Reference Books & Guides to the Kimberley

Below is a list of reference books and guides to Aboriginal rock-art that we have collected over the years and found to offer some valuable insight to many of the Wandjina and Bradshaw rock-art paintings that we are fortunate to visit on our Kimberley Coast cruises. We carry all these books onboard in our reference library, however if you are interested in doing some research before your cruise, we would recommend any of the below.

-Land marks, indigenous art in the national gallery of Victoria by Judith Ryan
- Brandshaw Art of the Kimberly By Graham L Walsh.
- McCulloch’s Contemporary Aboriginal Art the complete guide. By Margo Neale, National Museum of Australia.
- New Beginnings, Classic paintings from the Corrigan collection of 21st Century aboriginal art. By Emily McCulloch Childs and Ross Gibson, Prefaced by Margo Neale.
- A Kimberly Adventure, Rediscovering the Bradshaw figures. By Adrian Parker, John Bradshaw and Chris Done.
- Keeping the Wajinas Fresh By Blundell and Woolagoodja.
- Lives of the Papunya Tula artists. By Vivien Johnson.D
- Yorro Yorro, Everything Standing up alive, Rockart and stories from the Australian Kimberley. By Mowaljarlai and Malvic
- The Lost World of the Kimberley. Extraordinary glimpses of Australia Ice Age ancestors. By Ian Wilson.
- Rock Art of the Dreamtime By Josephine flood
- Rock art of the Kimberley. Editedby Mike J Donaldson and Kevin F Kenneally.
- Images of Powerful Aboriginal Art of the Kimberly. National Gallery of Victoria.

And these books are on tribes that touch on the art:
-Gwion Gwion by Dulwan Mamaa, Konemann
- From Digging Sticks to Writing Sticks, Stories of Kija women as told to Veronica Ryan.
- Conversations with the mob. University of W.A Press
- Out of the Desert. Stories from the Walmajarri Exodus.