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The Papunya Tula Archive at the Art Gallery of New South Wales: providing archival services for indigenous art

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Steven Miller
Steven Miller*
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery Road, The Domain, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia
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Papunya Tula Artists is a company owned and directed by Aboriginal people from the Western Desert, predominantly from the Luritja and Pintupi language groups. It currently has 49 shareholders and represents around 120 artists. The broad aims of the company are to promote individual artists, and to provide economic development for the communities to which they belong, thereby preserving and extending their traditional culture. Towards the end of 1993 the Art Gallery of New South Wales entered into a formal partnership with the company to assist it in preserving, copying and providing access to their immensely important archival records. The project, which at first seemed straightforward and easily manageable, raised a number of important issues about the provision of archival services for Indigenous art and provides a useful case study for reflecting on these.

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Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 33 , Issue 2: Special Issue on documenting indigenous and minority art , 2008 , pp. 29 - 33
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2008

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