October, 2008
Demand for Australian indigenous art steady
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 18.10.08
After a recent auction industry insiders have announced that demand for Aboriginal art is steady: The head of an organisation representing Indigenous artists in Central Australia says the financial crisis shouldn't stop people buying high-quality Aboriginal art. A charity auction...» Read More
Art is in the heart for artist Judith
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.10.08
The Flinders News provides an interesting angle on Art AT The Heart: Multi-faceted Peterborough local Art Prize founder, artist, councillor, chairperson of the Regional Art Centre and Country Arts Board member, Judith Kempen has recently returned from what she described...» Read More
Art auction raises $250k for Indigenous health care
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.10.08
ABC Online reports: An auction of Aboriginal art in Melbourne has raised more than $250,000 for research into Indigenous health. Proceeds from the sale of the 14 artworks will go towards the Darwin-based Menzies School of Health Research. The school's...» Read More
Koorie Heritage Trust 3rd Charity Aboriginal Art - post auction sale
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.10.08
There was great success for the Koorie Heritage Trust 3rd Charity Aboriginal Art Auction, and the post-auction sales continue. Over half the works were sold and those unsold works will be exhibited for sale for two weeks at the Koorie...» Read More
Quality Aboriginal Art in Perth
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.10.08
The Business Spectator recommends the current Japingka Gallery exhibitions: In WA, if you want to see, and possibly buy, quality, genuine Aboriginal art, Japingka Gallery is the next best thing to going out in person to the remote communities. Japingka,...» Read More
Exhibition 17 October 08: Randell Lane Fine Art Gallery presents Dry Season - Long Time, Perth Australia
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.10.08
"Dry Season is a body of works so translucent the colours flow over each other as the light plays on the country and the memory of country is revealed... we are journeying through the landscape with Angelina George and reflecting...» Read More
The National Indigenous Golf Championships, Ochre Art Auction and 2008 Deadlys
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.10.08
More than 70 Indigenous Golfers will tee off in Brisbane this week when the National Indigenous Golf Championships get underway. Nudgee Golf Course Coordinator, Peter Trudgian will take you through the course and why Nudgee decided to host the event....» Read More
Master's desert way of seeing
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.10.08
Nicolas Rothwell for The Australian reports: JUST as the passing of desert artist Darby Jampijinpa Ross in 2005 possessed a certain elegance, the day after he received a congratulatory telegram from the Queen for his 100th birthday, so the first...» Read More
The intervention into NT Aboriginal communities: the approach by the Rudd Labor Government
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.10.08
Barrister and Lecturer-in-Law at Charles Darwin University, Mr. Michael O’Donnell will open the University’s free public lecture series on Tuesday, October 14 by exploring legal implications of the NT intervention. Mr O’Donnell’s lecture will examine the Rudd Labor Government’s response...» Read More
Auction airs possum skin cloak tradition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.10.08
Interesting article in The Age about possum skin cloaks: SEVERAL years ago, Aboriginal women Treahna Hamm and Lee Daroch drove from their respective homes in Gippsland and Wodonga to view two rare 19th-century possum skin cloaks in the possession of...» Read More
Art auction to benefit health care
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.10.08
INDIGENOUS health care in the Territory will benefit when Aboriginal art is auctioned in Melbourne next week. A new organisation, Ochre, backed by the business community and philanthropists, including Western Bulldogs president David Smorgon, will sell paintings by top indigenous...» Read More
First Contact
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.10.08
A new series shows how the infant NSW colony lost the chance to be an inclusive society, Graeme Blundell from the Australian writes: I GREW up in outer suburban Melbourne in the 1950s knowing nothing of the original inhabitants of...» Read More
ABC TV Puts Regional Artists on the Digital Map
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.10.08
artpost, an interactive website and short video series for TV broadcast, which showcases artists working in regional and remote parts of the country, was launched last night. Peter Garrett, the Federal Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, launched...» Read More
Give me your hand friend and bridge the cultural gap
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.10.08
Celebrated Indigenous photographer Wayne Quilliam will join with household names such as Nancy Petyarre, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Sally Morgan, Charlie Tjapangati and many other highly sought after artists at Deutscher and Hackett Auction house for the annual ‘Gnokan danna murra...» Read More
Across the desert Aboriginal Batik from Central Australia
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 12.10.08
Across the Desert: Aboriginal batik from Central Australia celebrates the emergence of a dynamic art form and the genesis of Aboriginal women’s art practice in five distinct desert communities – Ernabella (Pukatja), Fregon (Kaltjiti), Utopia, Yuendumu and Kintore (Walungurru). Each...» Read More
