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Tim Bonyhady

Tim Bonyhady teaches environmental law at the Australian National University. His books include The Colonial Earth.

Tim Bonyhady reviews ‘Papunya: A place made after the story: the beginnings of the Western Desert painting movement’ by Geoffrey Bardon and James Bardon

February 2005, no. 268 01 February 2005
Geoffrey Bardon spent just two and a half  years, from the start of 1971 until mid-1973, at Papunya, 200 kilometres west of Alice Springs. While he was there, teaching art and craft as well as social studies, Aboriginal art changed. A group of Aboriginal men began painting with Western materials, transferring versions of their traditional sand designs onto boards in a way they had not before, ... (read more)