Friday, January 31, 2020
5:30-7:30 pm, The Fralin Museum of Art/ 155 Rugby Road
Meet visiting artists Gabriel Maralngurra and Joe Guymala at this Final Fridays reception featuring The Inside World: Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Memorial Poles at The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA. The Inside World presents 112 memorial poles by 55 artists from remote Aboriginal communities in the tropical northern region of Australia known as Arnhem Land. Traditionally, these poles—known as lorrkkon, ḏupun, or ḻarrakitj—were used to house the bones of the deceased. Today, these poles are made as works of art, and artists included in the exhibition are some of the most respected contemporary artists working in Australia today. Read more about this exhibition, which opens January 24, 2020 and runs until May 24.