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Desert Song and the Pike Family
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2014-04-24 01:36:40
There are two very worthwhile exhibitions on in the West right now, and if you're not able to make it the good folks there have also reproduced these exhibitions online: Desert Song and the Pike Family. The first exhibition, Desert...» Read More
TRAGIC CONFRONTATION IN THE DESERT
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2014-04-08 12:47:32
Anyone reading the usually-reliable Nicolas Rothwell in The Australian newspaper a couple of weekends ago (The Review 22/23 March) in a major essay entitled 'Culture War', would have come away convinced that an exhibition designed to reveal the extent of...» Read More
THE SHADOW KING/LEAR
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2014-02-03 12:07:57
An ebullient black King Lear in a white suit arrives regally on high and breaks into a “We have survived” rap. Where are we? In Joan Littlewood's Stratford East? Barrie Kosky's Berlin? Or Michael Kantor's Malthouse Melbourne? In fact, the...» 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
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNIE
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2013-07-13 14:50:28
The power of TV to educate and change minds is nowhere more apparent than in the new 4-part ABC TV series beginning on Sunday night. 'First Footsteps' will, hopefully achieve what the balefully accusatory 'First Australians' series failed to do...» Read More
ABORIGINAL ART DRESS SPAT
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2012-03-16 13:57:58
"The Mulleavy sisters stand out from the New York Fashion Week crowd with an imaginative Fall line full of Outback influences", pronounced The Daily Beast blog on February 14 this year. "The two sisters behind the Rodarte label are rare...» Read More
Pintupi Men
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2011-08-20 17:55:55
The ReDot Fine Art Gallery is proud to welcome back the beautiful works from Australia’s foremost Aboriginal owned art centre, Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd. This exhibition will represent the 8thshowing in Singapore of the stunning work by the desert...» Read More
After 45,000 years, Aboriginal art is still evolving.
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2011-08-05 19:18:03
After my recent excitement at discovering with David Walsh (on Mona) that Aboriginal art is too sophisticated for many a Western eye to comprehend, this piece from the New Statesman in the UK, written by columnist Will Self and published...» Read More
Story of aboriginal art at La Fontaine
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-10-15 02:54:20
TRADITIONAL aboriginal art will come to the fore in Bahrain tomorrow night at the opening of the Songlines art exhibition at the La Fontaine Centre of Contemporary Art, Manama. According to event organisers, aboriginal art is more of a ritual involving...» Read More
ABORIGINAL ART: THE SONGLINES
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-09-13 19:33:52
ARTS D’AUSTRALIE • STÉPHANE JACOB has great pleasure in inviting you to its new exhibition ABORIGINAL ART: THE SONGLINES Opening Wednesday September 8, 3 pm to 9 pm Galerie SEINE 51 - 51 rue de Seine, Paris 6ème Showing from September 9 to September...» Read More
'Ngurra Kutju Ngurrara - Belonging to One Country
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-09-07 21:27:50
REDOT FINE ART GALLERY, Singapore, in collaboration with Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd presents: ''Ngurra Kutju Ngurrara - Belonging to One Country" The ReDot Fine Art Gallery is proud to welcome back the beautiful works of Australia’s foremost Aboriginal art community,...» 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
San Francisco: Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery at SF Fine Art Fair
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-05-21 04:47:27
At the San Francisco Fine Art Fair, Rebecca Hossack will be exhibiting work by the leading contemporary Australian artists David Bromley, Paul Davies, Allyson Reynolds, Richard Allen and Andrew Taylor. Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery was the first gallery in Europe...» Read More
Exhibition 6 September 2008: Soho Galleries presents Walangari Karntawarra Floor Talk & Exhibition 'Songlines', Sydney Australia
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-05 10:05:30
International award winning artist, Walangari Karntawarra, explains the ancient Dreaming Stories that inspire his spellbinding paintings. He will talk about his art, culture and spirituality at Sydney's Soho Galleries, as part of Soho Galleries' current exhibition Walangari Karntawarra - Songlines. Floor...» Read More
Walangari Karntawarra ' Songlines' Exhibition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-25 14:20:09
"SONGLINES :EXHIBITING TO SEPTEMBER 24" by WALANGARI KARNTAWARRA. About this exhibition and Walangari Karntawarra: WALANGARI WANGARDI KARNTAWARRA JAKAMARRA, also known as COLIN MCCORMACK, was born in Alice Springs in 1961. He is of the Arrernte, Luritja, Walpiri, Yankuntjatjarra, Pintubi, Anmatjerre and Alyawarre peoples...» Read More
WALANGARI KARNTAWARRA "SONGLINES"
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-18 17:57:06
"The Dreamtime manifests itself in an infinite number of ways and for thousands of years we, Australian Aboriginal people have used it as a means of communication, primarily through Songlines" says international award winning, central desert...» Read More
Photos from the NGA's Cultural Warriors Triennial - Ricky Maynard
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-06-07 08:34:05
I've discovered a touring exhibition put together by the Museum of Contemporary Art of photos by one of the hits of the NGA's Cultural Warriors Triennial - Ricky Maynard. It's in Tassie currently (having originated in Paris!) and goes overseas again...» Read More
TV Doco on Aboriginal Art at the Musee Du Quai Branly on SBS Friday 6 June at 7.30pm
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2008-06-05 01:05:15
Was the Aboriginal art contribution to the new Musee du quai Branly in Paris a huge beat-up by Australia's cultural diplomats? Or was it a genuine and lasting tribute by the French to the oldest extant culture in the world?...» Read More
The Independent - Wandjina @ Rebecca Hossack Gallery
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2004-07-20 05:25:30
Two people are largely responsible for bringing an awareness of Aboriginal culture to this country: the late swashbuckling, bisexual writer Bruce Chatwin, in his magical book Songlines; and the Australian art dealer Rebecca Hossack, who, for many years, has brought...» Read More
The fortunes of Aboriginal art outside Australia: ethnographica or art?
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2002-06-24 14:14:05
When Australians with even the most glancing interest in art meet overseas visitors, Aboriginal art is invariably a pressing topic. Tourists routinely buy Aboriginal work from all sorts of vendors, ranging from airport shops to Aboriginal-owned cooperatives. But many Australians...» Read More
