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  Fiona Foley is a contemporary Indigenous Australian Artist. Foley uses her to explore tension between sex, race and history.  John Mawurndjul also is an Australian contemporary Indigenous artist.  He uses traditional motifs in innovative ways to express spiritual and cultural values. Their art is very different from each others, however they both have sort of the same message behind their work, the message the depicts their culture. I enjoy how edgy some of Foleys work is. i like the abstraction of Mawurndjul’s work, because it kind of goes back to the abstraction of the aboriginal painting.  Fiona Foley John Mawurndjul 

This style of painting dates back as far as 60-80,000 years ago when the Aborigine's had first settled in Australia. The artists use dots to compose their paintings to hide the "sacred meanings" behind the stories in the paintings. The artists abstracted their paintings so they could disguise the meaning so no Westerner could understand them