Booker-Lowe Gallery

Booker-Lowe Gallery Information:
Website: http://www.bookerlowegallery.com
Contact: Nana Booker AM
Email: bookerlowegalleryart@comcast.net
Phone: 713 880 1541
Address: 4623 Feagan Street Houston 77007 Texas

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Indigenous people inhabited Australia for at least 40,000 years prior to European exploration. They developed hundreds of languages, as well as complex Creation myths or Dreamings, which defined the actions and relationships of ancestral beings 'both human and animal' to the land and to one another, and dictated codes of conduct.

The elders passed this information to succeeding generations through elaborate ceremonies, which included singing, dancing, and story-telling, as well as visual expression in sand paintings, body painting and adornment, decoration of objects, and designs on cave walls.

It was not until the early 1970s that the Aboriginal people, the world's oldest living culture, were encouraged to share their pictoral traditions with the 'outside world' by painting them on canvas. Since the first paintings were created at the remote Papunya settlement deep in the Central Desert, Aboriginal artists have continued to paint their country and their ancestral stories in strikingly contemporary fashion. Their work is increasingly recognized by art critics as one of the most important art movements of the modern world, and as one of the best values for collectors of contemporary art.