Art/Media Projects

Discovered in 2006, the Gabarnmung rock shelter is covered in hundreds of paintings of creatures, living and extinct, and those of Dreamtime stories. The site has been dated at 45,000 years old.

Margaret Katherine, the Traditional Owner of the Gabarnmung Cave site and a respected Elder of the Jawoyn Tribe.

Adrian Buitenhuis, (foreground) director of documentary and artist whose pursuit of lost cultures takes him to the furthest reaches around the world.

SPIRITS IN THE STONE

A feature-length documentary and traveling multi-media art exhibition as presented by the Jay Whitney Brown Gallery.

Synopsis: The story of the recent discovery in Australia of the world’s oldest rock art paintings and an Aboriginal woman’s race to preserve her cultural heritage for the next generation. Produced by Australian journalist Emma Masters and directed/produced by Canadian filmmaker Adrian Buitenhuis, an artist of the Jay Whitney Brown Gallery.

SPIRITS IN THE STONE was recently featured on a segment of Oprah’s Ultimate Australian Adventure. A video trailer and more about the project can be seen on Oprah.com.