Victoria Tags
A Lycett for Christmas
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2014-12-18 15:08:56
A delightful project has emerged from the National Library in Canberra and the University of Newcastle's Wollotuka Institute of Aboriginal Studies. “True Light and Shade” takes the early 19th Century artworks of that infamous forger Joseph Lycett and sets them...» Read More
THE KIMBERLEY ONLINE
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2014-11-20 17:19:28
Desert River Sea: Kimberley Art Then & Now has gone live online at last after a mighty development saga. It's been developed in two phases over 6 years by the Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA) with $1.8m. support from...» Read More
WHITLAM MALIGNED BY FAIRFAX
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2014-10-24 17:42:47
A great wrong has been done to both history and Gough Whitlam's memory by the Fairfax press. Their splendid supplement on Wednesday to commemorate the passing of that great mover and shaker of a slothful Australia contained a section on...» Read More
ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2014-10-05 18:45:02
I've just discovered a new TV series starting TONIGHT about Indigenous languages - such a key element in maintaining culture for Aboriginal people. You'll notice that a high proportion of participants are also artists. It's on the NITV channel (associated...» Read More
PETER BROKENSHA OAM 12/10/26 TO 24/06/14
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2014-09-20 18:45:51
“He was a good man who did good things”, assessed Bob Edwards, long-time friend, one-time employer and a partner with Peter Brokensha in early efforts to turn the nascent Aboriginal art movement into a viable business. Coincidentally, the Pitjanjatjara people...» Read More
KLUGE GOES TO THE TORRES STRAIT
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2014-09-02 13:11:49
The Kluge-Ruhe Museum – America's only permanent institution displaying Australian Aboriginal art and educating Americans about it through associations with the University of Virginia – re-opened earlier this year after refurbishment with a semi-permanent exhibition called Art and Country. It's...» Read More
Jenny Crompton wins Victoria's Richest Indigenous Art Award
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2014-08-23 08:23:25
Bellbrae artist Jenny Crompton has taken out the State’s richest Indigenous art prize, the $30,000 Deadly Art Award at the 2014 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards. Crompton, who takes much of her artistic inspiration from Victoria’s surf coast, won for...» Read More
DARWIN 2014 - The Bigger Picture
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2014-08-13 15:14:14
In the wash-up to the 31st National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, it seems possible that the man who lead the charge to free MAGNT (the Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory) from the unenthusiastic hand...» Read More
31st NATSIAAs: TONY ALBERT DOES IT AGAIN
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2014-08-08 18:30:00
The three judges for this 31st NATSIAA Award all come from the south; Tina Baum from the National Gallery, Clotilde Bullen from the WA Gallery and David Broker from the Canberra Contemporary Art Studio. Perhaps it wasn’t surprising that they...» Read More
RED OCHRE FOR HECTOR BURTON
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2014-07-04 19:11:05
At the end of May, the supreme national Indigenous arts awards – the Red Ochres – were handed out by the Australia Council. And the senior, peer-reviewed award went to artist Hector Tjupuru Burton from Tjala Arts in Amata, South...» Read More
GORDON BENNETT 1955 to 3 June 2014
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2014-06-28 13:39:11
“I am an Indigenous Australian. My mother is an Indigenous Australian and her mother before that and so on for countless generations. My father was English. My work comes out of small town and suburban Australia. I was socialised into...» Read More
NATSIAA SURPRISES
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2014-06-25 18:38:12
The great names are there at this year's National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards – Namatjira, Marawili, Marika, Burton, Thaiday, Petyarre, Mabo, Yalandja and Nadjamerrek. But rather than having the Christian names you'd probably recognise, 2014 will introduce...» Read More
Applications Open - Accelerate Program for Future ATSI Leaders
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2014-05-31 14:53:10
Now in its 5th year, the Accelerate Program offers Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders who have at least 5 years' experience in an arts-related field, with no formal age limit but with a strong forward vision, to enter. Four recipients...» Read More
Djilpin Arts Arrives at Melbourne's Federation Square
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2014-05-22 13:16:08
Walk with Us: Djilpin Arts, the Northern Territory’s globally recognised Aboriginal Corporation located at the remote Beswick (Wugularr) community on the south-west border of Arnhem Land, brings a rich and ancient tapestry of indigenous culture to Federation Square in Melbourne...» Read More
Entries now open for the Victorian Indigenous Art Awards
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2014-04-26 14:55:59
The Victorian Indigenous Art Awards (VIAA) celebrate the quality and diversity of art practice among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and the richness of Victoria's Indigenous arts and culture. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists are invited to submit an...» Read More
Danie Mellor: Exotic Lies Sacred Ties
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2014-04-24 19:39:51
A decade of artwork by leading contemporary Indigenous artist Danie Mellor is the focus of a major survey exhibition opening at TarraWarra Museum of Art on May 10, on tour from The University of Queensland Art Museum. The exhibition brings...» Read More
Reclamation exhibition launched as a part of the Wominjeka Festival
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2014-01-10 15:45:04
The works of Dennis Thorpe, John Winch, Steve Verde, and Terry Atkinson will be on show in the Reclamation exhibition from January 11–24 at the Footscray Community Art Centre, as part of Wominjeka 2014, a festival of contemporary Indigenous arts...» Read More
“The Bottom has been Reached”
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2013-12-19 19:59:42
That's the tentative conclusion of a group called Ninti One – more formally The Cooperative Research Centre for Remote Economic Participation – based in Alice Springs. They're doing what they unhelpfully call a 'Value chain survey' of where money is...» Read More
Transformations: early bark paintings from Arnhem Land
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2013-10-09 16:42:55
Early works that embody a significant transition in Indigenous art practice will be on display in Transformations: early bark paintings from Arnhem Land, at the Ian Potter Museum of Art. The paintings, many of which have never been previously exhibited, are...» 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
Indigenous Leaders appointed to Indigenous Art Code Board
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2013-09-26 11:48:40
The Indigenous Art Code (IartC), the industry code set up to promote integrity, transparency and accountability in dealing with Indigenous art, has announced the appointment of several arts leaders from the Indigenous community to its Board following its annual general...» Read More
THE GANTNER COLLECTION
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2013-09-09 18:04:31
Carrillo and Ziyin Gantner are fortunate people in having a) taste and great enthusiasm to collect Indigenous art and b) enough money to do things like flying around remote Aboriginal communities in a private plane in order to see and...» Read More
Winner announced for the $25,000 Kate Challis RAKA Award 2013
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2013-08-15 12:27:43
One of Australia’s most cherished Indigenous artists, Mabel Juli, has won the $25,000 Kate Challis RAKA Award 2013 for her refined, minimal painting Garnkeny Ngarranggarni (Moon Dreaming). A respected Gija elder, 80-year-old Mabel travelled from her home at Warmun in the...» Read More
The 6th Annual National Indigenous Arts Awards
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2013-05-27 11:47:22
The multi-talented David Gulpilil OAM has won this year's Red Ochre Award, the highest peer-assessed award for an Indigenous artist with a prize money of $50,000, presented today at the Sydney Opera House as part of the National Indigenous Arts...» Read More
Ganagan (Deep Water) on Display
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2013-05-23 15:10:45
Being Launched on 6 June by the Hon Heidi Victoria MP (Minister for the Arts, Women's Affairs and Consumer Affairs) is an exhibition called Ganagan, a Taungurung word meaning 'deep water', being organised by the Koorie Heritage Trust. On show...» Read More
THE EMILY MUSEUM
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2013-05-07 14:01:02
An event of national significance occurs on Monday (May 6th) with the opening of The Emily Museum in the inauspicious setting of a converted factory in a back street in Cheltenham, the Melbourne suburb. It's not the right place –...» Read More
The Late Mrs Bennett
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2013-02-06 16:00:16
We reported that Mrs Bennett had passed away in January 2013 - near her ancestral rockhole at Punkilpirri, WA. That notice sparked great interest about her life and so we are delighted to bring you more on this National Treasure. Born...» Read More
Obituary: Farewell to Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa (Mrs Bennett)
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2013-01-30 17:23:58
One of the great characters of the Kintore region, Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa's (aka Mrs Bennett) paintings were executed with the same energy, cheer and enthusiasm that she exhibited in life. Painting and exhibiting since the mid-1990's, Mrs Bennett was instrumental in...» Read More
Parisians flock to new exhibit of Australian Aboriginal art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2013-01-22 13:39:26
An exhibition of the largest collection of modern Aboriginal paintings to have gone on display outside of Australia has been a major hit with art lovers in Paris. The exhibition, “The Sources of Aborigine Painting”, drew 133,716 visitors to the Quai...» 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
CONFINED 5
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2013-01-14 10:40:13
The annual CONFINED exhibition opened to the public on Thursday 10th January at the St Kilda Town Hall gallery, with a celebratory launch scheduled to take place on Wednesday January 30th from 6pm – 8pm. Now in its fifth year CONFINED...» Read More
The Soul of Emily Kngwarreye
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2013-01-04 17:20:04
It often seems to be the case that great Australian achievements need the validation of overseas approval. But the fact that 'Utopia : The Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye' was a vast tribute in 2008 to the Aboriginal artist conceived...» Read More
Spinifex Arts Project tours Germany in 2013
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2012-12-13 22:46:41
PRO COMMUNITY is an exhibition format developed and organized by Artkelch in Freiburg, Germany, that features excellent art from community based art centers in a touring exhibition in Germany. Artists from one art centre (or a small group of art...» Read More
Obituary: HARRY (HJ) WEDGE 1957 – 2012
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2012-11-12 12:11:57
Harry Wedge’s politically and emotionally charged work challenged perceived ideas about contemporary Indigenous art and Indigenous peoples’ experience of living in urban Australia. His aesthetic encompasses stories and humorous anecdotes from his childhood at Erambie Mission at Cowra, in the...» Read More
France continues its Love of Aboriginal Art in Brisbane
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2012-10-26 11:42:29
The strong, historical links between France and Aboriginal art offer a rich and fertile background – from the research and writing works of French ethnologists and anthropologists to the development of important public Aboriginal art collections in France and the...» Read More
Sotheby's 15th October Important Aboriginal Art Auction in Sydney
Posted by Nicholas Forrest | 2012-10-15 10:03:15
Tonight in Sydney, Sotheby’s Australia will attempt to sell a collection of Important Aboriginal and Oceanic Art valued at between $1.3-1.9 million and featuring works by artists such as Kitty Kantilla, Ginger Riley Mundwalawala, Anatjari Tjakamarra and Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula. Leading...» Read More
Artist Opportunity in Victoria
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2012-09-11 17:58:09
Kidsafe Victoria is seeking a Victorian Aboriginal artist to adapt a set of child injury prevention resources for the Victorian Aboriginal community. Introduction Kidsafe, the Child Accident Prevention Foundation of Australia is an independent, non-profit, organisation dedicated to the prevention of unintentional...» Read More
Aboriginal Art at the 2012 Melbourne Art Fair
Posted by Nicholas Forrest | 2012-08-12 11:20:31
The number of galleries exhibiting works of Aboriginal Art at the 2012 Melbourne art fair was disappointing. Those that did, however, experienced strong interest and good sales of work by a wide range of contemporary and more traditional artists. Melbourne...» Read More
Indigenous artist wins Waterhouse art prize
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2012-07-20 17:18:43
Margaret Loy Pula has won this year's Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize, an award that commemorates the life and work of Frederick George Waterhouse, the first curator of the emerging South Australian Museum when it opened in January 1862, with...» Read More
CAT AMONGST THE PIGEONS
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2012-06-28 14:14:02
This weekend in Sydney, two free discussions about Aboriginal art are likely to set the proverbial cat amongst the pigeons. Both are at the Opera House on Saturday and involve leading Blak players in the art game. Session One, particularly,...» Read More
ART MARKET CHEER
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2012-06-20 17:56:40
As has been reported elsewhere on Aboriginal Art News, the May/June spate of auctions for Aboriginal art hit a highpoint as Mossgreen to watch auctioneer Paul Sumner sell every one of the 66 desert paintings from the estate of American...» Read More
Spectacular Aboriginal Art from the Kluge Collection to be Sold by Mossgreen
Posted by Nicholas Forrest | 2012-06-04 12:27:28
Mossgreen will sell an amazing array of Aboriginal paintings from the highly prestigious collection of the late John W. Kluge at their Melbourne saleroom on Wednesday the 6th of June. The sale, which is undoubtedly one of the most significant...» Read More
THE CONVICT PORTRAYED BY AN ABORIGINE
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2012-04-27 18:37:14
At a generally unhappy auction of Aboriginal art on 4th April at the house of Deutscher + Hackett, the National Museum of Australia swooped on two 19th Century drawings by the Kwatkwat artist, Tommy McRae. For $79,300 – a record...» Read More
NATSIAAS IN CRISIS
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2012-04-19 14:49:22
As the entries for the 2012 29th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards come under the scrutiny of the Awards' pre-selectors, so the key staff who are responsible for the Awards are departing. Specifically, Natalie Merida, the experienced co-ordinator...» Read More
US art collector sees red over 'dysfunctional' ban on Aboriginal painting
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2012-04-07 17:47:59
A WEALTHY American art connoisseur has decided against donating his collection of 90 blue-chip Aboriginal artworks worth $10 million to an Australian museum or gallery after his attempt to add a painting to the collection was thwarted by national cultural...» Read More
Finding harmony through film
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2012-03-27 19:11:26
Students from Robinvale P-12 have been given the chance to explore cultural identity in one of the most ethinically diverse communities in Victoria, and all through the process of making a film. The group is made up of 9 students from...» Read More
Fairer arts trading
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2012-03-26 19:50:23
Transcript of a Newslines Radio Broadcast Broadcast date: 26 March–1 April 2012 Duration: 12 minutes Presenter: Nathan Ramsay Content: New initiatives are making Indigenous artists more aware of their rights. Talent: John Oster, Indigenous Arts Code Limited Patricia Adjei, Indigenous communications coordinator, Copyright Agency Limited Zena Cumpston,...» Read More
Northcote artist's winning dream
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2012-03-26 19:40:23
A PRIZE-winning work in Victoria’s Indigenous Art Awards was literally a dream come true for its creator Glenda Nicholls. Two weeks ago, Nicholls, a Northcote resident, won the $5000 Koorie Heritage Trust Acquisition Award and the $5000 Victorian Indigenous Art Award...» Read More
Honour for Bendigo amateur artists
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2012-03-11 12:12:10
A BENDIGO artist has taken out a Victorian award for a confronting black and white photograph of his nephew. Simon Penrose, 25, last night won a Victorian Indigenous Art Award for his work on paper. It was the first time the amateur...» Read More
Winners of 2012 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards announced
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2012-03-11 12:03:47
Melbourne artist Trevor 'Turbo' Brown has received the Deadly Art Award, Victoria's highest honour for an Indigenous artist, at the 2012 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards. Turbo received the $25,000 award for his painting Owl Dreaming, a portrait of a 'spirit owl'...» Read More
Art centres and communities (transcript)
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2012-02-13 16:19:53
Transcript of a radio interview 13 - 19 February 2012 (Newslines Radio) PRESENTER: Hi, I’m Nathan Ramsay and you’re listening to Newslines Radio, a weekly program produced by the Australian Government on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues. Today we’re taking a...» Read More
Shortlist announced for 2012 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2012-01-29 04:51:27
Twenty artists are in the running for prizes totalling more than $50,000 as part of the Victorian Government's 2012 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards. The awards, now in their seventh year, profile the diversity of Indigenous arts practice in Victoria and showcase...» Read More
2011 Indigenous Ceramic Awards
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2012-01-23 12:33:19
The winners of the country’s most recognised awards for Indigenous artists have been released. Janet Fieldhouse took out the $20000 first prize for her work Tattoo, a sculptural installation that uses a light box and transparent porcelain to explore ritual scarification. Vera...» Read More
Indigenous Visual Arts Residency Available
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2012-01-23 11:10:31
An Indigenous Visual Arts Resident role is being offered through the Indigenous Visual Arts Residency program through Arts Victoria in partnership with the Office of the Arts to an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander artist or arts-worker living in Victoria. It...» Read More
AT LAST, THE TRIENNIAL!
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2011-11-03 16:31:55
The National Gallery of Australia has announced that it will present UnDisclosed: 2nd National Indigenous Art Triennial at the NGA in Canberra from May 11 next year until July, followed by a national tour. The artists selected by curator Carly...» Read More
IS ABORIGINAL ART BACK TO ITS AUCTION PEAK?
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2011-05-10 12:49:45
“I am thrilled with the art we have put together for this auction”, asserts Crispin Gutteridge, Head of Aboriginal Art at auction house Deutscher and Hackett. “It is the finest group of works yet to be auctioned by us in...» Read More
Passing of Thancoupie
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2011-04-29 17:18:12
It is with great sadness that AAN learnt of the passing this week of Dr. Thancoupie Gloria Fletcher AO, best known simply as Thancoupie the Potter. She died aged 74 at Weipa Base Hospital on Cape York after a...» Read More
Victorian Artists Challenge the Norms
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2011-03-18 14:26:01
Melbourne-based contemporary artist Ben McKeown has been awarded Victoria’s biggest prize for indigenous artists – the $25,000 Deadly Art Award, supported by Arts Victoria. McKeown was one of four artists to take out top honours at the 2011 Victorian Indigenous...» Read More
Dibirdibi Country, My Country - Sally Gabori Solo Show
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2011-02-19 17:20:52
One of Australia’s most exciting and collectable contemporary artists, Sally Gabori, gets her first solo show in Singapore at the Australian High Commission, Singapore. In 2005 an elderly Kaiadilt woman, living in one of Australia’s most remote communities, took the art...» Read More
Victorian Indigenous Art Awards
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-11-26 11:14:00
The Final Countdown - Deadline for Entries Tomorrow Are we all feeling it? The deadline looming so, so close. Not to worry, we all have up to 5pm Friday 26 November (that’s tomorrow) to post your entries to the Victorian Indigenous...» Read More
Stolen Gloria Petyarre Painting
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-11-02 00:24:46
By now, my painting by Gloria Petyarre (Bush Medicine Leaves 2008, International Artwork Code A15119, 200 x 150, 2062) an esteemed Australian Aboriginal artist, could be in Timbuktoo by now. Thanks to questionable management of the Sydney-based art investment...» Read More
Get linear on most mediums
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-10-28 21:51:53
One of the state's foremost experts on Aboriginal art was in Shepparton yesterday to encourage locals to enter the upcoming Victorian Indigenous Art Awards. Visiting Shepparton's Gallery Kaiela, VIAA curator Nicholas Boseley said local artists were well-placed for success at the...» Read More
Cultural capital war flares on new front
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-10-17 02:59:17
Some interesting developments for future Indigenous Art museums.... Premier Bligh thinks differently as far as indigenous art is concerned. In revealing early plans to The Age to build a major gallery devoted to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art in Queensland...» Read More
Contemporary Aboriginal Art in Holland
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-10-13 02:55:48
When I look around this country and think about the efforts of our state art galleries to excite and educate people about Aboriginal art and culture, I’d have to conclude that there’s not much fire in the belly. True —...» Read More
2011 VICTORIAN INDIGENOUS ART AWARDS OPEN
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-10-12 02:27:12
From the Minister for the Arts Monday, 11 October 2010 Entries are now open for the 2011 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards (VIAA), the State’s premiere celebration of our Indigenous visual arts sector. Minister for the Arts Peter Batchelor said the awards aimed...» Read More
Landmark space embodies soul of the nation
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-10-09 01:41:57
Indigenous art has found a welcome home at the reinvigorated National Gallery of Australia. AT last, indigenous art has the national showcase it needs: 11 luminous, purpose-built galleries at the entrance to the country's flagship visual arts institution in the centre...» Read More
Victorian Indigenous Art Awards 2011
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-10-07 01:41:52
The 2011 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards is being presented and hosted by fortyfivedownstairs in partnership with Arts Victoria. For the first time the VIAA will be curated by resident Indigenous curator, Nicholas Boseley. The VIAA acknowledge and promote Indigenous artists...» Read More
US gallery adds to indigenous collection
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-10-06 02:58:13
Next year I’m off to America, where I have been invited to do a show at the Kluge-Ruhe Museum at the University of Virginia. The Kluge-Ruhe institution is dedicated to Australian Aboriginal art and is the largest body of such work...» Read More
Victorian art gallery boosts Indigenous art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-09-27 22:45:03
The National Gallery of Victoria has bolstered its collection of Indigenous artworks with three new paintings for its Aboriginal section. A Texas Downs Station picture by Rover Thomas and two Alec Mingelmanganu Wanjina paintings purchased by the gallery in 2008 are...» Read More
National Gallery of Victoria bolsters indigenous collection
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-08-28 22:05:37
The National Gallery of Victoria has bolstered its collection of indigenous artworks with three new paintings for its Aboriginal section. A Texas Downs Station picture by Rover Thomas and two Alec Mingelmanganu Wanjina paintings purchased by the gallery in 2008 were...» Read More
Glen Iris features centre of art excellence
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-08-27 21:58:14
Ancient stories from Australia’s red centre told in contemporary tones will feature at a local gallery this week. In Desert Stories, distinctive Aboriginal art from the Northern Territory’s Ikuntji region, also known as Haasts Bluff, comes to Gallery Ranfurlie at Korowa...» Read More
Sales signal rebound
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-08-10 20:14:04
The [Melbourne Art Fair] closed yesterday with some galleries reporting weaker high-end sales but overall results equal to the previous fair in 2008. Melbourne's Sophie Gannon Gallery sold 20 works worth a total of $120,000, Sydney's Tim Olsen Gallery achieved about...» Read More
Australia’s richest indigenous arts prize set for 2011 CHOGM
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-08-04 06:47:32
Culture and the Arts Minister John Day has announced the 2010 Western Australian Indigenous Arts Awards winners and confirmed the awards would also be held in 2011 for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). Mr Day said he was pleased...» Read More
Bindi Cole: Artist Spotlight Interview with the 2009 Deadly Art Award winner
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-07-26 10:00:00
Bindi Cole is a Wathaurung woman and a budding photography, video and installation artist from Melbourne. In November 2009, she won the $25,000 Deadly Art Award for her evocative photograph Ajay, one in a series of photographs bringing transgender women...» Read More
ART GALLERY BRINGS KOORIE CULTURE TO MAINSTREAM MELBOURNE
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-07-12 11:35:11
A group of 21 hand-picked local and interstate Indigenous artists will showcase their art at Victoria’s next PaRing Gallery exhibition, hosted by the Toyota Community Spirit Gallery. Opened on Wednesday 7 July 2010, the exhibition features 45 works of art, some...» Read More
Closing the gap through art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-07-10 22:41:33
Now an annual event, the NAIDOC Celebration Exhibition displays pieces from University of Ballarat Visual Art and Contemporary Craft students as well as artists in the local Aboriginal community. The exhibition feature piece about 'closing the gap' between Indigenous and non-Indigenous...» 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
ANANGU ART BROUGHT TO BOOK
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2010-06-27 19:42:10
“Now, almost forty years after its genesis, the epicentre and dynamic thrust of the Western Desert art movement has dramatically shifted from Papunya, Kintore and Kiwirrkura to Ngaanyatjarra and APY art centres. The untrammelled painting of senior men and women...» Read More
Practices, Processes & Politics of Indigenous Place-Making: A Symposium
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-06-26 20:49:58
PROGRAM on Indigenous Place-making Download the symposium flyer. MELBOURNE CONVERSATION BMW Edge, Federation Square Thurs 24 June 6.00pm Conversation: Emmanuel Kasarherou, director Tjibaou Cultural Centre Carroll Go-Sam, Aboriginal Environs Research Centre, UQ Greg Burgess, Architect Uluru-Kata Tjuta & Brambuk Margaret Gardiner, Wurundjeri Elder SYMPOSIUM Prince...» Read More
New book marks 25 years for the Koorie Heritage Trust
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-06-23 20:52:58
Date: 18 June 2010 A new book tracing the history of Indigenous art in Victoria has been launched by Arts Minister Peter Batchelor today. Visiting the Koorie Heritage Trust in Melbourne, Mr Batchelor said the Government had been pleased to provide $100,000...» Read More
$42 million supports Australia's Indigenous arts, culture and heritage
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-06-14 20:05:10
$42 million from five Australian Government programs is supporting over 380 Indigenous arts, culture and heritage projects across Australia, the Minister for Arts and Heritage, Peter Garrett, announced today. "The Australian Government is committed to supporting Indigenous communities through funding for...» Read More
Success comes in twos
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-06-09 18:46:44
Karen and Sharyn Lovett are proving a formidable partnership when it comes to producing award-winning art. The indigenous twin sisters have grabbed top prizes at the Western Region Indigenous Art Show with Karen winning the Premier's Award last year and Sharyn...» Read More
Winyarr-Ngu-Bala: Aboriginal Women Give To You
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-06-08 02:16:04
Celebrating National Reconciliation Week, this exhibition explores Victorian Aboriginal women’s identity and connection to culture, community and family. Artists include Vicki Couzens, Maree Clarke, Patricia Harrison, Bindi Cole, Megan Cadd, Paola Balla and Lee Darroch. Curated by Megan Cadd. Every day...» Read More
IN OUR FATHER’S EYES: WORKS BY SISTERS TARISSE & SARRITA KING
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-06-03 10:51:41
Aboriginal Dreamtime Fine Art Gallery is pleased to present In Our Father’s Eyes: Works by Sisters Tarisse & Sarrita King. In Our Father’s Eyes will portray Tarisse & Sarrita King’s connection, love, and respect for their father, William King (1966-2007),...» Read More
Utopia Colour
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-06-01 17:55:46
McCulloch & McCulloch & Salt Contemporary Art invite you to attend Utopia Colour: an exhibition of vibrant Eastern Desert paintings by Minnie Pwerle, Molly Pwerle, Emily Pwerle, Galya Pwerle, Barbara Weir, Gloria Petyarre, Freddy Pwerle, Lizzie Pwerle & Katie Morgan. For...» Read More
Invitation to Lloyd Kwilla solo & Utopia Colour @ Salt Contemporary
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-06-01 17:49:46
Lloyd Kwilla: Jumuwarnti (Many Waterholes) McCulloch & McCulloch, Salt Contemporary Art and Red Rock Art invite you to attend the first Victorian solo exhibition by rising Kimberley art star Lloyd Kwilla: Jumuwarnti (Many Waterholes). The son of leading painter Billy Thomas, 30-year...» Read More
DREAMING FESTIVAL HAS NEW DIRECTOR
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2010-05-25 17:18:25
Sam Cook is a member of the Nyikina nation of the western Kimberley and grew up surrounded by the arts. Her career has taken her through performing in music and theatre, literature, visual arts and executive arts management. Sam started...» Read More
Mundamurra ngijinda dulk: My Island Home in London
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-05-14 09:20:14
SALLY GABORI Mundamurra ngijinda dulk: My Island Home The Gallery in Cork Street 28 Cork Street, Mayfair, London, W1S 3NG Private View: Tuesday 25th May, 6-8pm Mr John Dauth LVO, Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom will be in attendance at the private view...» Read More
Aboriginal Art Reading Group: May meeting
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-05-11 18:47:22
May meeting: Marcia Langton, “The Art of Being Aboriginal” and Ian McLean “Historicity and Aboriginal Art: How Long Will It Take for Aboriginal Art to Become Modern” May 11, 2010 · Leave a Comment The next Aboriginal Art Reading Group meeting will...» Read More
Remembering Country
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-05-09 07:13:53
Beverly and Anthony Knight in conjunction with Bindi Inc. Mwerre Anthurre Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory proudly invite you to view: Remembering Country featuring Adrian Robertson Kukula McDonald Seth Namatjira Billy Kenda Lance James and Billy Benn Perrurle Opening Event: Wednesday 19th May 2010, 6 - 8pm Exhibition Dates: Tuesday 18th...» Read More
Australian Aboriginal Art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-05-02 23:17:49
Australian Aboriginal art has always been a huge inspiration in my abstract artwork. I love indigenous art from cultures all over the world, but Aboriginal art always held a certain attraction for me – the colors, the patterns, and the...» Read More
‘Ngamu nu la ngurra ra kujupa – Bringing Cultures Together’
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-03-30 20:09:18
ReDot Fine Art Gallery is proud to announce the 2nd Singaporean show of innovative works of the Martumili Artists. Following on from last year’s first ever, sell out, international show we will be exhibiting the latest and most exciting works from...» Read More
"Ngamu nu la ngurra ra kujupa" – Bringing Cultures Together
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-03-24 17:46:20
ReDot Fine Art Gallery is proud to announce the 2nd Singaporean show of innovative works of the Martumili Artists. Following on from last year’s first ever, sell out, international show we will be exhibiting the latest and most exciting works from...» Read More
"Ngamu nu la ngurra ra kujupa" – Bringing Cultures Together
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-03-24 15:59:00
ReDot Fine Art Gallery is proud to announce the 2nd Singaporean show of innovative works of the Martumili Artists. Following on from last year’s first ever, sell out, international show we will be exhibiting the latest and most exciting works from...» Read More
Museum Victoria: 2010 Lecture Series, Indigenous Cultures Department
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-03-21 15:16:03
When: 1pm – 2pm, last Tuesday of every month, February to November, 2010 Where: The Discovery Centre, Lower Ground Floor, Melbourne Museum The Indigenous Cultures Department of Museum Victoria is launching a monthly lecture series in February 2010 entitled Culture and History....» Read More
Australian Aboriginal Art and the contemporary gallery
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-03-20 14:00:25
Colin Laverty speaks on Beyond Sacred - Australian Aboriginal art and why it belongs in contemporary galleries + institutions and not ethnographic + anthropological museums. Colin and Elizabeth Laverty began collecting Aboriginal art twenty years ago, and their collection has been...» Read More
WINNERS ANNOUNCED FOR 2009 VICTORIAN INDIGENOUS ART AWARDS
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2009-12-02 21:57:56
The Wathaurung woman and Melbourne-based artist, Bindi Cole has been awarded the $25,000 Deadly Art Award for her evocative photograph, Ajay. Bindi Cole is an emerging artist and photographer whose work reveals uncomfortable truths about the fundamental disconnection between...» Read More
PRIZES FOR KOORIE ARTISTS
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2009-11-18 15:57:02
18 Indigenous artists from across Victoria have been shortlisted in the 2009 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards, with the three winners to be announced on 27 November. The three prize categories are headed by the Deadly Art Award of $25,000 at...» Read More
Artists vie for top indigenous award
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-11-15 14:57:17
Portland artist Ray Thomas and former Koroit artist Vicki Couzens have been shortlisted for the 2009 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards. Thomas and Couzens are two of the 18 indigenous artists in the running for the $25,000 first prize, which comprises $20,000...» Read More
Thomas Ray Ahwang
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-11-07 09:48:55
THOMAS RAY AHWANG At Pandanus Gallery, Palm Cove Saturday, 14 November, 2009 from 2 – 5pm Thomas is a Torres Straits Islander born in December, 1974. A precocious child, primary school did not satisfy his yearning and craving to learn, establishing a...» Read More
2009 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards shortlist announced
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-11-06 15:04:43
Arts Minister Lynne Kosky has announced a shortlist of eighteen Indigenous artists from across Victoria for the 2009 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards. Ms Kosky highlighted the diversity of style and medium amongst the artists selected, and pointed to strong representation from...» 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
PR and Politics at the 2009 Telstra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-08-25 15:41:28
PR and POLITICS at the 2009 TELSTRA ART AWARDS. THE POWER of PR The fanfare is over and the red carpet has been rolled away for another year. The winners of the 2009 Telstra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards are...» 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
Caruana & Reid congratulates Danie Mellor on a fantastic win and an extraordinarily creative 12 months
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-08-19 08:01:41
Caruana & Reid congratulates Danie Mellor on a fantastic win and an extraordinarily creative 12 months. Danie will be holding a solo exhibition, A Balance of Power at Elizabeth Bay, from the 30th September till 31st October. Selected Awards Winner: 2009 26th Telstra...» Read More
Crossing Roper Bar Forum Event
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-08-14 18:03:02
Crossing Roper Bar Forum Event Friday 26 August 2009, 3 - 6pm Federation Hall, Victorian College of the Arts Cnr St Kilda Road and Grant Street, Southbank Paul Grabowsky's Australian Art Orchestra and The National Recording Project for Indigenous Performance in Australia present a...» Read More
Bush Berry Dreaming
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-08-14 15:57:36
Bush Berry Dreaming 14th - 18th September 2009 9am - 5pm Opening night drinks: 17th September 2009 6pm - 8pm RSVP essential Smith & Hall Gallery 53-59 Great Buckingham Street Redfern NSW 2016 Josie Petrick Kemarre was born at Santa Teresa Mission, c.1953. and by the time she had begun...» Read More
Art Fair strengthens Darwin’s lead in national stakes
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-08-13 09:24:39
Australia’s original national Aboriginal Art Fair will be held in Darwin from 13 – 15 August. The 2009 event has attracted a record 32 Indigenous owned and operated art centres from as far as East Gippsland in Victoria and the Torres...» Read More
Painting by William Barak – the last chief of the Yarra Yarra tribe
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-08-09 17:28:50
WHAT ONE MILLION DOLLARS BUY Painting by William Barak – the last chief of the Yarra Yarra tribe – sold for 504,000 AUD William Barak’s painting, the Corroboree, was sold for 504,000 AUD ($421,797) at Sotheby’s during the “Aboriginal Art” auction event....» Read More
Koorie Art Projected
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-08-03 17:42:29
Media Release Exhibition Projects Koorie Art from Victoria’s East Tandeera, Koorie Heritage Trust, 295 King Street Melbourne, until 21 August 2009 Three Gunnai/Kurnai artists...» Read More
The Creation of Indigenous Collections in Melbourne: How Kenneth Clark, Charles Mountford, and Leonhard Adam Interrogated Australian Indigeneity
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-07-31 05:58:16
My paper will explore three personalities, Kenneth Clark, Charles Mountford and Leonard Adam, and the impact they had on the creation and exhibition of collections of indigenous objects in Australia. Kenneth Clark visited Australia briefly in 1948 and left a...» Read More
UK Move On Aboriginal Art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-07-31 05:55:51
Negotiations between Australia and UK could soon re-start in a battle over the return of valuable Aboriginal artworks, writes Nick Gibson. The Dja Dja Wurrung tribe are seeking the return of a pair of Aboriginal bark paintings - insured for more...» Read More
INDIGENOUS ARTISTS UP FOR THE CLEMENGER
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2009-07-24 18:34:52
The 2009 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award has selected four indigenous artists amongst the 15 long-listed for this important triennial exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria.This will be the sixth and final Award in the series following a generous gift...» Read More
Aboriginal art auction framing a resurgent market
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-07-22 05:51:11
Gabriella Coslovich July 21, 2009 FOR a glimmering moment, it seemed as if the boom times were back. People burst into applause when a prized drawing by the late William Barak sold for almost three times its lower estimate at Sotheby’s Aboriginal art...» Read More
Public Works: Ginger Riley Munduwalawa
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-07-18 05:24:54
Ginger Riley Munduwalawala, Limmen Bight River Country (1992). Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, bought 1992. On display until December 6. IN the 1950s Ginger Riley Munduwalawala was working as a stockman, droving cattle from the vast stations of the Northern Territory...» Read More
Karen returns to her artistic roots
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-07-03 09:29:29
“After studying for four years I discovered I was a Victorian Koori. So we do more line work rather than dotting,” she said. She is now studying to be a teacher at the Indigenous Education Centre at Kangan Batman TAFE and...» Read More
Big City Challenges – The Marrka Wangka Story
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-06-30 17:35:12
A group of artworkers have used a visit to Melbourne for personal and career development. The ten artworkers from across Central Australia took part in ‘Marrka Wangka’ – meaning ‘strong talk’ – a five day training program designed to...» Read More
Western Desert Mob Art Centres go Troppo - Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair August 2009
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-06-23 18:37:20
Western Desert Mob members Tjanpi Desert Weavers, Tjarlirli Art and Warakurna Artists are travelling north to Darwin to participate in this year’s prestigious Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair. The Art Fair coincides with the 26th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait...» Read More
Colour Country: Art from Roper River' Tours for a Year
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2009-06-10 13:45:29
It could hardly be further from the rich wetlands of the Roper River on the Gulf of Carpentaria coast at the southern fringe of Arnhemland. But the Wagga Wagga Art Gallery in dry old New South Wales has just opened...» Read More
Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair 2009
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-06-09 00:31:33
13 AUG 2009 - 15 AUG 2009 Free entry The Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair will provide a unique artistic experience for all lovers of indigenous art and culture. Representing over 30 community arts centres from across Australia, including Arnhem Land, the...» Read More
Nerissa Major's Artworks
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-06-04 23:21:42
An Unique Collection of Affordable Aboriginal Art by Western Victorian Koori Artist, Nerissa...» Read More
Senior Kimberley artist couple show paintings of their country
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-05-25 16:27:59
Luka (Mud) 13 June – 4 July 2009 In their second joint exhibition, husband and wife Tommy and Dorothy May present colourful new paintings of their country, The Great Sandy Desert. A beautiful large canvas was painted jointly...» Read More
Kanyiri with Bob Randall
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-05-20 22:41:19
Nerissa Major, a Koori Aboriginal Artist from Western Victoria, will be displaying some of her Unique Art at "Kanyiri with Bob Randall'. Also a Didgeridoo Performance by Russell Smith and a 'Bush Tucker' supper is provided. Entry is Adults ...» Read More
WA ART PRIZE NOMINEES NAMED
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2009-05-12 14:54:53
Fifteen Indigenous artists and one artists collective are nominated for Australia's richest art prizes. They are: Tony Albert (born 1981 Townsville QLD, lives Brisbane QLD) Lorraine Connelly-Northey (born 1962 Swan Hill VIC, lives Swan Hill VIC) Timothy Cook (born 1958 Goose Creek, Milikapiti,...» Read More
Interview with Leon Paroissien and Bernice Murphy
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-05-10 06:27:03
Interview with Leon Paroissien and Bernice Murphy This is an excerpt from the interview which looks at Aboriginal art only. The full interview can be found at the url below. The interview was made in 2006. In the Perspecta exhibition organised by...» Read More
Mawukura (Mulgra) Jimmy Nerrimah
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-04-16 05:02:06
Jila Ngurrara (Waterhole Country) 2 – 23 May 2009 Mulgra Jimmy Nerrimah is a highly respected Walmajarri elder and medicine man. His country is around Wayampajarti a Jila (permanent waterhole) in the North Western area of the Great Sandy...» Read More
From Desert to Saltwater Country
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-03-26 18:48:20
The ReDot gallery is proud to welcome the 1st Singaporean show for the exciting works of the Yulparija and Mangala artists of Bidyadanga. “FROM DESERT TO SALTWATER COUNTRY” will showcase the very best from this art community whose ancestral lands...» Read More
Ngardarb Francine Riches - First indigenous sculptor in Denmark
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-03-20 18:10:06
Four WA artists whose sculptures have wowed Cottesloe beachgoers will exhibit at the first international Sculpture by the Sea in Aarhus, Denmark. Kevin Draper, Richie Kuhaupt, Francine Riches and Jean-Marc Rivalland are among 60 artists whose work will be on show....» Read More
Artscape: ABC2 Dame Elisabeth Murdoch in converstation with Virgini Trioli
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-02-24 07:21:45
Virginia Trioli talks to Dame Elisabeth Murdoch about her life and ongoing arts patronage, including fantastic footage of the Melbourne Recital Centre commission of the Victorian Tapestry Workshop to transform a significant contemporary indigenous painting, recently acquired by the National...» Read More
Aboriginal Underground Art Crawl 2009
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-02-16 06:40:02
We came across a new site yesterday, Aboriginal Underground Art Crawl 2009. It looks very exciting: Marlaina Buch is a Victoria curator and artist. The Aboriginal Underground Art Crawl was started as a way for her to address her own ignorance...» Read More
Many Friendships at Bunjilaka – Last Days
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-02-16 06:36:08
Western Desert Mob Exhibition Yamatji Pirni: Many Friendships draws 55,000 visitors to Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre at Melbourne Museum. Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre at Melbourne Museum and Western Desert Mob have successfully partnered to celebrate the importance of connection to Country...» Read More
Australian Aboriginal art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-02-04 16:10:03
A very, very interesting article in the Telegraph about Aboriginal art from the perspective of UK journalist Will Storr. The article covers the Yuendumu and Papuya communities as Will follows Roslyn Premont from Gallery Gondwana on a buying trip: Indeed, Cecilia...» Read More
Imagine if batik was the new black
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-01-28 16:47:17
From the Age about the new exhibition at the Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria: The spectacular flowering of art in the Australian outback has sometimes been called the Aboriginal Renaissance. Some whitefella pride sits in this charming title, designating...» Read More
Blemishes mar a sumptuous history of Australian art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-01-10 08:24:15
In 1886, there was a tussle for control over the future direction of Australian art. At its heart the dispute appeared simple, but it highlighted a deep division. A student of the School of Art in Melbourne, Alice Chapman, was...» Read More
Many Friendships thrive at Bunjilaka, Melbourne Museum
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-12-02 01:12:41
Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre at Melbourne Museum Presents Western Desert Mob Exhibition Yamatji Pirni: Many Friendships. Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre at Melbourne Museum and Western Desert Mob are celebrating the importance of Aboriginal connection to country and culture through art,...» Read More
Swept up in the current
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-11-19 07:25:37
With 80 artists spread across 300 glossy colour pages, Current is up-to-the minute, controversial, sexy, political, dangerous or reassuringly familiar, depending on what page you turn to. Naturally, in the sometimes volatile world of contemporary art, eddies of (unwanted) attention...» Read More
A fortnightly wrap-up of how the media reported Indigenous affairs from the National Indigenous Times
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-11-18 02:17:22
AN art auction house spent more than $100,000 moving a sale from Melbourne to Sydney this month after misinterpreting a new law. Sotheby's admits it was confused about a change to the Australian Heritage Act 2006. The Act requires individual...» Read More
Search for true identity
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-11-02 03:47:29
The Age previews the five shortlisted candidates for the Kate Challis RAKA Award: Along with five others - Samantha Hobson, Fiona Foley, Gali Yalkarriwuy Gurruwiwi, Lisa Michl Ko-manggen and Pauline Sunfly Nangala - Thompson has just been shortlisted for the annual...» Read More
Not just the usual suspects
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-11-01 01:05:52
The Australian previews the announcement of the WA Premier's Indigenous Art awards: The $50,000 WA Premier's Indigenous Art Award aims to reveal new talent as well as the known. Can a group of men from the Great Victoria Desert win Australia's richest...» Read More
Janangoo Butcher Cherel
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-10-31 02:35:34
Janangoo Butcher Cherel was born around 1920 at Jalnganjoowa, near the original homestead on one of the longest established cattle stations in the Kimberley, Fossil Downs. His mother was Kija and his father, Gooniyandi. Butcher spent most of his working life...» Read More
Tribal art auction yields mixed results
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-10-25 14:24:21
Peter Fish reviews the Sotheby's auction: Retired NSW politician and tribal art buff Richard Jones was as pleased as punch at Sotheby's Aboriginal and Oceanic Art sale at the Museum of Contemporary Art on Monday. The striking north-east Queensland hardwood rainforest shield...» Read More
Auction airs possum skin cloak tradition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-10-14 19:59:00
Interesting article in The Age about possum skin cloaks: SEVERAL years ago, Aboriginal women Treahna Hamm and Lee Daroch drove from their respective homes in Gippsland and Wodonga to view two rare 19th-century possum skin cloaks in the possession of Museum...» Read More
Invisible 'fingerprints' guard indigenous paintings
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-25 01:59:03
Victoria Laurie from the Australian writes about a new canvas from Freddie Timms, Wunubi Springs, the first indigenous artwork to contain chemical encoding, a technique being trialled by the University of Western Australia's Centre for Forensic Science as a...» Read More
Fires from the Desert
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2008-09-23 17:38:12
Two of the most vibrant colourists to emerge from the Western Desert are showing at the Agathon Galleries in Sydney and Melbourne. Both women are Wanarn residents working for the Irrunytju Arts centre, and only avid travellers will have the...» Read More
Ngak Ngak Aboriginal Art Connection
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-09 17:11:05
At the 2008 Sunferries Magnetic Island Race Week, southern sailor Michelle Petrie has been helming in her first regatta aboard her dark blue hulled Beneteau 57 Ngak Ngak. Ngak Ngak have finished second overall in the Cruising Non-Spinnaker division, a...» Read More
Alick Tipoti and Dennis Nona exhibit in Berlin and London
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-04 14:18:32
Leading Torres Strait Islander artists, Alick Tipoti and Dennis Nona will see their work in major exhibitions in Berlin and London this month. Nona’s monumental six metre linocut, ‘Yawarr’ has been included in the exhibition, ‘The Tropics, Views from the Middle...» Read More
‘Heimat’ at Newcastle Region Art Gallery
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-27 21:00:53
School of Humanities and Social Science In conjunction with Umulliko Indigenous Research Centre and the Newcastle Region Art Gallery Present Djon Mundine, OAM ‘Heimat’ Friday, 29 August 2008 6pm Newcastle Region Art Gallery Laman St, Newcastle Djon Mundine is a member of the Bandjalung people of northern New South...» Read More
One big collection
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-26 23:52:30
The Benalla Art Gallery has for some years been collecting indigenous works to add to the opportunities for people and visitors to the North East of Victoria to understand their culture in all its forms and in this exhibition, the...» Read More
Custodians: Country and Culture
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-19 04:00:14
Alison Kelly Gallery invites you to the opening of Custodians: Country and Culture on Saturday 23 August 2008 at 3pm The exhibition will be opened by master printmaker Basil Hall who will talk on Contemporary Indigenous Printmaking – a personal...» Read More
Mini Art Exhibition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-11 14:14:15
Mini Art Exhibition by local Koori artist, Nerissa Major August 25-29, 2008 Discover Dunkeld Week At: Grampians Retreat, Wrights Road (off Halls Gap Road), Dunkeld, Victoria 3294 Entry Fee: $2 (proceeds towards Wildwood Wildlife Shelter) All Artworks Are For Sale and pick up...» Read More
Cornucopia of tribal creativity
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-04 02:13:43
Peter Fish talks about upcoming auctions for East Australian Trading Consolidated and Sotheby's. Quoted from the article: On Sunday, August 17, Guy Earl-Smith's East Australian Trading, based in Double Bay, will hold a typically eclectic auction that willinclude Aboriginal, African and...» Read More
At the NGV Australia
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-07-28 23:55:28
Will Owen discusses the National Gallery of Victoria Ian Potter Centre in a post with some great...» Read More
Our life ... is land ... is culture
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-07-10 04:41:54
SAMANTHA HOBSON: Our life ... is land ... is culture, 11TH SEPTEMBER– 18th OCTOBER 2008. London Solo Debut At 27, Samantha Hobson is one of a handful of young celebrated Aboriginal artists exhibiting widely both in her native Australia and...» Read More
Increased support for Aboriginal Art Centres
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-05-29 21:25:18
Australia’s Indigenous arts industry will be strengthened thanks to $1.6 million worth of additional funding announced today by Arts Minister, Peter Garrett. Delivering on a 2007 election commitment to boost support to Aboriginal art centres, 32 organisations have been funded to...» Read More
Indigenous art sales stymied by heritage laws, say auction houses
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-04-19 04:20:45
Report in The Age about the impact of the introduction of a new law under the Australian Heritage Act 2006 which adds a fee for each artefact that is sold. Quoted from the article: Leading art auction houses say that changes...» Read More
Divided Australia sails into the future
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-04-12 23:38:40
An article about the changing face of Australia. Quoted from the article: In an age when the world is becoming aware of the number of cultures that it is losing, the Aboriginal revival came at just the right time. Big business sat...» Read More
Samantha Hobson - Ngayu Aalmana Ngaachi Ngatangku - Growing up with Cuontry
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-03-29 14:37:52
Samantha Hobson was born in 1981 at Lockhart River, Cape York, the northern most settlement of Eastern Australia. She began painting with the Lockhart River Art Gang at the age of 17, producing paintings of the land and reef that...» Read More
Ngaruwanajirri/New Works
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-03-11 06:27:42
A L I S O N K E L L Y G A L L E R Y In association with Ngaruwanajirri Inc, Bathurst Island, Northern Territory, invites you to the opening of this exhibition on Wednesday 12 March 2008 at...» Read More
Kunwinjku Songman
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-03-08 03:25:29
Over the past two decades, Bruce Nabegeyo has established himself as one of the most evocative and sophisticated narrative painters of western Arnhem Land. Bruce Nabegeyo’s works bristle with a compulsive energy, as a multitude of spirit figures, creation beings and...» Read More
Not just dots
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-03-06 00:51:09
Article about a current exhibition of Aboriginal Art from East Gippsland. Quoted from the article: Aboriginal art, especially Aboriginal art from East Gippsland, is about more than dots - that's the message the East Gippsland Aboriginal Arts Corporation is hoping to convey...» Read More
Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-03-05 07:07:07
Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula Discovering the past is just the beginning Paintings on linen and board by the late Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula Tuesday 4 March – Saturday 15 March, 2008 John Kean, Curator and Producer with Museum Victoria, will give a floor talk at Alcaston...» Read More
Pedro Wonaeamirri
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-03-01 02:14:41
lcaston Gallery is excited to present Pedro Wonaeamirri’s sixth solo exhibition, in conjunction with Jilamara Arts & Crafts, Northern Territory. This body of work confirms this exciting young artist as the leading Tiwi artist of his generation. Including carved figurers, Pukumani...» Read More
Greengallery guide launch
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-02-07 02:41:10
‘GREENGALLERY GUIDE’ LAUNCH 7 February 2008 A JOINT INITIATIVE OF THE AUSTRALIAN CONSERVATION FOUNDATION AND THE AUSTRALIAN COMMERCIAL GALLERIES ASSOCIATION The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) and the Australian Commercial Galleries Association (ACGA) will launch the ‘GreenGallery Guide’ on 7 February 2008 to assist gallery owners and managers...» Read More
Six artists speak in March
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-02-04 04:03:22
Six artists speak in March 4th March 2008 One of the most profoundly interesting aspects of collecting contemporary art is getting to know the artists. Together with sheer physical talent, the success or otherwise of much contemporary art is heavily dependant on that...» Read More
Drawn to a primitive urge
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-01-12 03:52:48
The Age Drawn to a primitive urge Gabriella Coslovich January 12, 2008 Quoted from the article: Onians is one of more than 300 international experts descending on Melbourne this week for what is considered the "olympics" of the art historians' world. Although another sporting event...» Read More
Mixing of cultures is far from black and white
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-01-12 03:50:23
The Age Mixing of cultures is far from black and white Gabriella Coslovich January 12, 2008 Quoted from the article: PHILIP Batty, a one-time art teacher at the Aboriginal community of Papunya in the Western Desert, recently received an unexpected call from a former student. The...» Read More
Bedford's retrospective
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-01-11 03:54:47
The Courier-Mail Bedford's retrospective January 11, 2008 Quoted from article: It was sheer chance that the indigenous artist Paddy Bedford's work became known. In 1988 when Tony Oliver, the chief executive officer of the Jirrawun Aboriginal Art Corporation, went to visit his friend Chocolate Thomas...» Read More
Sydney Morning Herald - Shields and swords set cracking pace at Sotheby's auction
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-12-15 03:31:38
Peter Fish December 15, 2007 Article in the Sydney Morning Herald about the Sotheby's November 25 auction. Quoted from the article: If Tim Klingender was gnashing his teeth about a few unsold lots in Sotheby's recent Aboriginal and Oceanic Art sale in Paddington, it...» Read More
Australia's richest indigenous art prize
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-12-14 07:40:01
The Australian Seasonal present for arts sector Victoria Laurie | December 13, 2007 AUSTRALIA'S richest indigenous art prize will be part of a bumper Christmas present for Western Australia's cultural sector - a sudden $70 million arts announcement to be unveiled today by...» Read More
The Australian - A movable cultural centre
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-12-10 03:19:37
An article in the Australian about the potential development of a large collection of Australian Aboriginal Art in Perth, and into the digitisation of Aboriginal Art. Quoted from the article: John Stanton, the director of the Berndt Museum of Anthropology, is not...» Read More
The Age - Brisbane and Beyond
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-12-03 07:38:00
An article in The Age about the new Directory of the Queensland National Art Gallery, Tony Ellwood. The article talks about Ellwood's early years spent in Kununurra, at Waringarri Aboriginal Arts. Ellwood, who grew up in country Victoria, had his first...» Read More
Faces and Places: New Works by Irwin Lewis
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-11-23 12:50:13
Indigenart, The Mossenson Galleries are proud to present the first solo exhibition in ten years from one of Perth's most beloved and admired artists, Irwin Lewis. With paintings on canvas and paper, as well as a series of computer-generated digital...» Read More
Painting The Waves
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-10-30 03:08:31
Monday, October 29th, 2007 Painting the wavesArt on cruise ships is becoming increasingly popular on cruise ships, with some vessels in the Pacific set to see an influx of art from Australian artists. Carnival Cruises, the parent company of P&O Cruises, has...» Read More
Sydney Morning Hearld - Spotted in Kensington: an important Rover
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-10-28 03:27:54
An article by Peter Fish in the Sydney Morning Herald discussing the highlights of the November 2007 auction season. Quoted from the article: For its part, Sotheby's has not let much out of the bag on its Aboriginal art sale, although for...» Read More
Martumili Artists
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-09-28 15:29:35
Boldly out of the west Stuart Rintoul September 27, 2007 In October last year, Martumili Artists began as an enterprise, drawing together Martu artists from the communities of Parnngurr, Punmu, Kunawarritji, Jigalong, Irrungadji (Nullagine) and Parnpajinya, as Newman is known, supported financially...» Read More
Art.Trade December 2006 Newsletter
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-01-17 05:25:49
Download the Art.Trade newsletter. The Newsletter contains: 2006 Art.Trade Overview Current issues Victorian Indigenous Art Awards Gloria Petyarre in Perth Obituaries: Lorna Napurrula Fencer, Reg...» Read More
Samantha Hobson Land To Sea
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2006-09-29 03:47:23
Courier Mail Kathleen Noonan September 29, 2006 11:00pm From the Courier Mail: We're out the back of Andrew Baker's art gallery in Brisbane's Bowen Hills, in a room where the real deals are done. It's chock-a-block with paintings. But this morning all eyes are on...» Read More
The Australian: the desert's tainted brush
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2006-09-11 06:36:35
As the Aboriginal art community struggles against a growing culture of fraud, one group of desert artists is taking a stand, writes Nicholas Rothwell A thread of rich, autumnal colours, fit for the burning season, runs through the latest Desert...» 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
Authentic Aboriginal Experiences On The Increase
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2006-08-29 01:10:48
Press Release: Tourism Australia Authentic Aboriginal Experiences On The Increase Aboriginal experiences provide a unique glimpse into Australia’s rich cultural history and below are five encounters suggested by Tourism Australia for Kiwis planning their next trip across the Tasman. “Kiwis are increasingly looking...» Read More
Barney Ellaga
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2005-04-15 00:00:00
Senior Alawa Community Lawman and Artist, Barney Ellaga is to make the long journey down from his traditional homeland in South East Arnhemland to the port City of Fremantle in W.A. especially for the opening of his first solo exhibition...» Read More
John Mawurndjul - New paintings
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2004-09-14 06:49:44
Annandale Galleries is proud to present an exhibition of the work of leading contemporary Australian artist, John Mawurndjul. Mawurndjul has received global recognition for his work and is without doubt one of the most pre-eminent Aboriginal artists working today. Far from...» Read More
The Age - Aboriginal works and artful dodgers
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2003-09-20 06:43:40
The Age - September 20, 2003 Gabriella Coslovich As the value of Aboriginal art increases so, too, do claims that artists are being exploited, reports Gabriella Coslovich. An incredibly interesting article about the impact of the boom of Aboriginal Art sales globabbly in...» Read More
Warlpiri Women's Paintings Lajamanu
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2000-09-08 05:09:55
In 1986 a small group of women produced the first paintings for Warnayaka Art Centre, Lajamanu NT. These paintings have become important documents of Warlpiri culture held in the National Gallery of Victoria, collected at the instigation of the curator...» Read More
Rover & Queenie
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2000-05-23 01:31:26
This exhibition pays tribute to the work of Rover Thomas and Queenie McKenzie, two major artists from Warmun community in the East Kimberley. The exhibition, drawn solely from the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, also...» Read More
