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Prodigy at Eighty - The Miracle of Emily
Posted by Frannie Hopkirk | 2014-03-05 18:19:07
Emily Kame Kngwarreye. Diversity in the Desert. It has been said that her work “enabled the flowering of a whole new generation of Aboriginal artists”. My first experience of Emily was at Alice Springs airport about 20 years ago. Wandering...» 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 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
The Emily Kame Kngwarreye Museum Gets Ready to Open
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2012-12-26 09:24:02
Of the many highly acclaimed superstars of the Aboriginal art movement, now 40 years old, none shine as brightly as Emily Kame Kngwarreye. Volumes have been written by academics, art critics, curators and historians about her genius and uniqueness. The...» Read More
Ernabella Craft Pioneer Dies
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2012-03-11 11:54:50
In her 1968 book, The People in Between, about her life at Ernabella Mission station, Winifred Hilliard wrote, ''To the north there are bad people, and to the south there are bad people, but in between are the Pitjantjatjara people''....» Read More
in black and white: more on the orientation of Aboriginal art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-10-15 02:55:43
Thanks to Helen Vivian’s detective work, I was fascinated to read how the London-based Frieze had reviewed Utopia: the genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye, the Emily Kame Kngwarreye exhibition at the (then) new National Art Centre Tokyo, while on tour...» Read More
Journey with art: Descendants of Purfleet band work with visiting artist
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-06-17 20:39:49
Descendants of the members of a Purfleet band in 1909 have placed their hands and finger prints on a huge painting copied from an historic photograph at Manning Regional Art Gallery this week. Families of the people in the photograph were...» Read More
ENTRIES NOW OPEN FOR THE 2009 WILSON HTM NATIONAL ART PRIZE
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-08 13:10:30
Fostering the development of artistic talent in Australia, the Wilson HTM National Art Prize is again open for entry. Launched in 2007, the Wilson HTM National Art Prize is an acquisitive art award open to emerging Australian based visual artists...» 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
Australian Aboriginal Art Exhibition in Japan
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-19 12:37:51
A post from the Living Edge blog about the ABC Sunday arts program about Emily Kngwarreye. I flicked onto the ABC’s Sunday arts program yesterday to find the show was about an exhibition of the late aboriginal painter Emily Kame Kngwarreye...» Read More
Emily's art return home after dream run
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-14 13:45:47
James Massola from the Canberra Times lets readers in the ACT know that the Emily Kngwarreye exhibition is returning to Canberra: After a ground-breaking tour of Japan that took in Osaka and Tokyo, Utopia: The Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye is...» Read More
Emily's art return home after dream run
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-13 12:37:35
James Massola reports on the Emily Kngwarreye Japan tour, and its last stop, Canberra: After a ground-breaking tour of Japan that took in Osaka and Tokyo, Utopia: The Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye is coming to Canberra. The exhibition, which will open...» Read More
Melbourne Art Fair 2008
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-07-30 07:45:14
Melbourne Art Fair is the leading art fair and public exposition in the Asia Pacific region and one of Australia's most significant exhibitions of contemporary visual art. Established in 1988, the Melbourne Art Fair is held biennially at the historic Royal...» Read More
Emily Kame Kngwarreye
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-05-16 02:59:47
An interview on the ABC between Shane Mcleod, Margo Neale, Akira Tatehata, Barbara Weir and Janet Holmes a Court about the current Emily Kame Kngwarreye exhibition in...» Read More
Emily's Country
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-03-30 01:17:26
The Emily Kngwarreye show has been very popular in Japan, as Akino Yoshihara writes: An Aborigine community in the boundless red desert of central Australia nurtured a gifted artist who was full of dynamism and creativity. Emily Kame Kngwarreye, who lived...» Read More
AboriginalArtDirect #2
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-03-27 19:29:18
In this edition of AboriginalArtDirect Jeremy Eccles examines how you buy your art and key moral questions facing every buyer in the Aboriginal art market. We also highlight the latest Emily Kngwarreye exhibition in Japan and the...» Read More
Emily Kame Kngwarreye in Osaka
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-03-18 12:28:57
From the very first time he laid eyes on the work of Emily Kame Kngwarreye (c.1910-96), in the 1998 retrospective at the Queensland Art Gallery, Akira Tatehata knew that it was something special. At that time, Tatehata was a curator...» Read More
Emily finally gets a stage as big as her paintings
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-03-01 02:48:01
Article in the Australian about the Emily Kame Kngwarreye exhibition in Japan. Quoted from the article: Utopia: The Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye opened this week at the National Museum of Art in Osaka and in late May will move to the...» Read More
Aboriginal Art goes Overseas: 3 Contintents, 3 Exhibitions
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2008-02-19 09:19:24
The intercontinental trio are the first big commercial showing of Aboriginal Art on barks in London, courtesy of Josh Lilley Fine Art September-October 2007; the imminent opening of Utopia - The Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye in Osaka, Japan...» Read More
2008: The year in preview
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-01-03 06:35:39
2008: The year in preview Cristoph Mark Daily Yomiuri Quoted from article: Shifting to another Commonwealth nation, The Yomiuri Shimbun will sponsor an exhibition of Emily Kame Kngwarreye, an Australian Aborigine artist whose impressive but short career (only about six years between her first...» Read More
Utopia: the Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-12-12 12:47:29
National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan, 26 February, 2008 An Australian Aboriginal artist, Emily Kame Kngwarreye (1910-96) created Compellingly free-spirited and innovative art outside of any Western tradition. This event marks the first full-fledged examination of this world-renowned...» Read More
National Museum sends Kngwarreye exhibition to Japan
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-10-18 12:44:39
Quoted from the article: The collection of 120 artworks by the late Emily Kame Kngwarreye has been selected for exhibition at the National Museum of Art in Osaka and the National Art Centre in Tokyo early next year. The exhibition, valued at...» Read More
Sydney Morning Herald - A place in the sun for a late bloomer
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-10-11 13:01:39
The Sydney Morning Herald - A place in the sun for a late bloomer Steve Meacham October 10, 2007 Article in The Age about the Emily Kame Kngwarreye exhibitions in Tokyo and Osaka, 2008. Quoted from the article: An exhibition set for Japan is more...» Read More
