June, 2009
Big City Challenges – The Marrka Wangka Story
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 30.06.09
A group of artworkers have used a visit to Melbourne for personal and career development. The ten artworkers from across Central Australia took part in ‘Marrka Wangka’ – meaning ‘strong talk’ – a five day training program designed to develop...» Read More
Two auctions at Shapiro this Sunday, 28 June
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 28.06.09
Two auctions at Shapiro this Sunday, 28 June: 20 / 21 C Design Auction commences 2pm Aboriginal Art Auction commences 3pm Viewing Friday & Saturday 11am - 5pm. Viewing Sunday 10am - 12noon Catalogues available online For further information please...» Read More
Big Eye: Aboriginal Animatiations
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 24.06.09
Aboriginal Dreaming in the digital age Big Eye: Aboriginal Animations presents Aboriginal Australian and Aboriginal Canadian new media artists who draw on digital techniques as a part of ongoing cultural maintenance. From July 3 until July 18, Big Eye: Aboriginal...» Read More
Western Desert Mob Art Centres go Troppo - Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair August 2009
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 23.06.09
Western Desert Mob members Tjanpi Desert Weavers, Tjarlirli Art and Warakurna Artists are travelling north to Darwin to participate in this year’s prestigious Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair. The Art Fair coincides with the 26th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait...» Read More
Kimberley in harmony
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 23.06.09
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,...» Read More
NAKAMARRA'S ABSTRACTION: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 23.06.09
A new post by Will Owen about Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri with some wonderful photographs: I remember visiting Papunya Tula Artists' Todd Street shop late in 1998, a few months after Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri passed away. Namarari was among the first...» Read More
Artist ‘returns from the dead’
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 23.06.09
The last time Keith Adams saw Nyarrapyi Giles, she was an emaciated teenage mother trying desperately to keep her two small sons alive in the Gibson Desert while teetering on the brink of death herself. After arranging for the dehydrated,...» Read More
Buy your 'aboriginal art' — direct from Indonesia
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 23.06.09
An art wholesaler investigated for selling phoney Aboriginal artefacts imported from Indonesia has exposed the breadth of use of non-existent "pseudonyms" to cash in on the success of legitimate indigenous artists. Australian Dreamtime Creations and its director, Tony Antoniou, are...» Read More
THOMSON TIME COMES TO MELBOURNE
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 22.06.09
Thomson Time was discovered Down South when the film, Ten Canoes revealed that in parts of Arnhemland, the period when anthropologist Donald Thomson photographed and recorded his encounters with Yolgnu people in the 1930s and 40s have come to be...» Read More
In other worlds
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 22.06.09
From The Age: In the Northern Territory's imaginary landscapes, Sophie Cunningham sees anew. I realised that, despite my distance from Central Australia and the indigenous culture there, I had heard Aboriginal stories and looked at Aboriginal art for much of...» Read More
Ochres to Dust - Coo-ee Stock Show
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 19.06.09
Ochres to Dust 15th June - 15th July 2009 This exhibition is a collection of works from put together from Coo-ee's stock....» Read More
Australian Company Sold Fake Aboriginal Art, Watchdog Group Says
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 19.06.09
An Aboriginal art wholesaler and retailer is being sued for allegedly selling works purported to be of Aboriginal origin when actually they were from Indonesia. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is bringing a lawsuit against the Australian Dreamtime Creations...» Read More
Resources sector invests in the arts
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 19.06.09
From the Western Australia Business News: Supporting Western Australia's arts sector is part and parcel of being a resources company, according to Oakajee Port and Rail (OPR) chief executive Christopher Eves. Mr Eves told WA Business News it was essential...» Read More
ACCC investigates 'Aboriginal' art dealer
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 19.06.09
The consumer watchdog has taken legal action against an Aboriginal art dealer which allegedly sold art made in Indonesia under the guise it was Australian. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has accused the retailer, Australian Dreamtime Creations, of...» Read More
Shapiro Australian and International Art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.06.09
AUSTRALIAN AND INTERNATIONAL ART | SYDNEY | MAY 3 | 2.00PM 162 Queen Street Woollahra | On View Saturday 25 April – Saturday 2 May 11am – 5pm...» Read More
Australian Aboriginal Art on Display at Fowler
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.06.09
Friday’s Ventura County Star reports on two exhibitions currently on display at the Fowler Museum at UCLA: "Icons of the Desert," which features rarely seen Australian Aboriginal paintings from the tiny settlement of Papunya, and "Innovations in Western Desert Painting,"...» Read More
Up Cazaly fly NT artists
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.06.09
Are footy stars Michael O'Loughlin and Leon Davis represented in this year's Telstra Aboriginal Art Award? Or are they figures from a bygone era, perhaps Derek Kickett and Wally Lovett - or Robbie Ah Mat, who played for both Sydney...» Read More
Journey with art: Descendants of Purfleet band work with visiting artist
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.06.09
Descendants of the members of a Purfleet band in 1909 have placed their hands and finger prints on a huge painting copied from an historic photograph at Manning Regional Art Gallery this week. Families of the people in the photograph...» Read More
Aboriginal Art and Australia
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 16.06.09
Australian Aboriginal Art is much sought after internationally, but Australians overall and Aborigines themselves benefit little from it. By John August Gordon Syron is an Aboriginal artist who understands the market better than most, having run an art gallery...» Read More
GARMA TALKS CULTURE IN AUGUST
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 15.06.09
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
Barbara Weir - My Country
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 15.06.09
Central Australia's Barbara Weir has excited audiences all over the world with highly compelling abstract canvases that masterfully evoke a timeless illusion of depth and subtle rhythmic movement' (Marie Giessler). Recently voted as one of Australia's top 50 most collectable...» Read More
Aichi World Expo, Japan
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 13.06.09
Vicki Couzens (Koroit); Lee Darroch (Raymond Island); Treahna Hamm (Wodonga); Eileen Harrison (Warragul); Lisa Kennedy (Toora); Kim Lampton (Rye); Jennifer Mullett (Bairnsdale); Ray Thomas (Lalor); Lyn Thorpe (Preston) and Kevin Williams (Echuca)....» Read More
ArtiFacts Aboriginal Art Consultancy Launch
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 12.06.09
Jane Raffan, former Head of Aboriginal Art at Shapiro, has launched ArtiFacts, a consultancy practice focused on delivering dependable and expert advice in the specialist field of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art. THE SERVICE Services include collection management, market...» Read More
Ngalla marraaju wuuju dulka kilwanmaruthu / We'll show you our country
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 12.06.09
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...» Read More
RED OCHRE PRIZE GOES TO DOUGHTY FIGHTER
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 12.06.09
Yolgnu painter and rights campaigner Gawirrin Gumana AO was honoured with the most senior prize in Indigenous arts at the Australia Council's 2009 National Indigenous Arts Awards recently. The $50,000 Red Ochre Award was presented by film director Baz Luhrmann,...» Read More
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Warmurunngu- Nyarrapyi Giles Solo Exhibition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 11.06.09
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. The...» Read More
Ochre Dreaming: Stories from the East Kimberley
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 11.06.09
The ReDot gallery is proud to welcome back the natural ochre artworks of the famous Warmun Art Centre. After a very successful 1st exhibition in June 2008, the unique canvases of this Kimberley community will again be gracing the walls...» Read More
"FAKE!", the underbelly of the Australian art world exposed
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 11.06.09
Reporter Quentin McDermott tells how up to ten per cent of art that's resold across Australia could be problematic. This crisis of confidence has led art lovers to demand that any fake unfairly traded should be destroyed or registered, to...» Read More
Aboriginal Paintings Are Larger Than Life
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 11.06.09
What a great photo of the NAB atms!...» Read More
From Wirrimanu
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 11.06.09
Out of the Great Sandy Desert and the home of the Kukatja comes fresh work from the new wave of Warlayirti Artists....» Read More
October Survey
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 11.06.09
The quality of art being produced is a testament to the hard work being done by community art centres from the Top End, Kimberley and Desert country....» Read More
Bush Dolls from the Heart – the inaugural exhibition of the Yarrenyty-Arltere Artists
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 11.06.09
Yarrenyty-Arltere Learning centre began in 2000, as a grass roots response to the chronic social distress faced by a Western Arrernte community in Alice Springs....» Read More
3 Rivers Aboriginal Art Space to open in Lismore on 19 June 2009
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 11.06.09
The long awaited Indigenous art centre has arrived in the form of the ‘3 Rivers Aboriginal Art Space’. Located at 125 Magellan Street Lismore the centre will be used for workshops, meetings, forums, exhibitions as well as an artist studio...» Read More
New Job - Warakurna Artists - Studio and Admin Coordinator
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 11.06.09
Assist the Manager in the day to day operations of the Warakurna artists’ studio and general business operations. An art lover with a head for paperwork will flourish in this role. For the position description please contact: Desart Michelle Culpitt...» Read More
emerging and re-emerging
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 11.06.09
emerging and re-emerging - a survey show from Mangkaja Arts, Fitzroy Crossing, W.A This exhibition features works by Greg Peterson, Eva Nargoodah, Sonia Kurarra and Andrea Pindan, exciting new artists from Mangkaja Arts....» Read More
Warakurna Artists Travelling North - Darwin Exhibition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 11.06.09
Outstation Gallery, Darwin in conjunction with Warakurna Artists, Western Australia proudly invites you to view new paintings by Warakurna Artists, including: Tommy Mitchell, Tjapartji Bates, Eunice Yunurupa Porter, Peter Tjarluri Lewis, Carol Maayatja Golding, Tjunka Lewis & Rachel Jennings. DETAILS...» Read More
Colour Country: Art from Roper River' Tours for a Year
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 10.06.09
It could hardly be further from the rich wetlands of the Roper River on the Gulf of Carpentaria coast at the southern fringe of Arnhemland. But the Wagga Wagga Art Gallery in dry old New South Wales has just opened...» Read More
Real to Surreal, Scenes from the Centre
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 09.06.09
Real to Surreal, Scenes from the Centre: Journey with the new generation of Hermannsburg watercolour artists The Art Centre Ngurratjuta Iltja Ntjarra; Many Hands Art Centre is situated in the township of Alice Springs and has been established to provide...» Read More
Our Country. River Country
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 09.06.09
Tandanya is pleased to welcome back Mimi Arts and Crafts. Established in 1978 as an Aboriginal initiative, Mimi Arts and Crafts is a wholly Aboriginal owned and controlled cooperative. Representing the entire 380,000 kilometres of the Katherine region, Mimi proudly...» Read More
Art & Heart: the art of Darryl Pfitzner Milika – a retrospective: 30 years on
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 09.06.09
Darryl Pfitzner Milika has been practising his art in a variety of mediums for over 25 years: he has been the creator, the designer and principal artist or "special guest" contributing artist for 3 of Adelaide's most outstanding public sculptural...» Read More
A work of Persol
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 09.06.09
The “A Work of Persol” project is a celebration of the artistic process. The work of nine artists of varying disciplines from around the globe has been curated for a traveling exhibition launched at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile. A...» Read More
Menzies Art Brands June 2009 Catalogue Online
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 09.06.09
A combination of fine art and Australian Aboriginal art. Please follow the link below for further details and to view the catalogue online....» Read More
When beauty walked the world
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 09.06.09
Nicolas Rothwell writes about Ancestral Power and the Aesthetic: Ancestral Power and the Aesthetic breaks new ground by displaying 32 of the most majestic pieces in his collection, and making detailed use of Thomson's field notes to tease out the...» Read More
$1m grant gets art online
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 09.06.09
The presence of indigenous art at the Art Gallery of South Australia will be transformed by a $1.05 million grant from Santos. The funds will overcome a major impediment in the gallery's plans to make the most of its pioneering...» Read More
Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair 2009
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 09.06.09
13 AUG 2009 - 15 AUG 2009 Free entry The Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair will provide a unique artistic experience for all lovers of indigenous art and culture. Representing over 30 community arts centres from across Australia, including Arnhem Land,...» Read More
2009 Parliament of New South Wales Aboriginal Art Prize
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 09.06.09
The Parliament of New South Wales Aboriginal Art Prize has an award of $20,000, and is awarded annually to a NSW Aboriginal artist. Entries for the 2009 Parliament of New South Wales Aboriginal Art Prize close on 26 June. Further...» Read More
Boolarng Nangamai Aboriginal Art & Culture Studio
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 05.06.09
A photo from Flickr of the Boolarng Nangamai Aboriginal Art & Culture Studio Uploaded to Flickr on June 3, 2009 by robynejay...» Read More
Nerissa Major's Artworks
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 04.06.09
An Unique Collection of Affordable Aboriginal Art by Western Victorian Koori Artist, Nerissa Major....» Read More
Adam Hill performs his alternative anthem, Ausfailure National Tantrum,
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 03.06.09
CHANNEL NINE Friday June 5, 9-11am Interview with Adam Hill and he performs his alternative anthem, Ausfailure National Tantrum, on Channel Nine's Mornings with Kerri-Anne this Friday June 5. Adam Hill was featured in Monday's Sydney Morning Herald, page...» Read More
BACK ROOM PASS
Posted by Artitja Fine Art | 03.06.09
BACK ROOM PASS – Indigenous Fine Art Affordable and Collectible It can be quite a challenge operating a home based Indigenous Fine Art gallery which doesn’t publicise a street address or hang signage inviting in walk-by traffic, but Artitja Fine...» Read More
Luka (Mud) exhibition online
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 02.06.09
Luka (Mud) 13 June – 4 July 2009 In their second joint exhibition, husband and wife Tommy and Dorothy May present colourful new paintings of their country, The Great Sandy Desert. A beautiful large canvas was painted jointly , with...» Read More
Fake art damaging reputation of local artists (TBM)
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 01.06.09
Indigenous galleries and artists have recently raised concerns about unauthentic Aboriginal art in Australia. Sales and marketing manager of Murra Wolka Creations, Dean Slockee, said unauthentic Aboriginal art gave profits to other countries and altered the reputation of the Aboriginal...» Read More
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