2019
January, 2019
Both 'National' Aboriginal Art Galleries on Hold!
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 16.01.19
What is it about projects to create a national Indigenous/Aboriginal art or cultural centre that seems perpetually doomed? Sydney thought about it for Barangaroo, Perth has talked about it. The NT got really excited when the current ALP government was...» Read More
THE WEEKEND
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 21.01.19
What's spiriting about this Sydney Festival production is that brand new names to me in the persons of playwright Henrietta Baird and actor Shakira Clanton, and in the production company, Sydney-based Mooghalin Performing Arts were, between them, able to be...» Read More
#alwayswill be
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 21.01.19
The SBS TV spin-off, NITV is building up to a big day on 26th January with a series of top documentaries and feature films that cover some of the major stories and issues in Indigenous Australia, mostly by Aboriginal creators...» Read More
Man with the Iron Neck
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 25.01.19
It takes much courage and collaboration to put the sorry saga of youth suicide amongst Australia's Aborigines on the stage. Josh Bond started this process after personal experience; the physical theatre company Legs on the Wall took up the baton...» Read More
SPINIFEX GUM
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 27.01.19
Back in December, I previewed the Sydney Festival with its Indigenous director, Jandai man, Wesley Enoch: https://news.aboriginalartdirectory.com/2018/12/blak-out-at-the-sydney-festival.php He made it clear that 25th January – eve of Australia Day – would be Sydney's chance to consider a world before that...» Read More
TUCKSON AND TILLERS
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 30.01.19
Two essays within larger publications have caught my eye as 2019 gets underway. The first is special – a substantial catalogue for the AGNSW show of Tony Tuckson's abstract expressionism has gone further than is the norm, taking us into...» Read More
February, 2019
Discursive Announcements
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 02.02.19
The Honours system in Australia was pretty good to the arts this Australia Day: no fewer than three ACs – the top gong - though I'm bemused at the appearance of Olivia Newton-John at that stratospheric level! Then there were...» Read More
QAGOMA Pays Tribute to Mrs Ngallametta
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 05.02.19
The Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) today paid tribute to leading Australian artist Mrs Waal-Waal Ngallametta who passed away on 28 January at her home in Aurukun, Cape York. QAGOMA Director Chris Saines said Mrs Ngallametta...» Read More
ADELAIDE'S ABORIGINAL GALLERY PROGRESSES
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 14.02.19
Despite rumours to the contrary only last month, the South Australian government has shown clear signs that it really intends to go ahead with a project that will take it beyond just art and, unlike its Alice Springs rival, may...» Read More
INJALAK IN TROUBLE
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 20.02.19
It's reported by the ABC that the Injalak Art Centre at Gunbalanya in western Arnhemland has been placed in administration and that its 'Mentor Manager', Felicity Wright – a long-term art centre manager – has resigned. Only 3 years ago...» Read More
30 YEARS OF ABORIGINAL ART IN THE US
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 21.02.19
For some years now I have been suggesting that increased interest and a major market for Aboriginal art was building in America. Several private collections have gone on tour at serious art museums, individual artists like Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri have had...» Read More
DICK ROUGHSEY IS TOPS
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 22.02.19
Well not quite – but bloody close! Christie's, the international auctioneers, has put out three lists of “Must-See” exhibitions – in America, Europe and the Rest of the World. And, surprisingly, Mornington Island's Goobalathaldin Dick Roughsey's 'Stories of this Land'...» Read More
THE WEST
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 26.02.19
The West is another country – its deserts and Kimberley wilderness, wheatlands and wineries, two huge areas of mining, and a capital city built on sand that's on the edge of overcoming the feeling that it could be deserted at...» Read More
March, 2019
TJUNGUNGUTJA TO ALICE
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 14.03.19
A little bit of history via my writing in 2017 when the important exhibition of the Museum & Art Gallery of the NT's collection of the earliest Papunya boards opened in Darwin. Now Tjungungutja – From Having Come Together moves...» Read More
Jarinyanu David Downs Collection Heads to NT
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 19.03.19
In a first for an Australian public institution, a most significant collection of works by the Kimberley artist Jarinyanu David Downs (c.1920-1995) - 23 pieces in all - has been acquired by the Museum and Art Gallery of the...» Read More
ADELAIDE'S LEAPS & BOUNDS
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 21.03.19
With a Federal election imminent, there was Liberal consensus in Adelaide as the Federal Government announced it would deliver “$129 million for a series of projects designed to boost the cultural economy of Adelaide’s world-renowned arts, food and cultural scene”....» Read More
Parrtjima and CIAF announce 2019 plans
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 27.03.19
The official program for Parrtjima – A Festival in Light 2019 has revealed a huge 10 nights of large scale light installations, artworks, workshops, talks, films and live music for the whole family. Parrtjima will again be held in the...» Read More
Kunmanara Williams Stars at The National
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 30.03.19
I start my thoughts on the very lively new tripartite exhibition in Sydney – The National 2019 – on a sad note....the death of Mumu Mike Williams, the great artist/politician from Mimili Maku art centre in the APY Lands. His...» Read More
April, 2019
Does the Souffle Rise Twice in Alice?
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 02.04.19
The Northern Territory Government insists that it is building The National Aboriginal Art Gallery in Alice Springs. And to prove an advance on what had looked a process stalled when ten responsible Aboriginal Traditional Owners of the site the Government...» Read More
