Passed down over 50,000-years without any written language, storytelling highlights the importance of art for Aboriginal Australians in expressing their heritage, laws and spirituality using traditional and sacred symbolism.
From marriage and movement to hunting and who to joke with, every element of society and culture is governed by the strict rules of their belief system, the Dreaming or Jukurrpa. Painting too is regulated with only one particular group or family allowed to illustrate certain stories of their specific Jukurrpa and country.