Welcome to the Australian Rock Art Field School blog!
The Australian Rock Art Field School focuses on the recording of rock art within an archaeological and community framework. The field school takes place in Arnhem Land, Australia and is open to university students and cultural heritage professionals around the globe. Are you interested in attending the Australian Rock Art Field School? This blog will help you understand more about this field school. This field school started in 2004 and has been run annually or bi-annually ever since. Want more information:
http://rsh.anu.edu.au/rockart/
Field School 2008.
What a great idea Sally May....a Generation Z blog for rock art experts, dilettantes, enthusiast and sundries (i think I fit the latter). As a surviving member of the 2008 Field school,(don't forget the rid) I was swept away by the Injalak Rock Art Galleries and the hospitality of the Gunbalunya indigenous community ... to whom I say thank. The amazing tableau of Wamanari, with the diverse and rich tapestry of earlier European contact reconnected me with the richness and beauty of the aboriginal life. The field school took me to a place where I realized rock art archaeology isn't about being "old". Its about the story it tells. What can I say? Now I get it! Thank you to you Sally May, Melissa Johnson, Bunya and Anais and the amazing group of eclectic and fascinating students who turned this trip into a journey for us all...... Anthony Doig
ReplyDeleteWell Sally May, What can I say but thank you to all your team including Melissa Johnson, Bunya and Ines Domingo for great opportunity to participate in the 2008 field school. It was unique moment to view the rich pastiche of rock art galleries and come to understand the importance of place, that they represent in the chronology of events characterized by he indigenous history of our country. Thank you to the Gunbaluyna community in particular the Injalak Art and Craft Centre (Anthony Morgan) for their hospitality and support. Thankyou also to the eclectic group of students, experts, dillitante and sundries ( I think I fitted the latter selection criterion. The tableau of rock art at Injalak Hill took me to another place. I will not forget the rock art classroom in an overhanging shelter perched precariously in Injalak Hill learning in the same way generation of aboriginal students must have done beforehand. The expedition to Waminari Contact sites reminded me that rock art isn't about stuff just being old, but more about the story the motifs tells, the opportunities it gives, the explanations its can't reveal. Thanks to your field school I think I get it!!!! What started as a trip in a troupie and a shopping mall ended in a journey of incomprehensible significance to us all, reconnecting us with purpose, passion and perpetuity of the art language of indigenous Australians.
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