Art Ark Meet the enigmatic ‘Art Ark’ your one stop shop for acquiring locally and ethical sourced Aboriginal art works. ‘Art Ark’ partner with non-profit Aboriginal organisations in order to sell these Aboriginal paintings and even a basket or two. In return ‘Art Ark’ enables you to support social and economic enterprise within these Aboriginal communities. Sounds good, huh?! There is very little information Chapeau! could find to write about the brilliant work ‘Art Ark’ are doing to make it easy for you to bring ethical and original Aboriginal art into your homes, in fact we have no idea when they began but they do have a fine website and Instagram page. Chapeau! think the artwork speaks for itself. One for factfans. Contemporary Indigenous Australian art (also known as contemporary Aboriginal Australian art) is the modern art work produced by indigenous Australians. It is generally regarded as beginning in 1971 with a painting movement that started at Papunya, northwest of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, involving artists such as Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri and Kaapa Tjampitjinpa, and facilitated by white Australian teacher and art worker Geoffrey Bardon. The movement spawned widespread interest across rural and remote Aboriginal Australia in creating art, while contemporary indigenous art of a different nature also emerged in urban centres; together they have become central to Australian art. Indigenous art centres have fostered the emergence of the contemporary art movement and as of 2010 were estimated to represent over 5000 artists, mostly in Australia's north and west. The most familiar of this art work is perhaps Dot painting, small dots of paint colours like yellow (representing the sun), brown (the soil), red (desert sand) and white (the clouds and the sky). These are traditional Aboriginal colours. Dot paintings can be painted on anything, rocks, caves, leaves, wood. You name it. #chapeaulondon #chapeaublog #dedicatedtothethingswelove #wordsandpictures #amazing #london #lifestyle #art #artark #aboriginalartwork #painting #baskets #ethical #contemporaryaboriginalart #dotpainting #yellow #brown #red #white
