artists

The artists saving traditional knowledge for the next generation

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Mulkun Wirrpanda and John Wolseley with their work for the Midawarr Harvest project. Photograph: Joseph Brady/Mulka Project English-born landscape artist John Wolseley and Mulkun Wirrpanda, a Yolngu bark painter from north-east Arnhem Land, may seem an unlikely alliance. People might look at Wolseley, his lineage traceable to the Saxons, and Mulkun, the daughter of a … Read more

Tate Modern celebrates work of black artists from civil rights movement

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You hear the exhibition before you see it – the booming voice of Dr Martin Luther King resonating through the Tate Modern galleries. King’s rousing words in Washington in 1963 inspired the black communities of America to protest, march and sing for their rights Now for the first time, the show at the Tate Modern shows how they also … Read more