Turkey Tolson
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ABORIGINAL ART 'COMES HOME'
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2014-07-22 13:45:10
A significant dinner held in Melbourne last week was a homecoming of sorts for that dominant feature of the Aboriginal art market over the past two decades – the auction. Aboriginal art auctions have been maligned, but some have done...» Read More
Painting is the Skin of the World
Posted by Frannie Hopkirk | 2014-03-31 17:36:04
“Painting is the Skin of the World.” Robert Motherwell Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula said: “When you sit down without a painting, you are lonely”. These simple words from two giants of art speak volumes of what painting meant to them. Motherwell, a New York...» Read More
The Shock of the Old
Posted by Frannie Hopkirk | 2014-02-17 14:01:25
Arabs believe that the soul can travel at the rate of a trotting camel. From that one can imagine that the souls of millennia of aboriginal nomads, roving the desert, restless, ever-moving, searching, working, contemplating their existence, drawing their Dreaming into...» Read More
Aboriginal Art Highlights From Bonhams Australia May Sales
Posted by Nicholas Forrest | 2012-05-30 11:44:21
Bonhams May series of auctions held in Sydney produced some fantastic results for Aboriginal art. Although buyers were highly selective passing on many wonderful lots, there was plenty of competition for the most highly desirable and significant works. ...» Read More
Bonhams Australia May 28 Aboriginal Art Auction Features Amazing Array of Paintings and Artefacts
Posted by Nicholas Forrest | 2012-05-23 17:02:05
Bonhams Australia have thrown down the gauntlet to other auction houses with an ambitious two catalogue sale of Aboriginal art taking place in Sydney on the 28th of May. A total of 195 lots will be offered in...» Read More
CHRISTMAS COMES TO COOGEE
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2011-12-02 12:14:10
With just about every Aussie Aboriginal art gallery stocked to the hilt, it's not surprising that Christmas has brought out some novel approaches to clearing the shelves. I love Muk Muk's idea of offering 12 serious artworks at 50% off prices...» Read More
ABORIGINAL ART IN COLOGNE
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2010-12-01 14:09:43
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 pioneering...» Read More
THE DESERT COMES TO ADELAIDE
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2010-11-24 11:53:07
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
New Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander art galleries
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-10-12 02:26:47
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 Indigenous...» Read More
Desert art to show in Beijing
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-05-19 22:11:48
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 into crates...» Read More
Aboriginal art makes the long trek to China
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-05-19 22:11:42
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 were being...» Read More
THE MUNIFICENCE OF ANN LEWIS
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2009-12-15 21:09:24
“For better or worse, it is the strangest and most beautiful show of abstract paintings I have seen in a long time”. The Sydney Morning Herald's art critic, Terence Maloon was bemusedly describing his response to the first ever commercial...» Read More
ABORIGINAL ART FROM THE ARTHUR PAPADIMITRIOU COLLECTION
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-08-08 00:15:43
It has been widely written how the Papunya movement, or dot painting style, started at the Papunya Aboriginal Community, about 240 kilometres northwest of Alice Springs in 1971 when a young school teacher Geoff Bardon encouraged senior elders to paint...» Read More
Collecting Australian Aboriginal Art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-01-26 11:29:55
Described by renowned Australian art critic, Robert Hughes, as belonging to ‘the world’s last great art movement’, collectors of art from this extraordinary ancient but vibrant living culture have, in recent years, fuelled a boom in sales. Prices at auction...» Read More
Aboriginal Art Selling Exhibition - Catalogue Online
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-12-06 02:15:00
ABORIGINAL ART SELLING EXHIBITION Select Works on Display 8 – 23 DECEMBER Shapiro Gallery 162 Queen Street Woollahra ON VIEW Monday through Saturday 11-5pm Department Enquiries Tel 612 9326 1588 CATALOGUE ONLINE www.shapiro.com.au ENQUIRIES aboriginal.art@shapiro.com.au Jane Raffan (+612) 9326 1588...» Read More
Aboriginal Art - SELLING EXHIBITION 30 SEPT – 11 OCT
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-25 21:56:12
ON VIEW 162 Queen St. Woollahra Mon–Sat 11am–5pm There are 43...» Read More
The Laverty Collection
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-08 15:51:23
The Laverty Collection goes on display in the new book Beyond Sacred as well as in exhibition form at the Newcastle Regional Art Gallery. The photo below is a spectacular shot of the Laverty's with their collection. ...» Read More
Beyond Sacred – The Laverty Collection of Indigenous Art in Print and on Exhibition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-08 15:48:57
Jeremy Eccles looks at Beyond Sacred. Quoted from the article: It's a crucial time for Aboriginal art. We should be sitting up and admiring the maturing of the most dynamic art movement in the country from a condition of amateur...» Read More
Lawson-Menzies June 2008 Auction Results
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-06-25 07:39:27
Highlights from the Lawson-Menzies June 2008 auctions include: Mina Mina Dreaming from Judy Watson Napangardi selling for $348,000 Bush Yam Dreaming from Emily Kame Kngwarreye selling for $120,000 Bullock Hide Story from Rover Thomas selling for $102,000 and Iyaarka from Tommy Watson selling for...» Read More
Lauraine Diggins Fine Art presents at the Moscow World Fine Art Fair 2008, Moscow Russia
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-05-29 01:14:33
We are pleased to announce our participation in the 5th edition of the Moscow World Fine Art Fair 2008 (Московский Международный Салон Изящных Искусств 2008), held from 27 May to 2 June 2008 in the famous Manège, next to the...» Read More
Moscow World Fine Art Fair 2008
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-05-28 01:18:44
Lauraine Diggins Fine Art will be at the 5th edition of the Moscow World Fine Art Fair 2008 (Московский Международный Салон Изящных Искусств 2008), held from 27 May to 2 June 2008 in the famous Manège, next to the Kremlin...» Read More
A Fine Romance: White Money, Black Art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-01-26 13:52:04
An Quoted from the paper: Despite allegations of corruption and fraud, the Aboriginal art market continues to flourish. Early paintings fetch increasingly higher prices, while indigenous art centres maintain a steady supply of new works. This frenzied activity is of course,...» Read More
ABC News - Exhibition paints story of Papunya
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-12-06 02:09:02
An article about the November 2007 exhibition at the National Museum of Australia featuring western desert Aboriginal artworks from the Papunya art movement. These artworks are commonly referred to as dot paintings. During the 1970s and early 1980s artists in the...» Read More
Out of the Desert
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-12-03 07:34:48
Papunya Painting: Out of the Desert showcases the National Museum of Australia's extraordinary collection of Western Desert art. These works have rarely been seen in Australia. In the 1970s and early 1980s Central and Western Desert artists at Papunya, in Australia's Northern...» Read More
Shapiro: Aboriginal Art Exhibition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-11-14 07:24:53
Shapiro: Aboriginal Art Exhibition Mon – Sat 11am – 5pm 13 – 24 November...» Read More
Shapiro: Aboriginal Art Exhibition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-04-10 07:11:30
Shapiro: Aboriginal Art Exhibition Monday 9 April – Saturday 21 April 2007 11am –...» Read More
Joel Fine Art Important Australian & International Art 26 March 2007
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-03-26 03:25:32
Joel Fine Art, Important Australian & International Art auction, 26 March 2007, sold over 80% of its lots for a total of...» Read More
The Age: Pictures from home
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2006-07-27 13:17:35
An article by James Cockington in The Age previewing the upcoming Sotheby's Aboriginal Art exhibition. The article follows the trend of dramatically increasing prices and the large proportion of international buyers. From the article: Starter guide $6000+ For those who prefer a more authentic...» Read More
Minnie Pwerle & Mitjili Napurrula
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2004-04-30 00:00:00
This exhibition featured major paintings by two of the most respected and most collectable of the senior desert artists, Minnie Pwerle and Mitjili Napurrula.Minnie Pwerle was born circa 1910 near the remote community of Utopia which is 270 kilometres north-east...» Read More
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