Inspired by Country: Bark Paintings from Northern Australia Brand / Helen Lees Associate Curator

Associate Curator

comic book artists

including My Neighbor Totoro (1988)

the Queen of the Night

Inspired by Country: Bark Paintings from Northern Australia Brand / Helen Lees Associate CuratorTwentieth century bark paintings from Northern Australia. Painting on bark is part of a continuing artistic tradition of Australian Aboriginal people intimately related to long established practices of body decoration, rock painting, and the manufacture and decoration of various objects in sacred and secular spheres. It is thought to have been practiced for centuries but has only been known to European researchers and collectors since the early