Dr Jason M. Gibson
@jmgibson.bsky.social
Senior Research Fellow @Deakin University. Anthropology, Museums, Cultural Heritage and enthusiast of arid lands and DIY cultures.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8254-587X
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8254-587X
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Dr Jason M. Gibson
@jmgibson.bsky.social
· Apr 10
🚨🚨 After 7 years of research and 4 years of community consultation a new book emerges. Birrundudu Drawings showcases a body of imagery representing ceremony, country and Dreaming produced by 16 Aboriginal men in 1945. Preorder available now: upswellpublishing.com/product/birr...
It was a real treat to talk about the Birrundudu Drawings and anthropology with these two star communicators - Shelley Krape and Amy Carmichael on the best regional radio station in the country, MainFM. Listen to the cracking Drones song at the start: www.mixcloud.com/MainFm/the-n...
October 16, 2025 at 10:45 PM
It was a real treat to talk about the Birrundudu Drawings and anthropology with these two star communicators - Shelley Krape and Amy Carmichael on the best regional radio station in the country, MainFM. Listen to the cracking Drones song at the start: www.mixcloud.com/MainFm/the-n...
Our book on these incredibly important drawings, their making and legacies is now in physical form! Birrundudu Drawings...John Carty, Jason M. Gibson, Alistair Paterson, Luke Scholes, @Jessyca Hutchens, Stephen Gilchrist. Pre order now: upswellpublishing.com/product/birr....
June 14, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Our book on these incredibly important drawings, their making and legacies is now in physical form! Birrundudu Drawings...John Carty, Jason M. Gibson, Alistair Paterson, Luke Scholes, @Jessyca Hutchens, Stephen Gilchrist. Pre order now: upswellpublishing.com/product/birr....
Martin Hagan’s art. Australian desert iconography rendered with crushed native grasses and natural pigments.
May 25, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Martin Hagan’s art. Australian desert iconography rendered with crushed native grasses and natural pigments.
The Spencer and Gillen: A Journey Through Aboriginal Australia website is up and running again: spencerandgillen.net
Spencer & Gillen - A journey through Aboriginal Australia
This website showcases notebooks, films, audio recordings, illustrations and photographs collected during Spencer and Gillen’s studies in anthropology between 1875 and 1912
spencerandgillen.net
May 1, 2025 at 4:48 AM
The Spencer and Gillen: A Journey Through Aboriginal Australia website is up and running again: spencerandgillen.net
🚨🚨 After 7 years of research and 4 years of community consultation a new book emerges. Birrundudu Drawings showcases a body of imagery representing ceremony, country and Dreaming produced by 16 Aboriginal men in 1945. Preorder available now: upswellpublishing.com/product/birr...
April 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
🚨🚨 After 7 years of research and 4 years of community consultation a new book emerges. Birrundudu Drawings showcases a body of imagery representing ceremony, country and Dreaming produced by 16 Aboriginal men in 1945. Preorder available now: upswellpublishing.com/product/birr...
The desert among the snow: how Anmatyerr ceremony men came to create ground paintings in Switzerland
theconversation.com/the-desert-a...
theconversation.com/the-desert-a...
The desert among the snow: how Anmatyerr ceremony men came to create ground paintings in Switzerland
Anmatyerr people live 200 kilometres northwest of Alice Springs. The work of Anmatyerr artists is now on display in Switzerland for the first time.
theconversation.com
February 19, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The desert among the snow: how Anmatyerr ceremony men came to create ground paintings in Switzerland
theconversation.com/the-desert-a...
theconversation.com/the-desert-a...
New Article on the Future of Connected Museum Collections out now: www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
www.berghahnjournals.com
February 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM
New Article on the Future of Connected Museum Collections out now: www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
The proofs are in for our new paper in Museum Worlds: Advances in Research 12 (2024): 126–141
http://doi:10.3167/armw.2024.120111
http://doi:10.3167/armw.2024.120111
January 7, 2025 at 2:10 AM
The proofs are in for our new paper in Museum Worlds: Advances in Research 12 (2024): 126–141
http://doi:10.3167/armw.2024.120111
http://doi:10.3167/armw.2024.120111
An absolute honour to help the Anmatyerr men of central Australia bring their cultural performances to Swiss audience ms at the Fondation Opale.
December 15, 2024 at 9:29 PM
An absolute honour to help the Anmatyerr men of central Australia bring their cultural performances to Swiss audience ms at the Fondation Opale.
Work begins on the Anmatyerr @ingkantety.bsky.social ground painting project at Fondation Opale in Lens, Switzerland.
December 10, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Work begins on the Anmatyerr @ingkantety.bsky.social ground painting project at Fondation Opale in Lens, Switzerland.
Reposted by Dr Jason M. Gibson
#Anteater figure, 1975-77
Warao artist, El Pajal, Venezuela
Carved Balsa wood with inlaid seeds
38.2 x 13.4 x 6.2 cm
Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian 26/7561
americanindian.si.edu/collections-...
#IndigenousArt #SourhAmericanArt
Warao artist, El Pajal, Venezuela
Carved Balsa wood with inlaid seeds
38.2 x 13.4 x 6.2 cm
Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian 26/7561
americanindian.si.edu/collections-...
#IndigenousArt #SourhAmericanArt
December 2, 2024 at 2:14 AM
#Anteater figure, 1975-77
Warao artist, El Pajal, Venezuela
Carved Balsa wood with inlaid seeds
38.2 x 13.4 x 6.2 cm
Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian 26/7561
americanindian.si.edu/collections-...
#IndigenousArt #SourhAmericanArt
Warao artist, El Pajal, Venezuela
Carved Balsa wood with inlaid seeds
38.2 x 13.4 x 6.2 cm
Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian 26/7561
americanindian.si.edu/collections-...
#IndigenousArt #SourhAmericanArt
The perfect soundtrack to finishing a writing project.
November 30, 2024 at 4:15 AM
The perfect soundtrack to finishing a writing project.
As a archive/collections enthusiast and lover of music I can't get enough of the Numero Group. They are an archival record label unearthing and re-releasing 20th century sonic curios and forgotten artists of great diversity. www.gq.com/story/numero...
How This Cult Record Label Brings Forgotten Music Back from the Dead
Numero Group was founded by Ken Shipley and Rob Sevier, who are part crate-diggers, part forensic scientists who unearth long forgotten music—funk, gospel, country, metal—from decades past. And more r...
www.gq.com
November 28, 2024 at 12:34 AM
As a archive/collections enthusiast and lover of music I can't get enough of the Numero Group. They are an archival record label unearthing and re-releasing 20th century sonic curios and forgotten artists of great diversity. www.gq.com/story/numero...
I had the pleasure of lunching with the Dischord Records crew back in the day. Their philosophy and principles had a huge impact. I continue to share their interest in diy culture-making and and archiving. festival.si.edu/blog/fugazi-...
Back to Base: Fugazi & the D.C. Punk Zine Scene
Fanzines are independent, often highly personal, small-run publications created by fans of a specific subject.
festival.si.edu
November 26, 2024 at 4:58 AM
I had the pleasure of lunching with the Dischord Records crew back in the day. Their philosophy and principles had a huge impact. I continue to share their interest in diy culture-making and and archiving. festival.si.edu/blog/fugazi-...
Interesting development in the USA. The Cleveland Museum of Art has installed opaque covers on display cases containing Native American artworks and objects in compliance with the new NAGPRA amendments... www.cleveland.com/news/2024/01...
Cleveland Museum of Art conceals displays of Native American art in observance of new federal regulations
The federal government is asking museums to remove from view Native American objects until tribes give consent to their display.
www.cleveland.com
November 26, 2024 at 2:53 AM
Interesting development in the USA. The Cleveland Museum of Art has installed opaque covers on display cases containing Native American artworks and objects in compliance with the new NAGPRA amendments... www.cleveland.com/news/2024/01...
Reposted by Dr Jason M. Gibson
Anthropologists still longing for pristine and untouched Native cultures is always a trip (as it was for Radin in the 1930s), there's a kind of country and the city logic to it, those cultures were pristine in 1900 or 1850, always over that last temporal hill
November 25, 2024 at 12:09 AM
Anthropologists still longing for pristine and untouched Native cultures is always a trip (as it was for Radin in the 1930s), there's a kind of country and the city logic to it, those cultures were pristine in 1900 or 1850, always over that last temporal hill
Now that Bluesky numbers have improved, here’s a recent article I contributed to on the ‘New Protectionism’ in Indigenous collections and archives: publications.archivists.org.au/index.php/as...
November 25, 2024 at 8:59 AM
Now that Bluesky numbers have improved, here’s a recent article I contributed to on the ‘New Protectionism’ in Indigenous collections and archives: publications.archivists.org.au/index.php/as...
Reposted by Dr Jason M. Gibson
Academics wanting to 'verify' their Bluesky profile as genuine might give an ORCID identifier in their profile and link back to their Bluesky profile from ORCID.
#AcademicSky
#AcademicSky
November 21, 2024 at 9:13 AM
Academics wanting to 'verify' their Bluesky profile as genuine might give an ORCID identifier in their profile and link back to their Bluesky profile from ORCID.
#AcademicSky
#AcademicSky
2024 was big year for fieldwork. Always a thrill to be mapping sites in central Australia amongst the spinifex.
November 22, 2024 at 2:41 AM
2024 was big year for fieldwork. Always a thrill to be mapping sites in central Australia amongst the spinifex.
Reposted by Dr Jason M. Gibson
Last weekend, Museums Victoria's Coburg storage facility was flooded and collection items literally washed out onto the streets:
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Flood ‘like a scene from Titanic’, Sammy J says as Museums Victoria calls for help retrieving artefacts
Burst water pipe washed fossils, rocks and other specimens of historical value down Coburg street on Saturday night
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2024 at 11:19 PM
Last weekend, Museums Victoria's Coburg storage facility was flooded and collection items literally washed out onto the streets:
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Reposted by Dr Jason M. Gibson
The Anmatyerr ingkantety team are heading to Switzerland in a few weeks to make a ground painting. Stay tuned!
November 19, 2024 at 11:33 PM
The Anmatyerr ingkantety team are heading to Switzerland in a few weeks to make a ground painting. Stay tuned!
Reposted by Dr Jason M. Gibson
The AHA has joined the exodus from the bad place and has set up here (probably in both places for a while) - please follow and share for Aust History news:
The Australian Historical Association is now on Bluesky! We'll be sharing information about the latest developments, news, and events relevant to the discipline of history in Australia -- give us a follow!
November 18, 2024 at 1:44 AM
The AHA has joined the exodus from the bad place and has set up here (probably in both places for a while) - please follow and share for Aust History news:
More work to be done but we have begun mapping a song from Anmatyerr Country.
November 18, 2024 at 4:55 AM
More work to be done but we have begun mapping a song from Anmatyerr Country.
ANU Seminar on ceremony being worked up for publication now… rsha.cass.anu.edu.au/events/anmat...
Anmatyerr Ceremony in the Twenty-first Century: Struggles Beyond Continuity
In recent decades, ceremonial objects and recordings made by anthropologists have been gradually making their way back to Anmatyerr communities in central Australia. The reintegration of this material...
rsha.cass.anu.edu.au
November 18, 2024 at 4:46 AM
ANU Seminar on ceremony being worked up for publication now… rsha.cass.anu.edu.au/events/anmat...