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Birrung Gallery is a World Vision Australia initiative that provides unique Indigenous artwork to collectors and art lovers around the world.
Through the sale of fine arts, Birrung Gallery raises funds for Indigenous community development, including employment training at our Sydney gallery, scholarships for Indigenous students and preventative health, social, cultural, economic and governance activities in rural and remote Australia.
Birrung also advocates for the rights of Indigenous artists through such avenues as the 2007 Senate Inquiry in to the Indigenous Arts Industry .
We represent over 300 Indigenous artists and 25 remote communities from across Australia.
We invite you to learn more about World Vision Australia's Domestic Programs.
We are located in the vibrant East Sydney precinct on the border of Kings Cross /Potts Point and Woolloomooloo. Parking is often available outside the gallery on weekends in William Street .
Business Hours are Tuesday - Friday 10am-5.30pm
Saturday and Sunday 11am - 5pm
Monday closed
Phone 02 95509964 Fax 02 95509627
Email birrung@worldvision.com.au
see the Contact Us page for further details re address, parking and public transport.
Jim Nyukuti - throughout October
The unique iconography of Docker River artist Jim Nyukuti has already attracted the attention of international curators and his work has recently been acquired by the Seattle Art Museum USA.
Although Jim has only painted for a few years his fresh and individual images are based on ancient ancestral maps that only senior male elders from his community can interpret.
This exhibition opened in the presence of the artist on October 2.
Exhibition courtesy of Maruku Arts
See Exhibition page for more details
On July 28 , 2008 ABC TV's Four Corners program revived media coverage of the exploitation of Indigenous artists that was the subject of a Senate Inquiry in 2007.Since then , major Australian newspapers have also published stories exposing some of the appalling conditions that face outback artists.
World Vision through its arts program including Birrung Gallery continues to advocate on behalf of artists especially through its strong support of community based art centres
On July 29, 2008 Federal Arts Minister Peter Garrett said the Government is finalising its response to the Inquiry amid renewed calls from the National Association for the Visual Arts to implement the Inquiry's recommendations.
See Gallery News for more information on the Senate Inquiry and the current developments
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