Wirrimanu: Art from Balgo
It’s a small, single-room exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) pulsing with colour. But ‘Wirrimanu’ deserves more. Not just because I was bitten by a dog at Balgo and was treated by local maparn and art star, Eubena Namptijin with the most comforting of care – her sucking my wound – but because this community’s early adoption of brilliant hues for its art helped to save the whole Aboriginal art ‘business’ in the 1980s. For few people were buying the
