Mutukayi: motor cars and Papunya painting
Vivien Johnson, John Kean, Jeremy Long and Dr Peter Thorley
Emily Kame Kngwarreye series, 2 December 2007
The sometimes life-changing, occasionally hilarious and always vital role of the mutukayi – or motor car – in the history of the people of Australia’s Western Desert is explored by an expert panel with firsthand Papunya experience.
Emily Kame Kngwarreye series
- Emily: the impossible modernistJohn McDonald and Dr Margo Neale with Virginia Trioli
- Janet on the spotJanet Holmes à Court and Dr Margo Neale
- ‘Why do those fellas paint like me …?’ Emily Kame Kngwarreye symposium welcome and introductionDennis Grant, Dr Margo Neale and Agnes Shea
- The impossible modernist: an ‘outsider’ viewProfessor Akira Tatehata, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
- The possible modernist: an ‘insider’ viewDr Ian McLean, University of Western Australia
- Late-style modernist: a ‘boundary rider’ viewDjon Mundine, Campbelltown Arts Centre
- An artist first and foremostChristopher Hodges, Utopia Art Sydney
- Emily Kame Kngwarreye: her place in Australian artSusan McCulloch
- A new ritual in contemporary Aboriginal artDr Sally Butler, University of Queensland
- Emily as located historian: the Camel Lady narrates a history of discovery without 1788Professor Ann McGrath, Australian National University
- Emily Kngwarreye’s practice of painting: an international perspectiveProfessor Terry Smith, University of Pittsburgh, United States
- Japanese responses to the Emily exhibitionChiaki Ajoika, Hitomi Toku and Mayumi Uchida
- New directionsGwen Horsfield and Chrischona Schmidt, Australian National University
- Mutukayi: motor cars and Papunya paintingVivien Johnson, John Kean, Jeremy Long and Dr Peter Thorley
