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Understanding Rock Art

The Kimberley Rock Art Sequence and terminology used as the basic reference for discussion on respectitve rock-art motifs, groups, periods and epochs was progressively-developed and field-tested by Grahame L. Walsh.  This methodology was first published in Bradshaws: Ancient Rock Painting of Northwest Australia, Walsh, Grahame L (1994).

The paintings labelled 'Bradshaw' by the scientists of the Frobenius Institute expedition in 1938 are also know as 'Gwion Gwion' or 'Bradshaw Gwion'. Gwion is a Ngarinyin word for the Sandstone Shrike Thrush; legend has it that the Bradshaw/Gwion paintings were painted by the Sandstone Shrike Thrush with a bloody beak.

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