Boomalli Prints & Paper: Making Space as an Art Collective

Boomalli Prints & Paper: Making Space as an Art Collective edited by Ash Duhrkoop and Douglas Fordham.

With contributions by Karl-Magnus Brose, Jennifer Marine, Emmy Monaghan, Brendan O'Donnell and Elizabeth Rivard. 

This catalogue was published following the exhibition of Boomalli Prints & Paper: Making Space as an Art Collective at the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, University of Virginia.

Founded in Sydney in 1987, Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative helped to invent the category of urban Aboriginal art while cultivating artists whose work cut across multiple generations, sexual orientations, and language groups. Focusing on pivotal moments in the careers of Boomalli's founding members, these essays insist that the choice of media matters. As they worked with photography, printmaking, textiles, and watercolors, the artists of Boomalli challenged stereotypes of Aboriginal identity and revealed new ways of creating community and tradition.