Barambah Pottery, Australia

A number of important engagements occurred between Aboriginal artists and the wider art world prior to the emergence of desert or ‘dot’ painting from Papunya in 1971-72. The Barambah Pottery was one such example of thriving cultural activity in Queensland, a pottery studio based in the Aboriginal settlement of Cherbourg, previously Barambah Aboriginal Reserve.

This commercial and creative pottery training venture operated at Cherbourg from 1969 to 1986, and gave employment and cultural expression opportunities to many members of the Indigenous community