AustLit

'For decades Helen Baldwin has been painting outback Australia and the Aboriginal people. Her travels have taken her throughout western New South Wales and to Alice Springs, Darwin, Yuendumu, Napperby, Mbunghara, Papunya, Kintore, Docker River, Areyonga, Maryvale and countless places in between. Through her friendship with Michael Ellis and his wife Lizzie, a full-blood Aborigine of the Ngaanatjarra tribe, Helen has been taken to special areas that few white people have ever seen.

'The natural affinity for the Central Australian desert and its people felt by Helen is visible in her artistic work. She is able to see through the incongruous Western clothing, tangled hair and ubiquitous dust to the flame that gave birth to one of the purest forms of spirituality ever articulated. . At night, telling Dreamtime stories by the campfire, an ancient dignity lights the eyes of the old people.

'It is the essence of this message that Helen Baldwin captures in her paintings of the Aboriginal people: wisdom, simplicity, spontaneity and grace.
Children of the Dreamtime presents a vivid picture of the Aboriginal people of central Australia, their way of life and their environment.

'In her work Artist Helen Bladwin shows us the beauty she perceives in the Australian outback and the people who first made it their home.'

Source : publisher's blurb (New Holland Ed.)

'Blood on the Wattle records the massacres, maltreatment and spread of the white men's diseases that resulted in these astounding figures. It describes all of the major massacres of Australian Aborigines which have occurred since the arrival of the first fleet in 1788. From the early attacks on the Aborigines of the Sydney basin through the long history of the violence along the frontier to the final massacres in the Northern Territory and northern Western Australia in the late 1920s, the book tells of the plight of the Aborigines who were killed by the gun, the sword, disease and poisoning. It is not an exercise in retrospective guilt, but rather it aims to accurately document an integral, but often ignored, part of Australia's history.' Sourced: Publishers note (Sighted 08/04/2009)

The story of a koala named two-thumbs and his adventures with both man and beasts.