October, 2010

Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 23.10.10

Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection "Saturday Tour" Oct. 23, 10:30 a.m. Join docent Nancy Venable for a free, guided tour of the current exhibitions. No reservations necessary....» Read More

Proposal to house the Keeping Place in Barangaroo

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 23.10.10

Aboriginal artist Gordon Syron and his wife Elaine have put together a 30-page proposal to the Barangaroo Delivery Authority requesting a home for their Keeping Place aboriginal art collection. “It is our dream for the collection to form the basis...» Read More

Indigenous art on show in the park

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 23.10.10

Indigenous art from across the state will be showcased at the Tandanya Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Fair this weekend. Work from more than 90 artists will be on sale, with about half of the artists at the event...» Read More

Aboriginal artist Weaver Jack dies in Broome

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 23.10.10

The Aboriginal art community is mourning the death of Weaver Jack, the first indigenous artist to be shortlisted for the Archibald Prize. She was a master colourist whose work showed a strong bond to her home country. Jack, a senior...» Read More

Council orders removal of 'fake' Aboriginal art

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 23.10.10

A New South Wales artist has been ordered to remove an image of a sacred Kimberley Aboriginal figure from her gallery in the Blue Mountains. Aboriginal groups reacted angrily in March when Vesna Tenody erected an eight-tonne stone sculpture of...» Read More

Northern Impressions in Print

Northern Impressions in Print

Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 22.10.10

A new exhibition, Northern Impressions: a celebration of contemporary printmaking, which features mostly contemporary indigenous fine art prints, has opened at the new Chan Contemporary Art Space in Darwin. It's only the second exhibition there, following the Togart Contemporary Art...» Read More

Big Crocs, Big Trucks and Big Magnets in Oz Read More http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/10/big-crocs-big-trucks-and-big-magnets-in-oz/#ixzz143WfTf8t

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 22.10.10

A thousand miles from any ocean, Alice Springs is the biggest outpost in the Outback. It is a major hub for Aboriginal or indigenous artists who travel from their desert communities to sell their works. Aboriginal art took millennia to...» Read More

Art Palm Beach’s annual lecture series and panel discussion highlights

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 22.10.10

rom Sand Drawing to Synthetic Polymer in Aboriginal Contemporary Art, a lecture on the Aboriginal sand design that has influenced contemporary Aboriginal art, led by Dr. Margo Smith, Director and Curator of the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University...» Read More

Other side art: Trevor Nickolls, a survey of paintings and drawings 1972-2007

Other side art: Trevor Nickolls, a survey of paintings and drawings 1972-2007

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 21.10.10

Other side art is the first museum survey of the work of South Australian Indigenous artist, Trevor Nickolls. Known as 'the father of urban aboriginal art', Nickolls has developed his own iconic language that has influenced and informed subsequent generations...» Read More

DEATH OF WEAVER JACK

DEATH OF WEAVER JACK

Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 20.10.10

In a statement from Short Street Gallery in Broome, which represented the Yulparija artists of Bidyadanga, Emily Rohr has said: "It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to the formidable, Weaver Jack, who passed away on 6th October...» Read More

Arts seminar, Why Collect? presented by Helen Cole and Brian Tucker

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 19.10.10

What: Arts seminar, Why Collect? presented by Helen Cole and Brian Tucker When: 10.30am on Tuesday 26 October Where: Caloundra Regional Gallery Cost: Free This month is “Collections” month across the Sunshine Coast with council’s regional galleries and arts centres...» Read More

FIRST AUSTRALIAN ART FOR FIRST AUSTRALIAN SAINT

FIRST AUSTRALIAN ART FOR FIRST AUSTRALIAN SAINT

Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 17.10.10

Aboriginal artworks sent from Catholic missions in the north and west of Australia earlier last century are on display at the Vatican’s Ethnological Museum in Rome to coincide with today's canonisation of Mary MacKillop. And their presence was celebrated with...» Read More

 ART FOR A GREAT CAUSE

ART FOR A GREAT CAUSE

Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 17.10.10

On Tuesday (19th Oct), what's being called “a unique collection of contemporary Aboriginal Art” will be auctioned at Sotheby¹s in Sydney in aid of the Aboriginal Employment Strategy (AES). The occasion will also be the official launch of the AES...» Read More

Vatican echoes to sound of didgeridoo

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.10.10

The Vatican echoed to the sounds of the didgeridoo on Friday at an Aboriginal show in memory of Mary MacKillop, who is about to be named Australia's first saint. A dozen bare-chested dancers wearing body paint performed songs and dances...» Read More

Cultural capital war flares on new front

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.10.10

Some interesting developments for future Indigenous Art museums.... Premier Bligh thinks differently as far as indigenous art is concerned. In revealing early plans to The Age to build a major gallery devoted to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art in...» Read More