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NICOLE FORESHEW WINS 2014 NSW PARLIAMENT ABORIGINAL ART PRIZE
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2014-10-16 13:47:34
Nicole Foreshew, a Sydney-based Aboriginal artist, has taken out the 2014 Parliament of New South Wales Aboriginal Art Prize - announced at the awards ceremony held at Parliament House overnight. Her work, It comes without seeking 1, was chosen by...» Read More
THE TORRES STRAIT IN SYDNEY
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2014-10-08 12:02:13
Ken Thaiday Snr. is an artist of rare talent whose works only infrequently make their way down south. So it's all the more exciting that Sydney is getting to see his largest ever work, specially commissioned by the dynamic Carriageworks...» Read More
THEATRE AS POLITICS
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2014-06-12 13:14:34
With the shining exception of Stephen Sewell, political theatre in Australia has only ever played the role it might have done – think early David Hare in Britain, Arthur Miller in the US or Eastern European theatre under the yoke...» Read More
SYDNEY FESTIVAL BLACKS UP
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2013-12-19 18:05:20
There was a time after the great Olympic Dreaming Festival of 1997 when I thought the case had been made for all Australian multi-arts festivals to incorporate a serious Indigenous element in their programming as a matter of course. Apart...» Read More
INDIGENOUS WIN IN THE BLAKE PRIZE
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2013-10-17 18:30:00
The Blake Prize is a funny one. Unpredictable, you might say. Over 62 editions, it's mutated from very straight religious imagery to works that are deliberately irreligious or critical of religious authority. I'm not at all sure how the work...» Read More
First Aboriginal and TSI Playwriting Festival in Sydney for 20 Years
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2013-01-18 13:14:40
The first Aboriginal playwriting festival in Sydney for over two decades. Yellamundie: National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Playwriting Festival is a landmark writing event which will take place over two weeks from 27 January 2013. The Festival brings together...» Read More
BLACK CAPITAL?
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2012-01-12 08:56:07
It's Lindy Hume's third and last Sydney Festival, and, finally she's got up a major indigenous contribution. There was a time after Rhoda Roberts' 1997 Dreaming Festival for the Olympics, backed up by the pair of Adelaide Festivals from Peter...» Read More
