal Partners

FORM gratefully acknowledges the support of the following organisations for The Canning Stock Route Project

Supporting Partners

Department of Culture and the Arts Government of Western Australia

Art Centres

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“…the white man history has been told and it’s today in the book.

But our history is not there properly. That’s one way to tell’em.

We’ve got to tell’em through our paintings. They might see it through there.”

Clifford Brooks, Tjukurba Gallery, Wiluna

Blood on the Ground: Wells 33 - 41 by Clifford Brooks, 2007

Where i Was Born by Georgina Brown, 2007

Lake Aerodrome, south of Well 12 on the CSR

Dusty Stevens, Wiluna Friday Jones at Durba Springs near Well 17

Vera Anderson & Lizzy make sand drawings on The Canning Stock Route

Untitled by Sheila Friday Jones, 2007

My Country by Georgina Brown, 2007, front cover detail.

Welcome to Telling Our Stories Through Painting: The Canning Stock Route Project, an exhibition of paintings by emerging and established artists from Tjukurba Gallery. Among the artwork on show are perspectives of the country around the Canning Stock Route; country with profound meaning and ancient connections, transected only recently – a century ago – by Canning’s livestock highway.

The exhibition at Tjukurba Gallery celebrates a staging post in a collaborative enterprise – known as The Canning Stock Route Project – among nine remote Aboriginal art centres and communities surrounding this latter day Australian landmark. Since 2007, artists, countrymen and custodians from the Kimberley,

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Savoury Creek, between Wells 19 and 20.

Jennifer Nanji at Tjukurba Gallery

Pilbara, Midwest and Goldfields regions of Western Australia have been creating an unprecedented body of work which tells, for the first time, the story of the Stock Route and its impact as seen through Aboriginal eyes.

celebrates the strength and energy of Wiluna’s artistic development: where it is possible to plot the trajectory from the freshness of emerging generations through to the potent work of the community’s leading artists.

The paintings, oral histories and cultural material currently being gathered by the Project team at FORM will be distilled into a major exhibition, due for launch at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra in mid 2010.

The Canning Stock Route Project is indebted to the following Wiluna artists and contributors:

Telling Our Stories Through Painting brings together some important pieces by Wiluna artists, destined for the Canberra exhibition, and shows them alongside work by the community’s emerging artists. It creates a moment which

Untitled by Clifford Brooks, 2007

Telling Our Stories Through Painting is designed and delivered by FORM, in partnership with the Shire of Wiluna. The show has been made possible through the support of BHP Billiton Nickel West, and the Government of Western Australia’s Department of Local Government and Regional Development (via WARIS).

Georgina Brown, Nyaparu Long, Lena Long, Clifford Brooks, Sharon Anderson, Sheila Friday Jones, Sunshine and Dusty Stevens, Annette Williams, Friday Jones, Kaye Bingham, Geoffrey Stewart, Billy Patch, Vera Anderson, Jennifer Nanji, Adena Williams and Jennifer Lane.

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