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Editor's note
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In 1971, a group of men began painting together in a Nissen Hut in the Northern Territory settlement of Papunya. These were hothouse conditions, writes John Kean, but this dimly-lit room became the most important atelier in Australian art.
Thirty artists created around 1000 paintings in this unprepossessing studio, on surfaces that included recycled lino tiles and salvaged fibro panels. As a new exhibition of early works by these first masters of desert art opens in Darwin, Kean describes the ‘explosion of creativity and productivity’ that took place at this time.
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Suzy Freeman-Greene
Arts and Culture Editor
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Top story
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A close up from Michael Jensen’s Pintupi and Anmatyerr artists in Men’s Painting Room (circa August 1972).
Michael Jensen
John Kean, University of Melbourne
The Men's Painting Room - a Nissen hut in the government settlement of Papunya - is Australian art's most important atelier. A new form of creative expression happened here.
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