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
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 10.10.18
The 30th anniversary of the 1988 creation of The Aboriginal Memorial of 200 dupun/hollow log bone coffins by 43 artists from Ramingining is being celebrated this weekend with a lecture, conversations, a film and a symposium at the National Gallery...» Read More
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 16.02.18
Details have just been released of the Symposium which will bring to an end the important 'Songlines : Tracking the Seven Sisters' exhibition at the National Museum in Canberra. Here's Chief Curator, Margo Neale, to explain: “Just letting you know...» Read More
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 05.04.17
The annual Revealed Exhibition this weekend in Perth features works by more than 75 new and emerging WA Aboriginal artists from 23 art centres all over the state, showcasing the diverse and vibrant condition of contemporary Aboriginal art in the...» Read More
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 24.08.16
The unfashionable name of Milingimbi – a place that doesn't even appear in the index for the 'Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture' published in 2000 – may soon be cropping up all over. This Yolngu island off the...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 25.05.16
Reconciliation Week starts this coming Friday, 27 May 2016, and the Newcastle Art Gallery (NAG) are running BLACK WHITE & RESTIVE which celebrates the work of over 60 artists and their cross-cultural art practices. It will be opened by the...» Read More
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 13.05.16
“We need to have argy-bargy in public”, insists Rhoda Roberts, the Sydney Opera House Head of Indigenous Programming, who is celebrating the 49th anniversary of the Aboriginal Referendum in 1967 with a double-bunger – the first Indigenous art on the...» Read More