July, 2009

Totems tell the story

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 18.07.09

Aboriginal totems are painted in a modernist style making some of them appear as shiny and straight as steel, in artist Ian Waldron's new show opening July 17. Waldron's varying depictions of his Kurtjar clan's bloodwood tree dominate his new...» Read More

The local road to recovery

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 18.07.09

Various paradoxes flow from the strange configuration of divergent interests in the Territory. Traditional community leaders and those close to the cultural heart of remote Aboriginal societies tend to have quite strong biases in favour of a degree of modernisation...» Read More

Public Works: Ginger Riley Munduwalawa

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 18.07.09

Ginger Riley Munduwalawala, Limmen Bight River Country (1992). Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, bought 1992. On display until December 6. IN the 1950s Ginger Riley Munduwalawala was working as a stockman, droving cattle from the vast stations of the Northern...» Read More

National art award for local artist

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 18.07.09

Local Aboriginal artist, Nyree Reynolds, has won the prestigious Mil-Pra AECG Aboriginal Art Award for the second time. Ms Reynolds received the award for her painting, ‘Elders Knowing-Elders Showing, Children Watching-Children Learning’. The award was presented at Casula Powerhouse as...» Read More

Aboriginal art exhibition raises funds for Indigenous medical students

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 18.07.09

Daniel Walbidi discovered art as a ten-year-old at school, starting out painting still life scenes. Now he introduces the traditional Aboriginal art style to old and young people in his Western Australian community. "Usually in our culture it's the elders...» Read More

Eyeing the invisible

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.07.09

He's Australian by birth, and of Scottish and Australian Aboriginal descent - but he has created many of his major works in far-flung locales including Lithuania, England, India, China and New York. These works themselves also defy easy categorisation, encompassing...» Read More

Explore the Red Centre

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.07.09

Wander through Alice Springs and visit the numerous Indigenous art galleries — excellent places to pick up an authentic piece of unique Aboriginal art. The award-winning Alice Springs Resort is a good base from which to take to the skies...» Read More

Taking Bundjalung art to the world

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.07.09

From the Northern Rivers Echo: If you travel to places with a high population of Aboriginal artists like Alice Springs or Darwin, there’s plenty of venues where you can find and buy local Indigenous art. But in Lismore, such a...» Read More

Annual Telstra Aboriginal Art Awards 1 month away

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.07.09

It's nearly that time of year again, The 26th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award's (NATSIAA) open in a months time on the 14th August. It will be very interesting to see the styles of Art that...» Read More

Aboriginal artist honored in Washington D.C. for NAIDOC Week

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.07.09

Ken Thaiday Senior, respected artist from the Torres Strait Island, presents his visions and art with grace and eloquence. With his wife Liz by his side, they have been transported from one world to another to be honored in Washington,...» Read More

Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair 2009

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.07.09

Indigenous Instyle is excited to announce we will be attending the Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair in August to search for artworks from established and new artists....» Read More

Indigenous art on show

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.07.09

The opening of the Visual Voices - Aboriginal Art of the South East Exhibition at Central Tilba Hall on Friday evening felt like something of an historic occasion. The atmosphere was one of pride in achievement, cultural reaffirmation and reconciliation....» Read More

Shapes offer no hint of the horror within

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.07.09

A Rover Thomas recording tells the story behind a dark work, writes Louise Schwartzkoff. At first glance, the painting looks innocent enough; a few abstract shapes and dotted lines that could be an aerial map or a stylised design. In...» Read More

New theory may put location of Joseph Lycett painting in perspective

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.07.09

A 200-year-old mystery about one of Newcastle's most famous pieces of Aboriginal art history may have been solved, with a new theory about the location of a Joseph Lycett painting. Lycett was a convict and one of Australia's earliest colonial...» Read More

Warlukurlangu Survey Show 2009

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.07.09

The beautiful and colourful works of the Warlukurlangu Artists' Aboriginal Association, hailing from Darwin, Australia, will be in town between 26 August to 3 October. International. Dubbed the Warlukurlangu Survey Show 2009, the exhibition pays homage to the aboriginal art...» Read More

Generation Next set to hit WA

Generation Next set to hit WA

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 15.07.09

After a sell out exhibition in 2008, Generation Next will open at Randell Lane Fine Art on 22 July 2009 showcasing Australia's best new talent and new directions in contemporary Indigenous art. This much anticipated show will promise to dazzle...» Read More

GENERATION NEXT 2009

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 15.07.09

Generation Next is an annual exhibition focusing on new directions in contemporary Indigenous Art. This stunning exhibition is not to be missed....» Read More

Ada Bird Petyarre c. 1930 - 2009

Ada Bird Petyarre c. 1930 - 2009

Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 15.07.09

Acclaimed Utopia artist, Ada Bird Petyarre, well known for the breast paint-ups of her Awelye (body paint designs) and for Arnkerrthe (Mountain Devil Lizard) paintings, passed away peacefully on Sunday 28th June. Famous for her bubbly personality, Ada was the...» Read More

Page 8

Page 8

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 15.07.09

Adelaide Festival Centre's Australian Stories program presents Company B's production of Page 8 written by David Page and Louis Nowra Following a successful, critically acclaimed 2005 Adelaide Cabaret Festival season, Page 8 has been thrilling audiences around the world. An...» Read More