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24.01.2022 Photographs from our Swift Bay and Island hopping trip in 2013.

24.01.2022 Kimberley Products. Unique Kimberley gifts. Images that we can provide on sublimation printed products such as cups, mugs, place mats, mouse pads, coasters, t-shirts and much more. Contact us on 0458274080 or see our website www.thekimberleywa.com.au

23.01.2022 Kimberley images from one small creek system on the Drysdale. Commonly referred to as either Clothespeg, Straight Part, Bi-Chrome or Tri-Chrome figures, the st...ylistic variation within this period of painting is enormous. The geographical distribution of this style of painting is found throughout the North Kimberley and well into the West Kimberley. The East Kimberley shows only a few isolated examples. Due to the similarity of some of the decorative accoutrements some researchers have affiliated this style to the Bradshaw rock art Period. Superimposition evidence indicates this style came after the Simple Stylistic phase of the Bradshaw Period. See more

23.01.2022 Beautiful original paintings by Kimberley Aboriginal artists. See our Kimberley online store for more original products.

21.01.2022 https://thekimberleywa.com.au/collecti/indigenous-paintings

20.01.2022 Silhouette images of Bradshaw Rock Art figures found in the Kimberley. The first graph shows the Stylistic changes through time.

19.01.2022 Abstract Classic Bradshaw figures from the Lawley River and Wade Creek areas.

18.01.2022 Sharing Coastal Wandjina images from across the Kimberley, essentially from the east of the King George to the Prince Regent on the west Kimberley coast. The range and age of this tradition of painting is truly remarkable.

18.01.2022 An Album of assorted rock art images from the Kimberley. The diversity and range is incredible.

18.01.2022 A 2015 journey through the Wade Creek system in the North Kimberley. Three trips since 2012 into this incredibly rich and culturally diverse system has produce...d almost 500 recorded sites. After 34 years of recording archaeological sites throughout the Kimberley I have never lost the feeling of awe and wonder when I enter a new site for the first time. Particularly when there is a sense that the last people to have set foot into the site were the last painters to have either touched up previous images or left new ones. While my research interest has always been focused on the Bradshaw Period of Painting I have found all the different periods of painting just as fascinating. For Aboriginal people today these painted images are a visual proud insight into their heritage and a reminder of tens of thousands of years of occupation. See more

17.01.2022 https://thekimberleywa.com.au//bradshaw-rock-art-of-the-ki

16.01.2022 Complex straight part or Clothes peg figures. An unusual period of rock art and found over a large part of the Kimberley. There is some suggestion from the superimposition of paintings that they fall into the start of the Simple Style Bradshaw/Gwion figure period.

16.01.2022 Just a few pics to show the incredible range of "Irregular" ochre animal infill rock art that can be found in sites along the northern area of the Kimberley. Many archaeologists place this particular style of decoration as very early, sometimes referred to as Archaic. My own fieldwork results indicate that this style of painting continued throughout the Pleistocene and Holocene history of Kimberley rock art

16.01.2022 A range of complex and simple style Dynamic figures.

15.01.2022 https://thekimberleywa.com.au//wandjinas-of-the-north-kimb

14.01.2022 This album shows the extrordinary range of Dynamic figures to be found across the Kimberley. They range from the Classic figures, Complex dynamic figure scenes, simple dynamic figures to Ceremonial Dynamic figures

13.01.2022 Wishing everyone a great Christmas and a healthy, happy and stress free 2019. A few more rock art pics from the North Kimberley as a special reminder of the in...credible cultural legacy left behind by Aboriginal people. These pics are from a Wade Creek walk undertaken in May 2014. This area is incredibly rich in rock art overhangs, and two visits of ten days duration each resulted in over 400 sites being recorded within a 6km radius. See more

13.01.2022 Beautiful Dynamic figures from the Kimberley coast. Photos taken by Diggs.

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11.01.2022 Some great secondhand books on rock art and archaeology on our shopify site www.thekimberleywa.com.au

11.01.2022 A small glimpse of some of the images from my 44 page publication (available mid October) of a photographic insight into the mystery of the many and varied stylistic variations of the Kimberley Bradshaw figures.

10.01.2022 Just thought I would load up some of the incredible rock art images taken from some of the sites during a recent walking trip on Youwanjela Creek. This creek i...s located between the Prince Regent and Roe Rivers. While the images are not Bradshaw they are incredibly beautiful and well preserved. Well protected from the fires that are now all too frequent they will eventually begin to feel the impacts of the heat generated by the very hot burns that that result from the all too frequent aerial burning program now in place in the Kimberley. See more

10.01.2022 While floating and horizontal figures only make up a small percentage of the Bradshaw stylistic variation referred to as the period of Abstract Bradshaw Clas...sic figures they are none the less breath-taking in their depiction. The artists of the floating figures portray deliberate movement and motion while the horizontal figures seem to be hung in suspension. See more

09.01.2022 Raising funds for the printing costs of The Enigma of Bradshaw Rock. Africa to the Kimberley in Pleistocene Australia.

06.01.2022 Read this comment from Sarah Brett and sign the petition."I am signing this petition because if we do not alter our burning practices in the Kimberley there will soon be nothing left to burn at all". http://chng.it/j229khWy via @ChangeAUS

06.01.2022 The aerial incendiary burning program has accelerated the destruction of world Heritage rock art sites, increased the reduction of upper story trees and perennial grasses and is causing a major increase in soil salinity and the severe degradation of river and creek catchment areas.

04.01.2022 https://thekimberleywa.com.au//bradshaw-art-of-the-kimberl

03.01.2022 This album is a small glimpse of the incredible variations in style you can get when looking at the tradition of rock art referred to as the Bradshaw/Gwion peri...od of painting. In fact without some understanding of the enormous range in style and the superimpositions of various styles, as well as regional influences it is too easy to refer to the art simply as Bradshaw/Gwion (or the any one of dozens of indigenous names that have been used in recent years).For this album I have just used the general river system to show the distribution and variation in style. See more

02.01.2022 Without exception all the boat scenes I recorded over the years showed figures that mainly appeared to be Simple Bradshaw figures. This Stylistic Phase belongs to the final phase of painting within the Bradshaw period of rock art. I have never recorded boat scenes in the Kimberley that showed early Classic Bradshaw figures. One possibility for their absence is that any early boat scenes associated with the arrival of the Bradshaw culture are now in rock shelters under the water. Intrigued to know if anyone has recorded more other or sophisticated boat scenes. Unfortunately I have not to date, located the large boat scene holding 20= people, recorded by Graeme Walsh.

02.01.2022 The ideal Kimberley gift item. Locally printed at the Bulk Warehouse 45 Bandicoot Drive Kununurra. Local photographers and artists images printed on a large ran...ge of glass, ceramic, linen, PDF board, aluminium and rubber items. Printed t-shirts also available. If you dont like our images bring your own photographs or paintings. See more

01.01.2022 Earliest known cave art by modern humans found in Indonesia - reports on rock art in Sulawesi of human-like hunters and fleeing mammals dated to nearly 44,000 y...ears old, making it the earliest known cave art by our species. Dwarf buffalo species (pictured) still inhabits forests on the island and a scene depicting a warty pig. See the link on the Bradshaw Foundation Facebook page for the article. Image: Maxime Aubert/PA WIRE