“The Art of the Nation”
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 07.08.20
“Thank you mob in Darwin for this business. Thank you. At last. I feel proud. I’ve been trying all my life, all the time second, fourth, last, sometimes nothing. But I got it now, today. My day, my time this...» Read More
The Salon, 2020
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 06.08.20
For the first time in umpteen years, I haven't been in the balmy night in Darwin attending the opening of the Salon des Refuses - Aboriginal art's response to the 19th Century French Impressionists' rebellion against rejection by 'official' art...» Read More
EMILY v DOROTHY
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 30.07.20
What a year for the women! Major exhibitions are currently on (with serious catalogues) for Mavis Ngallametta (QAG), Nyapanyapa Yunupingu (MAGNT) and Destiny Deacon (NGV); earlier this year Emily Kngwarreye had significant sales in Sydney and New York on the...» Read More
Repatriated Art at Auction
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 15.07.20
Coincidentally, two substantial foreign collections of Aboriginal art have been returned home in COVID-time to be sold at auction. Tonight, online, Deutscher & Hackett offer the Peter and Renate Nahum Collection from London. And on 22 July in Sydney, Bonhams...» Read More
Kaurna Shield Comes to Adelaide
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 08.07.20
The Federal Government has announced $100,000 to support the acquisition of a rare 19th century Murlapaka (also spelt Mulubakka) shield, attributed to the Kaurna people from the Adelaide Plains, by the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA). Minister for the...» Read More
Yiribana
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 02.07.20
"The Art Gallery of NSW has long been recognised for the excellence of its collection of classical bark paintings", noted the AGNSW's then Public Programs Curator, Terence Maloon in 1994; going on to say, "It is also regarded as a...» Read More
Fashion Goes Indigenous
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 26.06.20
Everywhere you turn at this time there's news of some new venture in First Nations fashion. The ladies fashion mags are full of it, the museums are leaping on the bandwagon and now, being Australia, we have to have a...» Read More
Australia Archive
- 02.06.20 | RIP Malu Gurruwiwi – Custodian of the Banumbirr
- 11.05.20 | BIDYADANGA CLOSE-UP
- 07.05.20 | Boomerang Back to the Start
- 29.04.20 | Cooked???
- 24.04.20 | Mrs Ngallametta
- 23.04.20 | NATSIAA Pre-Selections Revealed
- 20.04.20 | CIAF 2020
- 06.04.20 | ON & OFF IN ABORIGINAL ART
- 19.03.20 | BIENNALE OF SYDNEY 2020
- 13.03.20 | LAURIE NILSEN
- 03.03.20 | EMILY v CLIFFORD
- 02.03.20 | The Ephemeral and the Ineradicable
- 25.02.20 | WADJUK IN THE BLACK
- 11.12.19 | Festivals in the Blak
- 11.12.19 | Cairns Airport Commission
- 09.12.19 | KNOWLEDGE GROUND
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