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Vesna Tenodi: From Stone Age to Space Age – Part 3 – The Truth about the Wanjina

This article is dedicated to Ian Wilson, author of Lost World of the Kimberley, published in 2006, attacked by the Aboriginal industry for his “provocative” research of Bradshaw paintings attributed to a pre-Aboriginal race which he called the Bradshaw people. Australian cave art has a lot in common with Asian prehistoric art. In the Stone Age art of Indonesia as found on Sulawesi island animal drawings were dated to 35,000 years ago placing them among the oldest figurative depictions in the world…

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Arts Law Centre: How to use other laws to enforce non-existent law, 18 April 2011

In 2010, a gallery in the Blue Mountains in NSW erected a large sculpture featuring Wandjinas, the creation spirit sacred to the Worrora, Wunumbal and Ngarinyin Aboriginal tribes in Western Australia. Artists in the Black was contacted by both the people of the Katoomba area and Mowanjum Arts which represents artists from the three language…

Arts Law Centre of Australia confirms: Wanjina Watchers in the Whispering Stone is original artwork by Ben Osváth

The Law Report on ABC’s Radio National recently ran a story about a gallery in the Blue Mountains which has erected a large outside sculpture featuring Wandjinas, the creation spirit sacred to three Aboriginal tribes in the Kimberley in Western Australia. The gallery, in a separate initiative is also encouraging artists to create their own…

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ABC Kimberley: Vesna Tenodi is following Wanjina’s instructions

Violent response to Wandjina Watchers sculpture The Wanjina Watchers in the Whispering Stone, the eight-and- a-half tonne sandstone sculpture by Australian artist Benedikt Osváth has been repeatedly vandalised by local thugs who also vandalised the ModroGorje gallery and made death threats to its owners and artists, claiming they acted under orders from a Kimberley tribesman. As one of…