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Ups and Downs Amongst the Art Centres
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2014-11-17 11:09:36
The thriving art centre at Blackstone in WA hard by the SA/NT borders has been devastated by a fire that caused irreparable damage to its archival collection and all of its stock. They lost about 90% of the works and...» Read More
WHITLAM MALIGNED BY FAIRFAX
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2014-10-24 17:42:47
A great wrong has been done to both history and Gough Whitlam's memory by the Fairfax press. Their splendid supplement on Wednesday to commemorate the passing of that great mover and shaker of a slothful Australia contained a section on...» Read More
TWO SENIOR ARTISTS LOST TO US
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2014-10-22 16:07:13
In recent weeks at Yuendumu in the Central Desert and at Amata in the APY Lands, marvellous artists have died. Here are their official life stories: Shorty Jangala Robertson was born around 1925 at Jila (Chilla Well), a large soakage and...» Read More
THE TORRES STRAIT IN SYDNEY
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2014-10-08 12:02:13
Ken Thaiday Snr. is an artist of rare talent whose works only infrequently make their way down south. So it's all the more exciting that Sydney is getting to see his largest ever work, specially commissioned by the dynamic Carriageworks...» Read More
LOLA GREENO – LIVING TREASURE
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2014-09-11 15:46:38
The first Indigenous artist/craftsman has been recognised as a Living Treasure – Master of Australian Craft. Tasmania's Lola Greeno joins a distinguished list of Treasures which includes potters Les Blakebrough and Jeff Minchin, glass artist Klaus Moje, and jeweller Marian...» Read More
Warlayirti: The Art of Balgo
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2014-09-09 21:33:20
After a period in which social unrest and an emphasis on film dominated the cultural scene, the revitalisation of Balgo painting continues apace. Two different projects are under way which will see a major contextual exhibition open in Melbourne next...» Read More
DARWIN 2014 - The Bigger Picture
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2014-08-13 15:14:14
In the wash-up to the 31st National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, it seems possible that the man who lead the charge to free MAGNT (the Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory) from the unenthusiastic hand...» Read More
31st NATSIAAs: TONY ALBERT DOES IT AGAIN
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2014-08-08 18:30:00
The three judges for this 31st NATSIAA Award all come from the south; Tina Baum from the National Gallery, Clotilde Bullen from the WA Gallery and David Broker from the Canberra Contemporary Art Studio. Perhaps it wasn’t surprising that they...» Read More
ART IS THE VOICE OF OUR PEOPLE - TAKE 2
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2014-07-15 15:28:19
Hetti Perkins second 'Art+Soul' TV series returns to the ABC tonight, and winds up with a third episode next Tuesday. And the question I asked after previewing her first program remains as relevant to the thinking behind this production as...» Read More
GULPILIL'S COUNTRY
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2014-07-11 13:55:17
I've often said that the major problem with the Intervention – and all the hyperventilation about the reported spate of child abuse and domestic violence in remote Aboriginal communities that justified the imposition of its quasi-military rule – was that...» Read More
ART IS THE VOICE OF OUR PEOPLE
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2014-07-08 13:16:06
So, Hetti Perkins is back with us, refreshed from a sabbatical period post-Art Gallery of NSW, where she used to be the first, and so far only, senior curator of Aboriginal Art. I wonder why they think they can manage...» Read More
RED OCHRE FOR HECTOR BURTON
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2014-07-04 19:11:05
At the end of May, the supreme national Indigenous arts awards – the Red Ochres – were handed out by the Australia Council. And the senior, peer-reviewed award went to artist Hector Tjupuru Burton from Tjala Arts in Amata, South...» Read More
NATSIAA SURPRISES
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2014-06-25 18:38:12
The great names are there at this year's National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards – Namatjira, Marawili, Marika, Burton, Thaiday, Petyarre, Mabo, Yalandja and Nadjamerrek. But rather than having the Christian names you'd probably recognise, 2014 will introduce...» Read More
Djilpin Arts Arrives at Melbourne's Federation Square
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2014-05-22 13:16:08
Walk with Us: Djilpin Arts, the Northern Territory’s globally recognised Aboriginal Corporation located at the remote Beswick (Wugularr) community on the south-west border of Arnhem Land, brings a rich and ancient tapestry of indigenous culture to Federation Square in Melbourne...» Read More
Monstrous figures in Arnhem Land
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2014-05-04 16:52:02
There's some impressive writing going on at The Conversation at present - and that's not only from the contributors, check out the feedback as well. The following is an excerpt from Christine Nicholls' latest, Monstrous figures in Arnhem Land, the...» Read More
27TH MERREPEN ARTS & CULTURAL FESTIVAL
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2014-04-29 15:39:50
The Daly River community (Nauiyu), 240 kilometres south-west of Darwin, celebrates the 27th Merrepen Arts and Culture Festival from Friday 30 May to Sunday 1 June, with a weekend of traditional and contemporary performance, colourful designs, fashion and fabrics, art...» Read More
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
ABORIGINAL ARTIST WINS BIG BULGARI PRIZE
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2014-04-17 00:19:44
Anyone who bought a painting by Daniel Boyd (via the Ros Oxley9 Gallery) will have had their taste and wisdom confirmed by this week's announcement that he's taken out the third Bulgari Art Award worth $80,000, and delivered his stunning...» Read More
PATRON/ COLLECTOR = THE FUTURE
Posted by Frannie Hopkirk | 2014-04-15 02:15:38
I had arranged to meet Pat Corrigan – Art Collector and Patron, especially of Aboriginal art, at the Art Gallery of NSW at 5 o'clock for a glass of wine and a chat. He was already there when I arrived...» 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
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 Marvellous Frannie Hopkirk joins the Aboriginal Art Directory
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2014-02-16 10:35:38
We are delighted to announce that Frannie Hopkirk has joined the Aboriginal Art Directory as a Feature Writer for our News. For those who don't know, Frannie is from one of Australia's most pre-eminent art families, the Whiteley's - she is...» Read More
UTOPIA?
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2014-01-22 17:07:49
The persistent, heart-on-his-sleeve John Pilger is back again with, I think, his third film on Australia's total failure to achieve a solution to “the Aboriginal problem”. From the era of disease and massacre via assimilation times to The Intervention,...» Read More
Frannie Hopkirk
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2014-01-01 00:04:01
Frannie is from one of Australia's most pre-eminent art families, the Whiteley's - she is Brett Whiteley's sister, both having grown up amidst Australian art royalty. Frannie twice sat for William ('Weppy') Pidgeon, a family friend, before Brett's ascent, each portrait...» Read More
BARKS 'R US
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2013-12-22 19:50:44
With Aboriginal bark paintings there's the constant dilemma – how important is the aesthetic appeal of the work, and how important the story – and the status of the man telling it? The issue arises because there have been old barks...» Read More
Paddy Japaljarri Stewart - 30/06/35 to 30/11/13
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2013-12-17 15:06:19
Sadly, we have lost one of the real pioneers of Desert Aboriginal art, Paddy Japaljarri Stewart. Once known as Cookie Stewart, he was a chef at Papunya and was involved as a relative of Clifford Possum and Tim Leura through...» Read More
THE LATE N. NAPURRULA
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2013-11-28 16:18:29
“Papunya Tula Artists are sad to announce the passing of N Napurrula on 11th November. As many would know, Napurrula was a dialysis patient for many years at the 'Purple House', the Western Desert Dialysis unit established in Kintore so...» Read More
KARLA DICKENS WINS 2013 NSW PARLIAMENT ABORIGINAL ART PRIZE
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2013-10-17 10:20:13
A tattered Australian flag, salvaged from the tip, has been named the winner of the 2013 Parliament of New South Wales Aboriginal Art Prize, taking out the coveted $40,000 prize ahead of 32 other works exhibited in this year's finalist...» Read More
STRING THEORY STRUNG
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2013-10-11 12:33:05
It sounds as though we're off into the rarified atmospherics of quantum physics here with an exhibition called String Theory. But Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA for short) curator Glenn Barkley is just toying with his audience in...» Read More
INDIGENOUS FESTIVALS GALORE
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2013-09-27 10:33:46
For a while, it seemed that Rhoda Roberts' pioneering efforts to establish the validity of the Indigenous arts via her wonderful Dreaming Festival in 1997 in the lead up to the Olympics had fallen on closed minds. It should have...» Read More
Winner announced for the $25,000 Kate Challis RAKA Award 2013
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2013-08-15 12:27:43
One of Australia’s most cherished Indigenous artists, Mabel Juli, has won the $25,000 Kate Challis RAKA Award 2013 for her refined, minimal painting Garnkeny Ngarranggarni (Moon Dreaming). A respected Gija elder, 80-year-old Mabel travelled from her home at Warmun in the...» Read More
NATSIAAS REFRESHED
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2013-08-09 17:46:12
The leaders of both of the main groupings of remote Aboriginal art centres have spoken out recently about the gulf between Indigenous and urban Australia. Philip Watkins, CEO of Desart, representing 45 Central Australian centres, rationalised that “High end galleries...» Read More
THAT TIME OF THE YEAR
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2013-08-05 13:47:24
It's that time of the year! Just as the footy tends to deliver adrenaline-sodden drama throughout September, Indigenous art has somehow chosen August as the month when an inherently uncompetitive, culturally sensitive activity turns polemic. Darwin, Perth, Melbourne and Cairns...» Read More
THE SONG PEOPLE OF ARNHEMLAND
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2013-08-01 15:31:07
Great things happen when people discard their egos and return to their roots. A mob called Barkly Regional Arts based in Tennant Creek has now completed two projects taking well-known Aboriginal pop musicians - familar through the cities via...» Read More
PIONEERING YUENDUMU
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2013-07-25 13:32:40
The foundation myth is simple: Aboriginal art as we know it today – acrylic painting on canvas - emerged from Papunya in 1971/2. But now the question is being asked - was the less well-known Yuendumu community actually the progenitor...» Read More
HEARTLAND IN SA
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2013-07-17 10:48:22
As South Australia lead the cultural way in the 70s when Don Dunstan emerged as the first Aussie politician to recognise the value of the arts to the soul and economy of his people, so the Art Gallery of SA...» Read More
Results for Sotheby's Early Papunya Art Auction
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2013-05-29 11:42:39
Who logged on to Sotheby's last night to watch or bid in the live auction of Anthony & Beverly Knight's collection of early Papunya art? Predictably there were a lot of great pieces. Items selling well over the estimate include...» Read More
Ganagan (Deep Water) on Display
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2013-05-23 15:10:45
Being Launched on 6 June by the Hon Heidi Victoria MP (Minister for the Arts, Women's Affairs and Consumer Affairs) is an exhibition called Ganagan, a Taungurung word meaning 'deep water', being organised by the Koorie Heritage Trust. On show...» 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
Entries flood in to 30th NATSIAA
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2013-04-25 09:54:19
The 30th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award is in full swing with over 240 entries received from almost every state and territory in the country, all vying for the $40,000 main prize, and a chance for...» Read More
EUBENA 1921 to 2013
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2013-04-11 20:57:26
Eubena Nampitjin, the doyenne of Aboriginal artists at Balgo Hills (Wirrimanu), the former mission established by the Palatines to cut off Desert peoples heading north into the pastoral lands of The Kimberley, has died at the age of about 91....» Read More
ABORIGINAL ART ON STAGE
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2013-03-20 20:17:35
It's one hundred years since Stravinsky's Rite of Spring was first heard on May 29, 1913, at Théatre des Champs-Elysées in Paris. Hailed by the Oxford Dictionary of Dance as “a seminal moment in Modernism,” the premiere shocked its audience,...» Read More
EMILY ON SALE
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2013-03-18 23:26:40
It's a fascinating time for the reputation of the great Emily Kngwarreye. Some time in May a whole museum is opening in Melbourne dedicated to her works from the collection of Hank Ebes, a major dealer during the later years...» Read More
The Late Mrs Bennett
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2013-02-06 16:00:16
We reported that Mrs Bennett had passed away in January 2013 - near her ancestral rockhole at Punkilpirri, WA. That notice sparked great interest about her life and so we are delighted to bring you more on this National Treasure. Born...» Read More
Obituary: Farewell to Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa (Mrs Bennett)
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2013-01-30 17:23:58
One of the great characters of the Kintore region, Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa's (aka Mrs Bennett) paintings were executed with the same energy, cheer and enthusiasm that she exhibited in life. Painting and exhibiting since the mid-1990's, Mrs Bennett was instrumental in...» Read More
TIWI - THE BOOK
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2012-12-19 11:26:59
by Jennifer Isaacs, published by the wonderful Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University at $120 It's been an amazing year for Aboriginal art books – never known a better. If only I'd had time to read them all rather than just dip...» Read More
Spinifex Arts Project tours Germany in 2013
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2012-12-13 22:46:41
PRO COMMUNITY is an exhibition format developed and organized by Artkelch in Freiburg, Germany, that features excellent art from community based art centers in a touring exhibition in Germany. Artists from one art centre (or a small group of art...» Read More
Unique Indigenous story teller awarded
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2012-11-26 12:13:57
Indigenous writer, poet and story teller Herb Wharton has been awarded the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature; a $50,000 award that recognises the achievements of eminent writers who have made outstanding and lifelong contributions to Australian literature....» Read More
PAPUNYA TULA CELEBRATES ITS 40TH
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2012-11-17 11:55:35
Alice Springs is in party mode this weekend as Papunya Tula Artists (PTA) celebrates the 40th anniversary of its founding in 1972, just one year after Aboriginal Desert painting had started at the 'prison camp' that was the government settlement...» Read More
France continues its Love of Aboriginal Art in Brisbane
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2012-10-26 11:42:29
The strong, historical links between France and Aboriginal art offer a rich and fertile background – from the research and writing works of French ethnologists and anthropologists to the development of important public Aboriginal art collections in France and the...» Read More
Film Noir and Pulp Fiction Bad Girls and.. Larissa Behrendt?
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2012-10-20 11:32:24
Opening today at the Justice and Police Museum in Sydney is Wicked Women, described as a playful, subversive and wickedly sexy exhibition of new works by prize-winning artist Rosemary Valadon. Inspired by the 'bad-girl' persona from the vibrant early to...» Read More
Aboriginal Art Triumphs at Brisbane Sale of Ross and Rona Clarke Collection
Posted by Nicholas Forrest | 2012-09-13 16:47:26
Contrary to what some have said about the Mossgreen sale of the Ross and Rona Clarke collection held in Brisbane, the sale was actually quite a triumph both for Mossgreen and the market for Aboriginal art. A sold by lot rate...» Read More
Spectacular Lineage Display
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2012-09-13 11:49:16
ONLY rarely do the admirers of an art movement have the chance to see the key episodes in its evolution captured, its transitions made evident: the viewing eye can hardly ever trace the mystery of artistic transmission. But this year's Desert...» Read More
$244,000 for an Emily Kngwarreye Painting at Auction in Brisbane
Posted by Nicholas Forrest | 2012-09-11 09:11:48
Selling the art collection of former lawyer Ross Clarke and his wife Rona in Brisbane was a gamble for Mossgreen auctions – a gamble that payed dividends. September the 9th was d-day for Mossgreen and the collection of 188...» Read More
The 29th NATSIAAs
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2012-08-10 15:45:11
“It's a really interesting year, I think – characterised by strong women. Where have artists like Cornelia Tipuamantumeri, Barbara Moore and Rhonda Sharpe suddenly come from? Pow!!” Very new Curator of Indigenous Art at the Museum & Art Gallery of the...» Read More
Indigenous artist wins Waterhouse art prize
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2012-07-20 17:18:43
Margaret Loy Pula has won this year's Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize, an award that commemorates the life and work of Frederick George Waterhouse, the first curator of the emerging South Australian Museum when it opened in January 1862, with...» Read More
ART MARKET CHEER
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2012-06-20 17:56:40
As has been reported elsewhere on Aboriginal Art News, the May/June spate of auctions for Aboriginal art hit a highpoint as Mossgreen to watch auctioneer Paul Sumner sell every one of the 66 desert paintings from the estate of American...» Read More
BLACKFELLA FILMS
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2012-06-15 12:59:46
A welcome change at the Sydney Film Festival was a special program of Indigenous films – Australian and international. This appears to be a move out of the Opera House by Rachel Perkins's Blackfella Films, where their Message Sticks film...» Read More
'A WONDEROUS CONTEMPORARY ART MOVEMENT'
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2012-05-31 19:15:18
Across the Pacific in Seattle collectors Bob Kaplan and Margaret Levi have developed a relationship with their local Seattle Art Museum (SAM) so that a 100+ artwork show opens today and runs into September. And even though there's only optimism...» Read More
Lives hidden in the life's work
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2012-05-21 09:30:36
THE looped chains of brilliant colour, the radiating line-work, the grids and vortex patterns -- they speak of a personality, and a strong one. At last, six years after her death, the dazzling Warlpiri artist Lorna Fencer Napurrurla is the...» 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
Australian film The Sapphires screening at Cannes
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2012-05-01 21:32:45
THE Australian film based on the true story of an indigenous girl band singing Motown classics, The Sapphires, has been selected as part of the official selection at the upcoming 2012 Cannes Film Festival. It is the only Australian feature film...» 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
Women with Clever Hands
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2012-03-16 11:37:18
The two year tour of fibre work from the small, almost unknown Arnhemland community of Gapuwiyak is continuing with its opening in Sydney, at the Object Gallery later this month. Originating from Wagga Wagga Art Gallery under the aegis of...» 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
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
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
GOING NOWHERE IN TOOMELAH
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2011-06-20 12:56:28
The phrases 'Aboriginal time' and “Gone walkabout' are generally uttered with pejorative intent – they're seen as part of the 'failure' of Aboriginal society. But as film director Ivan Sen would say – indeed he did at his film Toomelah's...» Read More
BLACK FILM-MAKING
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2011-05-13 16:55:26
Two fabulously true-to-life pictures of indigenous life in Australia are currently on offer on the big screen. If it's men and the minimally urban world of the Kimberley you're after – think Wyndham and Halls Creek and salt-pans in between...» Read More
IS ABORIGINAL ART BACK TO ITS AUCTION PEAK?
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2011-05-10 12:49:45
“I am thrilled with the art we have put together for this auction”, asserts Crispin Gutteridge, Head of Aboriginal Art at auction house Deutscher and Hackett. “It is the finest group of works yet to be auctioned by us in...» Read More
APY LANDS PROJECT INVOLVES YOUNG & OLD
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2011-03-23 09:43:44
Ngayulu witini ngayuku Mamaku tjukurpa. Ngayulu witini ngayuku Ngunytjuku tjukurpa. - "I hold My Fathers Story. I hold my Mothers Story". This exhibition is the outcome of a project initiated by Hector Burton who is a senior man working for Tjala...» Read More
SAD DEATH OF TENNIELLE NOCKETTA
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2011-02-17 11:48:39
Tennielle Nocketta wasn't a bankable or even known name in the Aboriginal art business. But she was a vitally important project for the future of the artform – and collateral damage of the failure of the Jirrawun project in the...» Read More
Western desert artist leaves behind record of women's ceremony
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2011-01-13 15:13:15
THE art world has been shaken by the death in early January of a ''visionary'' leader of the western desert art movement. Makinti Napanangka, thought to be in her 80s, took up painting in her 70s yet went on to...» Read More
EMILY AT MOMA
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2011-01-07 11:57:49
It is, of course, a joy to discover that a big international contemporary art show at an institution as prestigious as the Museum of Modern Art in New York has quite casually included Our Emily alongside Miro, Mondrian, Calder, Schwitters,...» Read More
‘No si hijomiono’o jabesi soré jajivo’ (We are painting the designs of our ancestors)
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-12-18 19:44:41
ReDot Fine Art Gallery is proud to welcome a very special exhibition of barkcloth art from the Ömie artists of Mount Lamington in Oro province, Papua New Guinea. An artistically groundbreaking event for ReDot Fine Art Gallery, this exhibition has...» Read More
THE DESERT COMES TO ADELAIDE
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2010-11-24 11:53:07
The Art Gallery of SA has organised its second big exhibition of Aboriginal art from the Desert, showing until the end of January and accompanied by a big catalogue. It's a very generous and gentle introduction to the art that...» Read More
ONCE UPON A TIME IN PAPUNYA
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2010-11-11 14:22:20
How to tackle this intimately informed, radically revisionist but ultimately frustrating tale of the art movement that did more than anything to change Australia's views about its indigenous people and bring their culture closer to the cities of the south? For...» Read More
Trailblazer helped Essendon revolutionise role of women
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-10-27 22:49:03
Beverly Knight's imminent departure from the Essendon board has scarcely made a ripple in the context of the club's myriad of upheavals this year. But on a day the AFL annually and officially declares as belonging to the women of...» Read More
MIRACLE ON THE CANNING
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2010-10-12 14:19:22
It was rumoured a couple of years ago that an anthropologist was about to make the astounding announcement that he'd traced the three Aboriginal grandparents who'd lived on the Canning Stock Route (CSR) earlier last century and sired most of...» 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
NEW PARADIGM IN CANBERRA
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2010-10-03 19:28:19
Prototype, precedent, templet, archetype, scantling, paradigm...so reads my Roget's Thesaurus – which I think gives you the drift of my thinking regarding the importance of recent events in Canberra. No – not on the Hill, where Tony Abbott seems determined not...» Read More
Curator unveils a triple treat
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-09-30 23:28:54
Hetti Perkins has put her heart and soul into an exhibition, television series and book about indigenous art, writes Steve Meacham. Like her famous father, the elegantly trouser-suited Hetti Perkins bites her nails and loves soccer. Unlike her famous father -...» Read More
Works on paper Bidyadanga Arts and Durrmu Arts
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-09-02 20:56:31
This month we are featuring in the gallery works on paper from the coastal communities of Bidyadanga and Peppimenarti. Bidyadanga Arts The art centre at Bidydanga has recently been re-established and is thriving under the enthusiastic stewardship of Jacky Cheng, with a...» Read More
UQ unveils first major survey of Aurukun art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-08-25 21:51:48
The University of Queensland Art Museum will be swimming with crocodiles, sharks and the odd dugong for its next exhibition, and you're encouraged to dive in for the experience. On show from September 11, Before Time Today is the first...» Read More
Aboriginal Artists Contemporary Card Project
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-08-20 23:46:44
This collection is supported by Catherine Manuell Design as part of our Women’s Aboriginal Artists Project. In buying this card you are directly supporting the artists and their community in their working lives. The project showcases the paintings of eight...» Read More
Indigenous art show at South Bank / Tayenebe: Tasmanian Aboriginal Women’s Fibre Work
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-08-17 19:55:07
A new exhibition showcasing the unique connections that Tasmanian Aboriginal people have with the land and sea opens on August 21 at Queensland Museum South Bank. Tayenebe: Tasmanian Aboriginal Women’s Fibre Work, on loan from the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery,...» Read More
RAK BULGUL TJARAKU BUTUNG - Bulgul. The healing Place.
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-08-11 13:03:46
The first exhibition in Australia of works by the women of...» Read More
Our Mob 2010
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-08-09 19:28:39
Adelaide Festival Centre is proud to present the fifth annual Our Mob exhibition, on display in the Artspace Gallery as well as theatre foyers from July 31 – September 5, 2010. Held during the 2010 SALA (South Australian Living Artists)...» 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
Jumbana Group has become a leading indigenous design and strategy company
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-07-25 23:38:11
Now, 27 years into its corporate life, Sydney-based Jumbana Group is a leading indigenous design and strategy company. Established by the Moriartys, Jumbana comprises the contemporary design studio, Balarinji, and an indigenous communications and facilitation practice, John Moriarty and Associates. Working...» Read More
Wilcannia pride
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-07-22 23:17:59
The gallery idea comes from 37 mainly Barkindji men and women who are transforming a dusty town park in Wilcannia in western New South Wales. It will become Reconciliation Park, a green, welcoming space with picnic tables, a playground, barbecues...» Read More
Is the penny about to drop in government? An extract from Peter Garrett's speech
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-07-16 23:56:27
The Indigenous visual arts sector is estimated to have an annual turnover of up to $500 million. Participation by Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islander people in the visual arts plays a vital role in supporting the maintenance and transmission of culture,...» Read More
"CIRCLES IN THE SAND" AT THE AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY, WASHINGTON DC
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-07-05 22:35:25
Last weekend I was in Washington DC for the annual conference of the American Library Association. The city was crowded, the weather sub-tropical, but I managed to escape for a while to the deserts of Centralia by visiting the Australian...» Read More
Australian Contemporary Indigenous Art - Now
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-07-05 20:32:17
Chiaroscuro presents, in association with Vivien Anderson Gallery in Melbourne Australia, a collection of work from five important contemporary Indigenous artists. With established careers in Australia, Chiaroscuro is proud to present their unique offerings exclusively in the United States. Set...» Read More
Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art – Now
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-07-05 20:30:22
Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art – Now July 9 – August 31, 2010 Sante Fe, NM- Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art in association with Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, will present the inaugural biennale exhibition, Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art – Now. This exhibition presents new...» Read More
The 2010 NPSW Aboriginal Art Award
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-07-03 22:00:54
5 June -10 July 2010 Bruce McLean, Associate Curator of Indigenous Australian Art, at the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, was at Lismore Regional Gallery to judge the winning works of the 2010 NPSW Aboriginal Art Award on Saturday 5...» 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
The Owen and Wagner Collection of Australian Aboriginal Art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-06-24 20:53:49
For Immediate Release June 2010 Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Announces the Owen and Wagner Collection of Australian Aboriginal Art The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College is pleased to announce an important private gift of contemporary Aboriginal art. Will Owen...» Read More
Hood Announces Major Gift of Aboriginal Art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-06-21 20:44:31
The Hood Museum of Art has announced a private gift of more than 300 works of contemporary Aboriginal art. The collection donated by Will Owen and Harvey Wagner makes the Hood one of the foremost repositories of contemporary Aboriginal Australian...» Read More
Circles in the Sand opens at Embassy of Australia
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-06-21 20:42:06
The Kluge-Ruhe Collection opened an exhibit of western desert art at the Embassy of Australia in Washington DC on June 14. Circles in the Sand: Aboriginal Art from Central Australia in the Kluge-Ruhe Collection features work from the art centers...» Read More
QUEEN HONOURS ABORIGINAL ARTISTS
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2010-06-18 13:34:53
The Queen's Birthday this year added two top Aboriginal artists to the roll of honour. John Mawurndjul from Maningrida in Western Arnhemland and Peggy Patrick from the East Kimberley both became Members of the Order of Australia – AMs. Mawurndjul's citation...» Read More
Clifford Possum Japaltjarri
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-06-14 20:59:40
For Art Sunday today, a great Australian artist, Clifford Possum Japaltjarri. Clifford Possum was born in 1932 on Napperby Station. He worked extensively as a stockman on the cattle stations in and around his tribal country. At this time he...» Read More
$42 million supports Australia's Indigenous arts, culture and heritage
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-06-14 20:05:10
$42 million from five Australian Government programs is supporting over 380 Indigenous arts, culture and heritage projects across Australia, the Minister for Arts and Heritage, Peter Garrett, announced today. "The Australian Government is committed to supporting Indigenous communities through funding for...» Read More
Tjala Arts and Tjanpi Desert Weavers
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-06-09 18:46:58
Watiku tjukurpa pulka mulapa, munu minymaku tjanpi; exhibition tjungu kupu The men’s stories are very strong with the women’s tjanpi; a strong exhibition Exhibition Dates: Tuesday 22nd June - Saturday 10th July 2010 It is with great pleasure that Alcaston Gallery presents an...» Read More
Winyarr-Ngu-Bala: Aboriginal Women Give To You
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-06-08 02:16:04
Celebrating National Reconciliation Week, this exhibition explores Victorian Aboriginal women’s identity and connection to culture, community and family. Artists include Vicki Couzens, Maree Clarke, Patricia Harrison, Bindi Cole, Megan Cadd, Paola Balla and Lee Darroch. Curated by Megan Cadd. Every day...» Read More
Indigenous work lauded
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-06-08 02:13:06
Every year, Manningham City Council acknowledges National Reconciliation Week with a celebration of indigenous culture and art. This is the fourth year that curator, Megan Cadd, a descendant of the Yorta Yorta people, has participated in Reconciliation Week. In putting Winyarr-Ngu-Bala: Aboriginal...» Read More
Awards inspire art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-06-02 18:32:50
Two local women are part of a push to promote the diversity of Australia’s Indigenous arts. An established writer from Malabar and an up-and-coming photographer from Chifley were the guests of honour at last week’s Australia Council’s National Indigenous Arts Awards. Dr...» Read More
Utopia Colour
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-06-01 17:55:46
McCulloch & McCulloch & Salt Contemporary Art invite you to attend Utopia Colour: an exhibition of vibrant Eastern Desert paintings by Minnie Pwerle, Molly Pwerle, Emily Pwerle, Galya Pwerle, Barbara Weir, Gloria Petyarre, Freddy Pwerle, Lizzie Pwerle & Katie Morgan. For...» Read More
Nothing succeeds like success
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-05-24 23:40:02
A great article by Will Owen about Papunya Tula But the company's commercial and artistic success, while it may be the envy of art centres and dealers across Australia, is just a partial measure of its achievement. The rest of the...» Read More
Looking Back at Country - Retrospective Exhibition, Series 1
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-05-09 07:15:31
Opening Event: Wednesday 19th May 2010, 6 - 8pm Exhibition Dates: Tuesday 18th May –Saturday 19th June 2010 From Alcaston Gallery: Martin Tjampitjinpa (born c. 1965 – d. 2007) His irresistible paintings explore his heritage, inheritance and also the respect that he bestowed...» Read More
Lockhart River Elders Featuring recent works by Doris Platt, Elizabeth "Queenie" Giblet, Sue Pascoe and introducing Lawrence Omeenyo. 14 May - 6 June 2010
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-05-04 17:03:52
You and your friends are invited to the opening on Friday, 14th of May at 6pm To be opened by: Dr Maryanne Coutts, National Art School. In the past decade the artists of Lockhart River have taken the art world by storm. The...» Read More
Mapping Me - Call for Artists
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-04-27 08:03:31
Mapping Me: A Landscape of Women's Stories Editors: Orchid Tierney and Tamara Azizian We are seeking submissions in any artistic format (photography, painting, sketching etc) from indigenous women for a new anthology project titled, "Mapping Me, a Landscape of Women's Stories." By...» Read More
Museum explores Australia's Balgo region
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-04-24 09:57:28
An exhibition entitled Balgo: Contemporary Australian Art from the Balgo Hills has opened at the Viet Nam Museum of Ethnology in Ha Noi. The largest collection of indigenous works ever displayed in Viet Nam, features 26 paintings by 18 established and...» Read More
Anmanari Brown & Tjayangka Woods
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-04-08 15:52:07
This exhibition marks Anmanari Brown and Tjayanka Woods’s first co solo exhibition in their intense painting careers, with a new body of work focussing on the Kungkarrakalpa, or Seven Sisters Tjukurpa. Anmanari Brown and Tjayanka Woods are two of the four...» Read More
Tjukurpa Pulkatjara - The Power of the Law
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-02-12 23:15:49
The South Australian Museum in association with Ananguku Arts and Culture Aboriginal Corporation proudly invites you to the opening of Tjukurpa Pulkatjara – the Power of the Law. Wednesday March 3 @ 6 pm South Australian Museum The 50th Adelaide Festival includes...» Read More
THE MET ADMITS ABORIGINAL ART
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2009-12-20 18:40:07
New York's mighty Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of those institutions that take to new trends at what might (before global warming) have been called glacial speed! So the appearance of a 14-canvas showing of Aboriginal art is both...» Read More
Find a Dream at the Chrissie Cotter Gallery
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-11-17 16:16:55
Women’s imaginative thoughts and desires are celebrated in Dreams, on show at the Chrissie Cotter Gallery from 5 - 29 November 2009. The annual Aboriginal women’s exhibition features the work of Shirley Amos, Euphemia Bostock, Tracey Bostock, Charmaine Davis, Joy Duncan,...» Read More
HELEN MCCARTHY BRINGS THE DALY RIVER TO SYDNEY
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2009-11-16 11:38:59
Helen McCarthy Tyalmuty is an Aboriginal/Irish woman from the Daly Rivermouth, south of Darwin. But her painting identity is solely with her mother's Wadjigan tribe, specifically the Batjamal language group, from whom she inherited the mud crab as her totem....» Read More
2009 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards shortlist announced
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-11-06 15:04:43
Arts Minister Lynne Kosky has announced a shortlist of eighteen Indigenous artists from across Victoria for the 2009 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards. Ms Kosky highlighted the diversity of style and medium amongst the artists selected, and pointed to strong representation from...» Read More
Jeannie Petyarre: Medicine Leaves
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-10-22 03:46:51
Jeannie Petyarre (Pitjara) was born in c.1951 on the Boundary Bore Outstation of Utopia, Aboriginal Art Regions of Central Australia. She is the sister to well known artists Greeny Purvis Petyarre, Evelyn Pultara, Rosemary Petyarre and Anna Price Petyarre. Her...» Read More
Walangari Karntawarra "Colours of the Rainbow Serpents"
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-09-19 22:30:23
To my people, colour and spirituality are intertwined, and colour gives meaning to the everyday aspects of our traditional lives, like gathering food and medicines and forecasting the weather. When our Creators, the male and female Rainbow Serpents first emerged from...» Read More
MENAGERIE COMES BACK TO TOWN
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2009-09-11 18:23:51
Menagerie is back in town! The 3-D show that began life in Sydney in 2009 spread across two venues - the Australian Museum and Object Gallery, has returned from its travels to Sydney. But it's all in one place this...» Read More
Museums collecting Yass's Aboriginal history
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-08-28 06:53:09
A little piece of Yass aboriginal history will soon be on display in the National Museum of Australia and stories about how Yass aboriginal people lived will be taken to the British Museum in London. Jonathan King, a Keeper at the...» Read More
PR and Politics at the 2009 Telstra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-08-25 15:41:28
PR and POLITICS at the 2009 TELSTRA ART AWARDS. THE POWER of PR The fanfare is over and the red carpet has been rolled away for another year. The winners of the 2009 Telstra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards are...» Read More
Bush Berry Dreaming
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-08-14 15:57:36
Bush Berry Dreaming 14th - 18th September 2009 9am - 5pm Opening night drinks: 17th September 2009 6pm - 8pm RSVP essential Smith & Hall Gallery 53-59 Great Buckingham Street Redfern NSW 2016 Josie Petrick Kemarre was born at Santa Teresa Mission, c.1953. and by the time she had begun...» Read More
GARMA FESTIVAL 2009
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2009-08-12 15:47:20
“My art is a story about the universe – about the stars”, says Gulumbu Yunupingu artlessly. The eldest member of the important Yunupingu clan, on whose land in the far North East corner of Arnhemland the annual Garma Festival has...» Read More
Artists of the Barkly
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-08-05 19:07:40
An extraordinary journey has begun for a group of artists from the Barkly region who have been invited to showcase their work at Tandanya. Tying in with Tandanya’s 20th Anniversary celebrations this year, a two-year exhibition in the making, Artists...» Read More
Koorie Art Projected
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-08-03 17:42:29
Media Release Exhibition Projects Koorie Art from Victoria’s East Tandeera, Koorie Heritage Trust, 295 King Street Melbourne, until 21 August 2009 Three Gunnai/Kurnai artists...» Read More
RICARDO IDAGI WINS WA ART PRIZE
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2009-07-25 19:01:44
Australia’s richest indigenous contemporary art award - the $50,000 Western Australian Indigenous Art Award – has been won by the Torres Strait's Ricardo Idagi. The 53 year old Idagi is a multidisciplinary artist, mask-maker and musician committed to the maintenance...» Read More
Annual Telstra Aboriginal Art Awards 1 month away
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-07-17 07:47:21
It's nearly that time of year again, The 26th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award's (NATSIAA) open in a months time on the 14th August. It will be very interesting to see the styles of Art that the...» Read More
Ada Bird Petyarre c. 1930 - 2009
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2009-07-15 18:53:02
Acclaimed Utopia artist, Ada Bird Petyarre, well known for the breast paint-ups of her Awelye (body paint designs) and for Arnkerrthe (Mountain Devil Lizard) paintings, passed away peacefully on Sunday 28th June. Famous for her bubbly personality, Ada was the...» Read More
Kimberley in harmony
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-06-23 03:56:46
Early in last year's dry season, abstract artist Ildiko Kovacs set out on a journey she had long yearned to make, up to Fitzroy Crossing in the far-off Kimberley. For three weeks, she haunted the Mangkaja Art Centre's studio shed, and...» Read More
GARMA TALKS CULTURE IN AUGUST
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2009-06-15 17:33:29
The Indigenous Creative Industries is the 2009 theme of the nationally significant Key Forum at this year's Garma Festival of Traditional Culture, Australia’s leading Indigenous cultural exchange, to be held for the 11th time in August at Gulkula, near Nhulunbuy...» Read More
Ngalla marraaju wuuju dulka kilwanmaruthu / We'll show you our country
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-06-12 15:57:18
The ReDot gallery is proud to welcome the 1st Singaporean show for the powerful and colourful works of the Bentinck Island Art Gang. "Ngalla marraaju wuuju dulka kilwanmaruthu/we'll show you our country" will showcase the very best from this group of...» Read More
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Warmurunngu- Nyarrapyi Giles Solo Exhibition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-06-11 22:32:49
Warmurunngu is the name of a site where women collect Kaarku ( coloured ochres) used in Inma (women ceremonies). When ochres are excavated and the spirits of the Karaya (emus) are released like Warlpa (wind) and take physical form....» Read More
GLORIA GOES TO PARIS
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2009-05-15 22:51:12
Celebrated Utopia artist, Gloria Petyarr has become the first Australian artist commissioned by Hermes, the swanky international fashion house based in Paris. Gloria's Leaf design was selected by Hermes for their 2009 collection, and has just been released internationally. The design...» Read More
WA ART PRIZE NOMINEES NAMED
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2009-05-12 14:54:53
Fifteen Indigenous artists and one artists collective are nominated for Australia's richest art prizes. They are: Tony Albert (born 1981 Townsville QLD, lives Brisbane QLD) Lorraine Connelly-Northey (born 1962 Swan Hill VIC, lives Swan Hill VIC) Timothy Cook (born 1958 Goose Creek, Milikapiti,...» Read More
Batik Brilliance
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-04-10 03:13:39
Will Owen reviews Across the Desert: Aboriginal Batik from Central Australia: And yet the batiks themselves, like much textile art, are notoriously fragile, their materials and colors both susceptible to degradation by exposure, to handling and to light. And so these...» Read More
Some of Us - Lockhart River Art Gang
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-04-09 16:04:20
Lockhart River is a remote Aboriginal Community on the east coast of Cape York in far north Queensland. It is about 850 km north of Cairns by road. During the wet season creeks and rivers flood and close th road...» Read More
Traditional twist to modern medium in Yolgnu culture
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-04-08 03:10:37
Midway through 2007, at the Garma festival near Yirrkala, some short, experimental films made by young Yolngu film workers were premiered. A year later, a clip made by the same team to illustrate the story of a new bark painting...» Read More
From Desert to Saltwater Country
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-03-26 18:48:20
The ReDot gallery is proud to welcome the 1st Singaporean show for the exciting works of the Yulparija and Mangala artists of Bidyadanga. “FROM DESERT TO SALTWATER COUNTRY” will showcase the very best from this art community whose ancestral lands...» Read More
Paula Paul: Kuruwarriyingathi Bijarrb - that is who I am
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-02-24 07:38:50
Kuruwarriyingathi Bijarrb Paula Paul paints with a small group of women from Bentinck Island, the largest of a small group of islands in Queensland's Gulf of...» Read More
Written in the Land: Story of Queenie McKenzie
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-01-11 04:10:22
Written in the Land celebrates the life of Indigenous Elder of the Kimberley’s Queenie McKenzie View Flyer View Sample Pages The book on the life of an Indigenous leader of the East Kimberley in Western Australia Queenie McKenzie was launched at...» Read More
Intellectual inbreeding, but insight aplenty
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-12-21 01:35:42
The final piece, ‘The Collector’, is by Nicolas Rothwell, perhaps our finest essayist. This subtle, sublime piece — 14 pages long — was first published in The Monthly. It documents how in late June 1956, the Paris-trained Czech artist Karel...» Read More
Written in the Land celebrates the life of Indigenous Elder of the Kimberley’s Queenie McKenzie
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-12-19 06:27:34
The book on the life of an Indigenous leader of the East Kimberley in Western Australia Queenie McKenzie was launched at the National Museum of Australia by Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin, Warmun Community chairperson Shirley Purdie and senior...» Read More
In the shadow of modernity
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-12-14 04:20:16
The disappearance of a powerful desert artist and magic man offers a rare window into the hidden realm of traditional indigenous beliefs From Nicholas Rothwell at the Australian: One morning in mid-April this year, senior desert lawman Spider Kalbybidi walked out of...» Read More
Evelyn Pultara
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-12-11 09:38:36
Evelyn Pultara was born during the outbreak of World War II at Woodgreen Station, the cattle property adjoining Utopia Station and has now become a senior custodian for her Dreaming the bush yam. She began painting traditional bush tucker and...» Read More
Galya Pwerle Exhibition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-12-11 09:32:22
Galya is continually developing her own unique, contemporary style and is proving to be an exciting and progressive artist. In 2005 and 2008 her work was nominated in the prestigious Telstra Awards held in Darwin. Galya paints "Awelye Atnwengerrp" which...» Read More
Galya Pwerle Exhibition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-12-11 09:32:22
Galya is continually developing her own unique, contemporary style and is proving to be an exciting and progressive artist. In 2005 and 2008 her work was nominated in the prestigious Telstra Awards held in Darwin. Galya paints "Awelye Atnwengerrp" which...» Read More
Written in the Land: The Life of Queenie McKenzie
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-12-05 00:41:54
Written in the Land: The Life of Queenie McKenzie This beautifully produced book tells the story of Queenie McKenzie, a remarkable indigenous woman from the East Kimberley in Western Australia. Now deceased, Queenie was an important cultural leader, revered...» Read More
Black and White At NG Gallery
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-12-04 09:02:19
The latest in an on-going series of thought provoking Aboriginal art exhibitions at NG Art curated by Coo-ee Aboriginal Art “Aboriginal paintings are often described as landscapes but they are far more than this. They are all about nature and the...» Read More
Albert Namatjira exhibition a delight
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-12-02 08:36:06
Although Namatjira's personal history had a tragic outcome, he continues to inspire a vigorous tradition in landscape painting that is only recently receiving renewed recognition, having been swamped by the success of the acrylic dot painting movement. Another offshoot has flourished...» Read More
GOOCH'S UTOPIA
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2008-11-26 11:45:00
Of the key (white) facilitators of the Aboriginal art movement, only Geoffrey Bardon has ensured his own immortality via assiduous publication. And his reputation is based on just 12 months effort between the school wall painting at Papunya and his...» Read More
Launch of Written in the Land: the Life of Queenie McKenzie
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-11-25 01:21:13
I would first like to acknowledge the traditional owners of this land. And I want to acknowledge the contribution made by Argyle Diamonds – the first major company to make Aboriginal employment a priority and a supporter of the book. And Peter...» Read More
Exhibition aims to raise profile of fibre art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-11-17 20:29:16
Penny McLintock reports for ABC: The curator of a new exhibition on Indigenous fibre art hopes it will raise the profile of the contemporary works. ReCoil: Change and Exchange in Coiled Fibre Art includes works by 15 textile artists and is on...» Read More
Poly Ngal
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-11-15 04:08:28
Currently amongst the most senior custodians of her country Arparra, in the heart of Utopia, 250 kms North East of Alice Springs, Poly Ngal shares with her sisters, Kathleen Ngal, and Angelina responsibility as keepers of its cultural...» Read More
Desert masters claim place in history
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-10-21 20:16:07
Vivien Johnson's emotive book launch as reported by Nicolas Rothwell for The Australian: IT was almost four decades ago, in this harsh desert country, that the Aboriginal painting movement was born. Now, after many tribulations and triumphs, the definitive history...» Read More
Portraits from Papunya
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-10-21 20:15:17
Nicolas Rothwell reports for The Australian: ALMOST four decades ago, in the remote western desert community of Papunya, senior Aboriginal men began painting their traditional designs. Swiftly, insistently, the art map of Australia changed. Within a few years, those first,...» Read More
Josie Petrick Kemarre
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-10-19 03:06:40
Josie Petrick Kemarre was born at Santa Teresa Mission, c.1953. and by the time she had begun painting in 1990 she was living in the Eastern Desert region surrounding Utopia. Based on the native plants of her homeland and her...» Read More
Quality Aboriginal Art in Perth
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-10-17 11:47:31
The Business Spectator recommends the current Japingka Gallery exhibitions: In WA, if you want to see, and possibly buy, quality, genuine Aboriginal art, Japingka Gallery is the next best thing to going out in person to the remote communities. Japingka, in Fremantle,...» Read More
Auction airs possum skin cloak tradition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-10-14 19:59:00
Interesting article in The Age about possum skin cloaks: SEVERAL years ago, Aboriginal women Treahna Hamm and Lee Daroch drove from their respective homes in Gippsland and Wodonga to view two rare 19th-century possum skin cloaks in the possession of Museum...» Read More
First Contact
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-10-14 19:58:15
A new series shows how the infant NSW colony lost the chance to be an inclusive society, Graeme Blundell from the Australian writes: I GREW up in outer suburban Melbourne in the 1950s knowing nothing of the original inhabitants of my...» Read More
Across the desert Aboriginal Batik from Central Australia
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-10-12 16:50:43
Across the Desert: Aboriginal batik from Central Australia celebrates the emergence of a dynamic art form and the genesis of Aboriginal women’s art practice in five distinct desert communities – Ernabella (Pukatja), Fregon (Kaltjiti), Utopia, Yuendumu and Kintore (Walungurru). Each...» Read More
Womens Law
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-10-03 00:00:00
These senior custodians of Womens Law have made substantial works that reflect on the traditions and roles of women in indigenous communities and on the customary practices that they uphold and maintain. The selected artists include Eubena Nampitjin, Makinti Napanangka,...» Read More
Beauty from within
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-29 04:52:13
Nicholas Rothwell reviews/previews the 2008 Desert Mob Art Show in Alice Springs: The most appealing works on view in this year's Desert Mob hold to the recent pattern: newly established art centres seem to nourish a special creative fire. Martumili Artists,...» Read More
QUT students coming to aid of island population
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-25 00:28:32
A group of QUT engineering students is traveling to Bentick Island to build much-needed infrastructure: Five engineering students from Brisbane will travel more than 2000 kilometres to a remote indigenous community in the state's far north tomorrow to build much-needed sustainable...» Read More
Women's Law
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-25 00:10:27
A wide ranging survey of some of the best Indigenous Women Artists painting at the moment. Featured Artists include this years Telstra Award Winning Artist, Makinti Napanangka along with recognised "greats" such as Lorna Fencer Napurrula, Walangkura Napanangka and Eubena...» Read More
Women's Law
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-24 23:44:31
Japingka is celebrating the arrival of Spring and the associated rebirth of colour in the desert country by dedicating both of its gallery exhibition spaces to outstanding works by 12 Australian Indigenous women artists from the remote west of Australia...» Read More
Fires from the Desert
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2008-09-23 17:38:12
Two of the most vibrant colourists to emerge from the Western Desert are showing at the Agathon Galleries in Sydney and Melbourne. Both women are Wanarn residents working for the Irrunytju Arts centre, and only avid travellers will have the...» Read More
Ada Bird Petyarre
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-21 02:40:16
Ada Bird Petyarre emerged as a seminal participant in the ‘Summer Project’ organized by the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association CAAMA in 1988. This workshop was to play a vital role in introducing women into what was, at the time,...» Read More
From dog days in the territory to gallery top dog
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-12 11:57:07
Natasha Robinson reports on Dion Bealeys latest successes: WHEN retired teacher Joie Boulter devoted her life to looking after a disabled Aboriginal boy, she had no idea that a few years later she would be sitting in a swanky Top End...» Read More
50,000 Years New, Aboriginal Art Curated by Ron Acker
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-09 17:16:08
Exhibition Opening: 50,000 Years New, Aboriginal Art Curated by Ron Acker Some of the most extraordinary art in the world today is being created by Aboriginal men and women in remote communities throughout Australia. Aboriginal art is often described as radical,...» Read More
Bentinck Island Artists
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-09 03:31:11
Bandikawaanda makuwalada rarunginja thaand Return of Kaiadilt Women Paula Paul, Amy Loogatha, †M.M, Ethel Thomas, Netta Loogatha, Dawn Naranatjil and Sally Gabori Tuesday 16 September – Saturday 4 October 2008 Opening Saturday 20 September from 2pm – 4pm At 3pm on Saturday 20 September Professor...» Read More
ACPACS Seminar: Art and Politics in Melanesia
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-08 13:25:07
Political crises and social upheavals galvanise artists to give vision and voice to people’s concerns. In Melanesia, as elsewhere, art is an active agency that draws attention to issues of human rights and assists people to make sense of complex...» Read More
Exhibition September 08: Coo-ee Aboriginal Art presents Utopia’s Modern Women Collection, Bondi Beach Australia
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-05 10:03:45
The Utopia's Modern Women Collection was assembled by the past Director of Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane. It is a broad curatorial framework representing their reference of indigenous readings of the Australian Landscape. These paintings are by both well-known and emerging...» Read More
Old art's modern twist
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-03 16:35:36
A BIPLANE and a car woven from grass represent the dramatic changes taking place in Aboriginal fibre art. The works are included in a new touring exhibition, ReCoil , at Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute. Curator Margie West said Recoil was inspired...» Read More
Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri - circa 1920s - 2008
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-22 16:50:21
It is with great sadness and regret that Japingka Gallery in association with The Watiyawanu Artists of Amunturrngu announce the passing of one of the great Indigenous Artists of our time. Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri was initially renowned and respected as...» Read More
Aboriginal elder wins nation's top art prize
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-20 14:40:53
The Adelaide Advertiser reports on the Telstra awards: The artist has been a finalist eight times, but aged 83 and frail, she did not come to Darwin from her traditional homeland west of Alice Springs to collect her award. Sarita Quinlivan, her...» Read More
2008 Telstra Awards for Aboriginal Art Announced
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-19 13:51:31
Awards for the 25th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA) were announced on Aug 15, 2008. Despite controversy surrounding the participation of some community art centres that declined to compete because of the involvement of certain commercial...» Read More
Annette Webb and Friends
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-19 13:07:30
This exhibition showcases a number of exciting works by Aboriginal artists Annette Webb, David Webb, Ann-Maree Webb, Lynette Williams and Chontel King. This diverse range of works includes paintings, mixed media on canvas as well as gourds, bags and jewellery...» Read More
Winner shines amid protests at indigenous art awards
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-17 14:20:28
The West Australian celebrates Makinti Napanangka's Telstra Art award: Judge Hetti Perkins, from the Art Gallery of NSW, said the field of 117 entries in the Darwin-based award was strong despite the withdrawals. “We regret that the withdrawn works aren’t...» 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
New centre pledged for Aboriginal art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-14 13:53:44
A brief report n ABC online about funding for a new art centre in Northern South Australia: A new arts centre for remote Aboriginal communities has been promised in South Australia's far north-west. It will replace an old centre being used by...» Read More
New centre pledged
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-14 12:14:39
News today of a new arts centre promised in South Australia's far north-west, to replace the old centre being used by Aboriginal women at Amata, on the APY Lands. More than $700,000 of federal and state funding will allow the bigger...» Read More
Like mother, like daughter
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-13 13:07:24
The Cenberra Times discusses the work of the Webb sisters: The works of mother and daughter Aboriginal artists Annette and Ann-Maree Webb are part of a new exhibition at Hurstville's St George Regional Museum. The exhibition, Annette Webb and Friends includes paintings,...» Read More
Three Women: One Country
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-05 06:06:20
Three women - One country shares the connection between artist and place. Judy Mengil, Daisy Bitting and Carol Hapke are connected by the country to which they belong; Ngarangarni. This exhibition is at the same time an individual expression by each...» Read More
Durmmu Arts
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-01 23:47:49
Durrmu Arts launched a great new website, http://www.durrmu.com.au/ in late March this year. Durrmu Arts, the Peppimenarti community art program, is renowned for its fine, contemporary art production, including acrylic painting and fibre work. Senior artist Regina Pilawuk Wilson (winner,...» Read More
Mil-Pra Aecg Annual Aboriginal Art Exhibition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-07-29 03:18:20
Nyree Reynolds is the winner of the Mil-Pra Aecg Annual Aboriginal Art award. This Award is in conjunction with Casula Powerhouse, which is part of Liverpool Council. About the Mil-Pra Aecg Annual Aboriginal Art award A national annual event aimed...» Read More
Paintings to cover holes in the wall
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-07-22 07:30:42
10 ATMs around Australia will be painted by Titjikala artists in conjunction with the National Australia Bank. Quoted from the article: Titjikala Arts Centre manager Jane Easton said: "Their paintings tend not to focus on traditional styles. They are explorative, creative....» Read More
Australian Photographic Artist launches Nudes in Europe
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-07-19 09:21:35
Royalty, Television stars and Europe’s finest Art Critics gathered in Berlin, Germany to attend the unveiling of the latest exhibition by one of Australia’s leading contemporary Indigenous artists Wayne Quilliam. More than 150 people were welcomed by the Australian Ambassador...» Read More
Atnwengerrp: Land of Dreamings
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-07-03 12:06:49
To celebrate the extraordinary achievements of the late Minnie Pwerle - one of Australia’s most collected Aboriginal artists – Designer Rugs is proud to present an outstanding limited edition collection of Minnie Pwerle rugs. To be launched in Australia on 17th...» Read More
Atnwengerrp Collection by Minnie Pwerle
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-07-03 08:15:22
Minnie Pwerle, one of Australia's most important indigenous artists, was born in the Utpoia region in approximately 1910. Minnie did not start painting until late in 1999, her first finished pieces became an instant success and quickly captured the attention...» Read More
Reconciliation is a Flash Beanie
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-06-07 04:02:33
as Jeremy Eccles discovers The Beanie may be the humblest of headwares, but it has proud history going back to the calotte in Ancient Greece and forward to the football terraces of the world, via Cromwell's Roundheads in the English Civil...» Read More
The Heart of Everything
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-05-10 00:12:46
Excellent news is the publication of a book about the extraordinary young art movement on Bentinck and Mornington Islands in the remote Gulf of Carpentaria. The Heart of Everything comes from specialist publisher McCulloch & McCulloch and uses...» Read More
Utopia discoveries
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-04-29 05:25:27
Utopia Discoveries explores the diverse art practices of this region – from the internationally recognised Gloria Petyarre and Barbara Weir to the emerging talents of Emily and Galya Pwerle. Drawing upon customs of bush medicine and womens’ ceremonies this exhibition...» Read More
Aboriginal Fine Art Finds a home in Chicago
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-04-15 22:06:35
Aboriginal Art Collection, a New Gallery Devoted to Showcasing Established and Emerging Aboriginal Artists, to open April 11 CHICAGO – Aboriginal Art Collection, the only gallery in Chicago devoted to contemporary Aboriginal fine art, will officially open with an opening night...» Read More
Warakurna Artists Group Exhibition Perth
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-04-04 03:31:57
Watilu Minymalu Kulira Watjarra Tjukurrpa Purlkanya Mularrpa - Men and Women know and speak of their profound knowledge Watilu Minymalu Kulira Watjarra Tjukurrpa Purlkanya Mularrpa Men and Women know and speak of their profound knowledge Exhibition from - Friday 11th April to...» Read More
Utopia Collection 1
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-04-04 00:00:00
Small and subtle works by selected artists of the Utopia homelands, displaying the diversity and finely tuned skills of this strong group of women artists. The exhibition includes works by Jeannie Mills, Patsy Long Kemarre, Judy Purvis Kngwarreye, Jedda Kngwarreye,...» Read More
Record prices for Aboriginal art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-03-24 01:30:09
Information about a recent Aboriginal art auction from Lawson-Menzies. Quoted from the article: Some 120 works went under the hammer tonight for the Lawson-Menzies auction, many of which were post-1980 Aboriginal works. A spokeswoman for auction house Lawson-Menzies said a clearance rate of...» Read More
Agathon Galleries Showcases Women’s Painting of the Gibson Desert
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-03-17 12:32:39
Irrunytju’s Kuntjil Cooper and Tjayanka Woods Depict Dreamtime Epic of ‘Seven Sisters Dreamings’ Celebrating two of the most distinguished artists at Irrunytju Art Centre, Agathon Galleries will be showcasing the work of Kuntjil Cooper and Tjayanka Woods at their next...» Read More
Decipher Creation Myths, Blow Glass at Singapore Art Galleries
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-03-08 02:37:51
Tiger Palpatja, born around 1920, had a late start as an artist. He began painting only three years ago. Palpatja, who is from Amata in South Australia, about 1,100 kilometers (684 miles) northwest of Adelaide, is one of a growing number...» Read More
Senior artists of Fitzroy Crossing. W.A.
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-03-07 00:06:32
Senior Women artists of Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia Stories about country are the subject of the beautiful contemporary works by the women of Fitzroy Crossing. They are stories that remind us that time is not necessarily linear: while it is...» Read More
The Power of Place: Paintings and Sculpture from the Eastern Desert at Tandanya, Adelaide
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-03-03 17:18:33
A celebration of Land - a vibrant spiritual landscape - seen through the art of the Anmatyarr and Alyawarr people of the Eastern Desert region, NT. Power of Place includes exciting new iconographic and geometric ceremonial paintings and artifacts from...» Read More
Utopia Revisited
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-02-09 11:35:25
NG Art Gallery is hosting 'a women's' only exhibition to coincide loosely with International Women's Day on Saturday 8 March. A number of established indigenous artists will show their work in 'Utopia Revisited' to be opened by Her Excellency Professor...» Read More
AlphaWomen.com and Aboriginal Art Collection Showcase Aboriginal Art and Artists
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-01-26 13:38:50
CHICAGO,IL. (January 18, 2008) - Women and art. The history is deeper than most can ever imagine, particularly in Australia. The Aboriginal Art Collection Gallery and AlphaWomen.com will host a special exhibition to showcase the amazing works of Indigenous Australian Aboriginal...» Read More
Threats and Intimidation
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-12-27 09:03:46
A fascinating post from Thriving in the Desert about threats to the Warakurna Art Centre. Quoted from the post: I have faith in the artists, they have always stood strongly behind their enterprise. There is an extraordinary group of strong men and...» Read More
Forging a language of emotion
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-12-27 06:33:15
The Australian Forging a language of emotion Nicolas Rothwell December 27, 2007 Quoted from the article: A little more than a year ago, the style of Makinti Napanangka, queen of the Western Desert's Pintupi painters, began to change. The trademark yellow and white arcs of...» Read More
Mission Times
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-11-23 12:51:32
Mossenson Galleries Subiaco is delighted to present Mission Times, an exhibition of new paintings by Pauline Moran representing her time as a child on the Roelands Mission. The exhibition will be opened by Diana Warnock, Former Member for Perth and...» Read More
Mitjili Napurrula
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-10-19 00:00:00
Mitjili is a highly recognisable stylist among contemporary Pintupi painters. She draws on the spear making Tjukurrpa from her father\'s country Uwalki, near the Kintore Ranges. Her distinctive iconography of repeated motifs represents the womens side of this Tjukurrpa, showing...» Read More
NYC: Gallery Reception - Utopia Aboriginal Exhibition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-07-11 01:23:32
Details on "NYC: Gallery Reception - Utopia Aboriginal Exhibition" Advance, the American Australian Association and Robert Steele Gallery invite members to a special reception to view the Australian Aboriginal art exhibition New Work From Utopia. Named by German settlers immigrating to...» Read More
Dreaming in Color: Aboriginal Art from Balgo
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-04-30 03:19:43
Dreaming in Color: Aboriginal Art from Balgo is a breathtaking exhibition of paintings from the community of Balgo, Australia, the traditional land of the Kukatja, Ngarti, and Walmajarri peoples. Brilliant in color and vibrant in design, the paintings reflect traditional Aboriginal tenets relating...» Read More
Dreaming their way: Aboriginal art on view at Hood Museum
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2006-10-20 02:59:28
The Aboriginal people of Australia are that country's most impoverished group. They have an average household income 40 percent lower than the rest of Australia's residents, according to the Australian government's social justice commission. They have an unemployment rate three...» Read More
Samantha Hobson Land To Sea
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2006-09-29 03:47:23
Courier Mail Kathleen Noonan September 29, 2006 11:00pm From the Courier Mail: We're out the back of Andrew Baker's art gallery in Brisbane's Bowen Hills, in a room where the real deals are done. It's chock-a-block with paintings. But this morning all eyes are on...» Read More
The Australian: the desert's tainted brush
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2006-09-11 06:36:35
As the Aboriginal art community struggles against a growing culture of fraud, one group of desert artists is taking a stand, writes Nicholas Rothwell A thread of rich, autumnal colours, fit for the burning season, runs through the latest Desert...» Read More
Judy Martin Napangardi - Paintings from Lajamanu
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2006-09-01 00:00:00
Judy Martin continues to create strong paintings from the Women\'s Ceremonial stories of her Warlpiri homelands. She focuses on stories from the Women\'s site at Mina Mina in the Tanami Desert, where Warlpiri women come together to re-enact the Dreaming...» Read More
Dreaming Their Way: Australian Aboriginal Women Painters
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2006-06-30 09:13:41
Dreaming Their Way: Australian Aboriginal Women Painters is a groundbreaking exhibition of art by indigenous women of Australia. The first-ever of its kind in the U.S., the exhibition presents over seventy works of art, from intensely colorful canvases to intricate...» Read More
Across Skin
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2005-10-14 00:00:00
Japingka Gallery has curated an eclectic collection of major works by some of the best Indigenous women artists from the Western Desert. Featured Artists include: Walangkura Napanangka, Makinti Napanangka, Judy Watson Napangardi, Eunice Napanangka, Lorna Napurrula Fencer, Kim Napurrula West.Traditional...» Read More
Watiyawanu Artists
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2005-08-26 00:00:00
This remarkable all women exhibition features the distinctive work of award winning artist, Lily Kelly Napangardi as well as senior Ngangkari (law-woman), Colleen Whiskey Nampitjinpa. Other highly sought after artists exhibiting include Wentja 2 Napaltjarri, Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri (who will...» Read More
The Age: Ute carries artists' hopes and dreams
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2005-08-20 14:13:05
Patrick Hutchings reports that this year's Telstra awards reveal the changes and the continuities in indigenous art. The $40,000 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award for 2005 was won by Tjanpi Grass Toyota: dreams woven into utility. A...» Read More
A Gallery of Dreaming
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2005-04-08 07:18:14
An interesting article about Australian Aboriginal artists, focussed on women from the Central Desert region, that describes the difficulties facing artists and the industry and why critical success in the art world does not necessarily lead to...» 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
Minnie Pwerle & Mitjili Napurrula
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2004-04-30 00:00:00
This exhibition featured major paintings by two of the most respected and most collectable of the senior desert artists, Minnie Pwerle and Mitjili Napurrula.Minnie Pwerle was born circa 1910 near the remote community of Utopia which is 270 kilometres north-east...» Read More
Building partners with Aboriginal artists and communities
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2003-12-19 03:23:38
Building partners with Aboriginal artists and communities U.Va. has largest Aboriginal art collection in world, outside of Australia Jane Ford When the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection opened here in January 1999, its off-Grounds location on Pantops Mountain was so remote that it may...» Read More
Warlpiri Women's Paintings Lajamanu
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2000-09-08 05:09:55
In 1986 a small group of women produced the first paintings for Warnayaka Art Centre, Lajamanu NT. These paintings have become important documents of Warlpiri culture held in the National Gallery of Victoria, collected at the instigation of the curator...» Read More
Rover & Queenie
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2000-05-23 01:31:26
This exhibition pays tribute to the work of Rover Thomas and Queenie McKenzie, two major artists from Warmun community in the East Kimberley. The exhibition, drawn solely from the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, also...» Read More
That Silly Old Woman
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 1998-05-16 13:31:38
“The all-over picture relies on a surface knit of identical or closely similar elements which repeat themselves without marked variation from one edge to the other. It…dispenses apparently with beginning, middle and end…dissolving the pictorial into sheer texture, sheer sensation…seeming...» Read More
