Seven Sisters Aboriginal Painting

Songlines is an aboriginal led exhibition and its about the epic seven sisters dreaming which is a story of pursuit and escape desire and magic and the power of family bonds. The songline for this story covers more than half the width of the continent from deep in the central desert out to the west coast. The pleiades star cluster has inspired similar stories that appear in native american hindu and ancient greek mythology 1.
seven sisters aboriginal painting

The seven sisters are a constant reminder of the power of the spirits.

Seven sisters aboriginal painting. Allan area womens ceremonies serpent goanna grandmothers country and seven sisters dreamings. It uses the group of stars known as the pleiades as a metaphor to illustrate traditional marriage laws and the protection and power of ancestral spirits. Subjects and themes dreaming. The story of the the seven sisters is a popular dreaming that occurs in various forms in different aboriginal language groups.

Spinifex hill studio stands on kariyarra country in the pilbara region of western australia. Sister7 operate on larrakia country. 656 smith street darwin. We acknowledge the larrakia as the traditional owners of the darwin region and pay respect to larrakia elders both past and present.

Seven sisters dreaming star dreaming by. Tracking the seven sisters. Call 07 3880 1320. David wroth japingka gallery 2015 the star dreaming story of the seven sisters is one of the most widely distributed ancient stories amongst aboriginal australia.

Now you can see the two men at the ends of the group of seven stars still chasing them through the night sky in both hemispheres destined by the spirits to never catch them. Martu artist ngalangka nola taylor is one one of the many artists and senior custodians who have been involved in designing and curating songlines. The exhibition tells the fascinating story of how songlines came into being. Aboriginal womens art gallery studio.

An exhibition at the national museum of australia which outlines the countrys creation as it follows the passage of the seven sisters. Her paintings depict stories such as bush tucker exploding seed and black seed from the mt. The seven sisters dreamtime story the seven sisters dreamtime story is an epic tale of lust love passion and danger. It is home to one of the youngest aboriginal art collectives in the north west of australia spinifex hill artists.

Artists who paint this dreaming explain it is the story of an ancestral being in the guise of a man who relentlessly pursues seven sisters ancestral women over land and sky. Better world aboriginal art boxed fine bone china mug seven sisters better world arts.