Andrea Jalandoni – The Conversation

Two Awunbarna Maliwawa style rock paintings of thylacines with heads facing upwards, next to Maliwawa human figures. Joakim Goldhahn

March 30, 2026

NT rock art thousands of years old sheds new light on the mysterious Tasmanian tiger

Paul S.C.Taçon, Griffith University; Andrea Jalandoni, Griffith University; Joey Nganjmirra, Indigenous Knowledge, and Sally K. May, Adelaide University

The rock art reveals the Thylacine’s deep significance to Aboriginal peoples.

Andrea Jalandoni

August 23, 2023

This cave on Borneo has been used for 20,000 years – and we’ve now dated rock art showing colonial resistance 400 years ago

Jillian Huntley, Griffith University; Andrea Jalandoni, Griffith University; Emilie Dotte-Sarout, The University of Western Australia; Fiona Petchey, University of Waikato, and Paul S.C.Taçon, Griffith University

New dates for the rock art in the Gua Sireh cave in Malaysia reveal resistance to frontier violence between 1670 and 1830.

Large painting of a crocodile attributed to Majumbu along with two child hand stencils. Photograph courtesy of the Melbourne Museum, object 019930, object size 2.94m by 1.03m

February 22, 2023

Returning a name to an artist: the work of Majumbu, a previously unknown Australian painter

Paul S.C.Taçon, Griffith University; Andrea Jalandoni, Griffith University; Joakim Goldhahn, The University of Western Australia; Kenneth Mangiru, Indigenous Knowledge; Luke Taylor, Griffith University, and Sally K. May, University of Adelaide

Majumbu’s work sits in the Melbourne Museum, but until now he has not been named as the artist.

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