September, 2009
Culture warriors practise soft diplomacy
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 12.09.09
An ambitious Australian arts program aims to grab the attention of the Obama Administration. Washington correspondent Anne Davies reports. The largest contemporary indigenous art exhibition ever to leave Australian shores will open in Washington DC this week, the first event...» Read More
Aboriginal Painting, Gift and Cost
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 12.09.09
Re: the Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya exhibition Sent to the resettlement camp at Papunya, in South Central Australia, to acculturate the Aboriginal children, schoolteacher Geoff Bardon noticed that they were drawing nonstop in the sand,...» Read More
MENAGERIE COMES BACK TO TOWN
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 11.09.09
Menagerie is back in town! The 3-D show that began life in Sydney in 2009 spread across two venues - the Australian Museum and Object Gallery, has returned from its travels to Sydney. But it's all in one place this...» Read More
Artists vie for Uncle Sam's eye
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 11.09.09
The largest contemporary indigenous art exhibition to leave Australian shores is about to open in Washington, the first event in a cultural initiative that aims to boost Australia's profile in the US. Culture Warriors, which has been curated by the...» Read More
Potomac River dreaming
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 10.09.09
Renda Croft had a clear purpose in mind when she chose Culture Warriors as the title of the first triennial of contemporary Aboriginal art presented by the National Gallery of Australia. She wanted to pay tribute to the 30 artists...» Read More
EXHIBITION OPENING - SINGING THE DREAMING in association with Warlukurlangu Artists
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 09.09.09
Exhibitions opening: Friday 11th 6-8pm Desert Rain - Indigenous Fine Art Gallery, NOOSA MARINA, 2 Parkyn Crt, TEWANTIN QLD, continues until 4th Oct 2009 PUBLIC PROGRAM: Sun 13th, 2pm Film based on Paddy Japaljarri Sims - Singing the Milky...» Read More
NSW Art Gallery renovation mixes old and really old
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 09.09.09
Barry Pearce, head curator of Australian Art, said an extremely important addition to the works of the great masters was Indigenous art. “We are going to surprise people and bring some old Aboriginal art back in to the gallery,” he...» Read More
COLONIAL TUTINI
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 09.09.09
The Tiwi people who drove the first White colonialists off their remote Melville Island (80kms north of Darwin) less than 5 years after they tried to establish a fort there are enjoying yet more schadenfreude as their ancient burial poles...» Read More
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SPEAKEASY
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 08.09.09
OPENING: 25 September, 6 - 8pm Free Admission Gallery 4A’s upcoming group exhibition profiles Asian-Australian history entangled with an Aboriginal history of Australia. Recently returned from representing Australia at the Venice Biennale, Brisbane-based artist Vernon Ah Kee will present work...» Read More
GULUMBU YUNUPINGU Heavens Above!
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 08.09.09
this Tuesday evening GULUMBU YUNUPINGU Heavens Above! Gulumbu Yunupingu will make the long journey to Melbourne to proudly welcome you to her exhibition opening on Tuesday 8 September 6:30 – 8:30pm...» Read More
BENTINCK ISLAND ARTISTS
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 08.09.09
Alcaston Gallery is delighted to present this vibrant and exciting exhibition by the Bentinck Island artists of new paintings and prints that have been recently editioned at Northern Editions, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory. The exhibition is presented in...» Read More
Last hurrah for old man of brush Tommy Watson
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 08.09.09
It was only about a decade ago that Tommy Watson, already an old man, first turned his hand to art. His career took off at once. His works were eagerly sought by collectors, breaking records at auction and establishing him...» Read More
Tommy Watson 'Kutjara Wara' (The Last One)
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 08.09.09
Tommy Watson 'Kutjara Wara' (The Last One) A selection of works September 5 - October 11...» Read More
Flawed vision cops pasting
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 06.09.09
THE widow of painter John Brack is ambivalent about it. Wendy Whiteley says in theory it is a good thing. Gallery owner William Mora, who has an enduring interest in the paintings by his artist mother, Mirka, says while he...» Read More
Aboriginal art master puts on final public show
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 06.09.09
Aboriginal artist Yannima Tommy Watson is a man of few words, but his vibrant works literally shout at audiences from the Muse du Quai Branly in Paris and Australia's most prestigious art galleries. The man widely regarded as Australia's most...» Read More
Life and art in the sky, Part 2: “Ilgarijiri – Things Belonging to the Sky”
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 06.09.09
Further to my previous post on Alma Nungarrayi Granite’s paintings from Warlukurlangu Artists at my home town of Yuendumu I found a fascinating set of links between Aboriginal art, the sky and the objects we find there and modern science....» Read More
