January, 2009
Yankuni Laju Karnkani Kujungka (We Are Traveling Together By Air)
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 31.01.09
ReDot Gallery cordially invites you to ‘Yankuni laju karnkani kujungka’ (We are traveling together by air). The first international show of fine Aboriginal paintings from Martumili Artists. Ms Penny Burtt, Australia's Deputy High Commissioner to Singapore will inaugurate the exhibition....» Read More
Yankuni Laju Karnkani Kujungka (We Are Traveling Together By Air)
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 31.01.09
The ReDot gallery is proud to welcome the 1st international show for the exciting works of Martumili Artists. ‘Yankuni laju karnkani kujungka’ (We are traveling together by air) will showcase the very best from this relatively new, remote, art community....» Read More
BLACK PICASSO IN NEW YORK
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 28.01.09
There are many strange things happening in the US at the moment, but few can be more intriguingly circular than Mabuiag Islander Alick Tipoti's mask inspired by the mask from Picasso's own Collection – which visited Brisbane last year. For...» Read More
The evolving face of Aboriginal art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 28.01.09
One painting resembles a Roy Lichtenstein, another has the emblematic target of Jasper Johns, and a photographic portrait channels Andy Warhol. If that doesn’t sound like Aboriginal art, then an exhibit touted as Australia’s first major survey of indigenous art...» Read More
Imagine if batik was the new black
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 28.01.09
From the Age about the new exhibition at the Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria: The spectacular flowering of art in the Australian outback has sometimes been called the Aboriginal Renaissance. Some whitefella pride sits in this charming title,...» Read More
Marina Murdilinga
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 28.01.09
From This Art Week, the Australian Art Collector: Marina Murdilinga has won the $5000 Togart People's Choice Award for her woven pandanus and bamboo work called Dirdbim (Moon Dreaming)....» Read More
Martumili Artists are having their first international show at Redot Gallery in Singapore this February
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 28.01.09
From This Art Week, the Australian Art Collector: Martumili Artists are having their first international show at Redot Gallery in Singapore this February. The exhibition Yankuni laju karnkani kujungka (We are traveling together by air) includes works by Nancy Taylor,...» Read More
Yellow Vest Syndrome: recent west Australian art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 28.01.09
An exhibition about changing perceptions of landscape and country featuring 26 West Australian artists....» Read More
Art For Breakfast
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 28.01.09
Artists include Katjarra Butler, Mary Gibson, Nyarrapyi Giles, Nancy Chapman and others....» Read More
Annual Group Watercolour Show
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 28.01.09
Subjects covering Bayside landmarks to Australian and European landscapes and cityscapes, with native and garden florals....» Read More
Morgan Sisters
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 28.01.09
Two sisters from Utopia, who share the same Country and Dreamings, yet possess very individual and beautiful forms of expression....» Read More
Deleuzian or not, it's all sensation
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 27.01.09
From The Australian In her little book Chaos, Territory, Art, philosopher Elizabeth Grosz provides us with a way of, if not understanding, at least experiencing and appreciating Aboriginal art, with the assistance of one of the 20th century's most exhilarating...» Read More
Aboriginal art: it's a complicated thing
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 27.01.09
Tim Acker's article in ArtLink: While the art dazzles the eye and the prices make headlines, there is a fundamental disconnect at work within the Aboriginal art industry. The market's focus on the consumption of art and the profitability of...» Read More
The Art Of The Bundjalung Nation
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 27.01.09
Michael said he hoped The Art Of The Bundjalung Nation would encourage more Indigenous artists to be proud of their culture and their art. “There’s a lot of black fellas around here who would be just be too embarrassed to...» Read More
Collecting Australian Aboriginal Art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 26.01.09
Described by renowned Australian art critic, Robert Hughes, as belonging to ‘the world’s last great art movement’, collectors of art from this extraordinary ancient but vibrant living culture have, in recent years, fuelled a boom in sales. Prices at auction...» Read More
The healing power of art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 23.01.09
From the Northern Rivers Echo: When Michael Philp burnt out from his welfare job several years ago, a friend suggested he try painting as therapy. It was a suggestion that changed his life. Five years on Michael couldn’t imagine his...» Read More
McCulloch's Contemporary Aboriginal Art: A Writer's Selection 1992–2008
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 22.01.09
Art gathered by art writers Emily and Susan McCulloch on their research trips over almost two decades to Australia's remote art producing regions including the Central Desert, Arnhem Land & the Top End, Queensland, the Kimberley, NPY and PY lands....» Read More
Australian Film Festival & Art Exhibition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 22.01.09
Celebrate Australia Day 2009 with an extraordinary Film Festival and Art Exhibition “Dreaming Stories - Australian Indigenous Cultural Festival” Date : 22- 26 January 2009 Place : Blitz Megaplex Grand Indonesia Shopping Centre Film – Screening of award winning Australia...» Read More
Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 22.01.09
Exhibition of some of the earliest and rarest paintings by Indigenous Australian artists; artists to visit Ithaca and create “ground work” The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University presents Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from...» Read More
Nomad: Two Worlds
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 20.01.09
The fashion photographer Russell James recently travelled to the Australian outback and shot landscape photographs of burial grounds, gorges, and other areas of import to Aboriginal spiritual practices. He then invited Aboriginal artists to paint on the prints, and the...» Read More
Industry insiders are alarmed by loopholes in the draft
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 20.01.09
From Ashleigh Wilson at the Australian: The aim [of the Australian Indigenous Art Commercial Code of Conduct] was to improve transparency in the market and improve conditions for artists. But industry figures say the draft code, released last month and...» Read More
Mini Hatch: Napolean Oui
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 20.01.09
Mini Hatch: Napolean Oui Echoes of the rainforest Tuesday 13 January to Saturday 7 February 2009...» Read More
Thanakupi, Ceramic Exhibition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 20.01.09
New ceramic works by Dr Thancoupie Gloria Fletcher Saturday 8 November to Saturday 14 February 2009...» Read More
Blak Roots
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 20.01.09
The KickArts Indigenous Survey Exhibition in collaboration with the Wet Tropics Management Authority and JCU, School of Creative Arts Friday 28 November to Saturday 21 February 2009...» Read More
Art For Breakfast
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 20.01.09
Opening with an all day breakfast. Featuring Tjapartji Bates, Katjarra Butler, Mary Gibson, Nyarrapyi Giles, Nancy Chapman and more....» Read More
Inaugural Cairns Indigenous Art Fair
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 20.01.09
From This Art Week (Australian Art Collector): As Queensland celebrates its 150th anniversary this year, the Queensland Government has announced the creation of a new art fair. The inaugural Cairns Indigenous Art Fair will take place from 21-23 August 2009....» Read More
Creativity feels the crunch
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.01.09
A very interesting article in the Australian about the impact of the credit crunch on the Aboriginal art market: The new year looms dark and forbidding for the nation's most distinctive visual product, that purest symbol of Australian complexity: Aboriginal...» Read More
Aboriginal Artists Say Code May Stymie Bad Deals, Fuel Sales
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 15.01.09
From Bloomberg: Aboriginal artist Rene Kulitju, who paints at the base of Uluru in remote Australia, says new rules may help curb dealers exploiting artists and fuel sales as the economic downturn crimps the global appetite for art. Australia has...» Read More
John Weeronga Bartoo wins prize
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.01.09
John Weeronga Bartoo has been awarded the second prize in the Palm Art Award 2008 in Leipzig, Germany....» Read More
GRANTPIRRIE Opening: The New Mob, Thurs 15 January 6 - 8pm
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.01.09
GRANTPIRRIE will open for 2009 on Thursday 15 January with The New Mob. GRANTPIRRIE T - 61 2 9699 9033 F - 61 2 9698 8943 86 George Street Redfern NSW 2016...» Read More
Fine Tribal, Aboriginal Art & International Antiquities
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 13.01.09
Over 100 lots: Early India, Chinese, Southeast Asian, Islamic, Indus Valley, Gandharan, Khmer, art and antiquities. Art and Artefacts from, Australian, Oceania, and Africa. The highlights include;*Early Indian sculpture from Rajasthan dating 10 - 12th Century AD.*An outstanding collection of...» Read More
Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya Opens at Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 12.01.09
The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art presents today Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya, on view through April 5. In the more than thirty-five years since its advent at the tiny settlement of Papunya in the...» Read More
Written in the Land: Story of Queenie McKenzie
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 11.01.09
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...» Read More
Blemishes mar a sumptuous history of Australian art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 10.01.09
In 1886, there was a tussle for control over the future direction of Australian art. At its heart the dispute appeared simple, but it highlighted a deep division. A student of the School of Art in Melbourne, Alice Chapman, was...» Read More
Aboriginal artists take a stand on heart health to close the gap
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 10.01.09
Seven well known Aboriginal artists, Lloyd Hornsby, Laurie Nilsen, Peter Muraay Djerippi Mulcahy, Debbie Taylor, Raquel Jackson, Jennifer Herd and Bianca Beetson are each donating a major piece of work to be auctioned at the Heart Foundation s second annual...» Read More
Winner announced for final category of the WA Indigenous Art Awards
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 09.01.09
Western Australian artist Shane Pickett has won the final category of Australia’s richest indigenous contemporary art awards, picking up the People’s Choice Award in the inaugural Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards 2008. Culture and Arts Minister John Day congratulated local...» Read More
Icons of the Desert
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 04.01.09
Post by Will Owen about the new icons of the desert exhibition: The largest exhibition in the United States to date of seminal works of contemporary Aboriginal painting from central Australia will open on January 10 at Cornell University's Herbert...» Read More
Vibrant outback on display
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 02.01.09
Pots by artists from Hermannsburg, west of Alice Springs, feature in a landmark exhibition at Adelaide's JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design. Called From the Earth , it is the first time ceramics from remote indigenous centres have been brought together....» Read More
Traders change tack
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 01.01.09
"We’ve noticed since the credit crunch hit hard three months ago, people haven’t been buying paintings above $10,000," Doongal Aboriginal Art Gallery manager Nava Wahl said. "So we’ve gone for more little paintings and gifts. We’ve changed some of our...» Read More
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