Meeting Place

Selected Indigenous works from the Murdoch University Art Collection

Murdoch University Art Gallery Level 4, North Wing Library Building, South Street Campus 6 to 27 July 2007 In association with National NAIDOC Week: 8 to 15 July 2007

Seven Sisters Anmanari Brown, Angampa Martin and Tjayanka Woods 2004 | collaborative silkscreen print | edition 1 of 25 purchased by the Art Board 2004 - Murdoch University Art Collection © the artists

Murdoch University Art Collection has a proud tradition of collecting fine Australian Indigenous art. A painting by famous Papunya artist, Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri was the first Indigenous artwork purchased by the University’s Arts Acquisition Committee in 1976.

Many individuals have contributed to the development of Murdoch University’s Indigenous Art Collection since its inception in 1976. The Murdoch University Community thanks these inspiring individuals for their foresight, generosity, expertise and care which has nurtured the growth of this important collection.

Recently, in 2006, the University’s Art Board reviewed the Indigenous Art Collection and developed a new acquisition strategy which emphasizes several under lying themes pre-existing within the collection. These newly focused themes include the collecting of works on paper (including editioned prints and paintings on paper), urban-based indigenous artworks and in depth collecting of particular Indigenous artists and/or communities.

Meeting Place is an exhibition that reflects the Art Collection’s new Indigenous acquisition strategy and celebrates the rich Indigenous tradition of meeting place and story telling. These customs has ensured that each successive generation of Indigenous Australians has been able to tell and pass down cultural knowledge and dreaming stories through an individual aesthetic informed by a complex history.

Exhibiting artists:

Anmanari Brown, Angampa Martin, Tjayanka Woods, Boxer Milner, Sam Tjampitjin, Kathleen Paddoon, Eubena Nampitjin, Helicopter Tjungarrayi, Claude Carter, Julie Dowling, Chris Pease, Laurel Nannup, Hector Jandany and Shiley Purdie