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EVERWHEN EVERYWHERE
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2014-10-23 17:14:26
The Queensland Art Gallery │Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) has unveiled a new permanent display of Indigenous Australian art: ‘Everywhen Everywhere’, which opened last Saturday, 18 October. QAGOMA Director Chris Saines said the collection-based exhibition, curated by the Gallery’s curator...» Read More
ABORIGINAL ARTISTS GO MENTAL
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2014-10-06 16:31:28
High profile artists, including four Archibald winners, have joined forces with the ABC and have donated artworks to be auctioned online to help raise funds to boost mental health research in Australia. The ABC Mental As... Art Auction is a...» 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
SOL AND EMILY
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2014-03-05 16:07:08
People have been trying to force Emily Kngwarreye's art into baskets familiar to Western art aficionados for years – Abstract Expressionism being the favourite. And then along comes Sol LeWitt, the inventor of the term 'conceptual art' – which has...» Read More
'TOURIST TAT' IN HOBART
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2014-01-13 10:52:05
Back in September, I responded to some depressingly bad critical reviews of the Indigenous content in the big Australia show at the Royal Academy in London. My blunt heading then was 'Crap Criticism in London'. Coincidentally, the Hobart art...» 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
I STILL CALL AUSTRALIA HOME!
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2013-07-11 17:10:57
No – not a spangly sing-along with Peter Allen, or an ad for Dubai-bound Qantas. But part of the provocative title - My Country : I Still Call Australia Home - of the largest ever show of contemporary Indigenous art...» Read More
ciaf 2012
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2012-08-16 16:38:28
Get up close and personal with the art, dance, stories and traditions of the oldest continuous culture on Earth at Cairns Indigenous Art Fair 2012. The world’s premiere showcase of Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and culture kicks...» Read More
CAT AMONGST THE PIGEONS (2
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2012-07-04 00:17:03
Sadly, the cat never escaped! Last Saturday's promising discussions at the Sydney Opera House - Aboriginal Art: it’s a white thing and Write the truth, or shut up – turned out to be damp squibs in terms of achieving any...» 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 FAIRS ARE GO
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2012-05-02 13:41:28
Both of the country's major Indigenous art fairs have announced their plans for 2012 – and give every impression of being stronger than ever. While the Cairns Fair (CIAF – 16 to 19 August) has always had the potent backing...» Read More
Aboriginal Art is Modern
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2012-04-02 14:48:15
The grand re-opening of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney has confirmed for many the view that the Aboriginal art of today is as contemporary as such trendy names as Hany Armanious, Ah Xian, Rivane Neuenschwander and Christian Marclay...» Read More
FOLEY
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2012-01-30 14:44:11
The 40th anniversary last week of the accidental Aboriginal Embassy on the lawns of Old Parliament House in Canberra was as good an opportunity as any to learn how it came about even before the messy events that accompanied it....» Read More
NAATSIA's 25TH ANNIVERSARY BOOK
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2011-06-27 10:31:57
Is a silver anniversary any more important than a 20th or a 17th? I ask because the Museum & Art Gallery of the NT (MAGNT), the Darwin home of the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award has belatedly...» Read More
Gulumbu Yunupingu is People's Choice in WA
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2010-12-16 13:37:57
The great Yolngu artist, Gulumbu Yunupingu - big sister of Manduwuy - from Yirrkala in North East Arnhem Land, has won the People’s Choice Award of $5,000 in the Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards 2010. This year, the voting couldn't be...» Read More
ABORIGINAL ART IN COLOGNE
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2010-12-01 14:09:43
The Museum Ludwig in Cologne has opened a significant exhibition of Australian art in a series which has included important Western artists such as Gerhard Richter in 2008 and Christopher Wool in 2009. Here is the curatorial take on this pioneering...» Read More
New Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander art galleries
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-10-12 02:26:47
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have existed on the continent of Australia for tens of thousands of years. Their art and traditions are among the oldest and richest in human history. The designs, patterns and stories were taught to Indigenous...» Read More
Indigenous art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-10-04 00:20:40
KERRY O’BRIEN, PRESENTER: From the inner city to the remotest part of the nation, Australia's contemporary Aboriginal art movement is on the move. A new exhibition in Sydney is showcasing its richness and diversity. Curated by Hetti Perkins, the daughter of the...» Read More
JOHN KLUGE DIES
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2010-09-17 17:57:46
It's quite strange when the one thing you know a man by doesn't get a mention in his obituary! That's happened repeatedly with the late John Kluge – known in Australia virtually only because of his magnificent Aboriginal art collection...» Read More
27th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-08-07 17:51:15
One of the nation's premier prizes for art unfolds in the Top End. Editorial Review When: 14 August - November 7 2010; Mon-Fri 9am-5pm; Sat, Sun & Public holidays 10am- 5pm Where: Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin Tickets: Entry to...» Read More
Interview with Glenn Pilkington - Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-08-03 21:34:33
1. Where did the idea of the Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards come from? The Awards came about from a need to acknowledge and recognise the significant contribution Indigenous artists make to Australia socially, culturally and economically. The Awards model, which...» 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
Indigenous art on display
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-07-16 23:56:36
The West Australian Indigenous Art Awards will be displayed at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. The exhibition which features scultpure, video, painting and photography opens July 31. Sixteen artists including five from WA are part of the richest Indigenous art awards...» Read More
Important Aboriginal Art from Private Collections
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-06-10 18:38:07
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WA Art Award Nominees Named
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2010-04-23 16:08:00
The 16 finalists in the nation’s richest indigenous arts prize, the Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards, were today announced by State Culture and the Arts Minister, John Day. Mr Day congratulated the artists who have been invited to participate in the...» Read More
Blood River
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-04-01 08:18:07
New Works by Joanne Currie Nalingu Opening Tuesday 6th of April at 6pm 6th of April - 1st May 2010 Blood River Louise Martin-Chew February 2010 Joanne Currie was born and spent her earliest childhood years at an Aboriginal mission just outside Mitchell, on...» Read More
Richard Bell: I Am Not Sorry
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-10-19 15:18:03
Australia’s foremost – and most controversial – Aboriginal artist exhibits his work for the first time in New York A Location One International Fellowship exhibition curated by Maura Reilly OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, 8 October 2009, 6–8 PM DATES: 9 October 2009 – 25 November...» Read More
REFLECTIONS ON THE WESTERN AUSTRALIAN INDIGENOUS ART AWARD
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-09-01 07:01:07
From Will Owen: Having stayed at home this year, I don't have much of substance to say about the 26th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards that hasn't already been said elsewhere. I've never been terribly fond of winner...» Read More
Show your colours
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-04-11 21:20:02
EXPLOSION OF COLOURS IN RECENT ART NEW EXHIBITION “SHOW YOUR COLOURS” OPENS 23 APRIL From the intense colours in Emily Kame Kngwarreye’s work to Billy Benn’s subtle palette: ”Show Your Colours” celebrates the bold use of colour in contemporary Aboriginal art....» Read More
NATIONAL INDIGENOUS ART TRIENNIAL OPENS AT GOMA
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-02-14 09:52:15
Works by leading Queensland artists Vernon Ah Kee, Richard Bell, Dennis Nona and Judy Watson feature in a national Indigenous exhibition opening at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane this week. Arts Minister Rod Welford said Culture Warriors: National Indigenous...» Read More
Half Light- Portraits from Black Australia
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-11-24 10:23:13
Photography by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists has emerged over the past two decades as a definitive expression of contemporary Indigenous life in Australia. Half Light is the first major survey of the work of Indigenous artists engaging with...» Read More
Half Light
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-11-24 10:09:32
Half Light is the first major survey of the work of Indigenous artists engaging with the photographic medium and the portrait. The exhibition brings together over 140 works by 15 of Australia’s most renowned Indigenous artists. With a critical eye...» Read More
Aboriginal Art - SELLING EXHIBITION 30 SEPT – 11 OCT
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-25 21:56:12
ON VIEW 162 Queen St. Woollahra Mon–Sat 11am–5pm There are 43...» Read More
25th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award - Celebrating the Silver Jubilee
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-17 14:18:54
The 25th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award - Celebrating the Silver Jubilee has an online gallery of all...» Read More
25th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award Winners
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-17 14:14:07
Major Prize Winner, Makinti Napanangka from Kintore in the Northern Territory has been awarded Australia’s premier Indigenous art prize at the 25th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award. The winning painting depicts designs associated with the site of...» Read More
Sydeny Biennale
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-05-20 03:03:55
The following Indigenous artists will be appearing at the important Sydeny Biennale, opening on 18th June and running until 7 September: Tommy McRae, Mick Kubarrku, Doreen Reid Nakamarra, Gordon Bennett, Tracey Moffatt, Vernon Ah Kee, Destiny Deacon and Richard Bell*.*...» Read More
Power & Beauty
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-02-09 11:06:19
Power and beauty are concepts that resonate through the work of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists in all areas of Australia today. Indigenous art is strong in country and law: it is concerned with the politics of identity...» Read More
A Fine Romance: White Money, Black Art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-01-26 13:52:04
An Quoted from the paper: Despite allegations of corruption and fraud, the Aboriginal art market continues to flourish. Early paintings fetch increasingly higher prices, while indigenous art centres maintain a steady supply of new works. This frenzied activity is of course,...» Read More
24th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award 10 August 2007
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-08-10 06:00:53
The 24th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, open to all adult Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander artists, aims to showcase the very best Australian Indigenous art from around the country. The non-acquisitive Telstra Award of $40,000 is...» Read More
Shapiro: Aboriginal Art Exhibition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-08-08 07:32:31
Shapiro: Aboriginal Art Exhibition Mon – Sat 11am – 5pm 7 – 25 August...» Read More
The Australian: provocative statements with a positive message
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2006-09-15 07:01:33
Richard Bell: Positivity Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, until October 14. THIS survey of Richard Bell's work in the past 15 years requires a rapid-fire engagement. It proves, had there been any doubt, that Bell - a political activist who came to...» Read More
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award – Celebrating 20 Years
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2004-04-22 06:20:55
A touring exhibition from the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory 22 April to 25 July 2004 National Archives, Canberra The Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award – Celebrating 20 Years, is one of the most significant exhibitions...» Read More
20th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award 16 August 2003
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2003-08-16 03:58:39
20th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award 16 August 2003, the winner was Richard...» Read More
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