March, 2010

First Friday Lecture: Australian Aboriginal Art

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 27.03.10

First Friday Lecture: Australian Aboriginal Art Friday, Apr 2 11:00a to 12:00p at Seattle Art Museum Downtown, Seattle, WA Phone: (206) 654-3137 SAM's Curator of Art of Africa and Oceania discusses how a contemporary art movement has emerged from one...» Read More

Aboriginal Art Exhibition – Seasons Greetings Opens Blackheath

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 27.03.10

Aboriginal Art Exhibition – Seasons Greetings Opens Blackheath 26 March 6pm March 23rd, 2010 Blue Mountains seasons… Aboriginal perspectives An exhibition of mixed media work in progress lino cuts & prints, painting, photography, audio & dance on video Opens Friday...» Read More

Buyers show restraint

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 27.03.10

The art auction year got off to a hesitant start in Melbourne on Wednesday night, indicating that it was still very much a buyers' market - and that buyers were treading warily. In the year's first big auction, Deutscher and...» Read More

Big Artwork Sale at Mbantua Gallery

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 27.03.10

From Mbantua Gallery: Yesterday we launched an artwork sale in the gallery - 30 pieces of art have been marked down (some by more than 50%) as a way to clear out some stock and make way for new art...» Read More

Inside Frank Gehry’s New Art Gallery of Ontario

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 26.03.10

Today’s media tour of the revitalized Art Gallery of Ontario did more than just showcase Frank Gehry’s architectural grace, at a cost of $300 million. It also displayed new artwork from the likes of the Group of Seven and Peter...» Read More

Now Goolagong is a big name in art too

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 26.03.10

More than ten years ago Maurice Goolagong first picked up a paintbrush. He is completely self-taught and after years of hard work his skills were showcased in the 2010 National Parks and Wildlife Aboriginal art competition. The winners of the...» Read More

Collaboration etched in the desert

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 26.03.10

How to track the rhythmic dotting of a desert artist, hand poised close above the canvas? How to convey the smooth, floating line of an East Kimberley master or the fine, cross-hatched brushstrokes of a bark painter from north Arnhem...» Read More

Outsider, aboriginal art in Springs show

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 25.03.10

Despite the hundreds of assorted exhibitions that take place each year in scores of museums and galleries along the Front Range, certain types of art, for unexplained reasons, remain scarce. Two of the most notable such examples are outsider and...» Read More

The Modrogorje Gallery Affair

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 25.03.10

A Croatian gallery owner in Katoomba has been forced to abandon her home in the face of death threats and vandalism after inciting the rage of the local Aboriginal community. Vesna Tenodi commissioned art teacher, Benedikt Osvath to carve the...» Read More

Aboriginal family donates 'Possum Dreaming' to the Canberra Hospital

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 25.03.10

ACT Minister for Health, Katy Gallagher MLA, today accepted the artwork ‘Possum Dreaming' from an Aboriginal family, which has donated the painting as a way of thanking Canberra Hospital staff for the culturally sensitive care, commitment and professionalism provided to...» Read More

"Ngamu nu la ngurra ra kujupa" – Bringing Cultures Together

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 24.03.10

ReDot Fine Art Gallery is proud to announce the 2nd Singaporean show of innovative works of the Martumili Artists. Following on from last year’s first ever, sell out, international show we will be exhibiting the latest and most exciting works...» Read More

"Ngamu nu la ngurra ra kujupa" – Bringing Cultures Together

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 24.03.10

ReDot Fine Art Gallery is proud to announce the 2nd Singaporean show of innovative works of the Martumili Artists. Following on from last year’s first ever, sell out, international show we will be exhibiting the latest and most exciting works...» Read More

China, Australia sign MOU on reciprocal years of culture

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 24.03.10

The Year of Australian Culture in China, the opening ceremony of which is scheduled for June 8 in the National Center for the Performing Arts, lasts from June 2010 to June 2011. It will be a showcase of cooperation between...» Read More

OPR Supports Mid-West Aboriginal Artists with ‘Good Heart’

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 23.03.10

Oakajee Port and Rail (OPR) is calling for mid-west Aboriginal artists to start painting and begin creating pieces for this year’s ‘Good Heart’ Mid West Aboriginal Art Exhibition to be held in Perth in June. OPR promoted the development of...» Read More

27th Telstra Art Award

27th Telstra Art Award

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 23.03.10

27th Telstra Art Award - News Update Entries for the 27th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award opened to Indigenous artists nationally on Friday, 19 February and close Friday, 2 April 2010. The Telstra Art Award is...» Read More

“Ingalimpa Tjuntu” - Singing songs, ‘We sing the country and that’s how we find the way’

“Ingalimpa Tjuntu” - Singing songs, ‘We sing the country and that’s how we find the way’

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 22.03.10

MEDIA RELEASE The ancient and the modern- a perfect partnership Redot Gallery- Singapore, Warlayirti Artists- Balgo, Audi Japan Group- April 2010 Question: What would bring the new hi-tech Audi navigational system side by side with the ancient Aboriginal Australia Tjukurpa...» Read More

First Friday Lecture: Australian Aboriginal Art

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 22.03.10

Friday, Apr 2 11:00a to 12:00p at Seattle Art Museum Downtown, Seattle, WA Phone: (206) 654-3137 SAM's Curator of Art of Africa and Oceania discusses how a contemporary art movement has emerged from one of the world's oldest living cultures....» Read More

Firestick sculptures light the way

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 22.03.10

Far north Queensland indigenous artists are taking a new approach to traditional artefacts THE reaction to the first showing of ceramics by the Girringun artists of Cardwell, in far north Queensland, was overwhelming. "We were mobbed," says Valerie Keenan, manager...» Read More

Museum Victoria: 2010 Lecture Series, Indigenous Cultures Department

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 21.03.10

When: 1pm – 2pm, last Tuesday of every month, February to November, 2010 Where: The Discovery Centre, Lower Ground Floor, Melbourne Museum The Indigenous Cultures Department of Museum Victoria is launching a monthly lecture series in February 2010 entitled Culture...» Read More

Heaven and Earth

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 21.03.10

Before and After Science: 2010 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. Until May 2. It is significant that the Adelaide Biennial coincides with the Art Gallery of South Australia's purchase of an enormous work by...» Read More

Art battle turns ugly as Aborigines condemn sculpture's sacred image

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 21.03.10

"This is the most beautiful thing that has been done for Aboriginal people," a Blue Mountains gallery owner, Vesna Tenodi, says. "They should be thanking me, but instead I get yelled at wherever I go." Tenodi is the owner, together...» Read More