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Australian Aboriginal Paintings

In the pages below you will find a selection of Australian Aboriginal Paintings

                                             by renowned Australian Aboriginal Artist Eddy Harris.

In the Traditional Aboriginal Culture, as there was no written language, stories and paintings were the means of passing knowledge from one generation to the other. Aboriginal culture had traditional rules which governed the specific symbols to use when painting. By this process, traditional aboriginal paintings mean a lot more to those people who can interpret the underlying messages or story.

The above painting represents the river fish, which were of course a major food source of the Bakandji, or River People, along the Darling River near Wilcannia, in western NSW.

                                                                                                        Eddy Harris

Above a close up of the painting shows the intricate detail of the traditional aboriginal art, with thousands of dots making up the picture.

In this painting, the aboriginal tradition is to draw or paint the animal, in this case the fish, but to symbolise the background.

The painting depicts a river fish feeding in the river, and the two star fish shapes represent the roots of the River Red Gums growing on the edge of the river. The fish is feeding on grubs that live in the bark of the trees.

The round shape on the bottom left is a rock on the bottom of the river, with plants growing off it, and the yellow circles represents the wattle and wild flowers blown into the river.

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