LEGENDS: Aboriginal Master Works
Artists
The story of the modern Aboriginal Art movement is the most exciting and transcendent chapter of contemporary Australian history. Within the space of just 40 years, Indigenous artists transformed the perception of their culture from something of strictly ethnographic interest into one of the great internationally acclaimed contemporary art movements of all time.
Part road trip, part memoir, part history, part political commentary, The Dealer is the Devil (2014) is illuminatingly thought-provoking and provocative. It is an incredibly exciting and fast paced account of the fluctuating fortunes and exponential success of the Aboriginal art movement, with all of the elements one would expect of a complex drama, played out on a national and international stage. Political posturing, personal aggrandisement, commercial skullduggery and greed all play their part.
Excerpt from The Dealer is the Devil, Adrian Newstead 2014
To augment these stories from The Dealer is the Devil, FireWorks Gallery has curated key works from Aboriginal luminaries. Works by Lin Onus, Rover Thomas and Emily Kame Kngwarreye, who all passed away in the 1990s, are presented alongside works by living legends Freddie Timms, Michael Nelson Jagamara et al.
