October, 2010
From Cubawee to Coraki
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 04.11.10
Marie Florence began painting at 50 and as an Aboriginal artist, felt that she had to use traditional colours. She decided that she wanted to break with tradition and experimenting with colour is one of the many passions that drive...» Read More
Nominations Now Open Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards 2011
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 04.11.10
The Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards is a national award founded in 2008 to celebrate the breadth, diversity and excellence of art from all corners of Indigenous Australia. The awards acknowledge the significant and ongoing contribution Aboriginal and Torres Strait...» Read More
A New Sentimental Art Market Era Pt. 3
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 04.11.10
If you want some further examples of the sentimental and nostalgic direction that the art market is beginning to take then I shall provide you with two more. The first example is the direction that the Australian Aboriginal art market...» Read More
Cobra and Aboriginal art brought together in Breaking with Tradition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 04.11.10
BREAKING WITH TRADITION: Cobra and Aboriginal art explores the influence of the ideas of the European avant-garde movement Cobra on the development of contemporary Aboriginal art. Work by Paji Honeychild Yankarr, Narputta Nangala Jugadai and Yata Gypsy Yadda will be...» Read More
Contrast of a harsh beauty
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 04.11.10
Marie Florence won the Aboriginal Art Prize at the Coraki Art Prize with a work titled Restriction = Loss of Freedom. She explained to me that it was about the former Cubawee mission and her life there as a child....» Read More
Outback art in Parliament
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 04.11.10
Works by local artist Peter Brown are part of the Outback Art Exhibition at Parliament House. Nationals member for Murray-Darling John Williams along with Barwon MP Kevin Humphries are presenting the exhibition on show from November 1 to November 26...» Read More
ABC fails to strike out defamation case
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 03.11.10
A defamation claim by an Aboriginal art dealer against the Australian Broadcasting Corporation is to proceed in the Northern Territory Supreme Court. The Supreme Court in Alice Springs has denied an application from the ABC to strike out the defamation...» Read More
Out of the desert great artists come
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 03.11.10
Aboriginal art has travelled a long way since the early days at Papunya in the 1970s. Painting about his culture and country, and in an uncharacteristic pink, senior law man Ginger Wikilyiri spends weeks just sitting and thinking before he...» Read More
art + soul
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 03.11.10
art + soul An "insider's" view of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and artists. Charismatic curator Hetti Perkins takes us on a journey of ideas and the imagination - revealing the diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander...» Read More
LANEWAY COMMISSIONS 2011 AN INDIGENOUS PUBLIC ART OPPORTUNITY
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 03.11.10
Dear Indigenous Artist, INVITATION TO A BRIEFING FOR THE LANEWAY COMMISSIONS 2011 AN INDIGENOUS PUBLIC ART OPPORTUNITY The Laneway Commissions are: an annual season of temporary artworks in the public realm experiential in nature, embracing all contemporary art practices based...» Read More
Eye-catching mural unveiled in Coffs Harbour
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 02.11.10
The artist commissioned to create a huge mural for Coffs Harbour's city centre says it is good to see it finally come together. The 19 metre piece was revealed at a special ceremony today, with the aim of creating a...» Read More
Stolen Gloria Petyarre Painting
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 02.11.10
By now, my painting by Gloria Petyarre (Bush Medicine Leaves 2008, International Artwork Code A15119, 200 x 150, 2062) an esteemed Australian Aboriginal artist, could be in Timbuktoo by now. Thanks to questionable management of the Sydney-based art investment and...» Read More
