| ISBN |
9781760793623 |
| Author |
Baldwin, Helen (author) |
| Title |
Children of the dreamtime / Helen Baldwin ; edited by Laura Murray. |
| Publisher and/or associated date/s |
[Wahroonga New South Wales] : New Holland Publishers, 2021. |
| ©2021. |
| Description |
104 pages : illustrations, portraits, 1 map ; 26 cm. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Includes: Introduction -- 1 The colours of Wilcannia -- 2 Yuendumu -- 3 Beswick Station -- 4 Papunya -- 5 Napperby -- 6 Areyonga -- 7 Mbunghara -- 8 Chambers Pillar -- 9 Docker River -- 10 Kintore -- 11 Return to Docker River -- 12 Maryvale -- The paintings -- Index. |
| Summary |
For decades Helen Baldwin has been painting outback Australia and the Aboriginal people. Her travels have taken her throughout western New South Wales and to Alice Springs, Darwin, Yuendumu, Napperby, Mbunghara, Papunya, Kintore, Docker River, Areyonga, Maryvale and countless places in between. Through her friendship with Michael Ellis and his wife Lizzie, a full-blood Aborigine of the Ngaanatjarra tribe, Helen has been taken to special areas that few white people have ever seen. The natural affinity for the Central Australian desert and its people felt by Helen is visible in her artistic work. She is able to see through the incongruous Western clothing, tangled hair and ubiquitous dust to the flame that gave birth to one of the purest forms of spirituality ever articulated. At night, telling Dreamtime stories by the campfire, an ancient dignity lights the eyes of the old people. It is the essence of this message that Helen Baldwin captures in her paintings of the Aboriginal people: wisdom, simplicity, spontaneity and grace. Children of the Dreamtime presents a vivid picture of the Aboriginal people of central Australia, their way of life and their environment. In her work Artist Helen Bladwin shows us the beauty she perceives in the Australian outback and the people who first made it their home. |
| Subjects |
Baldwin, Helen |
| Art - Subjects - Portraits |
| Art - Subjects - Landscapes |
| Art - Painting - Acrylic |
| Art - Painting - Watercolour |
| Gathering - Bush tucker |
| Stories and motifs - Lizards / goannas |
| Luritja / Loritja people (C7.1) (NT SG52-04) |
| Ngaanyatjarra people (A38) |
| Pitjantjatjara people (C6) (NT SG52-11) |
| Yapa people C15 |
| Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Portraits |
| Painting -- Australia, Central |
| Aboriginal Australians in art |
| Art, Aboriginal Australian |
| Yuendumu (South Central NT SF52-12) |
| Wugularr / Beswick (NT Top End Upper Roper SD53-09) |
| Papunya (South Central NT SF52-16) |
| Laramba / Napperby (South Central NT SF53-09) |
| Areyonga (South Central NT SG53-01) |
| Mbunghara (South Central NT SF52-16) |
| Chambers Pillar (South Central NT SG53-02) |
| Kaltukatjara / Docker River (South Central NT SG52-03) |
| Walangkura / Kintore (South Central NT SF52-15) |
| Maryvale (South Central NT SG53-02) |
| South Central Northern Territory (NT) |
| Wilcannia (NW NSW SH54-16) |
| Australia, Central, in art |
| Australia -- Description and travel |
| Australia -- In art |
| Australia, Central -- Description and travel |
| Other Authors &/or Associated Persons |
Murray, Laura (editor) |
| Call number |
2021.147 |
