2010
January, 2010
The shifting centre
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 02.01.10
A fascinating article by Nicolas Rothwell on the shifting of the Aboriginal art industry out of Alice Springs, looking primarily at Papunya Tula and Desart: But the contours of the central Australian art world map are changing fast in the...» Read More
McCulloch's Aboriginal Art @ Salt Contemporary 2010: The Summer Show
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 07.01.10
Celebrating the colours of summer, this new exhibition showcases art from Australia’s newest and most dynamic desert art producing regions. Including work from the APY Lands, Western Desert, Spinifex Country, The Martu and Utopia....» Read More
New developments for ABORIGINAL ART
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 13.01.10
www.idaia.com.au Specialising in International Development for Australian Indigenous Art IDAIA is dedicated to the development of a quality and ethical Australian Indigenous art among international audiences. ACQUISITION Advising and sourcing works for acquisition projects EXHIBITION Organising exhibition projects for overseas...» Read More
The Directory - Art Competitions & Exhibitions of Australia & NZ 2010
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 16.01.10
New publication featuring more than 1100 Australian and New Zealand art competitions & exhibitions in one practical book. Lists all relevant details such as contact details, name, prize monies, web address, art type etc. for visual artists such as fine...» Read More
The Lost Brothers
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 21.01.10
In 1984, Walala and eight other relatives of the Pintupi Tribe became famous around the globe when they walked out of the Western Desert and made contact with Australian society for the first time. Now, we are delighted to bring...» Read More
Cowichan Aboriginal Film Festival
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 26.01.10
Welcome to the 6th Cowichan International Aboriginal Film Festival, taking place from April 15 - 19, 2010 in Duncan, British Columbia. Featuring four nights of films from indegenous filmmakers around the globe, art & dance, an opening Coast Salish Reception....» Read More
New Online Social Network for Sunshine Coast Artists
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 26.01.10
Visual artist Des Howell, recently relocated from Toowoomba to Caloundra, has just started a new online social network Arts Sunshine to help promote all the Arts in the Sunshine Coast and hinterlands. Artists joining the network can upload images of...» Read More
February, 2010
Strands of Country: Contemporary Aboriginal Textiles
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 01.02.10
From the southern ocean to the northern seas and across the desert, contemporary textile art is practiced by Aboriginal artists. This exhibition showcases the work of three centres of contemporary textile practice. Babbarra Designs is based at Maningrida in central...» Read More
Purchasing Aboriginal Art: A Consumer Guide
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 02.02.10
A consumer guide put together by the NT Government, sponsored by Qantas. Download guide...» Read More
Aboriginals: Art of the First person Announces “Insider Sale” - 30% Off Australian art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 03.02.10
Art of the First Person, doing business on the Web at http://www.TribalWorks.com, is offering all its Australian Aboriginal art at 30% off through February 28, 2010....» Read More
Call for Submissions for 2010 - 8th Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 03.02.10
Swell Sculpture Festival invites submissions from artists to exhibit in the 2010 exhibition. This is an opportunity to exhibit in a highly regarded exhibition set within a visually stimulating, expansive coastal landscape. Swell Sculpture Festival supports full freedom of expression...» Read More
WHAT RHYMES WITH NGAPARTJI? NGAPARTJI!
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 04.02.10
From Will Owen: It's hard for me to think that Ngapartji Ngapartji (freely translated from Pitjantjatjara, "I give you something, you give me something") is concluding. I never had the opportunity to see the stage show, Trevor Jamieson's personal and...» Read More
Soul of the outback
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 04.02.10
Samuel Namunjdja walks into the gallery barefoot, bearing two paintings on bark; abstract works in ochre of lines and dots representing stories from Aboriginal mythology. He is one of the gallery’s rising stars. Namunjdja’s paintings hang in galleries and private...» Read More
Soul of the outback
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 04.02.10
Samuel Namunjdja walks into the gallery barefoot, bearing two paintings on bark; abstract works in ochre of lines and dots representing stories from Aboriginal mythology. He is one of the gallery’s rising stars. Namunjdja’s paintings hang in galleries and private...» Read More
NAIDOC 2010
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 04.02.10
The 2010 National NAIDOC theme is 'Unsung Heroes - Closing the Gap by Leading Their Way'. Many unsung Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have made huge contributions to Australian society. 'Unsung heroes' recognises the part played by the quiet...» Read More
Djambawa Marawili Receives an AM
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 04.02.10
The Yolgnu community of Eastern Arnhemland and art lovers widely are celebrating the recognition of the Madarrpa clan leader, Buku-Larrngay Arts Chairman and ANKAAA Chairman, Djambawa Marawili, who received a Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of...» Read More
Coming soon: Sale to support the Western Desert Dialysis Program!
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 06.02.10
From 15 February until 7 March 2010 we are holding a sale of high quality donated art works to raise funds for the Western Desert Dialysis Program (click link for more details). All funds raised will go to this important...» Read More
Valentine's Day Tour
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 07.02.10
On Valentine’s Day treat your loved one to a special tour of the Kluge-Ruhe Collection followed by Gearhart’s Chocolates and a toast to love. Director/curator Margo Smith will lead the guided tour starting at 2:00 pm on Sunday, February 14....» Read More
Parcours Nomad’s en Australie
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 08.02.10
La Galerie Arts d’Australie • Stéphane Jacob et le Restaurant Nomad’s ont le plaisir de vous convier Lundi 8 février 2010 de 18h à 22h à un apéritif convivial dans le cadre de l’exposition “Parcours Nomad’s en Australie” 12 place...» Read More
McCulloch's Aboriginal Art @ Flinders 2010: A Summer Exhibition from The Lands
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 09.02.10
A wide variety of more than 55 new and vibrant Aboriginal artworks as well as baskets, books, jewellery and more from the APY Lands, Utopia, Kintore, Yuendumu, the Canning Stock Route and the Tiwi Islands. Opening drinks: Thurs. Feb 18...» Read More
Sorry: More than a Word
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 09.02.10
National Australia Bank together with the Aboriginal Artist of the Year Wayne Quilliam is pleased to host the photographic exhibition "Sorry: More than a Word" to commemorate the second anniversary of the Apology to Australia's Indigenous Peoples. The popular exhibition...» Read More
IT'S ALL FOLK ART AT BOS 2010
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 10.02.10
David Elliott, director of the 17th Biennale of Sydney later this year, scratched an old sore today in launching his forthcoming feast of visual arts by asserting that “all art is folk art”. As a major feature of his BOS...» Read More
Indigenous Prints
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 10.02.10
Recent works from remote communities across Australia 18 February - 14 March, 2010 Over the past 20 years printmaking has become a major art form in many Indigenous communities with celebrated artists such as Rover Thomas creating works that have...» Read More
Tjukurpa Pulkatjara - The Power of the Law
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 12.02.10
The South Australian Museum in association with Ananguku Arts and Culture Aboriginal Corporation proudly invites you to the opening of Tjukurpa Pulkatjara – the Power of the Law. Wednesday March 3 @ 6 pm South Australian Museum The 50th Adelaide...» Read More
Qantas Indigenous Young and Emerging Visual Arts Award - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 12.02.10
Nominations close: 1 March 2010 Amount: $10,000 The Qantas Indigenous Young and Emerging Visual Arts Award acknowledges a young and emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander visual artist who is making an outstanding contribution to Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander...» Read More
OPR Supports Mid-West Aboriginal Artists with 'Good Heart'
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 12.02.10
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
Opening Reception - ‘Kinti kinti, Purrka purrka – The Balgo Way’
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 13.02.10
ReDot Fine Art Gallery is proud to present the 2nd Singaporean show of the colourful works of the Warlayirti Artists Aboriginal Corporation. Warlayirti Artists is located in Balgo, in the arid north east of Western Australia, between the Great Sandy...» Read More
‘Kinti kinti, Purrka purrka – The Balgo Way’
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 13.02.10
ReDot Fine Art Gallery is proud to present the second Singaporean show of the colourful works of the Warlayirti Artists Aboriginal Corporation. Warlayirti Artists is located in Balgo, in the arid north east of Western Australia, between the Great Sandy...» Read More
Kooriez in da hood
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 18.02.10
Media Release 12 February 2010 Kooriez in da hood Art Project helps Koorie Youth reclaim Hoodie as source of Pride The hoodie jacket, sometimes associated with youth alienation and crime, will be celebrated as a symbol of cultural pride...» Read More
IMPACT 7: International Multi-disciplinary Printmaking Conference
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 23.02.10
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER: Lulu and Selina Teece
Posted by | 23.02.10
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER: Lulu and Selina Teece Coinciding with International Women’s Day Lulu Teece Apetyarre and Selina Teece Pwerl two members of the same family from the remote community of Ampilatwatja (pronounced Um-blud-a-witch) north of Utopia in the eastern central...» Read More
BLACK & WHITE ARTISTS IN NT VIE FOR TOGART AWARD
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 25.02.10
The Northern Territory's Togart Contemporary Art Award is one of Australia’s richest contemporary art awards and entries are now open until 15th March. The annual Award is open to all artists who base their practice within the Northern Territory or...» Read More
Eastern Desert Art Exhibitions 2010
Posted by | 26.02.10
Eastern Desert Art is thrilled to announce a new partnership with the Australasian Arts Company, Singapore which launched its first exhibition on 5 May 2010. The first exhibition featured work from established and emerging artists from the eastern and western...» Read More
March, 2010
The rainforest travels to Hahndorf
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 02.03.10
THE ARTISTRY OF JAWUN: Neriba Gallasch, Abe Muriata, Erima Gallasch and Sarenah Gallasch at the opening of Bi-cornual Artistry at the Tineriba Gallery in Hahndorf, South Australia. Photo Girringun Aboriginal Corporation. VIEWING THE JAWUN: Artist Abe Muriata, Gallery Director Neriba...» Read More
EAST KIMBERLEY IN SYDNEY
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 04.03.10
Upon seeing the painting 1957 #20 by Mark Rothko at the National Gallery of Australia, Rover Thomas, the star of the original group of East Kimberley painters, asked: ‘Who’s that bugger who paints like me?’. Rothko himself was not averse...» Read More
INDIGENOUS IMAGE WINS NATIONAL PORTRAIT PRIZE
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 05.03.10
Mr Andrew Sayers, Director, National Portrait Gallery yesterday announced the winner of the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2010 as Scott Bycroft for the work titled Zareth. VISA has generously sponsored the exhibition and will provide the winning prize money of...» Read More
HOODIES IN MELBOURNE
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 05.03.10
The hoodie jacket, sometimes associated with youth alienation and crime, will be celebrated as a symbol of cultural pride and strength in an arts project aimed at giving positive direction to a group of 15 at risk Koorie youths. “Kooriez...» Read More
13th Annual West Hollywood Art & Design Walk
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 11.03.10
On March 26th & 27th our gallery will be a part of the 13th Annual West Hollywood Art & Design Walk event. This year, the event will be held in conjunction with Westweek at the Pacific Design Center. A must-see...» Read More
CODE OF CONDUCT NOW IN FORCE
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 11.03.10
Registration is now open for art dealers, agents, galleries and arts centres to register their interest in becoming signatories to the Indigenous Australian Art Commercial Code of Conduct. Arts Minister, Peter Garrett, congratulated the Code Administration Committee on their efforts...» Read More
60% OF AUSSIES HAVE AN INTEREST IN INDIGENOUS ART
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 11.03.10
A recent Australia Council survey of 3000 Australians – over the age of 15 and selected on the basis of geographical, age and gender quotas – shows a growing enthusiasm for the indigenous arts. 17% of the total sample have...» Read More
Registration opens for Indigenous Australian Art Commercial Code of Conduct
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 12.03.10
Registration is now open for art dealers, including agents, galleries and arts centres to register their interest in becoming signatories to the Indigenous Australian Art Commercial Code of Conduct. Arts Minister, Peter Garrett, congratulated the Code Administration Committee on their...» Read More
A TRIBAL WORLD ON VIEW
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 13.03.10
I was drawn to this gorgeous and important book, 'We Are One' by the prospect of Damien Hirst – the English artist infamous for his crazy concepts like a floating shark or a diamond encrusted skull – sharing his views...» Read More
CAIRNS INDIGENOUS ART FAIR ARTISTIC DIRECTOR RETURNS FOR 2010
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.03.10
Premier and Minister for the Arts The Honourable Anna Bligh Monday, March 15, 2010 CAIRNS INDIGENOUS ART FAIR ARTISTIC DIRECTOR RETURNS FOR 2010 Premier and Arts Minister Anna Bligh today announced Michael Snelling would return as Artistic Director of Cairns...» Read More
ABORIGINAL ARTIST GOES TO OXFORD
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 18.03.10
The 32 year old Bidjara artist from SW Queensland, Christian Bumbarra Thompson has been announced as one of the first two Aborigines to go to study at Oxford University. Working mainly in Melbourne in recent years, and operating mostly in...» Read More
GEORGE WARD TJUNGARRAYI
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 18.03.10
It's been a bad time for Aboriginal art – far too many deaths of the Old People have occurred, the artists who often saw no white people until their maturity and are painting the deserts and their stories first hand....» Read More
Indigenous art in Nundah
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 19.03.10
Art enthusiasts can view the works of nationally renowned indigenous artists at Centred Art Gallery from March 19 to May 1. The gallery’s latest exhibition is titled Senior Desert Artists and owner Rene Dings said the art on display was...» Read More
Tayenebe: Tasmanian Aboriginal Women’s Fibre Work
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 20.03.10
Tayenebe, a Tasmanian Aboriginal word meaning ‘exchange’, celebrates the revitalisation of Tasmanian Aboriginal weaving that has been taking place over the past three years. Tayenebe includes beautiful baskets and kelp water carriers in contemporary and traditional styles, along with a...» Read More
Australian Aboriginal Art and the contemporary gallery
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 20.03.10
Colin Laverty speaks on Beyond Sacred - Australian Aboriginal art and why it belongs in contemporary galleries + institutions and not ethnographic + anthropological museums. Colin and Elizabeth Laverty began collecting Aboriginal art twenty years ago, and their collection has...» 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
“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
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
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
"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
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
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
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
Last chance to view in Melbourne CBD
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 29.03.10
If you'd like to view the artwork by Gloria Petyarre, Lena Pwerle and Jeannie Mills that we have here, please contact us as soon as possible. Best Regards, Dale Below is a Gloria Petyarre that we have with us -...» Read More
Top End Arts - Off the Leash
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 29.03.10
Top End Arts has been around in one form or another since 1999 when it was set up to provide arts organisations with joint marketing. It grew in 2004 from a Darwin focus to a Top End focus and began...» Read More
Aboriginal artist goes to Oxford University
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 29.03.10
The 32 year old Bidjara artist from SW Queensland, Christian Bumbarra Thompson has been announced as one of the first two Aborigines to go to study at Oxford University. Working mainly in Melbourne in recent years, and operating mostly in...» Read More
‘Ngamu nu la ngurra ra kujupa – Bringing Cultures Together’
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 30.03.10
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
What a petrol-sniffing Aboriginal boy tells us about Australia today
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 30.03.10
Germaine Greer on Samson and Delilah: Some people say they don't get Warwick Thornton's film, Samson and Delilah. And some people who say they do get it, don't. It's a film about an Aboriginal boy who sniffs petrol, and an...» Read More
Australian Trilogy: Dennis Nona, Abie Loy Kemarre, GW Bot
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 31.03.10
Spring 2010 is upon us and we will begin on a journey to the heart of 6, Mandel. This special journey will take us to the antipodes of Paris where we will discover three Australian artists of international fame -...» Read More
Glady Kemarre from Utopia announced finalist in 2010 City of Albany Art Prize
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 31.03.10
Yesterday the 30 finalists for the 2010 City of Albany Art Prize were announced and Glady is one of just three from the Northern Territory to make the cut. The City of Albany Art Prize is a national prize for...» Read More
Aboriginal art sale draws artists
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 31.03.10
Fairymead House is about to get a whole new collection with some of the biggest names in Australian art – but this time, they will be for sale. Paintings and artworks by Albert Namatjira, Walter Ebaterinja, Pro Hart and David...» Read More
April, 2010
Telstra Art Award now on Twitter
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 01.04.10
The art world is twittering with anticipation as the countdown to Australia's most prestigious Indigenous art award begins, and now the latest news and updates can be shared and discovered by people all across the world through social networking site...» Read More
Exploring Aboriginal Art Prints with Dean Dass
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 01.04.10
Dean Dass, Professor of Studio Art at the University of Virginia, will explore Aboriginal art prints in the exhibition Etched in the Sun: Prints by Australian Indigenous Artists on Thursday, April 1, at 7:00 pm at the Kluge-Ruhe Collection. Dass...» Read More
Indigenous art prize
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 01.04.10
The Parliament of New South Wales Aboriginal Art Prize (long name but a rich art prize) is awarded to a NSW Aboriginal artist . The prize is $20,000. Yeeha! And the winning work is bought by the Parliament of New...» Read More
New museum catalogue published in April
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 01.04.10
Simultanously with the opening of Aboriginal art today! our new museum catalogue will be released. The richly illustrated book entitled Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Dutch collections at AAMU provides an extensive overview of Aboriginal art, based on Dutch collections only, from...» Read More
As of April 21: new exhibition Aboriginal art today!
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 01.04.10
Aboriginal art today! provides those who are keen to know more about this young and dynamic art movement a fascinating overview of the evolution of contemporary Aboriginal art from around 1970 right up to the most recent developments. The various...» Read More
Blood River
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 01.04.10
New Works by Joanne Currie Nalingu Opening Tuesday 6th of April at 6pm 6th of April - 1st May 2010 Blood River Louise Martin-Chew February 2010 Joanne Currie was born and spent her earliest childhood years at an Aboriginal mission...» Read More
Yakai – We’re Coming
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 01.04.10
New work by artists from Lockhart River, QLD Featuring paintings by Patrick Butcher, Josiah Omeenyo, Irene Namok and Susie Pascoe. Puunyas, traditional weaved baskets, will also be on display. Opening Event: Saturday 17th April 2010, 2 - 4pm Josiah Omeenyo,...» Read More
Boost for Telstra Art Awards
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 04.04.10
Minister for Arts and Museums Gerry McCarthy today welcomed the announcement by Telstra CEO David Thodey of a new 3-year sponsorship of the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA). "It is a pleasure to have Mr...» Read More
Nomad Art Gallery - Manuka, A.C.T - Now Open!
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 08.04.10
Nomad Art Gallery Shop 11, M Centre Palmerston Lane Manuka, A.C.T. Tel: 61 2 6162 1512 canberra@nomadart.com.au www.nomadart.com.au Nomad Art Gallery - Manuka, A.C.T - Now Open! Where: Shop 11, M Centre, Palmerston Lane, Manuka, A.C.T Open: Tuesday to...» Read More
Anmanari Brown & Tjayangka Woods
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 08.04.10
This exhibition marks Anmanari Brown and Tjayanka Woods’s first co solo exhibition in their intense painting careers, with a new body of work focussing on the Kungkarrakalpa, or Seven Sisters Tjukurpa. Anmanari Brown and Tjayanka Woods are two of the...» Read More
Once in a 1000 years: An Australian Gift to Hanoi
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 11.04.10
In keeping with the 2010 party spirit, the Australian Embassy is proud to present "Once in a 1000 years: An Australian Gift to Hanoi”, a celebration of Australia-Vietnam relations through exhibitions, performances and exchanges featuring Australia's proud Indigenous heritage. Wednesday...» Read More
Balgo Indigenous Painting Exhibition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.04.10
Opening: Sat 17 Apr, 10 am – 12 pm Exhibition: 17 Apr – 12 May Vietnam Museum of Ethnology As part of its “Once in a 1000 years: An Australian Gift to Hanoi” program, the Australian Embassy is pleased to...» Read More
$1000 up for grabs in Aboriginal art competition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.04.10
Members of the Wangan and Jagalingou Native Title Claim Group have the chance to win $1000 in prize money by designing a new logo featuring a local endangered hairy-nosed marsupial. The logo will be used to represent Rio Tinto's Clermont...» Read More
Curator Announced for Telstra Art Award
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.04.10
The Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) and Principal Sponsor Telstra are pleased to announce Kate Podger as the curator for the 27th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award. Kate has worked in the...» Read More
RESALE ROYALTIES START IN JUNE
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 14.04.10
Arts Minister Peter Garrett announced on April 7th that Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) was the successful tenderer to act as the collecting society to implement and administer the resale royalty scheme for visual artists. “CAL has 20 years experience collecting...» Read More
The Ngal Sisters: Painting Country
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 15.04.10
Lauraine Diggins Fine Art presents an exhibition of paintings by the prominent Ngal sisters from the Utopia region of the Northern Territory. Angelina, Kathleen and Poly Ngal depict their country, Aharlper, each in an individual painting style with a focus...» Read More
Curator Announced for Telstra Art Award
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 16.04.10
The Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) and Principal Sponsor Telstra are pleased to announce Kate Podger as the curator for the 27th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award. Kate has worked in the...» Read More
Indigenous award nabs new curator
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 16.04.10
Kate Podger was yesterday named as the curator for the 27th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award. Ms Podger has more than 10 years experience in the indigenous arts industry, most recently at the Araluen Arts Centre...» Read More
Australasian Arts Projects Presents The Utopia Story The art and artists of Utopia
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 19.04.10
Australasian Arts Projects is a regionally focused arts production company, newly established to entertain, inform and educate the general public about art, artists and artistic practice. Initially based in Singapore, Australasian Arts Projects is delighted to present its first event...» Read More
Dutch Icons of Aboriginal art on Show
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 20.04.10
Aboriginal art today! provides a fascinating overview of the evolution of contemporary Aboriginal art from its beginnings in1971 right up to its most recent developments. What is particularly significant is that all the works featured in this exhibition come from...» Read More
NPWS Aboriginal Art Award
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 21.04.10
One of the Northern Rivers Region’s most prestigious art prizes is once again set to build community bridges and celebrate local art. Now entering its ninth year the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) Northern Rivers Region Aboriginal Art Award...» Read More
Tangentyere Artists - The Story Belonging to Us
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 22.04.10
Tangentyere Artists is an Australian Aboriginal Art Centre, owned and directed by Tangentyere Council. The enterprise represents artists from the 18 Alice Springs town camp communities who produce acrylic paintings and local seed jewellery. A defining feature of this product...» Read More
WA Art Award Nominees Named
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 23.04.10
The 16 finalists in the nation’s richest indigenous arts prize, the Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards, were today announced by State Culture and the Arts Minister, John Day. Mr Day congratulated the artists who have been invited to participate...» Read More
Moral Lip Service: Government's Hard Hit at the Art Market is a Soft Form of Redress
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 23.04.10
Since the 1970s, a significant rise in Indigenous rights debates and protocols on the world stage has occurred in tandem with dramatic growth in the appreciation of Aboriginal art. Over the same period the federal government has introduced legislation and...» Read More
Margaret Kemarre Turner Interview Part 2
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 24.04.10
Visit the link below to watch the video ”We grew up in that feeling of land. Our trees and hills and creeks are really important to us, you know. Never in our lives would people move anything. If they went...» Read More
Museum explores Australia's Balgo region
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 24.04.10
An exhibition entitled Balgo: Contemporary Australian Art from the Balgo Hills has opened at the Viet Nam Museum of Ethnology in Ha Noi. The largest collection of indigenous works ever displayed in Viet Nam, features 26 paintings by 18 established...» Read More
Tiwi art takes centre stage for opening of new gallery
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 24.04.10
The new art gallery at Charles Darwin University will open this week with an exhibition of Tiwi Island art. NT Administrator Tom Pauling will open the new Art Gallery at Charles Darwin University. The gallery's first's exhibition, Jilamara: Looking back,...» Read More
All artists welcome to join in new group
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 24.04.10
In her new role as the Outback Arts Regional Indigenous Cultural Development Officer (RICDO) for the Lightning Ridge district, Karin Thurston has established a group for artists. The group meets at the CDEP rooms on Shincracker Street every Friday from...» Read More
Big name, big art, big chance
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 24.04.10
The National Parks and Wildlife Service Northern Rivers Region Aboriginal Art Award has one of the longest names in art history. Maybe we can just call it the NPWSNRRAAA… yes, that’s better. Anyway, the NPWSNRRAAA is in its ninth year...» Read More
5 By 5 at Menier Gallery
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 24.04.10
Contemporary Modern Australian Art (COMODAA) will premiere new and recent works by Australian artists in London this spring with an exhibition entitled 5 By 5. The exhibition, running from 27th May until 5th June 2010 at The Menier Gallery in...» Read More
Innate Calling
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 24.04.10
The Dreamers celebrates the lives and outstanding work of eight distinguished Aboriginal artists who have contributed significantly to Australia’s cultural landscape through their creative endeavors. The exhibition is drawn exclusively from the Art Gallery of New South Wales’s collection, and...» Read More
Rare and elegant art wins buyers
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 27.04.10
Rival auctioneers rolled up to the Armadale showroom to watch Goodman take to the Sotheby's podium, among them Deutscher-Menzies' national head of art, Tim Abdallah, and Deutscher and Hackett's head of Aboriginal art, Crispin Gutteridge, and head auctioneer Anita Archer....» Read More
Mapping Me - Call for Artists
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 27.04.10
Mapping Me: A Landscape of Women's Stories Editors: Orchid Tierney and Tamara Azizian We are seeking submissions in any artistic format (photography, painting, sketching etc) from indigenous women for a new anthology project titled, "Mapping Me, a Landscape of Women's...» Read More
Film - 'Black Man's Houses' showing at Human Rights Arts & Film Festival
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 29.04.10
The award winning film, Black Man's Houses, documents a powerful story of indigenous survival that challenges skin-deep assumptions about Aboriginality today, as descendants of 'extinct' Tasmanian Aborigines set out to claim the lost graves of their ancestors on Flinders Island....» Read More
Australian Trilogy: Dennis Nona, Abie Loy Kemarre, GW Bot
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 29.04.10
INVITATION : "Drinks Party" Wednesday may 5th 5pm to 9pm "Australian Trilogy: Dennis Nona, Abie Loy Kemarre, GW Bot" Exhibition runs until May 15th 2010 Tuesday through Saturday, 2.30pm - 7pm open on the 1st and the 8th of May...» Read More
Pre-Selection Underway to Select Telstra Art Award Finalists
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 30.04.10
Pre-selection for the 27th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award is underway at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) this week. Telstra Art Award curator Kate Podger said MAGNT and Telstra were thrilled...» Read More
Pre-Selection Underway to Select Telstra Art Award Finalists
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 30.04.10
Pre-selection for the 27th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award is underway at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) this week. Telstra Art Award curator Kate Podger said MAGNT and Telstra were thrilled...» Read More
May, 2010
Art Fair Celebrates Australia's Aboriginal Culture
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 01.05.10
Those who want to experience something distinct and unique in Australia will appreciate the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair, which returns for a second year from August 19-22. The Cairns Indigenous Art Fair is an annual boutique art market for showcasing...» Read More
2010 NPWS Aboriginal Art Award
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 01.05.10
2The National Parks and Wildlife Service Northern Rivers Region Aboriginal Art Award, now worth $6,500 in prize money, will be held in collaboration with Lismore Regional Gallery from the 5th June to 10th July 2010. The Award is open to...» Read More
"Parisian perspectives on Australian Art", an article by Rosemary Willink
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 01.05.10
An important question facing European galleries today is: how to exhibit contemporary indigenous works, whose inspiration is not founded on the western tradition, and present these works to a European audience. Australian art is visible in France both in museums...» Read More
Dennis NONA, "Bywa Udthaik", etching, 140 x 85 cm, art aborigène / aboriginal art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 01.05.10
Australian Aboriginal Art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 02.05.10
Australian Aboriginal art has always been a huge inspiration in my abstract artwork. I love indigenous art from cultures all over the world, but Aboriginal art always held a certain attraction for me – the colors, the patterns, and the...» Read More
Australian Aboriginal Art: Ancient Culture Reborn
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 02.05.10
As part of the Penola Coonawarra Arts Festival, enjoy a rare opportunity to view some treasures of the Rodney Gooch collection, as well as works from private Australian and International collectors. Rymill Coonawarra, Riddoch Highway, Coonawarra, SA. During the month...» Read More
Fringe artists find power in collective spirit
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 02.05.10
And then there's the lesser known, yet just as significant, 61-year-old Jane Young - a star of Alice Spring's town camp painting scene. Young is from Tangentyere Artists - an indigenous art centre established five years ago in Alice Springs...» Read More
Aboriginal art childrens holiday workshop
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 03.05.10
Monday 13 - Friday 17 July 2009 various times as listed Meet at Information Desk, Ground Level Celebrating NAIDOC Week Join Indigenous multi-media artist Emily McDaniel for a dynamic workshop focusing on the Gallery’s collection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait...» Read More
Opening this evening: Johnny Warangkula Tjupurulla 1925 - 2001
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 03.05.10
I am delighted to invite you to a rare exhibition of paintings by one of the founding masters of the Aboriginal art movement, Johnny Warangkula Tjupurulla (or Johnnny W, as he is affectionately known). The show opens from: 6 to...» Read More
Australian Trilogy
Posted by | 03.05.10
Spring 2010 is upon us and we will begin on a journey to the heart of 6, Mandel. This special journey will take us to the antipodes of Paris where we will discover three Australian artists of international fame -...» Read More
Saturday | Aboriginal inspirations
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 03.05.10
ART EXHIBIT ABORIGINAL INSPIRATIONS See Ngaminya by Ningura Napurrula and works by several other artists at the opening of The Inspired Dream: Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art , running through July 6. Details: Opening reception 7:30-10 p.m. at Diana Lowenstein Fine...» Read More
Aboriginal art lecture series
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 04.05.10
An introduction to Aboriginal art and culture Wednesdays, 23 June – 11 August 2010 6–7pm Centenary Auditorium, Lower Level 1 This six-part course, presented by Jonathan Jones, curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art at the Art Gallery of...» Read More
Lockhart River Elders Featuring recent works by Doris Platt, Elizabeth "Queenie" Giblet, Sue Pascoe and introducing Lawrence Omeenyo. 14 May - 6 June 2010
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 04.05.10
You and your friends are invited to the opening on Friday, 14th of May at 6pm To be opened by: Dr Maryanne Coutts, National Art School. In the past decade the artists of Lockhart River have taken the art world...» Read More
Collecting Australian Aboriginal Art by Marie Geissler
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 04.05.10
Marie Geissler tells us how now is a great time to start investing in Aboriginal art: Today, however with the impact of the global financial meltdown being all pervasive, sales in all sectors – including Aboriginal art – have dropped....» Read More
How One Art Teacher Changed the Destiny of the Aboriginal People
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 04.05.10
Mata H talks about the history of the Aboriginal Art and the role of Geoffrey Barden in bringing it to the world: In the 1970s, Geoffrey Barden was a young art teacher in Australia. He taught art at a few...» Read More
Multicultural Events Calendar Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 04.05.10
Etched in the Sun Organized by: Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection Date and Time: exhibit runs January 12-May 2; Tuesday – Saturday (10 AM - 4 PM), Sunday (1 - 5 pm) Free Guided Tour: Sat. 10:30AM Location: Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art...» Read More
Suzun Bennet
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 04.05.10
The story of Suzun Bennet, an Australian who wanted to set up an Aboriginal Art business in New York City but instead ended up in real estate Hailing from Australia, Bennet arrived in the Big Apple six weeks before the...» Read More
Death of John Bulun Bulun
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 05.05.10
Johnny Bulun Bulun was born in 1946 just after the Second World War near the Arafura Swamp of Central Arnhem Land. When he was older, his family moved to the nearby mission in Milingimbi so that he could attend school....» Read More
Art News: The Rise of Aboriginal Art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 06.05.10
This May, we examine the thriving, complex market for art made by artists from Arab and North African countries. We talk to Rona Pondick, who mixes animal body parts with her own to create hybrids that are at once sublime...» Read More
McCulloch’s contemporary Aboriginal Art – the complete guide
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 06.05.10
Rebecca Cannon reviews McCulloch’s contemporary Aboriginal Art – the complete guide: If you’re planning a trip across outback Australia and want to visit contemporary Aboriginal artists and co-ops, or if you simply have an interest in contemporary Australian Aboriginal art,...» Read More
Art set to celebrate spirit
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 06.05.10
A Bundaberg artist’s recent exhibition has led her to launch a state-wide Aboriginal art festival and competition in her home town. Nicole Wone said she was inspired to hold the inaugural Yoorellgoo Bundaberg Aboriginal Art Festival, featuring an art competition...» Read More
The Inspired Dream | Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 07.05.10
Miami, Florida/March 2010 - Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts is pleased to announce the opening of The Inspired Dream | Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art on Saturday, May 8th during the Wynwood Art District Second Saturday Gallery Walk. A reception will take...» Read More
Utopia Loses A Prestigious Artist and Elder
Posted by | 07.05.10
Respected elder and artist Greeny Purvis Petyarre passed away at the Alice Springs hospital on 3rd May 2010 from an infection related to dementia. Apart from being a prestigious artist, Greeny was also a very high ranking tribal elder in...» Read More
JOHNNY WARANGKULA'S LATE WORKS IN SYDNEY
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 07.05.10
Johnnny Warangkula Tjupurulla (1918 - 2001) was one of the outstanding artists in the Aboriginal art movement. Warangkula was born around 1925 at Mintjilpirri, south of Lake Mackay. Close by is his major dreaming site Tjilkari. His mother was of...» Read More
“Urban Aboriginal Art – A Survey Show 2010”
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 08.05.10
Australian Indigenous art is not all that we had imagined it to be. When one thinks of Aboriginal art, a genre driven by a nomadic way of life, one thinks of watering holes and an ancient form of communicating. The...» Read More
“Urban Aboriginal Art – A Survey Show 2010”
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 08.05.10
Australian Indigenous art is not all that we had imagined it to be. When one thinks of Aboriginal art, a genre driven by a nomadic way of life, one thinks of watering holes and an ancient form of communicating. The...» Read More
Collecting the Dots
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 09.05.10
From ArtNews May 2010 In a few decades, the seemingly abstract compositions of Australia's aboriginal artists have moved from body painting and sand mosaics to board to acrylics on canvas—and to the walls of major museums by Carly Berwick Bush...» Read More
Looking Back at Country - Retrospective Exhibition, Series 1
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 09.05.10
Opening Event: Wednesday 19th May 2010, 6 - 8pm Exhibition Dates: Tuesday 18th May –Saturday 19th June 2010 From Alcaston Gallery: Martin Tjampitjinpa (born c. 1965 – d. 2007) His irresistible paintings explore his heritage, inheritance and also the respect...» Read More
Remembering Country
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 09.05.10
Beverly and Anthony Knight in conjunction with Bindi Inc. Mwerre Anthurre Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory proudly invite you to view: Remembering Country featuring Adrian Robertson Kukula McDonald Seth Namatjira Billy Kenda Lance James and Billy Benn Perrurle Opening Event:...» Read More
Girringun Aboriginal Corporation - Group Show 2010
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 10.05.10
Aboriginal Art Reading Group: May meeting
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 11.05.10
May meeting: Marcia Langton, “The Art of Being Aboriginal” and Ian McLean “Historicity and Aboriginal Art: How Long Will It Take for Aboriginal Art to Become Modern” May 11, 2010 · Leave a Comment The next Aboriginal Art Reading Group...» Read More
Desert Mob 2010
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 11.05.10
Desert Mob is the premier Indigenous art event showcasing work from Central Australian artists, with an increasing number of national and international collectors and researchers returning each year for the show, to view the exhibition and to purchase. The Araluen...» Read More
Two new art shows feature the work of nonartists
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 11.05.10
First, I'm hoping to make my way out to Pantops for a show that's opening at Kluge-Ruhe tomorrow. On display will be selections from the Mount Liebig Photography Project 2004, a show by the young people of Amunturrngu in Australia's...» Read More
‘Jukurrpa – Our Story’ – Warlukurlangu Artists
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 11.05.10
Tandanya is excited to present ‘Jukurrpa – Our Story’, an exhibition from the Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation. Warlukurlangu Artists was established in 1985, and is recognised as one of the most significant Aboriginal art centres in Australia. Specialising in the...» Read More
Lowanna by Aboriginal Artist of the Year Wayne Quilliam
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 11.05.10
Tuesday May 11 2010 Media Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute presents Lowanna by Aboriginal Artist of the Year Wayne Quilliam Tandanya is proud to present the NAIDOC Artist of the Year Wayne Quilliam and his international...» Read More
Our Metro Mob 2010: Call for Submissions
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 11.05.10
Saturday 24th July to Sunday 29th August 2010 Tandanya Our Metro Mob 2010 Tandanya is proud to announce the opening of Our Metro Mob 2010 Exhibition as part of the Sala Festival Program. The ‘Our Metro Mob’ exhibition features Adelaide...» Read More
Girringun Aboriginal Art Centre at Canopy
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 13.05.10
Emerging from the rainforest canopy and a culture spanning countless generations, the work of Girringun artists is attracting a lot of attention. The stories and environments of this ancient culture are being transformed into visual images and designs by weavers,...» Read More
'Untitled-Unfinished' Online Exhibition of Works by the late Janelle Stockman Napaltjarri
Posted by | 13.05.10
View the artwork of this exhibition online from May 6th - 27th 2010. Until Thursday 27th May, Mbantua Gallery have an exhibition viewable online titled 'Untitled Unfinished' which is a collection of works by the late Janelle Stockman Napaltjarri. When...» Read More
On Track: Contemporary Aboriginal Art from Western Australia
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.05.10
City of Wanneroo Event Monday 7 June - Sunday 27 June 2010 On Track showcases the dynamic development of Western Australian Aboriginal artists' expression over the last decade. The exhibition presents a unique opportunity to view the diversity of regional...» Read More
Mundamurra ngijinda dulk: My Island Home in London
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.05.10
SALLY GABORI Mundamurra ngijinda dulk: My Island Home The Gallery in Cork Street 28 Cork Street, Mayfair, London, W1S 3NG Private View: Tuesday 25th May, 6-8pm Mr John Dauth LVO, Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom will be in...» Read More
Munupi Medley
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 15.05.10
Recent paintings and sculpture from Munupi Arts, Tiwi Islands....» Read More
Mount Liebig Photography Project 2004; Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Museum; Through August 15
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 18.05.10
The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection is one of my favorite places in Charlottesville. I like its serene setting on Pantops, the simplicity of the museum’s purpose, and the way the staff is either unobtrusive or delighted to see me and...» Read More
'Mount Liebig Photography Project 2004' opens at Kluge-Ruhe
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 18.05.10
"Mount Liebig Photography Project 2004" will be on display at Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection from May 11 through Aug. 15. An opening reception will be 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Friday. No reservations are required. In 2004, photographer Simon Davidson visited...» Read More
Desert art to show in Beijing
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 19.05.10
From the Age: Dot paintings from the indigenous community of Papunya are heading to the heart of Beijing. In an exercise in cultural diplomacy, packers at the National Museum of Australia spent yesterday sliding paintings from its successful 2007 exhibition...» Read More
Aboriginal art makes the long trek to China
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 19.05.10
From the Australian: The works are large and bold. Most were created in the central Australian community of Papunya in the 1970s when the Aboriginal art movement was starting to gather pace. In Canberra yesterday, some of those early pieces...» Read More
25 May, Artist Talk by David Garneau
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 19.05.10
Australian Aboriginal Art: A Reading Group Artist Talk by David Garneau Visiting Canadian Indigenous Métis artist & curator Apropos Appropriate Appropriations (Art after the Apology) Koorie Heritage Trust, Tuesday, 25 May 2010, 3- 5pm Followed by discussion & coffee. RSVP:...» Read More
Indigenous Communal Intellectual Property Rights Not Supported in Australian Law
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 19.05.10
Indigenous Communal Intellectual Property Rights are not Supported in Australian Law. The Mowanjum people of the Northern Kimberley have custodial rights and responsibilities for the portrayal of the Wandjina, which is a key figure in the belief system of the...» Read More
Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd Press Release 19th May 2010
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 20.05.10
Over the last two weeks Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd has been made aware of rumours circulating relating to an immediate change of current management. This is untrue. There have been reports that the artists, shareholders and Board of Directors...» Read More
Makinti Napanangka - Western Australian Indigenous Art Award 2010
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 21.05.10
Papunya Tula Artists would like to congratulate Makinti Napanangka, who has been selected as a finalists in the 2010 Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards. This award is the nation's richest indigenous arts prize and showcases the diversity of art practice...» Read More
36th Alice Prize - A National Contemporary Art Award
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 21.05.10
Johnny Yungut Tjupurrula, Makinti Napanangka and Yinarupa Nangala were invited to exhibit in the 36th Alice Prize. The Alice Prize is $20,000 acquisitive art prize which this year was judged by art advisor and previous director of the Art Gallery...» Read More
San Francisco: Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery at SF Fine Art Fair
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 21.05.10
At the San Francisco Fine Art Fair, Rebecca Hossack will be exhibiting work by the leading contemporary Australian artists David Bromley, Paul Davies, Allyson Reynolds, Richard Allen and Andrew Taylor. Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery was the first gallery in Europe...» Read More
Call for entries, Important Aboriginal Art from Private Collections- June exhibition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 21.05.10
The gallery has had consigned a select group of Aboriginal artefacts, sculptures and paintings from three major private collections. For our June exhibition we are looking to augment these works with a small number of important paintings. In recent months...» Read More
Announcing the winner of the 2010 Alice Prize
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 22.05.10
Announcing the winner of the 2010 Alice Prize Alison Alder ‘Carcass’ (tryptich) 2009 Screen printed gouache on paper 120 x 252cm Honourable Mention Yinarupa Nangala 'Untitled' Acrylic on linen Tobias Richardson 'Demountable Churches' acrylic, enamel and collage on board Mary...» Read More
Warlayirti Artists from Balgo WA travel to Japan to paint a TT Roadster at the Audi Tokyo Forum.
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 22.05.10
A must see! Absolutely brilliant video from Joe Tusler: Recently I travelled to Japan with Warlayirti Artists as part of the "Ingalimpa Tjuntu" exhibition at the Audi Tokyo Forum, here is a link to part1 of a two part series...» Read More
Shinju Matsuri
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 22.05.10
Website: http://www.shinjumatsuri.com.au Contact details: Office: (08) 9192 6461 Email: pr@shinjumatsuri.com.au The dates are Friday 27 August to Sunday 5 August This is the 40th year of Shinju Matsuri and we hope to make it a memorable experience for all involved....» Read More
Sublime Works by Sally Gabori to Open at The Gallery in Cork Street
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 24.05.10
LONDON.- With her expressive brushstrokes, tactile layering of paint and expert use of colour, the work of Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori can be described as truly sublime. Jennifer Guerrini Maraldi Art (JGMart) and Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, in conjunction with Mornington...» Read More
Aboriginal Art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 24.05.10
Aboriginal Art Course starts in Orange Download Flyer Info session: Friday May 21, 12.30 Course commences Monday May 24 Monday & Tuesdays, 9.30-4.30 until June 29 TAFE Orange campus This Introductory course has been designed for those people who desire...» Read More
Indigenous art manager defends his job
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 24.05.10
The manager of the Indigenous art cooperative Papunya Tula Artists says his position is not, and never was, under threat. Paul Sweeney says he has the support of the "vast majority" of the company's artists, shareholders and board. The private...» Read More
Prisoners reveal their stories in FORM of art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 24.05.10
As the old adage goes “a picture is worth a thousand words” and 15 Aboriginal prisoners from Greenough Regional Prison have used brushes to tell their stories. These artworks are now on display at Port Hedland Courthouse Gallery until 23...» Read More
Nothing succeeds like success
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 24.05.10
A great article by Will Owen about Papunya Tula But the company's commercial and artistic success, while it may be the envy of art centres and dealers across Australia, is just a partial measure of its achievement. The rest of...» Read More
Talk about a hullabaloo
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 24.05.10
Rumours have been swirling during the past fortnight that a private dealer, Chris Simon, has been attracting support from local artists for him to take over Papunya Tula Artists, based in Alice Springs. The institution, with its airconditioned headquarters in...» Read More
2009 Parliament of NSW Aboriginal Art Prize to visit local gallery
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 24.05.10
The Northern Rivers Community Gallery will host the 2009 Parliament of NSW Aboriginal Art Prize. The exhibition begins on Wednesday 26 May, with the official launch on Friday 28 May at 6.00pm. The Parliament of New South Wales Aboriginal Art...» Read More
What is the fate of Papunya Tula?
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 24.05.10
The threat of hostile takeover leaves many waiting in anticipation for the fate of Papunya Tula Arts. From the ABC: The Australian Aboriginal Arts industry has been waiting in great anticipation for the fate of Papunya Tula. For the past...» Read More
Not necessarily for art’s sake
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 24.05.10
An ABC report that one of the Centre’s most successful private art dealers has “launched a takoever bid” for the Papunya Tula Co-operative points to an interesting new chapter in the turbulent history of Central Australian Aboriginal art. ........ Is...» Read More
DREAMING FESTIVAL HAS NEW DIRECTOR
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 25.05.10
Sam Cook is a member of the Nyikina nation of the western Kimberley and grew up surrounded by the arts. Her career has taken her through performing in music and theatre, literature, visual arts and executive arts management. Sam started...» Read More
Men's Business
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 26.05.10
MEN’S BUSINESS Napolean Oui’s country is Djabugay one of 20 traditional tribal groups situated in the rainforest region of far north Queensland. He has worked for over 13 years as a cultural presenter and educator in Cairns. Napolean’s strong connection...» Read More
Nominations open for 2010 Indigenous Music Awards
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 27.05.10
Nominations open for 2010 Indigenous Music Awards [IMAs] For Immediate Release – Wed 26th May Fast becoming known as the ARIAs of the aboriginal music scene, the Indigenous Music Awards will take place on Saturday 28th August in Darwin. Music...» Read More
Passing it on to the next generation
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 27.05.10
For me, a really important part of painting is the opportunity I have to share the stories and cultural knowledge with my children. My son loves hearing the stories of my childhood, as well as those that explain the symbols...» Read More
World comes to new Aboriginal art gallery
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 28.05.10
The view may be spectacular, but it's the eclectic range of indigenous art works inside that is drawing visitors from all over the world into the Burrunju Aboriginal Art Gallery at Yarramundi Reach. The gallery is the first of its...» Read More
A legend is lost - aboriginal artist Greeny Purvis Petyarre
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 28.05.10
On Monday 3rd May, an aboriginal legend was lost. Greeny Purvis Petyarre, a man of prestige and honour, an aged boss man of Alhalkere country in Utopia passed away at the Alice Springs hospital. I'd like to make this an...» Read More
$15,000 Indigenous Art Fellowship on offer
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 28.05.10
Arts Minister Virginia Judge is urging NSW based indigenous artists to apply for the 2010 Indigenous Arts Fellowship. Ms Judge said the $15,000 award aims to assist an indigenous artist to further develop their career. “As part of the application...» Read More
CIAF 2010 - Arone Meeks
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 28.05.10
The Cairns Indigenous Art Fair (CIAF) attracted more than 10,000 visitors and 150 artists last year. CIAF 2010 is promising to be bigger and better. In the lead up to CIAF 2010 from August 20-22, Carbon will feature profiles of...» Read More
Cairns Indigenous Art Fair Symposium 21 August 2010
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 28.05.10
Join the conversation at the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair Leading Aboriginal artist, curator and academic Dr Brenda Croft and renowned Torres Strait Islander artist Alick Tipoti will lead debate at the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair Symposium in August (Saturday 21...» Read More
Buying Indigenous Art in Melbourne
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 30.05.10
Indigenous art and craft is an expression of culture. Artists from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities all around Australia produce work that may be recognisable as Indigenous. However the range of styles and subject matters are diverse. This guide...» Read More
World comes to new Aboriginal art gallery
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 30.05.10
The view may be spectacular, but it's the eclectic range of indigenous art works inside that is drawing visitors from all over the world into the Burrunju Aboriginal Art Gallery at Yarramundi Reach. The gallery is the first of its...» Read More
A new Aboriginal Art Gallery in Canberra
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 30.05.10
An eclectic range of indigenous art works inside the gallery is drawing visitors from all over the world into the Burrunju Aboriginal Art Gallery at Yarramundi Reach. The gallery is the first of its kind in the region, an indigenous...» Read More
June, 2010
Aboriginal Art Exhibition to be held at Kidogo Arthouse, Fremantle, Sponsored by the City of Fremantle
Posted by | 01.06.10
MARRA MOORDITJ - Exciting Aboriginal Art Exhibition to be held at Kidogo Arthouse, Fremantle From Tuesday 8th June to Sunday 11th July, Kidogo Arthouse and The City of Fremantle will host an innovative Aboriginal Art Exhibition called "MARRA MOORDITJ" (‘excellent...» Read More
Exhibition of Quality Aboriginal Art until sold out or 10 June
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 01.06.10
Exhibition of Quality Aboriginal Art until sold out or 10 June Opens Wednesday 2 June, 6pm Selected works on SALE. HUGE discounts on many selected quality works. BUY 1 - GET THE 2ND HALF PRICE (Second work to be of...» Read More
Australia’s first ever resale royalty scheme
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 01.06.10
Arts Minister Peter Garrett today said preparations for the introduction of Australia’s first ever resale royalty scheme for visual artists on June 9 are well on track. The Resale Royalty Right for Visual Artists Act 2009 establishes the right for...» Read More
Aboriginal art award finalists named
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 01.06.10
Artists from Arnhem Land and the central desert region have again dominated the finalists' field at the 27th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award. The 96 finalists, selected from 321 entries, were announced by the Museum and...» Read More
Utopia Colour
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 01.06.10
McCulloch & McCulloch & Salt Contemporary Art invite you to attend Utopia Colour: an exhibition of vibrant Eastern Desert paintings by Minnie Pwerle, Molly Pwerle, Emily Pwerle, Galya Pwerle, Barbara Weir, Gloria Petyarre, Freddy Pwerle, Lizzie Pwerle & Katie Morgan....» Read More
Invitation to Lloyd Kwilla solo & Utopia Colour @ Salt Contemporary
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 01.06.10
Lloyd Kwilla: Jumuwarnti (Many Waterholes) McCulloch & McCulloch, Salt Contemporary Art and Red Rock Art invite you to attend the first Victorian solo exhibition by rising Kimberley art star Lloyd Kwilla: Jumuwarnti (Many Waterholes). The son of leading painter Billy...» Read More
Samuel Miller Solo Exhibition – Ngayuku Ngura – My Home
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 01.06.10
Outstation and Ninuku Arts are excited to present the first solo exhibition for Samuel Miller opening on Friday 14th May 2010 at 6pm. This will be the inaugural Outstation exhibition to be held in the new gallery and will mark...» Read More
Awards inspire art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 02.06.10
Two local women are part of a push to promote the diversity of Australia’s Indigenous arts. An established writer from Malabar and an up-and-coming photographer from Chifley were the guests of honour at last week’s Australia Council’s National Indigenous Arts...» Read More
Aboriginal artists in Sunnyfield project
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 02.06.10
Aboriginal art is helping to raise the confidence and self-esteem of intellectually disabled people on the northern beaches. Non-profit organisation Sunnyfield has just concluded a five-week pilot program at its Frenchs Forest site that brought in Aboriginal artists to work...» Read More
IN OUR FATHER’S EYES: WORKS BY SISTERS TARISSE & SARRITA KING
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 03.06.10
Aboriginal Dreamtime Fine Art Gallery is pleased to present In Our Father’s Eyes: Works by Sisters Tarisse & Sarrita King. In Our Father’s Eyes will portray Tarisse & Sarrita King’s connection, love, and respect for their father, William King (1966-2007),...» Read More
Good Heart set to showcase indigenous art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 03.06.10
The countdown has begun to the third annual ‘Good Heart' Mid West Aboriginal Art Exhibition proudly supported by Oakajee Port and Rail (OPR). The exhibition will showcase more than 160 contemporary and traditional works by more than 50 indigenous artists...» Read More
Cessnock City Council confirms support for art gallery
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 03.06.10
Cessnock City Council confirmed its support for the city’s art gallery voting $60,000 over the next 12 months to help with running costs. Earlier last month council voted to buy the former water board building where the galley is housed...» Read More
Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 04.06.10
The third Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair is taking place from the 12 to 14th of August 2010 in Darwin. The Fair coincides with the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, (NATSIAA’S) and the Darwin Festival, a time...» Read More
Aboriginal Art to be placed on display at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 04.06.10
Dot paintings from the indigenous Papunya community from National Museum of Austalia's successful 2007-08 exhibition are being sent to an exhibition at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing. The exhibition, Papunya painting: Out of the Austalian Desert, will...» Read More
Blaxlands Inn Hunter Valley opens Aboriginal Art Gallery
Posted by | 04.06.10
Discover the extraordinary work of indigenous painters and enjoy fine wine and wholesome hearty food at Blaxlands Inn, 2198 Broke Road, Pokolbin, Hunter Valley NSW 2320 ph: 612 4998 7550 info@blaxlandsinn.com.au Opening hours: Wed-Sun Lunch 12.00-3.00pm Dinner 6.00-9.00pm Sat &...» Read More
Aboriginal Art Gallery opens in the heart of the Hunter Valley
Posted by | 04.06.10
In collaboration with Blaxlands Inn, Tingari Arts and Eastern Desert Art have opened a new exhibition featuring works by Aboriginal artists from the deserts of central Australia. Established artists such as Charlie Petyarre Jones, Janelle Napaltjarri Stockman, Joy Kngwarreye Jones,...» Read More
Aboriginal Art in London
Posted by | 04.06.10
Based in Wimbledon Village, London, Sarah-Jane Holden runs exhibitions of Australian Contemporary Aboriginal Art. The collection is probably the most comprehensive collection of paintings of Central and Western and Eastern Desert artists currently in the UK. There are 42 artists...» Read More
Aboriginal Art in London
Posted by | 04.06.10
Based in Wimbledon Village, London, Sarah-Jane Holden runs exhibitions of Australian Contemporary Aboriginal Art. The collection is probably the most comprehensive collection of paintings of Central and Western and Eastern Desert artists currently in the UK. There are 42 artists...» Read More
OPR Supports Mid-West Aboriginal Artists with ‘Good Heart’
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 05.06.10
OPR Supports Mid-West Aboriginal Artists with ‘Good Heart’ OPR promoted the development of the inaugural Good Heart Exhibition in 2008, helping to bring the vision of local Aboriginal artists to reality. Through its involvement with the exhibition OPR aims to...» Read More
Join the conversation at the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 05.06.10
Leading Aboriginal artist, curator and academic Dr Brenda Croft and renowned Torres Strait Islander artist Alick Tipoti will lead debate at the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair Symposium in August (Saturday 21 August). Presented by Arts Queensland James Cook University, the...» Read More
Arts job: Senior Curator, Aboriginal Art and Material Culture
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 05.06.10
Development of the MAGNT’s Aboriginal art and material culture collection development and maintenance of exhibition programs provision of expert advice and information on matters relating to Indigenous art and culture and involved in planning Telstra Art Awards (NATSIAA). Applications close...» Read More
Artists gain legal clout with ruling on destruction of fakes
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 05.06.10
From Karen Abidi, an intellectual property lawyer, at the Age: Although this is a rare case to have come to the courts, in Australia fake art is said to represent 10 per cent of the market. Many other famous Australian...» Read More
Gems of the Desert - Aboriginal Art exhibition at Chifley Square, Invite to opening night (Wednesday 9 June)
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 06.06.10
We would like to invite you to the opening night of our latest indigenous art exhibition at the Chifley Square on Wednesday the 9th June from 5 - 7 pm. Come and join us for a drink and see how...» Read More
Utopia aboriginal art to Brisbane: June 22nd - 25th
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 07.06.10
Mbantua Gallery will have a team in Brisbane from Tuesday 22nd - Friday 25th June showcasing the works by aboriginal artists Lena Pwerle, Jeannie Mills and Gloria Petyarre. If you’d like to schedule an appointment or home show during this...» Read More
Council bans Aboriginal street artists — racist or just dumb?
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 07.06.10
An essential read from Bob Gosford about street art in Alice Springs: I’ve been out of town for the past month and on my first day back I wandered down the local mall and noticed that the Aboriginal street artists,...» Read More
Aboriginal galleries unhappy with royalty scheme
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 08.06.10
From ABC Online: An artist-owned Aboriginal art gallery says the Federal Government must make major modifications to its resale royalty scheme for visual artists. Minister for the Arts Peter Garrett is in Alice Springs today to launch the scheme, which...» Read More
Aboriginal Art Award opens
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 08.06.10
A colourful and diverse range of entries for the ninth annual National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) Aboriginal Art Award 2010 was officially opened at the Lismore Regional Gallery on Saturday at 131 Molesworth Street Lismore. The exhibition features works...» Read More
Winyarr-Ngu-Bala: Aboriginal Women Give To You
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 08.06.10
Celebrating National Reconciliation Week, this exhibition explores Victorian Aboriginal women’s identity and connection to culture, community and family. Artists include Vicki Couzens, Maree Clarke, Patricia Harrison, Bindi Cole, Megan Cadd, Paola Balla and Lee Darroch. Curated by Megan Cadd. Every...» Read More
Indigenous work lauded
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 08.06.10
Every year, Manningham City Council acknowledges National Reconciliation Week with a celebration of indigenous culture and art. This is the fourth year that curator, Megan Cadd, a descendant of the Yorta Yorta people, has participated in Reconciliation Week. In putting...» Read More
RESALE ROYALTY IMPLEMENTATION DEBACLE FOR THE INDIGENOUS FINE ART INDUSTRY
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 08.06.10
Lack of proper Consultation with private sector of the Indigenous Fine Art Industry Galleries/Dealers required to send full details and even images to CAL (Copyright Agency Limited) of all original artworks/artefact sold even if they sell for just $100 Resale...» Read More
Art dealers up in arms over levy
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 08.06.10
From the Age: Australian art gallery owners and dealers are in revolt over the federal government's artist resale royalty scheme, which comes into effect on Wednesday. Though many concede the intention was honourable, the effect, they fear, will be dreadful....» Read More
2010 Aboriginal Art Award Opening
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 08.06.10
A colourful and diverse range of entries for the ninth annual National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) Aboriginal Art Award 2010 will be officially opened at the Lismore Regional Gallery this Saturday 5th June. The exhibition, to be held at...» Read More
Aboriginal artists in Sunnyfield project
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 08.06.10
Aboriginal art is helping to raise the confidence and self-esteem of intellectually disabled people on the northern beaches. Non-profit organisation Sunnyfield has just concluded a five-week pilot program at its Frenchs Forest site that brought in Aboriginal artists to work...» Read More
Aboriginal Art Award opens
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 08.06.10
A colourful and diverse range of entries for the ninth annual National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) Aboriginal Art Award 2010 was officially opened at the Lismore Regional Gallery on Saturday at 131 Molesworth Street Lismore. The exhibition features works...» Read More
Painters will suffer, says art dealer
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 08.06.10
More concerns about the royalty scheme from Yulparitja artists and Papunya Tula: Just over 10 years ago, Emily Rohr was approached at her Broome gallery by a young indigenous artist named Daniel Walbidi. He told her there were old people...» Read More
Aboriginal art show heads to China
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 09.06.10
Art enthusiasts in China are about to get what for many will be their first look at quintessential Aboriginal art. A new exhibition, Papunya Painting: Out of the Australian Desert, opens at the National Art Museum of China tonight. Almost...» Read More
Aboriginal art show heads to China
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 09.06.10
Art enthusiasts in China are about to get what for many will be their first look at quintessential Aboriginal art. A new exhibition, Papunya Painting: Out of the Australian Desert, opens at the National Art Museum of China on Wednesday...» Read More
Wanted: Good home for $1.5m Aboriginal art collection
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 09.06.10
If you are caught in Sydney’s housing squeeze, spare a thought for Gordon and Elaine Pelot-Syron who need a home for around 1,500 seminal Aboriginal artworks, most recently collectively valued at $1.5 million. Entering their temporary warehouse in the old...» Read More
Uluru climb - Garret comments
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 09.06.10
SUBJECTS: Commencement of the resale royalty scheme; CPRS; Uluru climb GARRETT: It is fantastic to be here in Alice Springs today to announce the delivery of significant support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture across a range of programs...» Read More
Miami's Wynwood art walk offers everything from cheerleaders to Aborigines
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 09.06.10
Downwind at Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts (2043 N. Miami Ave., Miami), "The Inspired Dream: Contemporary Aboriginal Art" corrals a dozen artist from Down Under in an exhibit showcasing art inspired by Australia's indigenous belief systems and the region's unique creation...» Read More
Australia’s art market threatened by proposed Superannuation changes
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 09.06.10
One of Australia’s leading experts on Australian indigenous art and artists, Susan McCulloch, co-author of the industry authority “McCulloch’s Encyclopedia of Australian Art”, says the Cooper Review recommendations create a disturbing disparity in allowing APRA-regulated funds to invest in art,...» Read More
Braybrook artist paints on, loud and happy
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 09.06.10
Emerging Indigenous artists are putting their best work on display as part of the Western Region Indigenous Art Show. Now in its eighth year, the exhibition is part of Reconciliation Week and marks the 40 years since the laws allowing...» Read More
Tjala Arts and Tjanpi Desert Weavers
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 09.06.10
Watiku tjukurpa pulka mulapa, munu minymaku tjanpi; exhibition tjungu kupu The men’s stories are very strong with the women’s tjanpi; a strong exhibition Exhibition Dates: Tuesday 22nd June - Saturday 10th July 2010 It is with great pleasure that Alcaston...» Read More
Success comes in twos
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 09.06.10
Karen and Sharyn Lovett are proving a formidable partnership when it comes to producing award-winning art. The indigenous twin sisters have grabbed top prizes at the Western Region Indigenous Art Show with Karen winning the Premier's Award last year and...» Read More
KIDOGO ART HOUSE IN FREMANTLE HOSTS MEDIA EVENT FOR MINISTER PETER GARRETT
Posted by | 09.06.10
Minister Peter Garrett visited Kidogo Arthouse in Fremantle on the inaugural day of the Resale Royalty Act. Joanna Robertson, Director of Kidogo Art Institute welcomed Peter Garrett. Miranda Farmer, local Nyoongar artist, offered a wonderful Welcome to Country. On the...» Read More
Marcia Langton's Challenging Portrait
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 09.06.10
The National Portrait Gallery today unveiled a new commissioned portrait of Professor Marcia Langton AM by leading Blak artist Brook Andrew. Andrew was invited to produce a contemporary portrait of Professor Langton. And the result is designed to embody Langton’s...» Read More
Important Aboriginal Art from Private Collections
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 10.06.10
The Penny & Tony Coleing Collection of Aboriginal art- at Murrurundi
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 10.06.10
Caruana & Reid are pleased to present this selection of works for the Coleings’ collections. Tony is a renowned artist – a painter, printmaker, sculptor and photographer - who can take the credit for discovering and nurturing the talent of...» Read More
Clifford Possum Japaltjarri
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.06.10
For Art Sunday today, a great Australian artist, Clifford Possum Japaltjarri. Clifford Possum was born in 1932 on Napperby Station. He worked extensively as a stockman on the cattle stations in and around his tribal country. At this time he...» Read More
17th Biennale of Sydney
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.06.10
Held every two years, the Biennale of Sydney stages a three-month exhibition, plus a programme of special events, public tours, artist talks, film screenings and international guest lectures across Sydney – and admission to the exhibition and these events is...» Read More
Kuwarita Tjuta Ara Irititja. People today, old stories
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.06.10
Outstation and the Western Desert Mob are proud to present this exhibition which features paintings and sculpture by emerging artists from the Ngaanyatjarra Lands, Western Australia. Western Desert Mob is a group of six Aboriginal art centres whose artists are...» Read More
Painted into a corner by payments scheme
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.06.10
Concern over the royalty payments scheme continues: The art community, already nervous, fears destabilisation by a new royalties program due to its timing and over-complexity They would laugh if it weren't serious. Last month, Papunya Tula Artists, one of the...» Read More
Students unique art on display in Parliament (video)
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.06.10
Students from one of the region's smallest schools have earnt a rare honour. Artwork by kids at Trunkey Creek Public School is hanging in the corridors of State Parliament tonight. Today, they inspected their unique exhibition that's recieved praise from...» Read More
Tanija and Graham Carr "Leather & Bronze "
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.06.10
This page contains a selection of works from Tanija and Graham Carr's exhibition. If you would like to see further images of particular works, please contact us, as we would be only too pleased to assist you....» Read More
Judy Holding "The Unshaped Landscape"
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.06.10
"For the past thirty-five years Judy Holding has been a regular visitor to the Northern Territory escarpment near Cannon Hill. In this visually spare landscape, so rich and crowded with sensations and accumulated knowledge, Holding imagines a world of reciprocity...» Read More
25 years of artistic vision
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.06.10
One of Darwin's best-known art galleries is celebrating its 25th anniversary and is pulling out all the stops to celebrate, with three shows on this weekend. Leading the way is Melbourne painter Judy Holding, who first came to the Territory...» Read More
Made in Australia: Aboriginal art excites China
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.06.10
Art enthusiasts in China have the chance to get their first look at quintessential Aboriginal art. A new exhibition, Papunya Painting: Out Of The Australian Desert, opened at the National Art Museum of China on Wednesday night. Almost 50 works...» Read More
$42 million supports Australia's Indigenous arts, culture and heritage
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.06.10
$42 million from five Australian Government programs is supporting over 380 Indigenous arts, culture and heritage projects across Australia, the Minister for Arts and Heritage, Peter Garrett, announced today. "The Australian Government is committed to supporting Indigenous communities through funding...» Read More
Indigenous Art Fair Gallery Online
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.06.10
CAIRNS Indigenous Art Fair launch at the State Library, South Bank....» Read More
CAIRNS INDIGENOUS ART FAIR UNVEILS VIBRANT 2010 PROGRAM
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.06.10
Premier and Arts Minister Anna Bligh last night revealed a vibrant and expanded program for Cairns Indigenous Art Fair (CIAF) in 2010, which this year adds theatre and film to this acclaimed visual and performing arts event. "In 2009 more...» Read More
Judy Watson to Exhibit at Shalom Gamarada Ngiyana Yana 2010
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.06.10
In a huge coup for Shalom Gamarada's sixth annual Ngiyana Yana Aboriginal art exhibition, it has been announced that internationally renowned contemporary Indigenous artist Judy Watson will, for the first time, exhibit at the show -‐ which runs from 27th...» Read More
Regrets over resale royalties
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.06.10
Chris Hodges is always happy when potential buyers come knocking. But he wants no part of the Rudd government's resale royalty scheme, a new form of payment that is supposed to benefit artists such as him. "I'm going to opt...» Read More
Cairns Indigenous Art Fair
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.06.10
20 – 22 August, 2010 Tanks Arts Centre, Cairns Cairns Indigenous Art Fair (CIAF) is unique among international art fairs, bringing galleries together with Indigenous art centres at a major marketplace which is complemented with a program of dance, music,...» Read More
Shalom Gamarada Aboriginal Art Exhibition and Auction
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.06.10
Shalom Gamarada supports scholarships for indigenous medical students with its annual exhibition and auction of Australia's biggest range of indigenous artwork. Judy Watson will exhibit with other acclaimed artists including Regina Wilson, Weaver Jack, Jan Billican and Shorty Jangala Robertson....» Read More
Jaru Jock
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 15.06.10
Solo exhibition of recent ochre paintings by Jock Mosquito...» Read More
where we live
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 15.06.10
Artist Nyree Reynolds draws inspiration from maps and aerial photography available through the Land and Property Management Authority's SIX Portal. As a descendant of the Gamilaraay Language Group, the artist enojys telling stories through her art. Nyree has a particular...» Read More
QUEEN HONOURS ABORIGINAL ARTISTS
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 18.06.10
The Queen's Birthday this year added two top Aboriginal artists to the roll of honour. John Mawurndjul from Maningrida in Western Arnhemland and Peggy Patrick from the East Kimberley both became Members of the Order of Australia – AMs. Mawurndjul's...» Read More
Invitation to MARRA MOORDITJ Aboriginal Student Art Exhibition Opening at Kidogo Arthouse, Fremantle
Posted by | 18.06.10
We would like to warmly invite you to come to the opening of MARRA MOORDITJ (‘excellent hands’), an exhibition of Aboriginal artworks by Students of Kidogo Art Institute. The opening is Friday 25th July at 6pm and an invitation is...» Read More
Art Can Change Lives - Shalom Gamarada Ngiyana Yana 2010
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 19.06.10
This years Shalom Gamarada Ngiyana Yana Aboriginal Art Exhibition promises to be even more exciting with some new discoveries in Aboriginal Art to be displayed. For those of you who are not familiar with the exhibition profit from all art...» Read More
Indigenous artist Judy Watson to feature at the Shalom art exhibition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 19.06.10
In a huge coup for Shalom Gamarada’s sixth annual Ngiyana Yana Aboriginal art exhibition, it has been announced that internationally renowned contemporary Indigenous artist Judy Watson will, for the first time, exhibit at the show - which runs from June...» Read More
End of Financial Year Sale
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 19.06.10
Dear Art Lovers, For a limited time only we are offering a 10-20% discount on all our works (conditions apply). Come and celebrate the end of the financial year by brightening up your home or corporate interior with a new...» Read More
Interview with Shalom Gamarada founder Professor Lisa Jackson Pulver
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 21.06.10
1. What was the inspiration for establishing the Shalom Gamarada scholarship? It came about some years ago when I gave a talk at the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies’ reconciliation and social justice plenum. A lot of my work at...» Read More
Breathing new life into public spaces
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 21.06.10
Event: art + place workshop When: 2.00 – 5.00pm Wednesday 21 July 2010 Where: The Girringun Aboriginal Art Centre, Cardwell Cost: FREE Want to breath new life into your public spaces, buildings, parks and facilities? Find out how in a...» Read More
Ella Savage and George Nona to exhibit at Awards
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 21.06.10
Two Torres Strait Islander artists have been pre-selected to exhibit their artwork in this year’s 27th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards. From 321 entries, Ella Savage (Darnley Island) and George Nona (Badu Island) were among 96...» Read More
Hood Announces Major Gift of Aboriginal Art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 21.06.10
The Hood Museum of Art has announced a private gift of more than 300 works of contemporary Aboriginal art. The collection donated by Will Owen and Harvey Wagner makes the Hood one of the foremost repositories of contemporary Aboriginal Australian...» Read More
Australian Aboriginal art exhibition is on debut in China
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 21.06.10
In celebration of Year of Australian Culture, sponsored by the National Art Museum of China and various departments of the Australian government, an Aboriginal art exhibition from Australia is currently on display at Hall 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17...» Read More
Circles in the Sand opens at Embassy of Australia
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 21.06.10
The Kluge-Ruhe Collection opened an exhibit of western desert art at the Embassy of Australia in Washington DC on June 14. Circles in the Sand: Aboriginal Art from Central Australia in the Kluge-Ruhe Collection features work from the art centers...» Read More
Exhibition – Papunya: Aboriginal Art from Australia’s Deserts
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 21.06.10
Showcasing the work of Aboriginal artists and telling the story of the artists and supporters of the Papunya Tula art movement between 1974 and 1981. Until August 28. Daily 9am-4pm. National Art Museum of China....» Read More
The resale royalty debacle for the aboriginal fine art industry
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 21.06.10
Lack of proper Consultation with private sector of the Aboriginal/Indigenous Fine Art Industry Galleries/Dealers required to send full details and even images to CAL (Copyright Agency Limited) of all original artworks/artefact sold even if they sell for just $100 Resale...» Read More
NAIDOC Week Aboriginal Art Exhibition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 21.06.10
Friday 25 June 2010 to– Monday 2 August 2010 – 4:30 PM (Doors Open 9:00 AM) Sea Acres Rainforest Centre is presenting an exhibition of artworks by the Port Macquarie student group of the Aboriginal Cultural Practices course, Wauchope TAFE....» Read More
Government appoints CAL to manage artists’ resale royalty scheme
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 21.06.10
In April this year the Australian government appointed Copyright Agency Ltd (CAL) to manage an artists’ resale royalty scheme that comes into operation on 9 June. CAL’s appointment is for five years, and follows an open tender process. CAL is...» Read More
Cairns Indigenous Art Fair 2010 & Symposium
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 22.06.10
Cairns Indigenous Art Fair is a boutique art market showcasing traditional and contemporary artwork by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists from Queensland. The CIAF Symposium (Saturday 21 August) will be facilitated by leading Aboriginal artist, curator and academic Dr...» Read More
New book marks 25 years for the Koorie Heritage Trust
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 23.06.10
Date: 18 June 2010 A new book tracing the history of Indigenous art in Victoria has been launched by Arts Minister Peter Batchelor today. Visiting the Koorie Heritage Trust in Melbourne, Mr Batchelor said the Government had been pleased to...» Read More
Aboriginal Art - Denise Hedges - NAIDOC Week
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 23.06.10
An unsung hero is not how Denise Hedges would describe herself. However the quiet achiever fits the title more than she believes. An accomplished Aboriginal artist, mother and proud Wanaruah woman, Denise has used art to inspire and educate both...» Read More
The Owen and Wagner Collection of Australian Aboriginal Art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 24.06.10
For Immediate Release June 2010 Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Announces the Owen and Wagner Collection of Australian Aboriginal Art The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College is pleased to announce an important private gift of contemporary...» Read More
Two named as art judges
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 24.06.10
The judges for the 2010 Parliament of NSW Aboriginal Art Prize have been announced. Poet, film writer and professor of philosophy Romaine Moreton and ABC radio presenter Daniel Browning will decide who gets the $20,000 first prize awarded annually to...» Read More
Early but no less special
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 24.06.10
Norville State School may have been celebrating NAIDOC Week early but the importance of the event has not been lost on the students. For the past two days students have been rotating through three activities which teach them about Indigenous...» Read More
Wizards of Oz
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 25.06.10
"We are thrilled to have this opportunity to present to the Chinese public these inspiring works of Australian indigenous art. The artworks featured in the exhibition reflect the different histories, traditions and stories of these two aboriginal communities," he says....» Read More
Shalom’s showpiece event funds education
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 25.06.10
Indigenous artist Judy Watson will headline this year’s Shalom Gamarada Ngiyana Yana Aboriginal art exhibition when it opens on Sunday. The annual show, in its sixth year, raises money for indigenous scholarships and has become a highlight of the Shalom...» Read More
On Track: Contemporary Aboriginal Art from Western Australia
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 25.06.10
An ART ON THE MOVE touring exhibition. On Track showcases the dynamic development of Western Australian Aboriginal artists' expression over the last decade. 32 works have been selected from the prestigious University of Western Australia, Berndt Museum of Anthropology collection....» Read More
Indigenous art on show
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 25.06.10
An exhibition of 32 works by some of WA’s best indigenous artists opened at the Wanneroo Library and Cultural Centre on Thursday. On Track: Contemporary Aboriginal Art from WA, featuring works from the University of WA’s Berndt Museum of Anthropology,...» Read More
Kudditji Kngwarreye - capturing the light and colours of Utopia
Posted by Kate Owen Gallery & Studio | 25.06.10
We warmly invite you to see the latest and most exquisite body of works by one of Utopia’s master painters… KUDDITJI KNGWARREYE Kudditji’s Dreamings have profoundly evolved into extraordinary juxtaposed colour fields – startling in both composition and hue. Harsh...» Read More
Sistagirls Photographic Exhibition @ Nellie Castan Gallery
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 25.06.10
I really hope that you can make the opening or even just pop in for a visit while it's on. I am in the process of making a catalogue which will contain images and writing by Jirra Lulla Harvey who...» Read More
Practices, Processes & Politics of Indigenous Place-Making: A Symposium
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 26.06.10
PROGRAM on Indigenous Place-making Download the symposium flyer. MELBOURNE CONVERSATION BMW Edge, Federation Square Thurs 24 June 6.00pm Conversation: Emmanuel Kasarherou, director Tjibaou Cultural Centre Carroll Go-Sam, Aboriginal Environs Research Centre, UQ Greg Burgess, Architect Uluru-Kata Tjuta & Brambuk Margaret...» Read More
Aboriginal Artists Paint Wii Gaming Console
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 26.06.10
Aboriginal artists paint Wii gaming consoles Nintendo has approached DACOU (Dreaming Art Centre of Utopia) to commission their artists to paint on 8 of the latest Wii gaming consoles. These consoles will be auctioned off at 'Walking Together to Aid...» Read More
Gloria Petyarre attending her solo exhibition in Melbourne
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 26.06.10
Gloria Petyarre Attending Her Exhibition Opening Dacou Gallery Melbourne 1 July to August Opening, Thursday, 1 July, 6:00pm to 8:00pm Gloria Petyarre will be proudly attending her nephew’s gallery for her latest solo exhibition, at DACOU (Dreaming Art Centre of...» Read More
Gloria Petyarre presents her recent works
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 26.06.10
Gloria Petyarre visits DACOU Melbourne to present her recent works. Gloria Petyarre has moved audiences for over 15 years with her beautiful 'Bush Medicine' paintings. DACOU proudly presents her most recent works, which includes a return to her smaller brush...» Read More
PAPUNYA TULA GOES STATESIDE
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 26.06.10
The Papunya Tula Artists organisation representing the mainly Pintupi artists of Kintore and Kiwirrkurra in the Western Desert has signed an exclusive sales deal with Harvey Art Projects in the United States. Based in Sun Valley, Idaho but presenting events...» Read More
ANANGU ART BROUGHT TO BOOK
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 27.06.10
“Now, almost forty years after its genesis, the epicentre and dynamic thrust of the Western Desert art movement has dramatically shifted from Papunya, Kintore and Kiwirrkura to Ngaanyatjarra and APY art centres. The untrammelled painting of senior men and women...» Read More
Hands-on demonstration and debate: The future of museum multimedia
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 27.06.10
Meet the creators of the impressive 8-metre multimedia display in the Yiwarra Kuju exhibition. See behind the scenes, discuss the interpretation strengths and debate whether mulitmedia is the way of the future for museums. Supported by Museums Australia (ACT Branch)....» Read More
Workshop: Developing the Eye: Choices in curating Aboriginal art programs and exhibitions
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 27.06.10
Learn from the experts how art curators choose Indigenous Australian works for public programs and exhibitions. Be inspired by the Yiwarra Kuju exhibition, with insights provided by FORM. Presented with the ANU Insititute for Professional Practice in Heritage and the...» Read More
One Road Festival: Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 27.06.10
An inspiring festival of art, culture, film and connections to celebrate the opening of this groundbreaking exhibition. Artists featured in the exhibition will sing their art to life, carve, paint, weave, dance and share their storiees. FREE The Hall National...» Read More
Family Festival: NAIDOC on the Peninsula
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 27.06.10
Enjoy art and craft actitivities, artist demonstrations, performances, exhibitions, market stalls and a didjeridu competition as we celebrate NAIDOC Week. Presented in conjunction with AIATSIS. FREE The Hall, National Museum of Australia/AIATSIS Amphitheatre For more information about the events visit...» Read More
Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 27.06.10
This groundbreaking exhibition reveals the triumph of human will and cultural continuity. It tells the story of the Canning Stock Route’s impact on Aboriginal people, and the importance of the Country that surrounds it, through the works of senior and...» Read More
Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 27.06.10
This groundbreaking exhibition reveals the triumph of human will and cultural continuity. It tells the story of the Canning Stock Route’s impact on Aboriginal people, and the importance of the Country that surrounds it, through the works of senior and...» Read More
Tayenebe: Tasmanian Aboriginal Women’s Fibre Work
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 27.06.10
Tayenebe, a Tasmanian Aboriginal word meaning 'exchange', celebrates the revitalisation of tasmanian Aboriginal weaving that has been taking place over the past three years. The tayenebe exhibition includes beautiful baskets and kelp water carriers in contemporary and traditional styles, along...» Read More
Suburban love and labour at heart of Julie Dowling’s new exhibition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 28.06.10
Suburban love and labour at heart of Julie Dowling’s new exhibition Kuljak Djilba: Black Swan in September 31 July to 21 August 2010 The heart of Julie Dowling’s latest solo exhibition entitled “Kuljak Djilba: Black Swan in September” is the...» Read More
Aboriginal art ‘from within’
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 28.06.10
As someone’s skin does not reveal their aboriginality, nor does art created by indigenous people necessarily follow the stereotypes laid out for it by the art world, says Old Guildford artist Kerrie Kenton. Kenton’s stunning artwork weaves together tradition and...» Read More
Art For Education - Indigenous Art Sale For Indigenous Study Scholarships
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 28.06.10
Shalom Gamarada, Australia's biggest selling exhibition of contemporary indigenous art, gets underway at University of NSW this Sunday. More than $1 million worth of world class indigenous artwork will be exhibited and sold with all profits going towards residential scholarships...» Read More
No Dots Down Here
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 28.06.10
"No Dots Down Here... The Voice of Koorie Artists" At the Koorie Heritage Trust's inaugural statewide visual artists gathering ground held in 2009 one of the key recommendations arising from the gathering was a need for a newsletter and network...» Read More
7. WARWICK THORNTON
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 28.06.10
It’s been four years since Encore published its Top 20 Directors and Producers list, and we felt it was time to compile a new, more comprehensive list that included professionals working across all areas – film, television and TVC production...» Read More
July, 2010
Art makes a difference
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 01.07.10
The work of some of Australia’s most renowned Indigenous artists is on show at Shalom College this week to raise funds for UNSW Indigenous medical students. In what has become the largest contemporary Aboriginal exhibition of its kind, Shalom Gamarada...» Read More
GROUNDBREAKING PROGRAM TO BOOST INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIAN NUMBERS IN ARTS LEADERSHIP ROLES
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 01.07.10
GROUNDBREAKING PROGRAM TO BOOST INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIAN NUMBERS IN ARTS LEADERSHIP ROLES National Press Club Address 30 June 2010: National Gallery of Australia and Wesfarmers Arts launch new Indigenous Arts Fellowship program The National Gallery of Australia today launched a 5-year...» Read More
National Gallery launches Indigenous jobs push
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 01.07.10
Indigenous artists are a strong presence on the Australian and international art scenes, but their voices are almost silent when it comes to leadership roles in many of the country's public and private galleries. In a bold bid to inject...» Read More
Influential artist in local showcase
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 01.07.10
A new and important exhibition for artists in the community will open at the Moree Plains Gallery on August 5. Margaret Adams is one of the most esteemed Kamilaroi artists in Moree. This exhibition of new work celebrates her valuable...» Read More
National Gallery launches Indigenous jobs push
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 01.07.10
Indigenous artists are a strong presence on the Australian and international art scenes, but their voices are almost silent when it comes to leadership roles in many of the country's public and private galleries. In a bold bid to inject...» Read More
Contemporary Indigenous art at Toowoomba Regional Gallery
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 01.07.10
Indigenous art assembled by one of Australia’s leading collectors will be on display at Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery until July 18. Contemporary Aboriginal Art from the Ann Lewis Collection includes paintings, prints and photographs Dr Ann Lewis, OBE, is one...» Read More
Airy geometry of heaven and earth
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 02.07.10
A TIWI painter blends traditions in a uniquely modern style. THE white ochre is collected from a beach outcrop close by the Milikapiti barge landing. The blazing oranges and deep yellows come from Three Ways, in Melville Island's wooded...» Read More
Indigenous art sale to aid Indigenous medical students
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 02.07.10
Sydney’s Shalom College is selling over $1 million of Aboriginal art…and the revenue will fund residential scholarships for indigenous medical students. Now on its sixth year, the art show features work from many sought-after artists including Judy Watson and Shorty...» Read More
Toledo Museum of Art Names New Director Brian P. Kennedy to Lead Museum
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 02.07.10
The Toledo Museum of Art announced today that Brian P. Kennedy, director of the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, has accepted the position as the Museum’s ninth director with a start date of September 1. Board Chair Betsy...» Read More
Deadly celebrations for NAIDOC Week
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 02.07.10
NAIDOC Week celebrates the achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and there is so much going on around Lismore it’s being spilled over 10 days. The theme this year is ‘Unsung Heroes – Closing the Gap by Leading Their...» Read More
NAIDOC celebrations Sydney
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 02.07.10
NAIDOC Week celebrations (July 4-11) are held across Australia each July to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. NAIDOC is celebrated not only in indigenous communities, but by Australians from all walks of...» Read More
Keeping place needs a home: Call for Indigenous art gallery at Barangaroo
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 02.07.10
Sydney Greens councillor Irene Doutney echoed calls by the National Trust to set up an indigenous art centre at Barangaroo, saying it could be an ideal location to permanently house the world-renowned Aboriginal art collection known as The Keeping Place....» Read More
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art exhibition talk
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 02.07.10
Wally Caruana, former Senior Curator of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art at the National Gallery of Australia, will be undertaking an exhibition floor talk at 3pm Saturday 3 July at Michael Reid at Elizabeth Bay. The primary intention of...» Read More
Unsung Heroes
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 02.07.10
Celebrating Indigenous Australia Presented by the Australian High Commission and ReDot Gallery 1 to 31 July 2010 Australian High Commission Atrium Gallery 26 Napier Road Singapore 258507 For the first time in Singapore, dramatic carved and painted ceremonial poles from...» Read More
14 Bagu Firemakers Arrive for 27th Telstra Art Award
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 02.07.10
A three-dimensional entry featuring 14 spirit figurines made from clay, timber and string are one of the 96 artworks that have arrived at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) for this year’s 27th Telstra National Aboriginal...» Read More
Groundbreaking Program to Boost Indigenous Australian Numbers in Arts Leadership Roles
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 03.07.10
The National Gallery of Australia today launched a 5-year initiative to boost the number of Indigenous Australians in professional roles in the visual arts. Ron Radford AM, Director of the National Gallery of Australia, said the Wesfarmers Arts Indigenous Fellowship...» Read More
Indigenous art celebrated
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 03.07.10
Monash's indigenous culture will be celebrated during NAIDOC Week at the Highway Gallery with an exhibition and workshops for young and old. The annual event, which celebrates the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures Australia-wide, will run from July 4-11,...» Read More
London: 'Morning Star Poles' Aboriginal Art Exhibition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 03.07.10
Advance invites you to view the first UK exhibition of 'MORNING STAR POLES' by the artists of Elcho Island. The Exhibition will be opened by His Excellency, Mr John Dauth, The High Commissioner For Australia. Thursday 15 July 2010 Starting...» Read More
DARWIN ABORIGINAL ART FAIR 2010
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 03.07.10
Start: 12/08/2010 End: 14/08/2010 Venue: DARWIN CONVENTION CENTRE Address: Stokes Hill Road, Darwin, NT, Australia, 0800 A major Arts industry event Showcasing the work of established and emerging artists from over 40 community owned incorporated Aboriginal art centres from across...» Read More
The 2010 NPSW Aboriginal Art Award
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 03.07.10
5 June -10 July 2010 Bruce McLean, Associate Curator of Indigenous Australian Art, at the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, was at Lismore Regional Gallery to judge the winning works of the 2010 NPSW Aboriginal Art Award on Saturday...» Read More
Judges struggle to cut art entries
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 03.07.10
It was tough, but the judges of Australia's biggest indigenous art award have culled more than 300 entries down to 96 pieces which will soon go on display at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. Indigenous artists...» Read More
Aboriginal artists exhibition and competition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 03.07.10
The annual Aboriginal Artists Exhibition and Competition celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2010. NSW Fair Trading has been pivotal in organising the exhibition since its inception in 2000. The competition has grown from a small event of 20 paintings displayed...» Read More
Ngiyana Yana Aboriginal art exhibition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 03.07.10
Event Name: Ngiyana Yana Aboriginal art exhibition Event Organization: Shalom Gamarada Event Date: Sunday, 27 June 2010 - Sunday, 4 July 2010 Event Time: 11:00am - 7:00pm Event Venue: Caspary Conference Centre, Shalom College, Barker St Kensington Cost: Free Description:...» Read More
The Balgo is in Beijing for exhibition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 03.07.10
The Contemporary Australian art from the Balgo Hills Western Australia is on display at Beijing's National Art Museum of China, as part of the first event for the Year of Australian Culture in China. The Balgo exhibition is a collaborative...» Read More
Good News Stories from Kidogo Art Institute – June 2010
Posted by | 03.07.10
Lance Chadd Tjyllyungoo wins the Bunbury Nyoongar Country Art Exhibition Overall Prize Lance Chadd Tjyllyungoo has been awarded the overall prize for best in exhibition at the Bunbury Nyoongar Country Exhibition Opening on Friday 25th June. Lance’s work will be...» Read More
Now showing: Kuddijti Kngwarreye, capturing the colours and light of Utopia
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 04.07.10
The Kudditji Kngwarreye show opened on Thursday night and received a lot of very positive feedback. The show is stunning and showcases some impressive pieces. The show is on until the 1st of August but is selling fast so don’t...» Read More
KUDDITJI KNGWARREYE EXHIBITION until 1 August 2010
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 04.07.10
We are 4 days into our Kudditji Kngwarreye exhibition now and just letting you the REDS are HOT! Here's an example of the rapidly dwindling stock of reds in the show. Kate says they are so amazing because Kudditji uses...» Read More
Award Winner’s – Aboriginal Artists Art Competition and Exhibition 2010
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 04.07.10
Encouragement Awards Wyong Public School Ourimbah Public School Woy Woy Public School Jilliby Public School Northlakes Public School Blue Haven Public School Umina Public School The School Project Award Non Indigenous Years K - 6 First - Wyoming Public School...» Read More
"CIRCLES IN THE SAND" AT THE AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY, WASHINGTON DC
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 05.07.10
Last weekend I was in Washington DC for the annual conference of the American Library Association. The city was crowded, the weather sub-tropical, but I managed to escape for a while to the deserts of Centralia by visiting the Australian...» Read More
Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts brought a piece of Australia to Miami with "The Inspired Dream"
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 05.07.10
Whatsupmiami announces the closing of the exhibit "The Inspired Dream," a collection of contemporary Australian Aboriginal art showcased at the Wynwood gallery for over two months. The collection was very impressive, clean and enjoyable from every perspective. The present-day Australian...» Read More
Solomon Booth wins Gab Titui Art Award
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 05.07.10
Solomon Booth has taken out the prestigious Gab Titui Indigenous Art Award, receiving $5000 in prize money for his lino print on paper titled Coconut Palm Tree. The winner of the coveted Gab Titui Cultural Centre’s Indigenous Art Award was...» Read More
Aboriginal and Oceanic Art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 05.07.10
Catalogue Now Online 1 July 2010 Sotheby's Australia is delighted to announce our forthcoming Aboriginal and Oceanic Art auction on July 26 and 27 in Melbourne. Under the directorship of Tim Klingender, the July auction has been firmly established for...» Read More
Wesfarmers gives indigenous art a $1.2m boost
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 05.07.10
Wesfarmers is boosting indigenous art with a $1.2 million fellowship scheme to train the next generation of administrators and curators. The WA-based company, already a big sponsor of the arts, will provide the money over five years through the National...» Read More
Australian Contemporary Indigenous Art - Now
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 05.07.10
Chiaroscuro presents, in association with Vivien Anderson Gallery in Melbourne Australia, a collection of work from five important contemporary Indigenous artists. With established careers in Australia, Chiaroscuro is proud to present their unique offerings exclusively in the United States. Set...» Read More
Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art – Now
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 05.07.10
Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art – Now July 9 – August 31, 2010 Sante Fe, NM- Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art in association with Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, will present the inaugural biennale exhibition, Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art – Now. This exhibition...» Read More
A broader cultural conversation
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 05.07.10
Andrew Sayers, the national museum's new head wants it to be political, not politicised One of the first tasks for Andrew Sayers when he took up his post last month as director of the National Museum of Australia was to...» Read More
Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art - Now
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 05.07.10
Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art (Main Space) 702 ½ Canyon Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501 09 July 2010 - 31 August 2010 Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art in association with Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, will present the inaugural biennale exhibition, Contemporary Australian Indigenous...» Read More
Super proposal 'could devastate' Aboriginal art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 06.07.10
The Aboriginal art market could be devastated by a recommendation to ban art, jewellery, wine and collectables from self-managed superannuation funds, says the director of a big art auction house. The recommendation to ban collectables is one of 180 made...» Read More
DESERT COLOURS - the best from the desert
Posted by | 06.07.10
Colour is the inspiration behind Artitja Fine Art’s mid year Indigenous art exhibition entitled DESERT COLOURS - featuring the best from the central desert communities of Utopia and Yuendumu, a new Adelaide based art centre nurturing desert artists and closer...» Read More
Aboriginal Art Exhibition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 07.07.10
Type: Council Event Date: 06 Jul 2010 - 24 Jul 2010 Location: Bellingen Library You are invited to view an exhibition of artwork by Aboriginal Artists in Bellingen Library in celebration of NAIDOC Week. Starts Tuesday 6th July until Saturday...» Read More
Aboriginal Art the Theme of "Hot Rock Dreaming", the New Thriller from Writer Martin Roth
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 07.07.10
Alice Springs and the world of Aboriginal art form the background to “Hot Rock Dreaming”, the second novel from Martin Roth starring private detective Johnny Ravine. Australia’s most famous Aboriginal painter is dead - supposedly killed when a heavy object...» Read More
Not so super: investment proposals leave art market reeling
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 08.07.10
If investors have only five years to divest themselves of artworks as the review recommends, it will worsen the impact. ''It's an added blow,'' Mr Ayers said. ''Art takes a while to appreciate … it could possibly severely damage that...» Read More
Indigenous art fellowships
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 09.07.10
The art world knows it has a problem. While indigenous artists are showered with fame and money, there is little participation by indigenous people in the managerial side of the arts. The director of the National Gallery of Australia, Ron...» Read More
Utopian Art on display in Tamworth
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 09.07.10
Today on Breakfast, we discovered more about the art of the Utopian community which is located in the Northern Territory. A local exhibition opened over the weekend, and you too have the chance to experience the incredible storytelling that happens...» Read More
Funds to manage indigenous art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 10.07.10
An Indigenous Arts Fellowship has been launched to create a stronger base of arts management in the indigenous arts world. Commissioned to research the status quo between artists and arts leadership in the indigenous arts industry, former Democrats senator Aden...» Read More
Telling tales through art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 10.07.10
Rosebud indigenous artist Lionel Lauch was thrilled when a surprise guest turned up to this 40th birthday recently. It was legendary singer-songwriter Archie Roach, who just happens to be Lauch’s uncle. Roach, who sang at the party, has had an...» Read More
Indigenous history carved in stone
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 10.07.10
Djon Mundine thinks there should have been more of an Aboriginal presence in the Sydney Biennale. He mentions the theme of the event - "The beauty of distance: songs of survival in a precarious age" - and asks why more...» Read More
Closing the gap through art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 10.07.10
Now an annual event, the NAIDOC Celebration Exhibition displays pieces from University of Ballarat Visual Art and Contemporary Craft students as well as artists in the local Aboriginal community. The exhibition feature piece about 'closing the gap' between Indigenous and...» Read More
Celebration for NAIDOC week
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 10.07.10
THE official opening of NAIDOC Week celebrations in the Whitsundays were held at the Proserpine Entertainment Centre on Tuesday. NAIDOC (National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee) week takes place annually between July 4 and 11. The week celebrates Aboriginal...» Read More
Lin Onus @ Counihan Gallery
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 11.07.10
Lin Onus: Meaning of Life at the Counihan Gallery is an exhibition of prints by Lin Onus. The exhibition also traces Lin Onus’s development, his “apprenticeship” in the Northern Territories, to when he had truly found his voice as an...» Read More
More Aboriginal Art at the Kimberley Coastal Camp
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 11.07.10
Last year I visited the Kimberley Coastal camp and blogged about the amazing Aboriginal art around the camp. Last week Maureen and I were back there again. And once again I was simply blown away by the variety and quantity...» Read More
Hunter indigenous art with special meaning
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 11.07.10
The Wupa@Wunaruah exhibition, by the Ungooroo Aboriginal Corporation, is at Hunter Valley Gardens this month and features the works of eight Hunter artists. Wupa is an Aboriginal word of the Hunter's Wanaruah people, meaning to paint or create. Artist and...» Read More
Regional NSW tops Indigenous tourism report
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 12.07.10
Regional New South Wales is the most frequented destination for Indigenous tourism visitors, according to a new report. The Federal Government's Indigenous Tourism in Australia report shows over 500,000 tourists visited regional New South Wales in 2009 for Indigenous tourism....» Read More
PaRing Gallery
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 12.07.10
The Toyota Community Spirit Gallery and the Koorie Heritage Trust present the PaRing Gallery, a free public art exhibition featuring 45 stunning Indigenous artworks by 21 local and interstate artists including Wayne Quilliam, Lee Darroch and Megan Cadd. Designed to...» Read More
ART GALLERY BRINGS KOORIE CULTURE TO MAINSTREAM MELBOURNE
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 12.07.10
A group of 21 hand-picked local and interstate Indigenous artists will showcase their art at Victoria’s next PaRing Gallery exhibition, hosted by the Toyota Community Spirit Gallery. Opened on Wednesday 7 July 2010, the exhibition features 45 works of art,...» Read More
Colours of an arid landscape
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 13.07.10
A vivid world has sprung to life from the brushes of the painters of the APY lands. A colour-field of pulsing gold and scarlet; a ground of turquoise and psychedelic blue; a snake's form, pink and purple, writhing around the...» Read More
INAUGURAL SALTWATER FRESHWATER INDIGENOUS ART AWARD
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 13.07.10
Congratulations to Danielle Burford for taking out 1st prize with her entry “Unsung Heroes” Encouragement award to Natalie Bateman & Keene Ballangarry with their joint entry “Lanes Bridge” People’s Choice awarded to Brentyn Lugnan for his work titled “Rock pool”...» Read More
Library hosts indigenous art show
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.07.10
IPSWICH'S indigenous artists have chosen a high-traffic area to give their work maximum exposure over the next four weeks. The Ipswich library on South Street attracts a constant stream of local folk of all ages and cultures, so an exhibition...» Read More
Aboriginal Art Show at Jewish Centre
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.07.10
Aboriginal Art Show at Jewish Centre from Henry Benjamin on Vimeo....» Read More
Stories of the Dreaming
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.07.10
These stunning puzzles are worth having purely to admire the Aboriginal art - that the kids will be kept busy trying to piece them back together is an added bonus! Designed by Aboriginal artist Donna Henson of the Wiradjuri people,...» Read More
Joining the Dots: The Sustainability of the Aboriginal Art Market
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.07.10
On top of the symposium I’m co-convening at the University of Melbourne next week, with speeches by the Minister for the Arts, Peter Garrett, 2010 Archibald and Wynne winner Sam Leach, and other venerable members of the visual art community,...» Read More
Council revamps Indigenous art permits
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.07.10
Controversial laws restricting the sale of Aboriginal art at Todd Mall in Alice Springs are set to be overhauled and the price of permits will be drastically reduced. While some say the new laws will be great for tourism and...» Read More
Indigenous art on display
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 16.07.10
The West Australian Indigenous Art Awards will be displayed at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. The exhibition which features scultpure, video, painting and photography opens July 31. Sixteen artists including five from WA are part of the richest Indigenous...» Read More
Is the penny about to drop in government? An extract from Peter Garrett's speech
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 16.07.10
The Indigenous visual arts sector is estimated to have an annual turnover of up to $500 million. Participation by Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islander people in the visual arts plays a vital role in supporting the maintenance and transmission of...» Read More
Indigenous art code launched
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 16.07.10
Art galleries, dealers and auction houses have been urged to sign up to code of conduct aimed at ending dodgy sale practices within the multi-million dollar indigenous art sector. The voluntary code follows a 2007 Senate inquiry that found many...» Read More
PRO COMMUNITY Warlukurlangu Artists
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 16.07.10
This is thelast venue of ARTKELCH´s second sequence of PRO COMMUNITY, showcasing fine art from one community based art centre per year in different locations in Germany. After the overwhelming success of last year´s exhibition with Papunya Tula Artists it...» Read More
PRO COMMUNITY Warlukurlangu Artists
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 16.07.10
This is the third venue of ARTKELCH´s second sequence of PRO COMMUNITY, showcasing fine art from one community based art centre per year in different locations in Germany. After the overwhelming success of last year´s exhibition with Papunya Tula Artists...» Read More
PRO COMMUNITY Warlukurlangu Artists
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 16.07.10
This is the second venue of ARTKELCH´s second sequence of PRO COMMUNITY, showcasing fine art from one community based art centre per year in different locations in Germany. After the overwhelming success of last year´s exhibition with Papunya Tula Artists...» Read More
PRO COMMUNITY Warlukurlangu Artists
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 16.07.10
This is the beginning of ARTKELCH´s second sequence of PRO COMMUNITY, showcasing fine art from one community based art centre per year in different locations in Germany. After the overwhelming success of last year´s exhibition with Papunya Tula Artists it...» Read More
Art code: Arts Minister Peter Garrett quick on the draw
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.07.10
Federal Arts Minister Peter Garrett yesterday announced the introduction of an Indigenous Australian Art Commercial Code of Conduct. The code is to protect Aboriginal artists against sharp practices within the industry -- without first telling the board of the company...» Read More
London calling
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.07.10
A VIBRANT but little-recognised style of Aboriginal art produced in Wynnum and Manly will be showcased to the world next year. London’s Coningsby Gallery has accepted the works of award-winning Wynnum artist Troy Little and Hemmant’s Nancy Torrens, who approached...» Read More
Less is more: Sotheby's hope for indigenous art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 18.07.10
Sotheby's Australia is poised to stage one of its biggest indigenous auctions after scrapping its $5000 lower threshold. The move has given Sotheby's competitors reason to smile after they predicted the brand would go downmarket when it was bought by...» Read More
The Labor Party is no friend to the arts
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 18.07.10
Despite a ludicrous survey conducted by the Australia Council that tells us 93 per cent of Australians are actively involved in the arts, the politicians are not fooled. They know that art is a minority pursuit, with no votes to...» Read More
Indigenous art code launched
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 19.07.10
Art galleries, dealers and auction houses have been urged to sign up to code of conduct aimed at ending dodgy sale practices within the multi-million dollar indigenous art sector. The voluntary code follows a 2007 Senate inquiry that found many...» Read More
Winning means freedom from day jobs
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 20.07.10
Ian Potter Museum of Art director Chris McAuliffe, one of the judges of the sport-themed $100,000 Basil Sellers Art Prize, being announced in early August, guesses that Australia has more art prizes per capita then anywhere else in the world....» Read More
Kirby joins fight to save indigenous art collection
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 20.07.10
The campaign to salvage The Keeping Place, one of the largest collections of indigenous art in Australia, has found a staunch ally in the former High Court judge Michael Kirby. Kirby opened an exhibition of selected works from the collection...» Read More
Wilcannia pride
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 22.07.10
The gallery idea comes from 37 mainly Barkindji men and women who are transforming a dusty town park in Wilcannia in western New South Wales. It will become Reconciliation Park, a green, welcoming space with picnic tables, a playground, barbecues...» Read More
Papunya and Balgo exhibitions at the National Art Museum of China - promotion of Australia’s rich cultural heritage
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 22.07.10
Extraordinary collections of Indigenous art from Australia’s remote deserts are now on display in Beijing. The highly regarded Papunya Painting: Out of the Australian Desert and BALGO: Contemporary Australian Art from the Balgo Hills collections collectively form the National Art...» Read More
Wilcannia Indigenous art proves popular
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 22.07.10
The artwork of a group of Indigenous artists from Wilcannia has proved popular, with most works selling in the first week of a Sydney exhibition. Executive officer of West Darling Arts, James Giddey, says the success of the exhibition shows...» Read More
Public works
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 23.07.10
In August last year, however, a group of artists from the region caused a sensation when they showed new experimental work at the inaugural Cairns Indigenous Art Fair. It was such a hit it all sold within hours. These artists...» Read More
Indigenous youth learn life and work skills through Beyond Billabong program
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 23.07.10
Thirteen indigenous teenagers from remote Queensland communities have come to the busy Gold Coast as part of Beyond Billabong, a program aimed at helping them make a better life for themselves and their families. Troubled and disadvantaged Aboriginal youths and...» Read More
Art market - best of intentions, worst of realities
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 23.07.10
In July 2010 was announced that the Cooper Recommendations will be absorbed into Australia’s new laws for Self Managed Super Funds. Clearly, art has been diagnosed in these quarters as a non-“yield asset”. Regardless of its proven capacity to hold...» Read More
Before time today: Reinventing Tradition in Aboriginal Art from Aurukun
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 24.07.10
Date: 11 September – 28 November 2010 Time: 10:00 - 16:00 daily Venue: UQ Art Museum, Building No. 11, St Lucia Campus Reinventing Tradition in Aboriginal Art from Aurukun The exhibition focuses on the art from Cape York’s Aurukun community,...» Read More
Wilcannia Indigenous art proves popular
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 24.07.10
The artwork of a group of Indigenous artists from Wilcannia has proved popular, with most works selling in the first week of a Sydney exhibition. Executive officer of West Darling Arts, James Giddey, says the success of the exhibition shows...» Read More
Jumbana Group has become a leading indigenous design and strategy company
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 25.07.10
Now, 27 years into its corporate life, Sydney-based Jumbana Group is a leading indigenous design and strategy company. Established by the Moriartys, Jumbana comprises the contemporary design studio, Balarinji, and an indigenous communications and facilitation practice, John Moriarty and Associates....» Read More
Torres Strait on show at World Expo
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 25.07.10
Managing the cultural program at the Australian pavilion for the Shanghai World Expo has been a major career highlight for local Torres Strait Islander Leilani Bin-Juda. With nearly 3.5 million visitors since opening in May, the pavilion continues to be...» Read More
Bindi Cole: Artist Spotlight Interview with the 2009 Deadly Art Award winner
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 26.07.10
Bindi Cole is a Wathaurung woman and a budding photography, video and installation artist from Melbourne. In November 2009, she won the $25,000 Deadly Art Award for her evocative photograph Ajay, one in a series of photographs bringing transgender women...» Read More
Indigenous artworks auction likely to fetch $6m
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 26.07.10
WHEN the late Australian art dealer Gabrielle Pizzi was at school in the 1950s, students were taught that Aboriginal culture was of no interest. The young schoolgirl couldn't have paid much heed to those ill-informed and unenlightened views. She went...» Read More
New Works: Old Stories - Indigenous Art Exhibition and Auction
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 27.07.10
Curated by Beverley Bloxham The University's Centre for Australian Indigenous Knowledges, supported by the John Clancy Bequest presents abiannual exhibition and auction of works by Indigenous artists. The exhibition aims to promote Indigenous art and develop an appreciation and awareness...» Read More
Save Boomalli art co-operative
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 27.07.10
Boomalli, one of Australia’s longest running Aboriginal artists’ co-operatives, is threatened with closure. Based in Sydney’s inner-city suburb of Leichhardt, Boomalli was set up in 1987 by Aboriginal artists to get their art recognised. Boomalli means “to strike, to make...» Read More
Bindi Cole’s SISTAGIRL Documentary Screening this Friday, Bunjilaka
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 27.07.10
Melbourne photographer, Bindi Cole’s documentary entitled Sistagirl is screening this Friday, 30 July, 6:30-8:30pm at Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre, Melbourne Museum....» Read More
Business and art sectors air opposition on some Super proposed changes
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 28.07.10
Changes suggested by the Cooper Review on Australia's superannuation system seemed to have affected a wide array of industries as some businesses and the indigenous art market both aired their concerns on Tuesday that the revisions to be implemented by...» Read More
Planned super changes affecting Aboriginal art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 28.07.10
Proposed changes to superannuation law are already severely affecting the Indigenous art market, an accountant says. The Cooper review into superannuation was handed down late last month. In it were recommendations to stop self-managed superannuation funds from investing in art....» Read More
Desert Art from Utopia
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 28.07.10
Opening, Wednesday, 28 July, 5:00pm DACOU (Dreaming Art Centre of Utopia) and Monash Southern Health have developed a fundraising initiative in bringing indigenous contemporary art from the Central Desert to a major public hospital in Melbourne. An exhibition of works...» Read More
Aboriginal art - Elcho Island, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, W1
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 29.07.10
ABORIGINAL artist Gali Yalkarriwuy Gurruwiwi is in England to demonstrate the culture of his people. His art is currently on display at the Rebecca Hossack Gallery in Fitzrovia in a world-first show. Gali (pictured above), talks poignantly about the changes...» Read More
Storylines website goes live
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 29.07.10
Storylines explores Indigenous art making outside of ‘remote’ Aboriginal Australia. Storylines was a three-year (2007-2009) ARC funded survey of ‘non-remote’ Indigenous artists. You can read our findings by clicking on the images below for individual topics or download the complete...» Read More
THE COOPER REPORT RECOMMENDATIONS ON ART AND SUPERANNUATION WILL WREAK HAVOC ON THE ARTS INDUSTRY!
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 29.07.10
If you have, or are planning to have artworks as investments in your superannuation fund, or if you work in the arts in any capacity, please inform yourself about the recommendations in the Cooper Report as they affect the arts....» Read More
August, 2010
Aboriginal art gallery in Munich
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 01.08.10
Down Under Gallery - Australian Aboriginal Art Gallery has opened in Munich at Isartorplatz 4. Featuring works by 27 talented Aboriginal Artists. Many of the artists feature in the 50 most collectable Australian Artist list: Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi Michelle Possum...» Read More
Art market gets ugly as indigenous bubble bursts
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 01.08.10
It began with a bang just over a decade ago in the lush years of fast-paced economic growth, faltered in the global financial crisis, and was quietly, sadly laid in its grave over the past two weeks, its funeral marked...» Read More
Hands-on demonstration and debate: The future of museum multimedia
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 02.08.10
Meet the creators of the impressive 8-metre multimedia display in the Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route exhibition . See behind the scenes, discuss the interpretation strengths and debate whether multimedia is the way of the future for museums. Supported...» Read More
Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 02.08.10
This groundbreaking exhibition reveals the richness of desert life today. It tells the story of the Canning Stock Route’s impact on Aboriginal people, and the importance of the Country that surrounds it, through the works of senior and emerging artists...» Read More
Art Market Notes
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 02.08.10
Will Owen commenting on Nicholas Rothwell's article on the state of the Indigenous Art market: I understand that if you collect antique cars as an investment, you shouldn’t be driving them, or if you buy vintage wines, you can’t very...» Read More
Indigenous art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 02.08.10
The Bachelor of Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art (CAIA) program at the Queensland College of Art began in 1995. The CAIA is the only University program in Australia that combines both theory and practice to Indigenous students. It is the first...» Read More
The New Black: take 2 program
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 02.08.10
We’ve had a week of indigenous art activism at the BVRG, courtesy of Melbourne/nee Geraldton WA artist Brian McKinnon (a seriously cool and interesting dude – we’ll be getting him back, for sure)… and a return visit from Armidale artist...» Read More
Ancient tradition goes digital
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 02.08.10
Viewers will need more than just their eyes to fully experience indigenous artist Aroha Groves' multimedia work. They will need a joystick and an avatar. In what is believed to be a first in indigenous art, Ms Groves has brought...» Read More
Interview with Glenn Pilkington - Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 03.08.10
1. Where did the idea of the Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards come from? The Awards came about from a need to acknowledge and recognise the significant contribution Indigenous artists make to Australia socially, culturally and economically. The Awards model,...» Read More
CHARLIE MCMAHON ‘LIVE PERFORMANCE’ - Saturday 7th August, 2 – 5pm
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 03.08.10
Australia's finest didgeridoo player Charlie McMahon to perform @ Kate Owen Gallery with well known cellist Anatoli Torjinski, a member of triple ARIA Award winning group Monsieur Camembert....» Read More
Break Thru NAIDOC Week Celebrations - Maitland
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 04.08.10
Saturday night was the launch of WUPA @ Wanaruah, an Aboriginal Art Exhibition organised by Ungooroo Aboriginal Corporation. This black tie event was held in the Barrel Room at Tempus Two Winery, Pokolbin. Ungooroo, in conjunction with major sponsors Hunter...» Read More
Rare Aboriginal art found in college cupboard
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 04.08.10
A rare collection of Aboriginal art has been unearthed in a cupboard at a college in Canberra. The National Gallery and the National Museum have confirmed the paintings are part of an Arnhem Land collection; some are by well-known Indigenous...» Read More
Artwork stamped superior
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 04.08.10
Aboriginal artwork by the Worimi people is “superior” to any other land council on the east coast, a university Aboriginal department head said. Liz Cameron, portfolio leader at the Wollotuka Institute, a department within the University of Newcastle supporting Aboriginal...» Read More
Wakartu Cory Surprise Wins the 2010
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 04.08.10
Wakartu Cory Surprise of Fitzroy Crossing, WA is the winner of the Western Australian Indigenous Art Award of $50,000, the nation’s richest Indigenous arts prize for exceptional achievements by an Australian Indigenous finalist. Wakartu was selected from 185 nominations from...» Read More
Photo Essay: Documenting my Culture in its Truest Form
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 04.08.10
Being one of the very few professional Indigenous photographers in Australia, I find it my responsibility to record and document my culture in its truest form. My social documentary work focuses on health and education, as I believe that if...» Read More
Australia’s richest indigenous arts prize set for 2011 CHOGM
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 04.08.10
Culture and the Arts Minister John Day has announced the 2010 Western Australian Indigenous Arts Awards winners and confirmed the awards would also be held in 2011 for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). Mr Day said he was...» Read More
Artists' relief as super changes nixed
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 05.08.10
Investing in art for your retirement has got the all-clear, but hanging that framed nest egg on your wall could be a no-no if Labor is re-elected next month. In news that will have Australian artists breathing a little more...» Read More
Surprise wins in spectacular style
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 07.08.10
Wakartu Cory Surprise is the overall winner of the third Western Australian Indigenous Art Award, worth $50,000, for her group of paintings. Also winner of last year's $10,000 Western Australian artist award, Surprise continues to make intense and vibrant paintings...» Read More
27th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 07.08.10
One of the nation's premier prizes for art unfolds in the Top End. Editorial Review When: 14 August - November 7 2010; Mon-Fri 9am-5pm; Sat, Sun & Public holidays 10am- 5pm Where: Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory,...» Read More
WA INDIGENOUS ART AWARDS Active And Alive
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 07.08.10
The Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards exhibition will be on display at the Art Gallery of Western Australia from Saturday, July 31, ’til Monday, January 3, 2011; from 10am-5pm daily, Wednesday to Monday. With categories including sculpture, video, painting and...» Read More
Our Mob 2010
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 09.08.10
Adelaide Festival Centre is proud to present the fifth annual Our Mob exhibition, on display in the Artspace Gallery as well as theatre foyers from July 31 – September 5, 2010. Held during the 2010 SALA (South Australian Living Artists)...» Read More
SA Indigenous Acquisitive Art Award Recipient Announced
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 09.08.10
The Adelaide Festival Centre is proud to announce that the recipient of the inaugural Adelaide Festival Centre’s South Australian Indigenous Acquisitive Art Award is Ceduna artist Beaver Lennon. Announced last night at the official opening of Our Mob 2010, Lennon...» Read More
Mbantua Gallery Exhibition opens in Darwin
Posted by | 09.08.10
An exhibition of works by Red Centre aboriginal artists opened today at Mbantua Gallery Darwin. Titled 'Stars of the Centre' it features the work of Lucky Morton Kngwarrey among others. Lucky has been chosen as a finalist in the 2010...» Read More
Sales signal rebound
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 10.08.10
The [Melbourne Art Fair] closed yesterday with some galleries reporting weaker high-end sales but overall results equal to the previous fair in 2008. Melbourne's Sophie Gannon Gallery sold 20 works worth a total of $120,000, Sydney's Tim Olsen Gallery achieved...» Read More
Vying for Indigenous art award
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 10.08.10
This week, the winner of one of Australia's most prestigious prizes for Indigenous art will be announced. The winner of the 27th Telstra National and Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Art Award will be announced on Friday, August 13. For me,...» Read More
Rare Aboriginal art found in school store cupboard
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 10.08.10
A treasure trove of rare and valuable Aboriginal art has been found languishing in the back of a school store cupboard in Canberra. The bark paintings, which are estimated to be about 25 years old, were unearthed during a spring...» Read More
RAK BULGUL TJARAKU BUTUNG - Bulgul. The healing Place.
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 11.08.10
The first exhibition in Australia of works by the women of Bulgul.(...» Read More
“AMAZING STRENGTH” IN 27th NATSIAA WINNERS
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 13.08.10
“I was truly amazed by the strength of the competition this year”, declared one of the two final judges of the 27th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Art Awards at today's announcement of the winners in Darwin. Sylvia Kleinert, an...» Read More
Resale Royalty and the Collector
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.08.10
Lauraine Diggins Fine Art is holding an exhibition with a focus to provide information on the ramifications of the recently introduced Resale Royalty. Featuring works by both living and deceased artist and works outside the Resale Royalty. As part of...» Read More
Telstra Art Award Category Winners
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 15.08.10
Arts and Museums Minister Gerry McCarthy today congratulated Nawurapu Wunungmurra for becoming the inaugural winner of this year’s Telstra New Media Award. Mr McCarthy said the Telstra New Media Award was introduced this year as part of the 27th National...» Read More
Darwin Festival diary – day minus one
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 15.08.10
From Bob Gosford's, The Northern Myth.... Its only day one of a long week ahead and I’ll be up early for a media call for the annual Telstra Aboriginal Art Award, then I’m off to the opening of the Darwin...» Read More
The Art Awards 2010
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 16.08.10
Will Owen's take on the Telstras. And finally, the mainstay of the General Painting category. The winner, Jimmy Donegan’s Papa Tjukurpa, Pukara strikes me as a breakthrough for the artist, a mature, nuanced, and dynamic work, vibrant, full of incident,...» Read More
History, bold designs of Annan Fabrics on exhibition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 16.08.10
Annan Fabrics were part of an emergence in the 1940s and 1950s of a distinctive Australian design style inspired by Australian flora and fauna, and Aboriginal art and culture. Customers included Qantas who used the designs to “brand” Australian tourism....» Read More
27th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA)
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.08.10
Check out this absolutely beautiful photograph (link below to the post) of Mr. Donegan addressing the audience. I was in Darwin recently, en route to Balgo for another five months at Warlayirti Artists. What a great time to be there;...» Read More
Revelatory show of strength in tradition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.08.10
The great achievement of this year's 27th annual Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award exhibition lies in its quality of overview: it is a portrait of the art-making currents of remote central and northern Australia, broad-brush, yet...» Read More
Colourful Djon has an eye for art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.08.10
Aboriginal art curator Djon Mundine hasn’t had a haircut in 25 years, and his character is as colourful as his eye for art. The dreadlocked Mr Mundine said he wants to shatter the stereotype that Aboriginal art is a “sea...» Read More
Heart Foundation’s East Coast Aboriginal Art Exhibition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.08.10
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships Minister Desley Boyle today announced the Heart Foundation’s East Coast Aboriginal Art Exhibition would be expanded to Townsville and Mount Isa with the help of a Bligh Government grant. “Last year the East Coast...» Read More
Mr Donegan Wins $40,000 Telstra Art Award
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.08.10
Arts and Museums Minister Gerry McCarthy today congratulated Mr Donegan for winning this year’s $40,000 Telstra Award. Mr McCarthy said Mr Donegan was judged to have produced the best work among the 96 finalists as part of this year’s Telstra...» Read More
Mr Jimmy Donegan wins the 2010 Telstra Art Award
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.08.10
As I noted here yesterday, you would have had to kill me if I’d released the name of the winner of the $40,000 Telstra Art Award, the big bucks prize in the annual National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art...» Read More
First Australians have had to fight for any advance
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.08.10
From The Age: John Howard always bemoaned the "black armband" view of history, the one historian Geoffrey Blainey said was the pendulum swinging too far in the Aboriginal direction. Howard didn't want to wake up each day facing stories of...» Read More
Fears raised for island's Indigenous art future
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.08.10
A Queensland art coordinator has raised fears the future of Indigenous art on Queensland's Mornington Island is under threat as not enough young people are learning traditional painting. Brett Evans from the Mornington Island Arts Centre says young people on...» Read More
Desert man wins indigenous art award
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.08.10
Seventy-year-old Jimmy Donegan had never seen the ocean before travelling to Darwin to accept Australia's most prestigious indigenous art prize. For a man who has enjoyed painting almost every day of his life, it was a week of many extraordinary...» Read More
Hetti Perkins opens 2010 Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.08.10
The annual Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair provides a unique opportunity for art buyers within the industry and the members of the public to purchase Aboriginal art directly from the Indigenous owned and incorporated art centres. Visitors also get to see...» Read More
Indigenous art show at South Bank / Tayenebe: Tasmanian Aboriginal Women’s Fibre Work
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.08.10
A new exhibition showcasing the unique connections that Tasmanian Aboriginal people have with the land and sea opens on August 21 at Queensland Museum South Bank. Tayenebe: Tasmanian Aboriginal Women’s Fibre Work, on loan from the Tasmanian Museum and Art...» Read More
First art prize
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.08.10
Ceduna artist Beaver Lennon has won his first major art prize - at just 22 years of age. Beaver has been awarded the Adelaide Festival Centre’s South Australian Indigenous Acquisitive Art Award. The win was announced last week at the...» Read More
Leichardt Mayor joins Sunnyfield at Aboriginal Community Arts Program
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.08.10
Leichardt’s Mayor, Jamie Parker will show his support for NSW disability service provider Sunnyfield at an event celebrating the diversity of culture, and commitment from Leichardt Council. The Sunnyfield Day Options creative team in Lilyfield has been working with Aboriginal...» Read More
SA Artist Mr Donegan Wins 2010 Telstra Art Award
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 18.08.10
A striking painting depicting ancestral stories by SA artist Mr Donegan has been awarded Australia’s most prestigious Indigenous art prize at the 27th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA). He has been awarded the $40,000 Telstra...» Read More
Labor's efforts a hard act to follow
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 19.08.10
UNDER Labor the arts has moved centre stage. And that is where it deserves to stay. After all, our artists provide great nourishment for the community, are key to our sense of identity and often reflect the best expressions of...» Read More
CIAF kicks off
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 19.08.10
The second annual Cairns Indigenous Art Fair begins tonight, promising to build on the spectacular success of the inaugural event in 2009. Simon Crerar catches up with artistic director Michael Snelling to find out how the event has grown in...» Read More
Aboriginal Artists Contemporary Card Project
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 20.08.10
This collection is supported by Catherine Manuell Design as part of our Women’s Aboriginal Artists Project. In buying this card you are directly supporting the artists and their community in their working lives. The project showcases the paintings of eight...» Read More
KIRBY IN INDIGENOUS ART ROLE
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 20.08.10
Former High Court justice Michael Kirby has announced he will become a patron of the Keeping Place Indigenous art collection. The collection, consisting of more than 1000 works by indigenous artists collected by the painter Gordon Syron and his wife,...» Read More
Aboriginal art industry struggling
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 20.08.10
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Broadcast: 19/08/2010 Reporter: Peter McCutcheon Many artists, wholesalers and retailers within the aboriginal arts industry say they are struggling. Blaming in part the recent decline in international tourism but they also say a flood of pseudo-aboriginal craft...» Read More
New Indigenous art exhibitions increase indigenous tourism potential in TNQ
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 20.08.10
Minister for Tourism and Fair Trading The Honourable Peter Lawlor Friday, August 20, 2010 New Indigenous art exhibitions increase indigenous tourism potential in TNQ Tropical North Queensland will increase its Indigenous tourism offering with new Indigenous art exhibitions showcasing inspired...» Read More
Premier and Arts Minister Anna Bligh tonight opened the second Cairns Indigenous Art Fair
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 22.08.10
Premier and Arts Minister Anna Bligh tonight opened the second Cairns Indigenous Art Fair. Ms Bligh welcomed more than 250 artists and performers, art dealers, collectors and Indigenous art centres representatives who have gathered in the city for the event....» Read More
Artists Named For Iconic Indigenous Tilt Trains
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 23.08.10
Queensland Premier and Minister for the Arts Anna Bligh today named Judy Watson and Alick Tipoti as the artists whose work will adorn the first of two unique Indigenous Tilt Trains travelling from Brisbane to Cairns. "This moving canvas will...» Read More
Tilt trains become Indigenous artworks
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 23.08.10
The work of two Queensland Indigenous artists will adorn a tilt train travelling from Brisbane to Cairns. The artworks will be recreated digitally to cover the train like a second skin. They will cover seven carriages and two locomotives stretching...» Read More
Reading Room’s Inaugural Fellowship Prize for Indigenous Art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 23.08.10
Reading Room is proud to announce the launch of the Reading Room Fellowship Prize for Indigenous Art in Australia. The Inaugural Fellowship Prize will be announced at this year’s Cairns Indigenous Art Fair over the weekend of 21st/22nd August. Awarded...» Read More
Contemporary works alive with the rhythms of the past
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 24.08.10
From Nicolas Rothwell in the Austrlian on the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair: Displayed in the cavernous interiors of two World War II-era concrete storage bunkers, the works on view at the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair offer an intriguing overview of...» Read More
The Importance of Private Collectors
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 24.08.10
Australia’s Michael Reid Explains the Essential Role Private Collectors Play and Why the Government Must Be Sure Not to Hamper Them. The Australian art world is in the midst of the perfect storm. Interest rate rises in March and April,...» Read More
UQ unveils first major survey of Aurukun art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 25.08.10
The University of Queensland Art Museum will be swimming with crocodiles, sharks and the odd dugong for its next exhibition, and you're encouraged to dive in for the experience. On show from September 11, Before Time Today is the first...» Read More
National Indigenous art exhibition and auction comes to USQ
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 25.08.10
An outstanding range of national emerging and established artists are currently being showcased in this year’s biennial Indigenous art exhibition and auction at USQ. Presented by the University's Centre for Australian Indigenous Knowledges, the exhibition aims to promote Indigenous art...» Read More
Aurukun dogs have their day
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 26.08.10
Some are quiet and some are cheeky. Some have mange, some have ticks and sores that provoke a constant ecstasy of scratching. Some are elegant, and some are mongrels. But whatever else they may be, the camp dogs of Aurukun...» Read More
Breakfast with Hetti Perkins – two flat whites, toast and a few rollies…
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 27.08.10
I caught up with Hetti Perkins while I was up in the Top End of the NT for the wonderful Darwin Festival a week or so ago. I’d not met Hetti before and I spent some time distracting her from...» Read More
Website delivers boost to Indigenous art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 27.08.10
A website that includes the first national register of Aboriginal artists from urban areas has been launched. Storylines has made its debut after three years of research into Aboriginal visual art in urban Australia. It features 600 artists with a...» Read More
Premier and Arts Minister Anna Bligh today announced the second Cairns Indigenous Art Fair a dazzling success attracting more than 10,500 visitors and selling more than $700,000 in artwork.
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 27.08.10
Premier and Arts Minister Anna Bligh today announced the second Cairns Indigenous Art Fair a dazzling success attracting more than 10,500 visitors and selling more than $700,000 in artwork. “Cairns Indigenous Art Fair transformed the city for three days with...» Read More
Indigenous art goes in diverse directions
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 27.08.10
Aboriginal art can be deep and reflective, ancient yet contemporary - and now it’s adorning Glen Eira. Outback Aboriginal Art is unveiling the depth of indigenous art forms in an exhibition at the Glen Eira City Council Gallery. Journeys will...» Read More
Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection Reopens Aug. 31 With New Exhibit
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 27.08.10
August 23, 2010 — The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection reopens Aug. 31 with the exhibit "Sally Gabori: Danda dulk ngijinda dulk (This Land is My Land)." The exhibit is on view through Dec. 19. An opening reception will be held...» Read More
Glen Iris features centre of art excellence
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 27.08.10
Ancient stories from Australia’s red centre told in contemporary tones will feature at a local gallery this week. In Desert Stories, distinctive Aboriginal art from the Northern Territory’s Ikuntji region, also known as Haasts Bluff, comes to Gallery Ranfurlie at...» Read More
National Gallery of Victoria bolsters indigenous collection
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 28.08.10
The National Gallery of Victoria has bolstered its collection of indigenous artworks with three new paintings for its Aboriginal section. A Texas Downs Station picture by Rover Thomas and two Alec Mingelmanganu Wanjina paintings purchased by the gallery in 2008...» Read More
Aboriginal art at Parcours des Mondes
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 29.08.10
Paris-based dealer and Australian Indigenous Art specialist, Stéphane Jacob, will exhibit works by several of Australia´s most admired and innovative Contemporary Aboriginal Artists at this year’s “Parcours des Mondes” the world’s leading international tribal art fair which will take place...» Read More
From boomerangs to didgeridoos, Aboriginal art is a huge part of Aussie culture.
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 29.08.10
Aboriginal paintings and crafts often hang in souvenir shops and art galleries around the country. But over the past few years fake Aboriginal art and craft has been brought in from overseas. As Kirsty explains this wave of cheap imports...» Read More
Breakfast with Hetti Perkins. Part two – life, work, art and more
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 29.08.10
This is the second part of a chat I had with Hetti Perkins over breakfast at The Roma Bar during the Darwin Festival. Here Hetti talks about her recent work on a new 3 part series called art + soul...» Read More
Australia Strives to Win New Recognition for Aboriginal Art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 29.08.10
For Jimmy Donegan, who won first prize at the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Art Awards earlier this month, it was a summer of important firsts. Although he has painted for his whole life, the 70-year-old had never...» Read More
No keeping place for Sydney Aboriginal art collection
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 29.08.10
Yet another eviction deadline has passed but Aboriginal artist Gordon Syron and his wife Elaine are still desperately seeking a home for their collection of Aboriginal art, the Keeping Place, one of the largest collections in the country. Currently housed...» Read More
Tracking the stories of Indigenous art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 29.08.10
Storylines -- the first comprehensive assessment of Indigenous artists from urban Australia is being launched this week. The three-year Australian Research Council project brings together biographical information about the artists on a website, completing a full picture of Aboriginal art...» Read More
September, 2010
Council approves changes to Indigenous art permits
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 01.09.10
The Alice Springs Town Council has given its final approval to new rules for Aboriginal artists selling paintings in the Todd Mall. The council was charging $205 a day for artist permits but was not enforcing the payment. The council's...» Read More
UWS helps make design dreams come true
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 02.09.10
The University of Western Sydney in partnership with Industry and Investment NSW (I&I NSW) will present a free panel discussion on Thursday 2 September to help equip Indigenous designers with the knowledge to transform an idea into a commercial product....» Read More
Works on paper Bidyadanga Arts and Durrmu Arts
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 02.09.10
This month we are featuring in the gallery works on paper from the coastal communities of Bidyadanga and Peppimenarti. Bidyadanga Arts The art centre at Bidydanga has recently been re-established and is thriving under the enthusiastic stewardship of Jacky Cheng,...» Read More
John's Stories
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 03.09.10
New paintings and ceramics by John Murray, who is based at the Girringun Aboriginal Arts Centre in Cardwell. John's bright and naively direct works brings to life the pleasures he takes in fishing, camping and living in the natural environment....» Read More
Lagau Dunalaig (island lifestyle)
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 03.09.10
This exhibition features contemporary printmaking by Cairns-based Torres Strait Islander artists Brian Robinson and Joel Sam. Both artists have used a variety of printmaking techniques including linoprint, etching and embossing to produce innovative and distinctive works. The artists explored these...» Read More
Boomalli bounces back in the cultural renaissance
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 05.09.10
Excerpt from the article A NSW Aboriginal artists co-op is blossoming after a near-death experience Indigenous art is the darling of the contemporary art world. In recent decades the sector has grown to be worth an estimated $500 million a...» Read More
Indigenous art links people with stories
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 07.09.10
Members of the Stolen Generation and their communities are coming together in a new program focused on healing through art. Communities around Queensland are joining the initiative, run by Swinburne University in partnership with Link-Up Queensland, an organisation dedicated to...» Read More
'Ngurra Kutju Ngurrara - Belonging to One Country
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 07.09.10
REDOT FINE ART GALLERY, Singapore, in collaboration with Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd presents: ''Ngurra Kutju Ngurrara - Belonging to One Country" The ReDot Fine Art Gallery is proud to welcome back the beautiful works of Australia’s foremost Aboriginal art...» Read More
KIN AND COUNTRY
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 07.09.10
Four interpretations of ancestral dreamings from members of the same family will be the focus of Artitja Fine Arts exhibition KIN AND COUNTRY opening on 15th October in South Fremantle. The four closely connected family members - Jean Nampitjimpa, Maureen...» Read More
BIKES IN THE DESERT
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 09.09.10
All thirty school-age kids in the Western Desert community of Mt Liebig (Amunturrngu) will get new BMX bikes next Saturday (18th September). They've been donated by the Bikes for Bush Foundation – which is intending to fund further bikes for...» Read More
NEW GALLERY IN ALICE
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 10.09.10
NEW GALLERY IN ALICE After three years of preparation, the old butcher's shop in Lindsay Avenue on Alice Springs' Eastside is reopening as the Muk Muk Gallery. Appropriately, the new gallery has a brand new artist on show – Margaret...» Read More
ABORIGINAL ART: THE SONGLINES
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 13.09.10
ARTS D’AUSTRALIE • STÉPHANE JACOB has great pleasure in inviting you to its new exhibition ABORIGINAL ART: THE SONGLINES Opening Wednesday September 8, 3 pm to 9 pm Galerie SEINE 51 - 51 rue de Seine, Paris 6ème Showing from...» Read More
Art Gallery of Western Australia and Water Corporation Win Visy Arts & Environment Award at WA AbaF Awards
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 13.09.10
In July 2007 a unique partnership began between the Water Corporation and the Art Gallery of Western Australia. Last night this partnership won a WA AbaF Award for its contribution to environmental sustainability. The partnership explores the use of artistic...» Read More
Artist Spotlight: Alma Nungarrayi Granites
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 13.09.10
1. Briefly describe yourself. When and how did you first become interested in art? How long have you been a practising artist? I became interested in aboriginal art since the time that she was working as assistant teacher at the...» Read More
2010 TOGART AWARD IN DARWIN'S NEW CONTEMPORARY ART SPACE
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 14.09.10
The opening of this year's 4th Togart Contemporary Art Award – whose speciality is to feature both Black and white Northern Territory artists – was also the occasion for the opening of a new contemporary art space in Darwin: the...» Read More
The indigenous "genius" of Sally Gabori
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 15.09.10
I intended to speak with the artist Sally Gabori for this article, but was informed in a terse e-mail that she is not available for interviews. “Interviews need to be done in her Kayardild language and in person,” a...» Read More
Code to stop exploitation of Aboriginal artists
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 15.09.10
Unethical galleries and dealers will be named and shamed under the Indigenous Australian Art Commercial Code of Conduct. The voluntary code has been introduced after a Senate report found some Indigenous artists were exploited, bullied and harassed. The code allows...» Read More
NAMATJIRA CELEBRATION
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 16.09.10
The 50th anniversary of Albert Namatjira's death last year didn't get great play around Australia as his art is still coloured by confusion over its white origins and the patronising treatment that the artist received in his life. He was...» Read More
JOHN KLUGE DIES
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 17.09.10
It's quite strange when the one thing you know a man by doesn't get a mention in his obituary! That's happened repeatedly with the late John Kluge – known in Australia virtually only because of his magnificent Aboriginal art collection...» Read More
'Old stuff' seen in a new light
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.09.10
Historic Cape York art is on show alongside contemporary indigenous works. To see the first historic artworks collected from Aurukun on western Cape York alongside his own sculptures is an extraordinary occasion for artist Craig Koomeeta. "It makes the hair...» Read More
We want to showcase cream of Oz culture
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 18.09.10
So, what are you charting out to provide a better insight into Australian culture and bring the two countries closer in this sphere? We want to bring some of the cream of Australian culture. For instance, a modern dance company,...» Read More
All fired up about drawing
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 19.09.10
Budding artist Donovan Wilson’s A4-size drawing could be transferred onto a 13m mural at Redfern fire station after it was selected as a finalist in a statewide art competition. The Patrician Brothers year 8 student’s drawing of indigenous Australian animals...» Read More
Can Aboriginal Art Be Contemporary Art?
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 19.09.10
The Australian wades into a controversy over the current generation of aboriginal artists: A paper by Melbourne academic Meaghan Wilson-Anastasios says major artists such as Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri and Rover Thomas, are promoted as Aboriginal in a...» Read More
Aboriginal art dying with desert masters
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 19.09.10
The pursuit of cultural authenticity in Aboriginal art will make it harder for young artists to enjoy the success of the old masters. New research into the sustainability of Aboriginal art claims the market for new works is already falling...» Read More
Clap Sticks by Marcia Alice Panangka
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 20.09.10
Hand crafted Clap or music sticks are used during Aboriginal ceremonies. They are made from Mulga wood and are burned using a hot wire to create patterns such as concentric circles which represent camp sites, curved lines which represent rain...» Read More
Discover Dunkeld, Nerissa Major's Art Studio
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 20.09.10
A display of Unique Local Affordable Aboriginal Artworks, Giftware and Jewelry For Sale. Listen to Some Local Koori Stories $3 per Person or $6 per family See Unusual Aboriginal Stone Tools and how they're used $2 per person or $5...» Read More
Namatjira: The Next Generation
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 21.09.10
Tuesday 28th September - Saturday 16th October Please join watercolour artists at the opening on Friday 1st October from 5pm - 7pm Watercolour Workshop Saturday 2nd October from 10am - 12pm Birrung Gallery is delighted to present Namatjira: The Next...» Read More
Second Cairns Indigenous Art Fair a dazzling success
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 21.09.10
The 2010 Cairns Indigenous Art Fair (CIAF) was a major success, exceeding all sales and visitor expectations and cementing its place as a major event on Australia’s cultural calendar. More than 10,500 people from all parts of Australia and the...» Read More
Politics of the Secret
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 21.09.10
Rumors that Vivien Johnson was writing a history of painting at Papunya have been reaching my ears for a long time now. When the publication of Johnson’s Lives of the Papunya Tula Painters was announced in 2008 by IAD Press,...» Read More
Australian Aboriginal art draws on spiritual traditions
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 21.09.10
PULLMAN - “Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art: From the Collection of Margaret Levi and Robert Kaplan,” will be exhibited at the Museum of Art/WSU Oct. 1-Dec. 11. Levi and Kaplan have a large collection of indigenous Australian art, part of which...» Read More
WetlandCare Australia National Art and Photography Competition now open
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 21.09.10
WetlandCare Australia has launched their 4th annual National Art and Photography Competition to celebrate World Wetlands Day. The competition, which receives entries from across Australia, is open to children and adults in both Art and Photography, giving as many people...» Read More
NO DOTS DOWN HERE Edition 1, Dec/Jan/Feb 2009/10
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 22.09.10
No Dots Down Here... The Voice of Koorie Artists" At the Koorie Heritage Trust's inaugural statewide visual artists gathering ground held in 2009 one of the key recommendations arising from the gathering was a need for a newsletter and network...» Read More
NO DOTS DOWN HERE Edition 2, Apr/May/Jun 2010
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 22.09.10
No Dots Down Here... The Voice of Koorie Artists" At the Koorie Heritage Trust's inaugural statewide visual artists gathering ground held in 2009 one of the key recommendations arising from the gathering was a need for a newsletter and network...» Read More
Inteview: Ngurra Kutju Ngurrara - Belonging to One Country
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 22.09.10
What is the inspiration behind the show? Papunya Tula remains the defining art centre of the modern Aboriginal art movement, it is steeped in history and one cannot proclaim to be a serious Aboriginal art space without a show or...» Read More
Hermannsburg Potters at Alcaston Gallery
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 22.09.10
Beverly and Anthony Knight in conjunction with Hermannsburg Potters,Northern Territory proudly invite you to view Themes of the Central Desert New ceramics by the Hermannsburg Potters, NT Judith Inkamala Rahel Ungwanaka Lindy Rontji Rona Rubuntja Irene Entata Dawn Wheeler Clara...» Read More
Recent works from Blackstone Ranges (26 September - 15 October 2010)
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 22.09.10
Tunbridge Gallery in conjunction with Papulankutja Artists are pleased to invite you and your guests to an exhibition of recent works from Blackstone Ranges, 26 September - 15 October 2010. Including paintings by established artists Tjayanka Woods and Anmanari Brown...» Read More
Billionaire Kluge buried in modest pine casket
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 22.09.10
Billionaire philanthropist John W. Kluge was laid to rest in a modest pine box Tuesday afternoon at a ceremony that was alternately spirited and meditative. Kluge, who would have turned 96 on Tuesday, died Sept. 7 at his home in...» Read More
5th MOZG FESTIVAL: OPENING OF ABORIGINAL ART EXHIBITION_PART1
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 22.09.10
Opening of Aboriginal Art Exhibition. City Gallery Bydgoszcz (Poland), as a part of 5th Mozg Festival, 26.11.2009. Lecture by dr John von Sturmer.Translator – dr Rafał Zimny....» Read More
Exhibition reveals Indigenous art impact
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 22.09.10
An exhibition showcasing the influence of Australia's most notable Indigenous artists has opened in Mackay in north Queensland. The collection, Namatjira to Now, includes the William Dargie portrait of Albert Namatjira, which won the Archibald Prize in 1956. The exhibition...» Read More
27th NATSIA AWARD
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 22.09.10
It is great to see an artist of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands (known as the APY Lands) receive such esteemed recognition for his efforts, and congratulations to the 460 artists who work in seven Aboriginal-owned and governed art centres...» Read More
Aboriginal Galleries of Australia Relocation Sale
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 22.09.10
Aboriginal Galleries of Australia's Melbourne gallery is relocating from their longstanding space at 35 Spring St, Melbourne. They will be operating from their Brunswick warehouse for the remainder of 2010 and will be moving to a brand new premises at...» Read More
Cultural trail-blazer guided by heritage
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 25.09.10
Catherine Keenan meets the indigenous curator helping put the final touches to the NGA's new galleries. The woman overseeing the opening of the largest permanent collection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art in the world is surprisingly calm. As...» Read More
Whats on in DC?
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 26.09.10
>> If you've ever wanted to learn about art from Down Under (insert gratuitous "shrimp on the barbie" joke here), head on over to the Touchstone Gallery Thursday for a lecture on Australian Aboriginal art. Given by Solenne Ducos-Lamotte, the...» Read More
Aboriginal Art Workshop – 4 October – Respect Organics Gallery
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 27.09.10
Join us at Respect Organics Gallery in Shaftesbury, Dorset, for a talk with local artist Tony Duncan titled ‘Australian Aboriginal Art’ followed by a practical workshop. Details: Monday 4th October 7.00 pm Cost £6.00 to cover all art materials and...» Read More
Victorian art gallery boosts Indigenous art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 27.09.10
The National Gallery of Victoria has bolstered its collection of Indigenous artworks with three new paintings for its Aboriginal section. A Texas Downs Station picture by Rover Thomas and two Alec Mingelmanganu Wanjina paintings purchased by the gallery in 2008...» Read More
Peggy Guggenheim: A Collection in Venice Opening Night
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 27.09.10
Friday 8 October 7.30-10.30pm Tickets $25 per person Join the official opening celebrations to enjoy an evening of exceptional art and delicious bites, with fine wine, beer and soft drinks available from the cash bar. Limited numbers available, please book...» Read More
Helping local Aboriginal artists find their feet
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 29.09.10
Cowra resident Ted Budd has been appointed as the new Central West Aboriginal Arts Development Officer (CWAADO) for Arts OutWest, a role that will see him help develop the commercial opportunities of local Aboriginal artists. Mr Budd, of Wiradjuri heritage,...» Read More
MoB provides ANKAAA members shared resources
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 30.09.10
Our theme for the Matrix on Board Late September Newsletter seems to be that organisations are stronger when we work together and stay connected. That idea is the core philosophy behind the missions of many of our clients. One MoB...» Read More
Curator unveils a triple treat
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 30.09.10
Hetti Perkins has put her heart and soul into an exhibition, television series and book about indigenous art, writes Steve Meacham. Like her famous father, the elegantly trouser-suited Hetti Perkins bites her nails and loves soccer. Unlike her famous father...» Read More
October, 2010
Rare Dance Showcases Indigenous Art Festival in Australia
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 02.10.10
A rare performance by renowned Aboriginal dancers marked the start of one of Australia's most important festivals of indigenous art. The unique dance of the Gurrir Gurrir people depicts events associated with a devastating tropical cyclone in 1974. The catastrophic...» Read More
New National Gallery Wing Devoted to Australian Indigenous Art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 02.10.10
The National Gallery of Australia has opened its new wing devoted to one of the largest collections of Australian Aboriginal and Islander art. The new building in Parkes Place, Canberra, also created a new and more prominent entrance into the...» Read More
National Gallery enters new era
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 02.10.10
The National Gallery of Australia in Canberra is spreading its wings, placing Indigenous art at the front and centre of its collection. It has undergone its biggest facelift since opening in 1982, with a new entrance and foyer, 11 new...» Read More
NEW PARADIGM IN CANBERRA
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 03.10.10
Prototype, precedent, templet, archetype, scantling, paradigm...so reads my Roget's Thesaurus – which I think gives you the drift of my thinking regarding the importance of recent events in Canberra. No – not on the Hill, where Tony Abbott seems determined...» Read More
New Searchable Online Database for Australian Art Competitions
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 03.10.10
Artrillium House has now released it's "The Art Directory" in the form of a searchable online database which is available to subscribers. 1400 art competitions are listed with all relevant information such as entry date, prize monies, when, where and...» Read More
KIN AND COUNTRY
Posted by | 03.10.10
KIN AND COUNTRY Fire, storm, sand and water are themes explored by feature artist Maureen Hudson Nampatjinpa, who will be present at Artitja Fine Art’s KIN AND COUNTRY exhibition opening on Friday 15th October in South Fremantle. Keeping it all...» Read More
Fluid face of art and soul
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 03.10.10
HettiI Perkins doesn't like to play favourites, but in the second episode of the new television series Art + Soul, she stands by Fruit Bats, a sculpture by Yorta Yorta artist Lin Onus, to explain its unique appeal. The work...» Read More
Gallery opens new chapter
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 03.10.10
After three years in the making, the National Gallery of Australia has finally revealed its stunning new $100 million entrance and indigenous art wing. Governor-General Quentin Bryce officially opened the additions last night before a buzzing VIP crowd of about...» Read More
Aboriginal art's new face at Canberra gallery
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 03.10.10
Ron Radford, the director of Canberra's National Gallery of Australia, can say almost exactly when Australians and overseas visitors became interested in Aboriginal art. ''You can pinpoint it to the 1988 Bicentennial,'' Mr Radford said yesterday. ''That's when people would...» Read More
Art from top to bottom
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 03.10.10
Elsewhere in the gallery, you can enjoy masterpieces of Italian printmaking dating from the mid-fifteenth century in A beautiful line: Italian prints from Mantegna to Piranesi until October 31, and opening on October 29 comes Desert Country, drawn entirely from...» Read More
Finalists announced for Aboriginal Art Prize
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 03.10.10
The finalists of the 2010 Parliament of NSW Aboriginal Art Prize have been announced, with 43 works from 37 artists being displayed at NSW Parliament House from September 29 - October 28. The art prize was established in 2005 and...» Read More
The best reason to visit Canberra ... and there's more to come
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 03.10.10
Downstairs is impressive. But the 11 rooms of indigenous art upstairs in the new wing of the National Gallery are astounding. They have no equal in Australia. The loot is breathtaking. They are the best reason in a long time...» Read More
Half Light Retrospective
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 04.10.10
The exhibition of Art + Soul, Hetti Perkins’ dramatic new survey of Indigenous art and artists opened this weekend at the Art Gallery of New South Wales; the tripartite ABC documentary premiers Thursday night. Intriguing reviews have already appeared in...» Read More
Joining the dots
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 04.10.10
Hetti Perkins helps viewers understand the complexity and diversity of Aboriginal art 'I THINK I initially imagined the series being able to satisfy my simple curiosity about what the dots mean," Hibiscus Films producer Bridget Ikin (An Angel at My...» Read More
Aboriginal dance tells Tracy story
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 04.10.10
Painted Aboriginal dancers decorated with leaves and earth colours move rhythmically to the beat of sticks and the song of elders. Although the cadences feel ancient, the Gurrir Gurrir ceremony depicts a more recent event in Australia history, when the...» Read More
Gallery offers an indigenous opening
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 04.10.10
ABORIGINAL art takes centre stage at the revamped NGA in Canberra. THE entrance to the National Gallery of Australia, in Canberra, used to be hidden mysteriously in a side street, reached by a utilitarian flight of concrete stairs or a...» Read More
Indigenous art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 04.10.10
KERRY O’BRIEN, PRESENTER: From the inner city to the remotest part of the nation, Australia's contemporary Aboriginal art movement is on the move. A new exhibition in Sydney is showcasing its richness and diversity. Curated by Hetti Perkins, the daughter...» Read More
Connection, Dislocation, Reclamation and Innovation: The 2010 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 05.10.10
In its 27th year, the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAAs) inaugurated a sixth category. The ‘New Media Award’ required artists to submit works reflecting the theme ‘connections’ with the stated aim to provide ‘a national platform...» Read More
Size may count at revamped gallery
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 05.10.10
The National Gallery of Australia flung open its new narrow doors for the first time on Thursday night to 1000 guests including Culture's spies who reported that while the new entrance is impressive, "you wonder how it will cope with...» Read More
Aboriginal art demands dignity
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 05.10.10
Amnesty International’s Demand Dignity and Eora College art exhibition opened at the Boomalli Aboriginal Arts Gallery on September 22 to a crowd of 50 people. The exhibition was based on the theme of the UN Declaration on the Rights of...» Read More
Lecture offers insight into native art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 05.10.10
WSU's Museum of Art showed “Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art: From the Collection of Margaret Levi and Robert Kaplan,” Thursday. The new, free exhibit is open to the public from Oct. 1 through Dec. 11. “It’s a fabulous collection ... It...» Read More
Colours of our Country returns to Perth
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 05.10.10
Accomplished and emerging artists, traditional stories and stunning Pilbara imagery was once again on show at this year’s ‘Colours of our Country’ Aboriginal art exhibition in Perth on the 22nd September. For the fifth consecutive year, Rio Tinto transformed the...» Read More
INDIGENOUS VISUAL ARTS RESIDENCIES
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 06.10.10
INDIGENOUS VISUAL ARTS RESIDENCIES - call for artists now open! Arts Victoria's INDIGENOUS VISUAL ARTS RESIDENCIES is a new residency program funded by the Victorian Government providing Victorian Indigenous visual artists and art-workers vocational residencies within a range of arts...» Read More
Indigenous Cultural Development Officer
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 06.10.10
Communities NSW Arts NSW Position: Indigenous Cultural Development Officer Location: Sydney Job Grade/Classification: Clerk Grade 9/10 Vacancy ref: ART1075-000008GZ The Arts NSW Indigenous Cultural Development Officer leads and manages the development and implementation of the NSW Aboriginal Arts and Cultural...» Read More
US gallery adds to indigenous collection
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 06.10.10
Next year I’m off to America, where I have been invited to do a show at the Kluge-Ruhe Museum at the University of Virginia. The Kluge-Ruhe institution is dedicated to Australian Aboriginal art and is the largest body of such...» Read More
Aboriginals of Australia: Museum Shows Contemporary Natives’ Art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 06.10.10
WSU's Museum of Art showed “Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art: From the Collection of Margaret Levi and Robert Kaplan,” Thursday [30 September 2010] . The new, free exhibit is open to the public from Oct. 1 through Dec. 11. “It’s a...» Read More
The Healing Power of Indigenous Art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 06.10.10
What a long weekend of Indigenous art! While I haven't seen the new Indigenous galleries in Canberra, I did dive wholeheartedly into art + soul at the Art Gallery of New South Wales www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au One of the joys of living...» Read More
HETTI'S MULTI-MEDIA PROJECT
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 07.10.10
Bigger than Ben Hur (which is soon to be at a football stadium near you)! Hetti Perkins, Senior Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at the Art Gallery of NSW, turns out to be a gentle, girlish guide...» Read More
Victorian Indigenous Art Awards 2011
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 07.10.10
The 2011 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards is being presented and hosted by fortyfivedownstairs in partnership with Arts Victoria. For the first time the VIAA will be curated by resident Indigenous curator, Nicholas Boseley. The VIAA acknowledge and promote Indigenous artists...» Read More
2009 NAIDOC Artist of the Year Wayne Quilliam nominated for International Award
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 08.10.10
One of Australia’s leading Indigenous photographers has been nominated as a Master of Photography by National Geographic. The 2009 NAIDOC Artist of the Year Wayne Quilliam said “To be considered for such an award is an honour and I hope...» Read More
art + soul - Home And Away
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 08.10.10
In this three-part documentary series, Hetti Perkins takes us on a personal journey into the world of Aboriginal art. art + soul, directed by Warwick Thornton (Samson and Delilah), is the powerful and emotionally engaging television series about contemporary Aboriginal...» Read More
Art + Soul
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 08.10.10
7 October, 2010 1:06PM ACST Art + Soul By Emma Sleath ( Cross Media Reporter)The new three part series on Aboriginal Art debuts tonight on ABC1. Directed by Warwick Thornton and presented by Hetti Perkins, the journey begins where else...» Read More
Landmark space embodies soul of the nation
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 09.10.10
Indigenous art has found a welcome home at the reinvigorated National Gallery of Australia. AT last, indigenous art has the national showcase it needs: 11 luminous, purpose-built galleries at the entrance to the country's flagship visual arts institution in the...» Read More
An aboriginal art exhibition; latest works by Barbara Weir
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 09.10.10
Mbantua Gallery have an art exhibition running from today until Thursday 4th November, of works by a prestigious aboriginal artist named Barbara Weir. The Grass Seed paintings represent a grass called Lyaw in Barbara's native language and she's experimented with...» Read More
Keeping Place collection seeks a permanent home
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 10.10.10
Keeping Place consists of 1500 artworks plus artefacts and photographs collected over 40 years by Aboriginal artist and activist Gordon Syron and his wife Elaine. The collection had been housed in an Eveleigh railway shed described as "dilapidated, daggy and...» Read More
AES PUTS INDIGENOUS EMPLOYMENT IN THE FRAME WITH ART AUCTION FUND LAUNCH
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 12.10.10
12th October 2010, Sydney Australia: A unique collection of contemporary Aboriginal Art will be auctioned at Sotheby’s in Sydney on 19th October by national not for profit organisation, the Aboriginal Employment Strategy (AES). Marking the official launch of the AES...» Read More
MIRACLE ON THE CANNING
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 12.10.10
It was rumoured a couple of years ago that an anthropologist was about to make the astounding announcement that he'd traced the three Aboriginal grandparents who'd lived on the Canning Stock Route (CSR) earlier last century and sired most of...» Read More
art + soul - Dreams And Nightmares
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 12.10.10
art + soul, a one hour documentary series by Warwick Thornton and Hetti Perkins, is a powerful and emotionally engaging series about contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, and the artists who create it. In episode two, Hetti explores...» Read More
'Sickening' Aboriginal art exhibition should close: Wollongong MP
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 12.10.10
The New South Wales Member for Wollongong Noreen Hay has condemned a decision by the city's gallery to continue an exhibition of paintings which some Aboriginal groups have labelled as "sickening and offensive." Ms Hay concedes she has yet to...» Read More
2011 VICTORIAN INDIGENOUS ART AWARDS OPEN
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 12.10.10
From the Minister for the Arts Monday, 11 October 2010 Entries are now open for the 2011 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards (VIAA), the State’s premiere celebration of our Indigenous visual arts sector. Minister for the Arts Peter Batchelor said the...» Read More
New Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander art galleries
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 12.10.10
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have existed on the continent of Australia for tens of thousands of years. Their art and traditions are among the oldest and richest in human history. The designs, patterns and stories were taught to...» Read More
Indigenous artists finding a steady income
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 12.10.10
An arts manager in South Australia's far north-west Aboriginal lands says a record number of artists are working on the lands. Skye O'Meara from Tjala Arts in the APY Lands says works from the Lands are now highly regarded and...» Read More
The spirit wakes anew
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 12.10.10
BINDI Cole's first response when she was invited to curate an exhibition for the Melbourne International Arts Festival was one of relative calm. The 35-year-old Melbourne-based artist, who last year was awarded the coveted $25,000 Deadly Art Award for her...» Read More
Contemporary Aboriginal Art in Holland
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 13.10.10
When I look around this country and think about the efforts of our state art galleries to excite and educate people about Aboriginal art and culture, I’d have to conclude that there’s not much fire in the belly. True —...» Read More
in black and white: more on the orientation of Aboriginal art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 15.10.10
Thanks to Helen Vivian’s detective work, I was fascinated to read how the London-based Frieze had reviewed Utopia: the genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye, the Emily Kame Kngwarreye exhibition at the (then) new National Art Centre Tokyo, while on tour...» Read More
Story of aboriginal art at La Fontaine
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 15.10.10
TRADITIONAL aboriginal art will come to the fore in Bahrain tomorrow night at the opening of the Songlines art exhibition at the La Fontaine Centre of Contemporary Art, Manama. According to event organisers, aboriginal art is more of a ritual...» Read More
Art’s new face at Canberra gallery
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 15.10.10
Ron Radford, the Director of Canberra’s National Gallery of Australia, can say almost exactly when Australians and overseas visitors became interested in Aboriginal art. ‘’You can pinpoint it to the 1988 Bicentennial,’’ Mr Radford said. ‘’That’s when people would come...» Read More
''Ngurra Kutju Ngurrara - Belonging to One Country"
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 16.10.10
The ReDot Fine Art Gallery is proud to welcome back the beautiful works of Australia’s foremost Aboriginal art community, Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, in what will be the 7th showing in Singapore of the stunning works of the desert...» Read More
Warakurna Artists attend the opening of the new NGA annex
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 16.10.10
Graham Nelson, one of Warakurna Artists Directors recently made the long journey to Canberra to attended the opening of the new wing of the National Gallery of Australia....» Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Gallery puts final touches to indigenous wing
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 26.10.10
After several years and millions of dollars $100 million to be precise the monumental building works in the National Gallery precinct are finally complete, with a grand new entrance to prove it. But with the official opening not until next...» Read More
Charles Perkins' granddaughter takes up the cause
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 26.10.10
Madeleine Madden spent the first years of her life around her grandad, Aboriginal activist Charlie Perkins, while he berated politicians. Her memories of him are hazy, but she has grown up determined to continue his fight to advance the interests...» Read More
Trailblazer helped Essendon revolutionise role of women
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 27.10.10
Beverly Knight's imminent departure from the Essendon board has scarcely made a ripple in the context of the club's myriad of upheavals this year. But on a day the AFL annually and officially declares as belonging to the women of...» Read More
Cobra and Aboriginal art brought together in Breaking with Tradition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 27.10.10
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
Winfrey to promote Aboriginal art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 27.10.10
One of the secret destinations on Oprah Winfrey's Australian tour is a stunning collection of Aboriginal rock art that has been seen by only a few non-indigenous people. Plans are under way to show Winfrey's worldwide audience an Aboriginal shelter...» Read More
Indigenous revelations
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 28.10.10
At first glance it's hard to see how Destiny Deacon shares any common ground with the artists of Papunya Tula or with Ricky Maynard or Judy Watson. But Hetti Perkins, the writer and narrator of the three-part ABC1 documentary art...» Read More
Get linear on most mediums
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 28.10.10
One of the state's foremost experts on Aboriginal art was in Shepparton yesterday to encourage locals to enter the upcoming Victorian Indigenous Art Awards. Visiting Shepparton's Gallery Kaiela, VIAA curator Nicholas Boseley said local artists were well-placed for success at...» Read More
Local artists take out major prize
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 28.10.10
Euraba Artists and Papermakers have taken out the 2010 NSW Parliament Aboriginal Art Prize. The winner of the prize was announced at NSW Parliament House on Wednesday, October 20. The Euraba artists won with their collaborative work, ‘Gaduu – Murray...» Read More
A collection of masterpieces
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 29.10.10
In Sydney, where the countdown to January's Sydney Festival has begun (corporate.sydneyfestival.org.au), you can still see Namatjira at the Belvoir Theatre until November 7. Written by Scott Rankin and co-directed by Wayne Blair and Scott Rankin, this collaboration between Belvoir...» Read More
Scheme looks to get parents, kids learning together
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 29.10.10
A not-for-profit group has launched a program to help Indigenous parents in Roma become more involved in their children's education. The Downs Industry School Co-op says the Parent and Community Engagement scheme creates activities that both parents and the child...» Read More
Dancers entertain at exhibition opening
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 29.10.10
Last Friday night more than 70 people were greeted with wine and nibblies and entertained by Aboriginal dancers at the opening of local aboriginal artist Johanna Parker’s solo Indigenous art exhibition. The exhibition represents her first days at univerity, drawings,...» Read More
Parsons Brinckerhoff launches plan to help Indigenous communities
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 29.10.10
Engineering company Parsons Brinckerhoff earlier this month launched its reconciliation action plan at the Art Gallery of NSW among some of Australia’s best indigenous art collection in the Yiribana Gallery. PB managing director Dr Jim Mantle said the RAP signalled...» Read More
Jilamara artists here to exhibit
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 30.10.10
The Grafton Regional Gallery will be holding a meet-and-greet with the artists of their latest exhibition, Prints From Jilamara, tomorrow. The artists have travelled from Milikapiti on Melville Island, 100km north-east of Darwin, to spend time in the area and...» Read More
November, 2010
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
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
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
ONCE UPON A TIME IN PAPUNYA
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 11.11.10
How to tackle this intimately informed, radically revisionist but ultimately frustrating tale of the art movement that did more than anything to change Australia's views about its indigenous people and bring their culture closer to the cities of the south?...» Read More
Three days in the southern Tanami – a photo-essay
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 11.11.10
Not an article about Aboriginal art, but this is the magic of our amazing country that you can see when visiting remote communities in Central Australia....» Read More
ReDot Fine Art Gallery Annual Stockroom Christmas Show 2010
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 13.11.10
Come and join us at ReDot Fine Art Gallery for some mulled wine and festive cheer as we celebrate the holiday season and the opening of our annual Stockroom exhibition of affordable artworks by artists from many different art centres...» Read More
Cowichan International Aboriginal Film Festival
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.11.10
Cowichan International Aboriginal Film Festival 2011 Immerse yourself in the worlds of the people of the land in this sharing of aboriginal culture, teachings and realities through film, art, song, dance and ceremony. Make your destination Duncan, Vancouver Island from...» Read More
THE DESERT COMES TO ADELAIDE
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 24.11.10
The Art Gallery of SA has organised its second big exhibition of Aboriginal art from the Desert, showing until the end of January and accompanied by a big catalogue. It's a very generous and gentle introduction to the art that...» Read More
Country, memory and art: Understanding Indigneous art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 25.11.10
Anthropologists Howard Morphy and John Carty, and senior curator Mike Pickering, will discuss Indigenous art from the Western Desert and Arnhem Land, and how art from both regions reflects concepts of Country, family and memory. Visions Theatre Image: Jan Billycan,...» Read More
MOLLIE GOWING'S LASTING LEGACY
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 25.11.10
Edmund Capon, Director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales today announced that Mollie Gowing, a great supporter of the Gallery and of Indigenous art in particular has left an important collection of 142 artworks plus a very generous...» Read More
Victorian Indigenous Art Awards
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 26.11.10
The Final Countdown - Deadline for Entries Tomorrow Are we all feeling it? The deadline looming so, so close. Not to worry, we all have up to 5pm Friday 26 November (that’s tomorrow) to post your entries to the Victorian...» Read More
December, 2010
ABORIGINAL ART IN COLOGNE
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 01.12.10
The Museum Ludwig in Cologne has opened a significant exhibition of Australian art in a series which has included important Western artists such as Gerhard Richter in 2008 and Christopher Wool in 2009. Here is the curatorial take on this...» Read More
ARTITJA: THE GIFT COLLECTION – ART + OBJECTS: small and affordable 2010
Posted by | 02.12.10
Fine art, fibre and wooden sculptures, textiles and jewellery from over 20 of Australia’s top and emerging Indigenous artists will be the feature of Artitja Fine Art’s final show for the year ART + OBJECTS: small and affordable 2010. The...» Read More
Of death and mythologies
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 06.12.10
In Aboriginal art, there are two significant shows: Art and Soul at the AGNSW, with works shown in the ABC documentary of the same title, and Desert Country at the AGSA, an exhibition drawn from the gallery's collection and surveying...» Read More
Dunkeld Open Gardens and Galleries, Nerissa Major's At Studio
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 07.12.10
Activities now available at Nerissa Major's Art Studio. Koori Art and Craft Workshop $5 pp (inc. materials) Come and create your own piece of Koori Artwork. Experience a traditional "Welcome to Country" Greeting $50 (up to 4 people) Listern to...» Read More
Awe-inspiring indigenous art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 07.12.10
A highlight of my trip to the Northern Territory in September was the Desert Mob 2010 exhibition at the Araluen Arts Centre in Alice Springs. It's an annual exhibition of art from Aboriginal communities across the Western Desert region spanning...» Read More
Gems sparkle in Sotheby's earnings
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 08.12.10
Mr Goodman said Sotheby's jewellery and decorative arts divisions had boosted the company's results, in the face of a difficult market for both finding buyers and consigning items for auction across the company's divisions, which include Australian art, Aboriginal art...» Read More
Alison Kelly: Drawing to a close
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 08.12.10
In the decade since Alison Kelly opened her Aboriginal art gallery, she has seen a massive increase in the general population’s appreciation and understanding of indigenous art. “So much of the content of the paintings is not for us to...» Read More
Indigenous art code launched
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 08.12.10
THREE years after a Senate committee recommended sweeping changes to end the exploitation of indigenous artists and ensure fair play in the industry, a voluntary code of conduct is finally running. The board of Indigenous Art Code Limited, the company...» Read More
Where Two Rivers Meet art exhibition is being held at the Studio Gallery East Gosford
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 08.12.10
FRANK Wright’s mission is to educate indigenous and non-indigenous children on Australia’s Aboriginal heritage through his artwork. Previously resident on the Central Coast and now living at Walgett a sister city to Gosford, Wright will be the major featured artist...» Read More
Bonhams move into Aboriginal art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 08.12.10
CONFIRMING their intentions in the Australian market, Bonhams have launched an Aboriginal art department in Sydney. Specialists Francesca Cavazzini and Greer Adams will run the department under the aegis of Tim Klingender, who will act as a senior consultant. That...» Read More
Family, tradition and lore in Arnhem Land
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 08.12.10
The Marika family of Arnhem Land could be called the Boyds of the indigenous art world. Like the Boyd dynasty, they've contributed an intergenerational opus of work to the Australian cultural landscape. But the Marika clan are not just artists...» Read More
LOFTY - WAMUD NAMOK
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 13.12.10
The life and work of the great Bardayal 'Lofty' Nadjamerrek is being celebrated this summer at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. One immediate challenge to the mind is to wonder how the man known as “the last of...» Read More
Gulumbu Yunupingu is People's Choice in WA
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 16.12.10
The great Yolngu artist, Gulumbu Yunupingu - big sister of Manduwuy - from Yirrkala in North East Arnhem Land, has won the People’s Choice Award of $5,000 in the Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards 2010. This year, the voting couldn't...» Read More
‘No si hijomiono’o jabesi soré jajivo’ (We are painting the designs of our ancestors)
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 18.12.10
ReDot Fine Art Gallery is proud to welcome a very special exhibition of barkcloth art from the Ömie artists of Mount Lamington in Oro province, Papua New Guinea. An artistically groundbreaking event for ReDot Fine Art Gallery, this exhibition has...» Read More
