November, 2008
Wish comes true
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 22.11.08
One of the individual donors is Dr Patrick Corrigan, who provided the funds for Barbie Kjar’s work Escucha. Corrigan, who recently gave the gallery a substantial collection of valuable artists’ prints and drawings, has made hundreds of donations to galleries,...» Read More
Aboriginal Art Selling Exhibition - Entries closing now
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 22.11.08
Shapiro Galleries 162 Queen Street Woollahra, Woollahra, Sydney ENQUIRIES (+612) 9326 1588 aboriginal.art@shapiro.com.au Artists of interest: Declan Apuatimi Jack Britten Tommy Carroll Butcher Cherel Janangoo Barney Ellaga Hector Jandany Ivy Nixon Janyka Emily Kame Kngwarreye Kudditji Tjungurrayi Kngwarreye Lena Kuriniya...» Read More
Watiyawanu artists prepare for Alice exhibition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 21.11.08
ABC NEWS reports: Alice Springs residents will be treated to their first ever group art show from the Watiyawanu Artists of Mount Liebig this weekend. The artists, from an Aboriginal-owned art co-operative, 350 kilometres north-west of Alice Springs, have had...» Read More
Sale ends Saturday
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 20.11.08
Prices start from $300. An opportunity to buy affordable & investment quality works at discounted prices. Selected works by renowned artists including Ningura Napurrula, Wingu Tingima, Minnie Pwerle, Helen McCarthy, and more....» Read More
New track improves access to rock art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 20.11.08
Visitors to the renowned Aboriginal rock art sites at Mount Grenfell near Cobar will be able to step out in style following the completion of a new walking track. National Parks and Wildlife Service area manager Sarah Carr said the...» Read More
Confidential Business Public Programs
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 20.11.08
Get together with local artists to have a yarn about indigenous art making or learn techniques from Confidential Business Artists. Book Now Confidential Business Forum The Confidential Business Forum is an opportunity for people of all backgrounds to participate in...» Read More
Voting Now Online for Big WA Indigenous Art Prize
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 20.11.08
A unique opportunity to vote online for the big Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards' People's Choice Prize is on offer until January 4. All the works by 16 artists selected for the first WA Indigenous Art Awards exhibition can now...» Read More
The New Mob, Thurs 27 November 6 - 8pm
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 20.11.08
Preview of the New Mob exhibition at GrantPirrie....» Read More
New works from SANTA TERESA
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 20.11.08
Today we've received some new works from Santa Teresa, a small community of 500 people south east of Alice Springs. We should have all the new paintings online in the next day or so. Santa Teresa was a Catholic Mission...» Read More
The Artery now has a blog
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 20.11.08
Since opening our gallery in 2005, we have met hundreds of terrific people and thought that a blog would be a great way for you to see what we're up to. Finally, we've got the blog linked to our website...» Read More
A wicked way with words has poets ready to slam
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 19.11.08
Artist and poet Greg Smith and David Reimer will battle spoken-word style at the State Library of NSW next week as part of Australian Poetry Slam 08. In its second year, the national poetry competition is Australia's largest and richest,...» Read More
Swept up in the current
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 19.11.08
With 80 artists spread across 300 glossy colour pages, Current is up-to-the minute, controversial, sexy, political, dangerous or reassuringly familiar, depending on what page you turn to. Naturally, in the sometimes volatile world of contemporary art, eddies of (unwanted) attention...» Read More
What is current? Who is current? These are pertinent questions in the ever-changing realm of visual art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 19.11.08
With 80 artists spread across 300 glossy colour pages, Current is up-to-the minute, controversial, sexy, political, dangerous or reassuringly familiar, depending on what page you turn to. Current is the new book from the Art & Australia team, and took...» Read More
Art Opens New World
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 18.11.08
Belinda Nolan reports: DISABILITY equals possibility. That’s the message Brimbank artist Michael van Roehl not only believes, but lives by. Although he suffers from an intellectual disability, the 35-year-old Sunshine man is determined to experience everything life has to offer....» Read More
A fortnightly wrap-up of how the media reported Indigenous affairs from the National Indigenous Times
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 18.11.08
AN art auction house spent more than $100,000 moving a sale from Melbourne to Sydney this month after misinterpreting a new law. Sotheby's admits it was confused about a change to the Australian Heritage Act 2006. The Act requires individual...» Read More
From rock to canvas
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 18.11.08
An art culture that is thousands of years old has not only evolved successfully but is now a commercial triumph internationally, too. BEYOND THE DOTS Nov 7-21, Pace Gallery, PJ MY fascination with contemporary Australian aboriginal art – in particular...» Read More
Calling Emerging Australian Artists
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.11.08
Emerging Australian Artists have less than two weeks to enter one of Australia’s most exciting art competitions - the Wilson National Art Prize Launched in 2007, the Wilson HTM National Art Prize is an acquisitive art award open to emerging...» Read More
Exhibition aims to raise profile of fibre art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.11.08
Penny McLintock reports for ABC: The curator of a new exhibition on Indigenous fibre art hopes it will raise the profile of the contemporary works. ReCoil: Change and Exchange in Coiled Fibre Art includes works by 15 textile artists and...» Read More
Aboriginal artworks reflect history spanning 40,000 years
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.11.08
SALINA KHALID in Malaysia reports: THERE are more to paintings than their aesthetic value. For the aborigines in Australia, since time immemorial, painting has been a medium to record and to communicate. The people’s dot paintings tell stories about their...» Read More
For the children
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.11.08
In Malaysia: AWARD-winning Maida Stewart is one of the Australian aboriginal artists whose paintings are currently on display in the Beyond the Dots exhibition at Pace Gallery. Stewart decided to combine a holiday in Malaysia with travelling here with the...» Read More
Tjungurrayi claims prestigious art prize
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.11.08
From The Western Australian: WA painter Patrick Tjungurrayi has won Australia’s richest Aboriginal art prize with his monumental series of canvases depicting a scrub fire in his Gibson Desert homeland. “They were the best, the best-looking,” judge Djon Mundine said...» Read More
Beyond Sacred
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.11.08
Listen to the audio Last week on Artworks, Julie Copeland talked to the Sydney pathologist and art collector Colin Laverty about how you make a collection. This week Julie is taking the conversation further with him, to tease out ideas...» Read More
Gods, Ghosts and Men
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 16.11.08
The most significant exhibition of islander art in two decades is a confronting experience for all, writes Christopher Allen | November 15, 2008 Gods, Ghosts and Men - National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Until January 11. As you enter Gods,...» Read More
Aboriginal artworks reflect history spanning 40,000 years
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 16.11.08
Visitors to Pace Gallery in Petaling Jaya have a chance to see examples of these artworks, which had been especially brought in from Australia and will be on display until Nov 21. Appreciating her peer: Maida Stewart standing next to...» Read More
Pacific solutions
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 16.11.08
The most significant exhibition of islander art in two decades is a confronting experience for all, writes Christopher Allen Gods, Ghosts and Men National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Until January 11. Quote from the article: In fact this is the...» Read More
