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DEBIL DEBIL CORROBOREE
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2013-04-19 19:42:44
We live in exclusive times! Or should that be exclusionary? Two major Indigenous events announced in Sydney this week turn out to be less than they appear in that they offer, respectively, “indigenous history, feeling and disturbing visions that reach into...» Read More
BRINGING THE DESERT TO PERTH
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2012-11-20 16:50:31
We don’t need a map is a major new exhibition celebrating the distinct and joyful visual language of the Martu and their connection to country. This expansive exhibition, taking place at the Fremantle Arts Centre (FAC) until January, provides an...» Read More
THREAT TO MARRA COUNTRY
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2011-07-08 12:39:23
An appeal from Dr Greg Dickson, Scholar of Linguistics in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University re the country we've grown familiar with thanks to the art of Ginger Riley, Angelina George and Willy...» Read More
Discovery of Living Pigments in Bradshaw rock art
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2011-01-04 15:35:40
The age of Bradshaw rock art (also called Gwion gwion) is uncertain but estimated by indirect methods at between 46 000 years ago, based on the time of extinction of depicted live megafauna, and 70 000 years ago, which is...» Read More
ABC fails to strike out defamation case
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-11-03 22:01:13
A defamation claim by an Aboriginal art dealer against the Australian Broadcasting Corporation is to proceed in the Northern Territory Supreme Court. The Supreme Court in Alice Springs has denied an application from the ABC to strike out the defamation claim. The...» Read More
Dancers entertain at exhibition opening
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-10-29 21:52:48
Last Friday night more than 70 people were greeted with wine and nibblies and entertained by Aboriginal dancers at the opening of local aboriginal artist Johanna Parker’s solo Indigenous art exhibition. The exhibition represents her first days at univerity, drawings,...» Read More
Revelatory show of strength in tradition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-08-17 22:08:55
The great achievement of this year's 27th annual Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award exhibition lies in its quality of overview: it is a portrait of the art-making currents of remote central and northern Australia, broad-brush, yet...» Read More
2010 Aboriginal Art Award Opening
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-06-08 01:45:45
A colourful and diverse range of entries for the ninth annual National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) Aboriginal Art Award 2010 will be officially opened at the Lismore Regional Gallery this Saturday 5th June. The exhibition, to be held at 131...» 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
2010 NPWS Aboriginal Art Award
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-05-01 23:05:09
2The National Parks and Wildlife Service Northern Rivers Region Aboriginal Art Award, now worth $6,500 in prize money, will be held in collaboration with Lismore Regional Gallery from the 5th June to 10th July 2010. The Award is open to...» Read More
NPWS Aboriginal Art Award
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-04-21 09:35:51
One of the Northern Rivers Region’s most prestigious art prizes is once again set to build community bridges and celebrate local art. Now entering its ninth year the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) Northern Rivers Region Aboriginal Art Award this...» Read More
"My Journey With Two Cultures"
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-12-12 14:50:58
A collection of artworks (contempory, modern, landscape, abstract, sculpture and Fine Art), depicting the journey of Nerissa Major's Life with Two Cultures. Finding her True Path and seeing the good and positive sides to the hardship and pain. ...» Read More
New theory may put location of Joseph Lycett painting in perspective
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-07-17 07:27:44
A 200-year-old mystery about one of Newcastle's most famous pieces of Aboriginal art history may have been solved, with a new theory about the location of a Joseph Lycett painting. Lycett was a convict and one of Australia's earliest colonial artists. The...» Read More
Survival of the Fittest
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-29 13:03:36
Interesting blog entry on the Wordy-Gurdy, blog, by Jackey Coyle: If Darwinian theory can be summed up as the survival of the fittest, how apt that this, the silver anniversary of the Telstra NATSIA Award, is located in Darwin. Talk was rife...» Read More
DARBY JAMPIJINPA ROSS - Make it good for the people
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-20 20:00:35
Queensland College of Art, Griffith University invite you and your friends to DELL Gallery @ QCA for the launch of a special collaborative project: DARBY JAMPIJINPA ROSS Make it good for the people OPENING 6-8PM Friday 22nd August 2008 SPECIAL GUESTS: Otto Sims, Chair of...» 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
