March, 2009

Aboriginal art on display

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 03.04.09

LOCAL artists and members of the public have an opportunity to explore and learn about Australian art, culture and people at the Fiji Museum. The one-week exhibition of BALGO: Contemporary Australian Art from the Balgo Hills has been made possible...» Read More

Central Australian artists in the running for Telstra Award

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 01.04.09

Aboriginal Art Centres from central Australia have reserved their very best works for the 2009 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award later this year. With the close of entries last Friday (27 March) the Art Centres have...» Read More

Central Australian artists in the running for Telstra Award

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 01.04.09

Aboriginal Art Centres from central Australia have reserved their very best works for the 2009 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award later this year. With the close of entries last Friday (27 March) the Art Centres have...» Read More

CIAF relocates

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 31.03.09

The location for the inaugural Cairns Indigenous Art Fair has been changed with the event now taking place at Tanks Arts Centre rather than the Heritage Sheds announced earlier. The dates remain the same August 21 - 23....» Read More

Envoy for our colonial past

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 31.03.09

Not really relevant but wouldn't this have been amazing: "Old switcheroo art deal weathers well", ran the headline in The Daily Telegraph. The exchange program was soon derailed after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, an event that took place while the...» Read More

Aboriginal arts talk

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 31.03.09

An update from Will Owen: No essay this week, I confess, as I've happily spent the last seven days entertaining my friend Walter, down from Boston for a springtime visit, our first since we saw each other at the opening...» Read More

Teacher earns grant, heads to Australia

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 31.03.09

From Boulder and County News: Jason Gage, an art teacher at Spangler Elementary in the St. Vrain Valley School District, has been chosen to receive the 2009 Eleanor Venture grant -- created five years ago to support a teacher "travel...» Read More

Aboriginal Art Exhibition Opens today

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 31.03.09

THE Balgo - Contemporary Australian Art Exhibition launched yesterday at the Fiji Museum in Suva. The exhibition is the result of a small indigenous community based on the outskirts of the Great Sandy Desert and the Tanami Desert of northeast...» Read More

'EARTH'S CREATION' IN ALICE

'EARTH'S CREATION' IN ALICE

Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 29.03.09

The painting that briefly set the record for Aboriginal art, and still holds the record for a painting by an Australian woman – Emily Kngwarreye's 'Earth's Creation' – is now on show in Alice Springs. During the 2007 peak in...» Read More