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EVERWHEN EVERYWHERE
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2014-10-23 17:14:26
The Queensland Art Gallery │Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) has unveiled a new permanent display of Indigenous Australian art: ‘Everywhen Everywhere’, which opened last Saturday, 18 October. QAGOMA Director Chris Saines said the collection-based exhibition, curated by the Gallery’s curator...» Read More
'TOURIST TAT' IN HOBART
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2014-01-13 10:52:05
Back in September, I responded to some depressingly bad critical reviews of the Indigenous content in the big Australia show at the Royal Academy in London. My blunt heading then was 'Crap Criticism in London'. Coincidentally, the Hobart art...» Read More
BARKS 'R US
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2013-12-22 19:50:44
With Aboriginal bark paintings there's the constant dilemma – how important is the aesthetic appeal of the work, and how important the story – and the status of the man telling it? The issue arises because there have been old barks...» Read More
Dr Yunupingu Dies
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2013-06-28 18:11:09
Aboriginal Art News wishes to pay tribute to the late Mandawuy Yunupingu, who died in Yirrkala, NE Arnhemland on June 2nd aged 56. He had been fighting end-stage renal disease and had undergone dialysis for several years. This is...» Read More
TJUKURRTJANU GOES TO PARIS
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2012-10-08 15:25:06
The big NGV exhibition Tjukurrtjanu – Origins of Western Desert Art ( 'Aux Sources de la Peinture Aborigene') opens in the Musee du quai Branly today. It's the first Australian art show at the museum – which opened...» Read More
The 29th NATSIAAs
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2012-08-10 15:45:11
“It's a really interesting year, I think – characterised by strong women. Where have artists like Cornelia Tipuamantumeri, Barbara Moore and Rhonda Sharpe suddenly come from? Pow!!” Very new Curator of Indigenous Art at the Museum & Art Gallery of the...» Read More
AGNSW 'S TENTATIVE REHANG
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2012-07-20 19:12:05
Almost three years ago, I reported here about the strange and wonderful arrival of the Art Gallery of NSW's iconic Pukumani Poles in its so-called Colonial Courts – perfectly placed in chronological terms, but utterly challenging beside the best efforts...» Read More
SECOND INDIGENOUS TRIENNIAL
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2012-05-23 14:27:49
Why did the word 'colourless' spring to my mind when trying to sum up the National Gallery's second National Indigenous Art Triennial? I think the answer intrinsically springs from the diminished role played by vibrant Desert art. Yes – there's...» Read More
GULUMBU YUNUPINGU 1945 - 2012
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2012-05-14 13:58:40
They keep trying to say that the 40 year old Aboriginal art movement is doomed by the inevitable death if its elders. But just a decade ago, no one had heard of the Yolngu artist, Gulumbu Yunupingu. The then-56 year...» Read More
Aboriginal Art Auction Signals a Shift Towards Minimalism and Tradition
Posted by Nicholas Forrest | 2012-05-10 16:33:12
The market for Aboriginal art has had a tough time of late as the cautious buying activities of collectors and investors allude to a market in a state of suspended animation that is struggling to establish a new identity in...» Read More
Aboriginal Art is Modern
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2012-04-02 14:48:15
The grand re-opening of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney has confirmed for many the view that the Aboriginal art of today is as contemporary as such trendy names as Hany Armanious, Ah Xian, Rivane Neuenschwander and Christian Marclay...» Read More
Yalangabara and the Marikas
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2012-03-01 13:28:55
Just as Mankind emerged from the sea in evolutionary history, Aboriginal life in Arhemland advanced mythologically out of the Gulf of Carpentaria at Yalangabara to become the many clans of the Dhuwa moiety. But, while the rest of us took...» Read More
BARRKU! Treasures from a Distant Land
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2011-12-21 15:57:45
Harvey Art Projects is proud to present BARRKU, Treasures from a Distant Land opening this Christmas in Sun Valley, Idaho. This will be Buku-Larrnggay's first exhibit of stunning ceremonial poles and bark paintings in the United States, and it will...» Read More
AT LAST, THE TRIENNIAL!
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2011-11-03 16:31:55
The National Gallery of Australia has announced that it will present UnDisclosed: 2nd National Indigenous Art Triennial at the NGA in Canberra from May 11 next year until July, followed by a national tour. The artists selected by curator Carly...» Read More
YOUNG YOLNGU WINS IN WA
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2011-08-13 00:39:05
YOUNG YOLNGU WINS IN WA The most valuable indigenous art prize – the Western Australia Indigenous Art Award of $50,000 has been won by Gunybi Ganambarr from Yirrkala in NW Arnhemland. After two years of triumphs by artists from the Buku...» Read More
NAATSIA's 25TH ANNIVERSARY BOOK
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2011-06-27 10:31:57
Is a silver anniversary any more important than a 20th or a 17th? I ask because the Museum & Art Gallery of the NT (MAGNT), the Darwin home of the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award has belatedly...» Read More
WA INDIGENOUS ART AWARDS FINALISTS CHOSEN
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2011-04-05 14:03:53
The Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards, the richest Indigenous arts prize in the country, have announced the 16 finalists who will each be invited to place a body of work into competition for a share in prizes totalling $65,000. The WAIAA are...» Read More
Gulumbu Yunupingu is People's Choice in WA
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2010-12-16 13:37:57
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 be...» Read More
AES PUTS INDIGENOUS EMPLOYMENT IN THE FRAME WITH ART AUCTION FUND LAUNCH
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-10-12 15:54:37
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...» 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
NEW PARADIGM IN CANBERRA
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2010-10-03 19:28:19
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 not...» Read More
“AMAZING STRENGTH” IN 27th NATSIAA WINNERS
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2010-08-13 14:11:58
“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
Interview with Glenn Pilkington - Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-08-03 21:34:33
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, which...» Read More
New Works: Old Stories - Indigenous Art Exhibition and Auction
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-07-27 13:36:51
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 of the...» Read More
Nominations open for 2010 Indigenous Music Awards
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-05-27 03:33:51
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 NT...» Read More
Innate Calling
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-04-24 09:42:35
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
WA Art Award Nominees Named
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2010-04-23 16:08:00
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 in the...» Read More
IT'S ALL FOLK ART AT BOS 2010
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2010-02-10 15:30:02
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
20 Years Survey Show
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-10-23 08:19:05
To celebrate 20 years of Alcaston Gallery, this survey show at the Depot Gallery @ Danks Street, Waterloo, Sydney, will feature work from some of our most collectable artists. Alcaston Gallery opened at 2 Collins Street, Melbourne in...» Read More
COLONIAL TUTINI
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2009-09-09 00:18:07
The Tiwi people who drove the first White colonialists off their remote Melville Island (80kms north of Darwin) less than 5 years after they tried to establish a fort there are enjoying yet more schadenfreude as their ancient burial poles...» Read More
GULUMBU YUNUPINGU Heavens Above!
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-09-08 07:16:01
this Tuesday evening GULUMBU YUNUPINGU Heavens Above! Gulumbu Yunupingu will make the long journey to Melbourne to proudly welcome you to her exhibition opening on Tuesday 8 September 6:30 –...» Read More
GULUMBU YUNUPINGU Heavens Above!
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-08-14 18:03:06
GULUMBU YUNUPINGU Heavens Above! ACGA Gallery @ Fed Square The Atrium, Federation Square Cnr Flinders & Swanston Streets Tuesday to Sunday 10am–5pm Gulumbu Yunupingu will make the long journey to Melbourne to proudly welcome you to her exhibition opening on Tuesday 8 September 6:30 – 8:30pm Exhibition dates:...» Read More
GARMA FESTIVAL 2009
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2009-08-12 15:47:20
“My art is a story about the universe – about the stars”, says Gulumbu Yunupingu artlessly. The eldest member of the important Yunupingu clan, on whose land in the far North East corner of Arnhemland the annual Garma Festival has...» Read More
GARMA TALKS CULTURE IN AUGUST
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2009-06-15 17:33:29
The Indigenous Creative Industries is the 2009 theme of the nationally significant Key Forum at this year's Garma Festival of Traditional Culture, Australia’s leading Indigenous cultural exchange, to be held for the 11th time in August at Gulkula, near Nhulunbuy...» Read More
NATSIAAs SAIL ON
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2009-03-20 09:55:40
Australia's most important indigenous art prize will sail on into its 26th edition in August this year - with entries for it closing on Friday, 27 March 2009. Last year's Silver Jubilee of what are often called The Telstras attracted...» Read More
ARCHIBALD/WYNNE PRIZES GET A BIT INDIGENOUS
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2009-03-06 08:59:21
The important annual Wynne Prize for landscape painting – handed out today at noon by the Art Gallery of New South Wales Trustees – is getting more and more indigenous. This year 7 of the 30 acceptances are by Aboriginal...» Read More
Art auction to benefit health care
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-10-14 19:58:23
INDIGENOUS health care in the Territory will benefit when Aboriginal art is auctioned in Melbourne next week. A new organisation, Ochre, backed by the business community and philanthropists, including Western Bulldogs president David Smorgon, will sell paintings by top indigenous artists. The...» 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
Etched in the Sun
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2008-09-23 18:24:38
Prints by Aboriginal artists have not always been a total success. Unlike their Torres Strait cousins, the mainlanders don't always manage the clarity and simplification that makes for a great etching, woodblock or silkscreen print. But if any collaborator is...» Read More
5 Minutes with Professor Jonathan Carapetis, Director of Menzies School of Health
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-23 07:17:20
1. What is Ochre? 'Ochre - supporting Indigenous health through art' is an auction of Indigenous art which is raising funds for research into Indigenous child health at the Menzies School of Health Research. 2. Who are the Menzies School of Health...» Read More
Auction 14 October 08: Menzies School of Health Research presents the Fundraiser & Auction 'Ochre - supporting Indigenous health through art', Melbourne Australia
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-23 07:15:19
'Ochre - supporting Indigenous health through art' is a major fundraising art auction which will raise funds for research into Indigenous child health at the Menzies School of Health Research. The ochre collection includes 14 extremely high quality pieces by...» Read More
Roslyn Oxley Goes Indigenous
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2008-09-15 15:57:23
Excitement in Sydney as Roslyn Oxley - owner of the Paddington gallery where Bill Henson was banned and where Piccinini, Moffatt, TV Moore and other hot contemporary artists show - is giving over her white walls to barks from Arnhemland. This...» Read More
Garma Festival
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-11 03:32:28
Jeremy Eccles finds that life and art are inextricably intertwined at the Garma Festival It was powerful proof of the eternal efficacy of art, and it was a moving exercise in humility. Not, I should hasten to add, any humility by the...» Read More
Aboriginal elder wins nation's top art prize
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-20 14:40:53
The Adelaide Advertiser reports on the Telstra awards: The artist has been a finalist eight times, but aged 83 and frail, she did not come to Darwin from her traditional homeland west of Alice Springs to collect her award. Sarita Quinlivan, her...» Read More
Theory of national selection
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-19 14:01:38
Nicholas Rothwell from the Australian discusses the Telstra Art Awards and talks about what else is happening in Darwin at the moment. He makes the case that the Aboriginal art industry has outgrown NATSIAA and that some of the best...» Read More
2008 Telstra Awards for Aboriginal Art Announced
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-19 13:51:31
Awards for the 25th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA) were announced on Aug 15, 2008. Despite controversy surrounding the participation of some community art centres that declined to compete because of the involvement of certain commercial...» Read More
Custodians: Country and Culture
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-19 04:08:56
I saw this portfolio in Darwin and it is of exceptional quality and price. Each print is more than a $1000 each print. This show is a must-see for all who doubt the power of the print in Aboriginal art, and for...» Read More
Custodians: Country and Culture
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-19 04:00:14
Alison Kelly Gallery invites you to the opening of Custodians: Country and Culture on Saturday 23 August 2008 at 3pm The exhibition will be opened by master printmaker Basil Hall who will talk on Contemporary Indigenous Printmaking – a personal...» Read More
25th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award Winners
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-17 14:14:07
Major Prize Winner, Makinti Napanangka from Kintore in the Northern Territory has been awarded Australia’s premier Indigenous art prize at the 25th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award. The winning painting depicts designs associated with the site of...» Read More
Buffalo attack victim relives gory details for art award
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-14 13:52:04
One of the finalists in the Telstra Aboriginal Art Award has depicted a buffalo attack that left her badly gored. Yolngu artist Nyapanyapa Yunupingu's entry is accompanied by a video telling of when she was attacked in the 1970s. "He charged at...» Read More
Buffalo attack victim relives gory details for art award
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-14 12:18:57
The interesting story of Nyapanyapa Yunupingu's entry into this years Telstra Aboriginal Art Award: 'ONE of the finalists in the Telstra Aboriginal Art Award has depicted a buffalo attack that left her badly gored. Yolngu artist Nyapanyapa Yunupingu's entry is accompanied...» Read More
Childhood Memories Continue to Inspire Artist
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-08 01:44:41
Acclaimed Yolgnu artist Gulumbu Yunupingu’s entry in this year’s 25th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Garak the Universe, continues on with her universal theme, which is inspired by childhood memories of her father’s night time stories...» Read More
Custodians: Country and Culture
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-06 13:50:40
On show at Nomad Art Gallery from 11 August - 30 September Lena Nyadbi paintingCustodians: Country and Culture is a boxed set of 10 limited edition prints by ten outstanding Indigenous Australian artists: Lofty Bardayal Nadjamerrek Dorothy Napangardi Gawirrin Gumana Gulumbu Yunupingu Janangoo Butcher Cherel Jean Baptiste...» Read More
TV Doco on Aboriginal Art at the Musee Du Quai Branly on SBS Friday 6 June at 7.30pm
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2008-06-05 01:05:15
Was the Aboriginal art contribution to the new Musee du quai Branly in Paris a huge beat-up by Australia's cultural diplomats? Or was it a genuine and lasting tribute by the French to the oldest extant culture in the world?...» Read More
They are Meditating: Bark Paintings from the MCA’s Arnott’s Collection
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-02-18 10:46:33
Since the 1950s the practice of bark painting has responded to new contexts and has become increasingly pertinent to the outside world. During this period, the generation of painters most commonly known and admired – some of whom are still working...» Read More
Sydney Museum Showcases Aboriginal Bark Painting Collection
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-02-17 10:44:33
The Museum of Contemporary Art is set to unveil a new exhibition showcasing its collection of rare and significant Aboriginal bark paintings, dating from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. They are Meditating: Bark paintings from the Museum Of Contemporary...» Read More
Power & Beauty
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-02-09 11:06:19
Power and beauty are concepts that resonate through the work of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists in all areas of Australia today. Indigenous art is strong in country and law: it is concerned with the politics of identity...» Read More
Culture Warriors
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-01-12 03:46:13
Sydney Morning Herald A vivid trip back to where it all began January 12, 2008 Quoted from article: CULTURE WARRIORS is a curious name for the inaugural National Indigenous Art Triennial at the National Gallery of Australia. Gallery director Ron Radford admits that a...» Read More
One Sun One Moon
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-09-21 17:01:44
In the ever-shifting cultural landscape of Indigenous Australia, One Sun One Moon catalogues a key moment of transition over the decades at the turn of the century to reveal the view from within a kaleidoscopic contemporary art movement. To coincide...» Read More
24th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award 10 August 2007
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-08-10 06:00:53
The 24th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, open to all adult Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander artists, aims to showcase the very best Australian Indigenous art from around the country. The non-acquisitive Telstra Award of $40,000 is...» 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
Architecture Australia Naturally In Paris
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2006-09-30 06:25:13
An article about the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris featuring the work by Australian Aboriginal...» Read More
23rd Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award 11 August 2006
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2006-08-12 05:52:39
The 23rd Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, open to all adult Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander artists, aims to showcase the very best Indigenous art from around the country. The Telstra Award of $40,000 is awarded to...» Read More
22nd Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award 12 August 2005
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2005-08-12 05:38:20
The opening night of the Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award is a major dry season event in Darwin and attracts visitors and artists from all over the country. The evening provides free entertainment from Indigenous traditional...» Read More
A Gallery of Dreaming
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2005-04-08 07:18:14
An interesting article about Australian Aboriginal artists, focussed on women from the Central Desert region, that describes the difficulties facing artists and the industry and why critical success in the art world does not necessarily lead to...» Read More
21st Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award 14 August 2004
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2004-08-14 04:01:55
21st Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award 14 August 2004. The first prize of $40,000 was awarded to artist Gulumbu Yunupingu for her work Garak, The Universe, an installation of three memorial poles. This artwork automatically becomes...» Read More
20th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award 16 August 2003
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2003-08-16 03:58:39
20th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award 16 August 2003, the winner was Richard...» Read More
