Monday, December 24, 2012

Nativity by Australian Aboriginal artist Duwun Lee



This Christmas image is by Australian Aboriginal artist Duwun Lee, and it appears in a set of 2012 Indigenous Catholic Christmas Cards for sale here by the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Catholic Council (NATSICC).

4 comments:

  1. What do all the different parts symbolise? I have to do a project for rpe at school on nativity symbolisation and I think this is great and would like to do this but just need o know what each bit symbolises and why each colour was chose eat

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  2. Grace- Sorry I missed your comment until now. I did a quick google search and found a couple of possible sources for you:
    http://aic-colour-journal.org/index.php/JAIC/article/viewFile/32/28
    http://webdesign.about.com/od/colorcharts/l/bl_colorculture.htm

    I hope this helps.

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  3. I would like to use this image by Duwun Lee for the cover of the Christmas edition of our parish magazine. Who may I contact to get such permission?

    David Reeder, Sydney

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  4. I would try contacting the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Catholic Council (NATSICC) to see if they can give you contact info for Duwun Lee.

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