Birrundudu Drawings Children a Chinese teapot

a Chinese teapot

printed and self-published in Melbourne (Narrm)

Ken Bolton

The Incubator Issue

Maree’s talent for collaborations and passion for reclaiming and reviving arts practices over almost forty years has seen her recognised as a leading southeast Australian artist

Birrundudu Drawings Children a Chinese teapotThe Birrundudu Drawings represent one of the most significant bodies of historical imagery ever introduced into the canons of Australian art. A collection of 810 crayon drawings were created by sixteen Aboriginal men working on a Northern Territory cattle station in 1945. That place was Birrundudu, an outpost of Gordon Downs, a large cattle station with a lease that extended across the Northern Territory and Western Australian borders. The works