January, 2009

Creativity feels the crunch

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.01.09

A very interesting article in the Australian about the impact of the credit crunch on the Aboriginal art market: The new year looms dark and forbidding for the nation's most distinctive visual product, that purest symbol of Australian complexity: Aboriginal...» Read More

John Weeronga Bartoo wins prize

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.01.09

John Weeronga Bartoo has been awarded the second prize in the Palm Art Award 2008 in Leipzig, Germany....» Read More

GRANTPIRRIE Opening: The New Mob, Thurs 15 January 6 - 8pm

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.01.09

GRANTPIRRIE will open for 2009 on Thursday 15 January with The New Mob. GRANTPIRRIE T - 61 2 9699 9033 F - 61 2 9698 8943 86 George Street Redfern NSW 2016...» Read More

Fine Tribal, Aboriginal Art & International Antiquities

Fine Tribal, Aboriginal Art & International Antiquities

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 13.01.09

Over 100 lots: Early India, Chinese, Southeast Asian, Islamic, Indus Valley, Gandharan, Khmer, art and antiquities. Art and Artefacts from, Australian, Oceania, and Africa. The highlights include;*Early Indian sculpture from Rajasthan dating 10 - 12th Century AD.*An outstanding collection of...» Read More

Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya Opens at Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 12.01.09

The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art presents today Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya, on view through April 5. In the more than thirty-five years since its advent at the tiny settlement of Papunya in the...» Read More

Written in the Land: Story of Queenie McKenzie

Written in the Land: Story of Queenie McKenzie

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 11.01.09

Written in the Land celebrates the life of Indigenous Elder of the Kimberley’s Queenie McKenzie View Flyer View Sample Pages The book on the life of an Indigenous leader of the East Kimberley in Western Australia Queenie McKenzie was launched...» Read More