We arrived in Australia a few days ago and are now sitting on the back porch of a lovely seaside cottage in Anglesea watching kangaroos bound around the golf links. This place sits along the Great Ocean Road midway from where we’ve been the last few days, Melbourne, to our destination, the Port Fairy Folk Festival. With this post I want to show you some images from the National Gallery in Melbourne of Aboriginal paintings. They are not only beautiful works of art but contain so much meaning. They are at once, map, story, and deep spiritual representations.
First though, a photograph from a lovely birthday dinner in Melbourne with dear old friends reunited, and some new friends.
Teresa's Birthday Dinner, Melbourne, 3/5/12: Waddie Mitchell, Ted Egan, Nerys Evans, Hal, Teresa, Judy Turner, Neil Adam, Sandy Merrigan, Lisa Hackett
To view the description of Living Water on the National Gallery of Victoria website, click the image
To see the writeup on the show in Art Guide Australia, click the image
To view a slideshow of the artists with their work on the Australian Associated Press website, click the image
Hal and Teresa, At Large 