Explore Marking Time: Indigenous Art from the NGV with NGV Senior Curator of Indigenous Art, Judith Ryan AM as she shares that change that occurred in Indigenous Art in 1971 at Papunya in the Western Desert as a group of senior men began to transfer sacred designs to composition board using acrylic paint and dots.

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Marking Time | Part 1: Introduction Marking Time | Part 2: From rock escarpment to bark Marking Time | Part 3: A momentous change in Indigenous Art Marking Time | Part 4: Iconography in modern art forms Marking Time | Part 5: Senior Warlpiri women render permanent sacred designs

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