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Collecting Australian Aboriginal Art

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-01-26 11:29:55

Described by renowned Australian art critic, Robert Hughes, as belonging to ‘the world’s last great art movement’, collectors of art from this extraordinary ancient but vibrant living culture have, in recent years, fuelled a boom in sales. Prices at auction...» Read More

 

Written in the Land: The Life of Queenie McKenzie

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-12-05 00:41:54

Written in the Land: The Life of Queenie McKenzie This beautifully produced book tells the story of Queenie McKenzie, a remarkable indigenous woman from the East Kimberley in Western Australia. Now deceased, Queenie was an important cultural leader, revered...» Read More

 

Coo-ee Aboriginal Art presents Form and Function, Bondi Beach Australia

Coo-ee Aboriginal Art presents Form and Function, Bondi Beach Australia

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-10-20 01:27:41

Form and Function A collection of fine 18th and 19th century Ethnographic Objects and Bark Paintings. Items that took thousands of years to perfect, are elevated, in the hands of the 'collector', from mere curio to beautiful examples of 'primitive'...» Read More

 

Space and Light

Space and Light

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-07-26 00:28:42

An Indigenous Art exhibition inspired curatorially by James Turell, Claude Monet and Walter De Maria, The Chicho Museum, Naoshima, Japan. 'There is no object in this work. There never was. There is no image within it. It demonstrates the play...» Read More

 

Aboriginal Art Direct #4: Ngurrara The Great Sandy Desert Canvas

Aboriginal Art Direct #4: Ngurrara The Great Sandy Desert Canvas

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-06-17 22:38:28

Welcome to AboriginalArtDirect. Our goal is to provide you with a thought-provocative newsletter on the events and trends in the industry. In the feature article of this edition Larissa Behrendt tells the story of Ngurrara the Great Sandy Desert...» Read More

 

Unusual technique, for the sake of friends and heritage

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-05-24 04:17:32

A Sydney Morning Herald article about Lin Onus and the current exhibition, . The Aboriginal Art Directory launched an eBlast about this exhibition in May 2008. View the It All Started from Black - In Memory of...» Read More

 

Coo-ee Aboriginal Art presents It All Started from Black - In Memory of Lin Onus, Bondi Beach Australia

Coo-ee Aboriginal Art presents It All Started from Black - In Memory of Lin Onus, Bondi Beach Australia

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-05-06 07:37:24

A large selection of Lin Onus experimental collaborative prints will be exhibited for the first time in Sydney, at Coo-ee Gallery from 8 May - 7 June. Pioneer of the urban Aboriginal Art Movement in Australia, Lin Onus created...» Read More

 

Aboriginal art in Paris: In your dreaming

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2004-10-11 14:26:43

A select slice of Paris’s art collecting elite gathered at elegant rooms on Avenue Matignon earlier this month for auction house Christie’s first-ever exhibition of Australian Aboriginal art. Thirty or so works on preview had been selected especially to tempt...» Read More