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Hermannsburg watercolourist, Mervyn Rubuntja's Open Studio
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2013-02-06 13:40:47
Watercolour landscape artist Mervyn Rubuntja will be travelling to Sydney from Alice Springs for a weekend of events in Sydney in February, which include a painting session at a local gallery and a panel discussion at the State Library of...» Read More
Namatjira and Mellor Shine at Deutscher and Hackett August 29 Auction
Posted by Nicholas Forrest | 2012-09-03 14:03:32
There were very few works by Aboriginal artists in Deutscher and Hackett’s August 29 Important Australian + International Art Auction held in Melbourne. The few indigenous works that were included in the sale did, however, perform very well....» Read More
Early Papunya Boards Head Sothebys Australia Aboriginal Art Sale
Posted by Nicholas Forrest | 2012-06-04 16:17:53
Sotheby’s Australia will hold their first major Aboriginal art sale for the year on Tuesday 5th June 2012 in Melbourne. The sale will consist of 105 lots with an estimate of $1.4-2 million and includes rare artefacts through to early...» Read More
Desert’s spirit on show in Newcastle
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2012-04-07 18:13:31
THEY were thousands of kilometres from the desert, but that didn’t stop a group of local Aboriginal students tapping into its rich spirit at a watercolour workshop at Newcastle Art Gallery. The workshop was held as part of the Desert Country...» Read More
$6 for a Namatjira? Almost...
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2012-03-26 19:06:00
There's no accounting for taste when a masterpiece is ignored in a garage sale. It was the spring-clean that almost cost a Cairns woman a masterpiece. She had put a few household items in a garage sale, including a painting of...» Read More
Namatjira: The Next Generation
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-09-21 20:35:10
Tuesday 28th September - Saturday 16th October Please join watercolour artists at the opening on Friday 1st October from 5pm - 7pm Watercolour Workshop Saturday 2nd October from 10am - 12pm Birrung Gallery is delighted to present Namatjira: The Next Generation, an exhibition...» Read More
Danie Mellor wins Telstra Aboriginal Art Award
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-08-16 18:07:41
A paper work exploring the fragile relationship between black and white Australia has won the country's most prestigious indigenous art award. The mixed media work by Danie Mellor - From Rite to Ritual - is an interesting choice for this year's...» Read More
ABORIGINAL ART FROM THE ARTHUR PAPADIMITRIOU COLLECTION
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-08-08 00:15:43
It has been widely written how the Papunya movement, or dot painting style, started at the Papunya Aboriginal Community, about 240 kilometres northwest of Alice Springs in 1971 when a young school teacher Geoff Bardon encouraged senior elders to paint...» Read More
Visiting the old outback haunts of an Aboriginal water colourist
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-05-06 09:05:39
Aboriginal art to many tourists in Australia means paintings on bare rock and the Rainbow Serpent creation myth rendered in rich colours with the dot technique. Aborigines and watercolours hardly seem to go together. But Albert Namatjira, who ranks as...» Read More
MOUNTFORD BARKS GET AN OUTING
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2009-03-25 12:37:26
The small showing of barks and works on paper collected by Charles Pearcy Mountford during his American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhemland in 1948 – currently at the AGNSW – raises more questions than it answers. Which is not necessarily a...» Read More
Namatjira to Now
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-10-27 08:34:45
23 October 2008 – 15 February 2009 Gallery 5 & 6 QAG The great Albert Namatjira’s adoption of the European medium of watercolour for his landscape paintings remains an inspiration to contemporary artists from Ntaria (Hermannsburg) and surrounding regions of...» Read More
Spring Festival of Arts
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-02 19:40:33
The Spring Festival of Arts will be held on Saturday 6th September from 9am to 4pm at the Canberra Seniors Centre 10 Watson St Turner. The Festival will feature the aboriginal art of Lewis Langton and Duncan Smith with its...» Read More
The Legacy of Albert Namatjira Today
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-05-28 00:40:57
Contemporary Aboriginal Watercolours from Central Australia Opening Thursday 29 May at 6pm (on display until 22 June) SoMA Galleries, 147 The Parade, Norwood, SA This will be the first comprehensive group exhibition of the current Aboriginal watercolour artists to be held outside Alice...» Read More
Artist Slideshow featuring Mervyn Rubuntja
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-04-16 05:02:39
Mervyn Rubuntja was born at the Telegraph Station in Alice Springs. His mother was a Western Arrernte woman. His father was the famous painter, the late Mr. W Rubuntja Pengarte. His father has been an important role model for Mervyn. He...» Read More
The Collector KAREL KUPKA IN NORTH AUSTRALIA
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-10-26 08:19:54
n late June 1956, towards midday, after a swift flight through dry-season skies, the Czech artist Karel Kupka clambered from a prop plane at Milingimbi airstrip and stepped for the first time into the elusive world of Arnhem Land. This arrival,...» Read More
Indigenous artwork
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-09-26 02:39:44
Indigenous artwork Tuesday, September 25, 2007 Alison Jess Quoted from article: A collection of indigenous artwork from the private collection of Ron and Ross Aldridge is currently on show at the Wangaratta Exhibitions Gallery. Exhibitions Officer Sally Huguenin says the exhibit could be described as...» Read More
Young artists redraw perceptions of the land
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2005-09-08 23:54:27
You might not know it looking at Mellor's work, but two themes dominate this year's collection: all works are painting-based and all relate to the theme of landscape. But don't expect rolling hills and watercolours. "No one would ever expect Primavera...» 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
