Birrundudu Drawings alice springs Greg Lehman

Greg Lehman

as it collates more than three decades worth of ideas and imagery in a format that feels both fresh and impactful

Ronald Berndt and the men who made these drawings captured an extraordinary record of the Country

it is now the Stuart Highway as we know it today

purposefully extending and making permanent the experience of the exhibition itself

Birrundudu Drawings alice springs Greg LehmanA collection of 810 crayon drawings were created by sixteen Aboriginal men working on Birrundudu, a Northern Territory cattle station in 1945. The works resulted from the mens engagement with the anthropologists Ronald and Catherine Berndt. Dutifully recording as much information about their meaning as he could, Ronald Berndt and the men who made these drawings captured an extraordinary record of the Country, ancestors, history and ceremonies of the