Wally Caruana Wally Caruana i(A103281 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 y separately published work icon Old Masters : Australia's Great Bark Painters Wally Caruana , Alisa Duff , Howard Morphy , Luke Taylor , Canberra : National Museum of Australia Press , 2013 8623081 2013 selected work biography art work

'Bark painting, as practised by Aboriginal artists of Arnhem Land for millennia, is one of the great traditions of world art. Yet it was only recognised as such late in the 20th century. Old Masters: Australia’s Great Bark Artists highlights the work of 40 master painters who have carried one of the oldest continuing traditions of art into the modern era.

'Old Masters features the paintings of Narritjin Maymuru, Yirawala, Mawalan Marika and David Malangi and their contemporaries. These men of high ritual standing were not only artists, but also ceremonial and clan leaders, philosophers, advocates for land rights and human rights, ambassadors and politicians, who recognised the power of art as the most eloquent means to build bridges between Aboriginal and European society.

'The book includes essays by renowned scholars of Aboriginal art, biographies and portraits of the artists, and 122 full-colour plates of the paintings, made between 1948 and 1988, from the National Museum of Australia’s rich and extensive collection.'

2 1 y separately published work icon The Water Carrier i "Yet willow shadows brush", Craig Powell , Canberra : Open Door Press , 1976 Z1361980 1976 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rehearsal for Dancers : Poems 1978; (p. 15) Minga Street : New and Selected Poems 1993; (p. 24-25)
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