TARNANTHI 2017
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 10.10.17
The program has been published for the second Tarnanthi Festival in Adelaide. At the Art Gallery where Director and curator Nici Cumpston holds sway, no fewer than 189 artists are listed as showing their wares – 58 involved in the...» Read More
Natsiaas 2017
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 11.08.17
Given the anniversaries celebrated this year - the 1967 Referendum, the Mabo verdict, etc - and the recent Uluru Statement process, it was perhaps inevitable that the 2017 NATSIAAs would feel profoundly political. And that's not just the Big Telstra...» Read More
APY ART DOMINATES THE WYNNE
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 20.07.17
After last year's triumphant win by the five Ken Sisters from Amata in the Art Gallery of NSW's annual Wynne Prize for landscape painting, artists across the Lands have got hugely competitive this year! Nine major canvases by them have...» Read More
Anangu Artist Wins $100,000 Prize
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 17.07.17
A drawing by Aboriginal artist Peter Mungkuri has taken out the inaugural Hadley's Art Prize, which claims to be the world's richest landscape art prize. Mungkuri will take home $100,000 for his ink on Somerset-paper drawing, Ngura Wiru, which means...» Read More
ART ACROSS THE COUNTRY
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 11.07.17
Major Indigenous art exhibitions and/or art fairs are opening this month in Queensland and Western Australia – two, in fact in Queensland, headed by the annual Cairns Indigenous Art Fair this weekend. As I wrote earlier, CIAF is exploring the...» Read More
TARNANTHI IN OCTOBER
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 11.07.17
Artistic Director, Nici Cumpston has announced highlights of the program for the biennial 2017 TARNANTHI: Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art , which returns to Adelaide this October. There will be a major exhibition at the Art...» Read More
TJUNGUṈUTJA - from having come together
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 05.07.17
“The efflorescence of imagery that struck in the hothouse conditions of the Men’s Painting Room will never be repeated, for these works were created at the moment when the epic songlines that connect Aboriginal Australia were unveiled”. John Kean should...» Read More
Australia Archive
- 05.06.17 | Barks Bigger than Ben Hur
- 27.05.17 | NGA QUINQUENNIAL 2017
- 21.05.17 | Blak Douglas Finds Home at the NGA
- 21.05.17 | BRIAN ROBINSON WINS HAZELHURST WOP
- 18.05.17 | PARRTJIMA 2.0
- 27.04.17 | 2017 NATSIAAs
- 21.04.17 | Yulparitja Rugs
- 20.04.17 | THE NATIONAL
- 14.04.17 | CAIRNS FAIRS UP
- 06.04.17 | Biennale of Sydney Artists Announced
- 05.04.17 | ALL IS REVEALED IN THE WEST
- 04.04.17 | A PARTING OF THE WAYS
- 14.03.17 | INDIGENOUS STORIES IN CLAY
- 12.01.17 | ART & POLITICS
- 05.01.17 | National Gallery's Quinquennial Announced
- 16.12.16 | Melbourne Does Indigenous
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