Week Ten: Musee du quai Branly

This week I researched the Musee Du quai Branly in Paris. It features Indigenous art from all over the world, including Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas. It holds the largest commission of contemporary Indigenous Australian work. There is a collection of paintings, barks, weapons, sculptures, boomerangs and contemporary acrylic works. Originally eight Aboriginal artists were selected to represent the Indigenous Australian movement, these artists are:



Lena Nyadbi

Sugarbag Yard Hill, 2009, etching, 31 of 40, 14 by 19cm

Paddy Nyunkuny Bedford 
Jack Flood, 2001, natural ochres on linen, 122 by 135cm










Judy Watson


Red Rock, 1998, lithograph







 
Gulumbu Yunupingu Garak, 2022, natural ochres on bark, 90 by 52cm





 John Mawurndjul
Sacred objects and dilly bags, 1994, natural pigments on bark, 237 by 112cm

 
  Tommy Watson

 Artilanja, 160 by 200cm




















Ningura Napurrula


Untitled, acrylic on belgian linen, 122 by 60cm

















Michael Riley
Portraits by a Widow, 1990, photograph




Karel Kupka
(I couldn't find any of his work!)

I found all of these artists work quite beautiful and it is understandable that the French have such a strong interest in Indigenous Australian art. If only Aussies did....

http://www.quaibranly.fr/en/