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REACHING FOR THE STARS IN WA
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2014-10-30 14:09:02
A collaborative exhibition by artists from Australia and South Africa, exploring the skies as seen through the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope project, is currently on at Curtin University’s John Curtin Gallery, and will later tour internationally. Yamaji and...» Read More
Cultural Connection, Art and the Value of Life
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2013-11-25 19:58:43
Through a series of strong and sometimes poignant interviews with Aboriginal elders from around Australia, Culture is Life (led by Uncle Max Dulumunmun Harrison, elder from the NSW South Coast) is bringing to light the high suicide rate among Indigenous...» Read More
CRAP CRITICISM IN LONDON
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2013-10-01 22:09:22
The wilful ignorance of some London critics in slaughtering the Royal Academy's 'Australia' show of more than 200 artworks linked to our landscape is a deep embarrassment for the Mother Country. I've been a professional critic for many years, working...» Read More
50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE BARK PETITION
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2013-07-09 18:34:36
“It was a big rock that set off so many ripples,” was how Leila Gurruwiwi from Yirrkala in NE Arnhemland put it on Radio National this morning. She was talking about the great Bark Petition to the Australian Parliament in...» Read More
My Country and Me (Ngagenyji Nawiyangeny-nungu Daam – Ngayin)
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2011-07-22 18:19:01
The ReDot Fine Art Gallery is proud to welcome back the natural ochre artworks of the famous Warmun Art Centre from East Kimberley, far Northeast of Western Australia. The show will focus on recent works by Lena Nyadbi and Patrick...» Read More
Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection Reopens Aug. 31 With New Exhibit
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-08-27 21:59:59
August 23, 2010 — The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection reopens Aug. 31 with the exhibit "Sally Gabori: Danda dulk ngijinda dulk (This Land is My Land)." The exhibit is on view through Dec. 19. An opening reception will be held Sept....» Read More
Colours of an arid landscape
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-07-13 23:11:06
A vivid world has sprung to life from the brushes of the painters of the APY lands. A colour-field of pulsing gold and scarlet; a ground of turquoise and psychedelic blue; a snake's form, pink and purple, writhing around the canvas....» Read More
Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art – Now
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-07-05 20:30:22
Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art – Now July 9 – August 31, 2010 Sante Fe, NM- Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art in association with Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, will present the inaugural biennale exhibition, Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art – Now. This exhibition presents new...» Read More
‘Jukurrpa – Our Story’ – Warlukurlangu Artists
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-05-11 17:11:00
Tandanya is excited to present ‘Jukurrpa – Our Story’, an exhibition from the Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation. Warlukurlangu Artists was established in 1985, and is recognised as one of the most significant Aboriginal art centres in Australia. Specialising in the...» Read More
Djambawa Marawili Receives an AM
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2010-02-04 09:07:19
The Yolgnu community of Eastern Arnhemland and art lovers widely are celebrating the recognition of the Madarrpa clan leader, Buku-Larrngay Arts Chairman and ANKAAA Chairman, Djambawa Marawili, who received a Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of...» Read More
Yannima Tommy Watson
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-09-01 17:04:43
‘Watson is a master of invention and arguably, the outstanding painter of the Western Desert ….Each painting tells a specific story, but the most impressive feature is the artist's use of colour…. Like Matisse, Watson knows that one may have...» Read More
'Kutju Wara' (The Last One): Yannima Tommy Watson at Agathon Galleries
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-08-24 15:42:57
Agathon Galleries will showase select works by distinguished artist Yannima Tommy Watson in an exhibition to be held from 5 September to 11 October at their Danks Street Galleries in Sydney. Sydney Morning Herald Art Critic John McDonald will...» 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
Aboriginal leader lashes at assimilation
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-08-11 17:42:28
Australian National University professor Jon Altman also spoke at the forum and lambasted the territory government's homelands policy to turn 20 towns into regional hubs. Funding to more than 500 outstations, or homelands, would be frozen, forcing residents into larger towns...» Read More
RED OCHRE PRIZE GOES TO DOUGHTY FIGHTER
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2009-06-12 11:47:16
Yolgnu painter and rights campaigner Gawirrin Gumana AO was honoured with the most senior prize in Indigenous arts at the Australia Council's 2009 National Indigenous Arts Awards recently. The $50,000 Red Ochre Award was presented by film director Baz Luhrmann, recognising...» Read More
Rockholes and Claypans in Aboriginal Art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-02-12 12:26:02
Red Desert Gallery in Eumundi presents a prime medley of colourful art featuring "Rockholes and Claypans" with narrative from some of the most remote desert regions of Australia. A showcase of select artworks from both female and male central desert artists...» Read More
Vibrant outback on display
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-01-02 08:20:06
Pots by artists from Hermannsburg, west of Alice Springs, feature in a landmark exhibition at Adelaide's JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design. Called From the Earth , it is the first time ceramics from remote indigenous centres have been brought together. JamFactory managing...» Read More
Linda Syddick Napaltjarri
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-11-14 00:00:00
Linda Syddick Napaltjarri paints the great Tingari narratives of her ancestral homelands near Lake Mackay in the Gibson Desert. Linda incorporates images of her Pintupi country and of the spirits of her late relatives as a way to remember them...» Read More
Linda Syddick Napaltjarri
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-11-11 06:03:54
Linda Syddick Napaltjarri paints the great Tingari narratives of her ancestral homelands near Lake Mackay in the Gibson Desert. Linda incorporates images of her Pintupi country and of the spirits of her late relatives as a way to remember them...» Read More
Bentinck Island Artists
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-09 03:31:11
Bandikawaanda makuwalada rarunginja thaand Return of Kaiadilt Women Paula Paul, Amy Loogatha, †M.M, Ethel Thomas, Netta Loogatha, Dawn Naranatjil and Sally Gabori Tuesday 16 September – Saturday 4 October 2008 Opening Saturday 20 September from 2pm – 4pm At 3pm on Saturday 20 September Professor...» Read More
Utopia Collection 2
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-08 00:00:00
The second part of Japingka Gallerys 2008 coverage of Utopia artists-includes work by Emily Pwerle, Galya Pwerle, Kathleen Petyarre, Gloria Petyarre, Abie Loy Kemarre and June Bird. The Utopia artists are recognised for their subtle colour and sophisticated constructs that...» Read More
Utopia Collection 2 - Gallery2
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-07 01:51:02
The second part of Japingka Gallery's 2008 coverage of Utopia artists-includes work by Emily Pwerle, Galya Pwerle, Kathleen Petyarre, Gloria Petyarre, Abie Loy Kemarre and June Bird. The Utopia artists are recognised for their subtle colour and sophisticated constructs that...» Read More
Utopia Collection 1
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-04-04 00:00:00
Small and subtle works by selected artists of the Utopia homelands, displaying the diversity and finely tuned skills of this strong group of women artists. The exhibition includes works by Jeannie Mills, Patsy Long Kemarre, Judy Purvis Kngwarreye, Jedda Kngwarreye,...» Read More
Artists of Utopia
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-06-15 00:00:00
Utopia artists continue to produce some of the most innovative and diverse artworks currently produced in the Central Desert. As senior artists pass away, the tradition is constantly invigorated by new artists stepping up to maintain the quality of painting...» Read More
Linda Syddick Napaltjarri
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-05-04 00:00:00
Perhaps it is through her famous artist relatives, or just her own deeply etched memories of Pintupi life in the Gibson Desert 65 years ago. But Linda Syddick captures rare images of the spirits of her own ancestors and the...» Read More
Wangkatjungka - Mapping Country
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-03-23 00:00:00
Paintings from Wangkatjungka artists who left their desert homelands in the 1940s and traveled north along the Canning Stock Route or walked cross-country towards the Kimberley cattle stations. Collaborative paintings recreate the waterholes, the seasonal changes to country, and family...» Read More
Heather Umbagai
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2006-10-13 00:00:00
West Kimberley artist Heather Umbagai has prepared her first solo exhibition for Japingka Gallery. Heathers paintings are bright and freely worked images of her Kimberley...» Read More
Art of the Spinifex People
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2006-09-01 00:00:00
Dispossessed from their lands in the 1950\'s by the Maralinga Atomic tests and subsequently moved on to missions including Cundeelee and Warburton during the 1950\'s and 1960\'s, the Spinifex People have never lost contact with their land. In an attempt...» Read More
Judy Martin Napangardi - Paintings from Lajamanu
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2006-09-01 00:00:00
Judy Martin continues to create strong paintings from the Women\'s Ceremonial stories of her Warlpiri homelands. She focuses on stories from the Women\'s site at Mina Mina in the Tanami Desert, where Warlpiri women come together to re-enact the Dreaming...» Read More
Kudditji Kngwarreye
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2006-05-05 00:00:00
Japingka Gallerys second solo exhibition by Kudditji Kngwarreye. The bold colour-filled paintings, on the theme of My Country, refer to the artists ancestral country on the Utopia homelands and to the Emu Dreaming sites, for which the artist is custodian....» Read More
Pintupi - Major works from the Western Desert
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2003-05-30 00:00:00
In 1984 three young men, all brothers, were part of a small group of nine Pintupi speakers who made their first contact with white Australia when they walked out from their traditional homelands in the Western Desert. They left remote...» Read More
Pila Nguru Art of the Spinifex People
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2002-08-07 08:34:56
'When the Spinifex people returned to their homelands in the 1980's after their displacement during the Maralinga atomic tests, they found the southern part of their country had been converted in to a nature reserve, the northern third leased to...» Read More
