Yirrkala

The art of the Yirrkala NT region has been developing an appreciative audience since the township was founded as a mission in 1935. Work from Yirrkala was amongst the earliest commercial Aboriginal art marketed by the Methodist Overseas Mission. There is strong evidence to suggest that the art emerging from Yirrkala NT in the mid 1950s was a catalyst in the non-Aboriginal art world’s realization that Indigenous Australian art is a unique and profound independent art tradition – the equal of any other global form.