July, 2009
Desart Artists Camps
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 31.07.09
Desart has recently held artists’ camps at Ikuntji and Blackstone. At both camps artists met to talk about current events and issues facing Art Centres, artists and their families in this time of the Global Financial Crisis. Desart’s Executive Officer...» Read More
Desart Strategic Planning Meeting
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 31.07.09
The Desart Executive met in Alice Springs on 10 June 2009 for a strategic planning session. It was the second meeting held under the leadership of the new Chairman, Mr Sammy Lyons from Angatja in the PY Lands. With the...» Read More
The Creation of Indigenous Collections in Melbourne: How Kenneth Clark, Charles Mountford, and Leonhard Adam Interrogated Australian Indigeneity
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 31.07.09
My paper will explore three personalities, Kenneth Clark, Charles Mountford and Leonard Adam, and the impact they had on the creation and exhibition of collections of indigenous objects in Australia. Kenneth Clark visited Australia briefly in 1948 and left a...» Read More
UK Move On Aboriginal Art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 31.07.09
Negotiations between Australia and UK could soon re-start in a battle over the return of valuable Aboriginal artworks, writes Nick Gibson. The Dja Dja Wurrung tribe are seeking the return of a pair of Aboriginal bark paintings - insured for...» Read More
Rumours got my artists rejected: dealer
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 30.07.09
Mr Ioannou, the private dealer at the centre of last year's bitter split in the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, yesterday accused award organisers of discriminating against his clients. He said a "vicious whispering campaign" was...» Read More
RICARDO IDAGI WINS WA ART PRIZE
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 25.07.09
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
The art of war
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 25.07.09
Also drawing collectors this week was Sotheby's Aboriginal art sale, which answered some of the breathless questions troubling the art world. Would the indigenous market hold up or would it succumb to the global financial malaise? As with the great...» Read More
INDIGENOUS ARTISTS UP FOR THE CLEMENGER
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 24.07.09
The 2009 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award has selected four indigenous artists amongst the 15 long-listed for this important triennial exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria.This will be the sixth and final Award in the series following a generous gift...» Read More
Our Mob 09
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 24.07.09
Adelaide Festival Centre is proud to present the fourth annual Our Mob exhibition, on display in the Artspace Gallery (upstairs in the Dunstan Playhouse), as well as Festival Centre theatre foyers from 8 August – 20 September 2009. Held during...» Read More
Emily in Japan
Posted by Central Art Aboriginal Art Store | 24.07.09
Emily Kame Kngwarreye was an Aboriginal women from Utopia in central Australia who began to paint on canvas when she was about 78years old. In the 8 years before her death in 1996, she produced a staggering output of over...» Read More
Aboriginal art auction framing a resurgent market
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 22.07.09
Gabriella Coslovich July 21, 2009 FOR a glimmering moment, it seemed as if the boom times were back. People burst into applause when a prized drawing by the late William Barak sold for almost three times its lower estimate at...» Read More
Walking with Spirits - Sold Out for 2009
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 20.07.09
Presented by Djilpin Arts in partnership with the Australian Shakespeare Company, WALKING WITH SPIRITS is Beswick Community’s annual open cultural celebration. Held 20 kms from the Community at the spectacular wilderness location Malkgulumbu, WALKING WITH SPIRITS features traditional corroborree from...» Read More
2009 Aboriginal Artist of the Year Wayne Quilliam
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 20.07.09
Aboriginal photographer/videographer and artist Wayne Quilliam has been awarded what is considered one of the most prestigious Australian art accolades: 2009 NAIDOC ‘Artist of the Year’. In front of more than a thousand people at the Brisbane Convention Centre Wayne...» Read More
Aboriginal art exhibition raises funds for Indigenous medical students
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 20.07.09
Daniel Walbidi discovered art as a ten-year-old at school, starting out painting still life scenes. Now he introduces the traditional Aboriginal art style to old and young people in his Western Australian community. "Usually in our culture it's the elders...» Read More
The Allure of the Aboriginal Arts
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 20.07.09
Nice blog post about Aboriginal art...» Read More
Aboriginal Art Exhibition to Raise Funds for Indigenous Medicine
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 19.07.09
"I'm privileged I'm able to use my success to help other people", says Yulparija artist Daniel Walbidi from Bidyadanga near Broome. Walbidi - still in his 20s - discovered art as a ten-year-old at school, starting out painting still life...» Read More
Aboriginal standouts should hold their value
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 19.07.09
Sotheby's Aboriginal art sale on Monday night is likely to see prices equal those of earlier sales of white-fella art this year. That means a discount of 20 to 30 per cent on the prices that were being paid before...» Read More
Indigenous art sale a litmus test of the bigger picture
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 19.07.09
It is sometimes said that when the Australian art market catches a cold, the indigenous art sector ends up with pneumonia. This fragility is why so many collectors, dealers, gallery owners and artists will be closely watching Sotheby's Aboriginal art...» Read More
Totems tell the story
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 18.07.09
Aboriginal totems are painted in a modernist style making some of them appear as shiny and straight as steel, in artist Ian Waldron's new show opening July 17. Waldron's varying depictions of his Kurtjar clan's bloodwood tree dominate his new...» Read More
The local road to recovery
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 18.07.09
Various paradoxes flow from the strange configuration of divergent interests in the Territory. Traditional community leaders and those close to the cultural heart of remote Aboriginal societies tend to have quite strong biases in favour of a degree of modernisation...» Read More
Public Works: Ginger Riley Munduwalawa
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 18.07.09
Ginger Riley Munduwalawala, Limmen Bight River Country (1992). Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, bought 1992. On display until December 6. IN the 1950s Ginger Riley Munduwalawala was working as a stockman, droving cattle from the vast stations of the Northern...» Read More
National art award for local artist
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 18.07.09
Local Aboriginal artist, Nyree Reynolds, has won the prestigious Mil-Pra AECG Aboriginal Art Award for the second time. Ms Reynolds received the award for her painting, ‘Elders Knowing-Elders Showing, Children Watching-Children Learning’. The award was presented at Casula Powerhouse as...» Read More
Aboriginal art exhibition raises funds for Indigenous medical students
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 18.07.09
Daniel Walbidi discovered art as a ten-year-old at school, starting out painting still life scenes. Now he introduces the traditional Aboriginal art style to old and young people in his Western Australian community. "Usually in our culture it's the elders...» Read More
Eyeing the invisible
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.07.09
He's Australian by birth, and of Scottish and Australian Aboriginal descent - but he has created many of his major works in far-flung locales including Lithuania, England, India, China and New York. These works themselves also defy easy categorisation, encompassing...» Read More
Explore the Red Centre
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.07.09
Wander through Alice Springs and visit the numerous Indigenous art galleries — excellent places to pick up an authentic piece of unique Aboriginal art. The award-winning Alice Springs Resort is a good base from which to take to the skies...» Read More
Taking Bundjalung art to the world
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.07.09
From the Northern Rivers Echo: If you travel to places with a high population of Aboriginal artists like Alice Springs or Darwin, there’s plenty of venues where you can find and buy local Indigenous art. But in Lismore, such a...» Read More
Annual Telstra Aboriginal Art Awards 1 month away
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.07.09
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...» Read More
Aboriginal artist honored in Washington D.C. for NAIDOC Week
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.07.09
Ken Thaiday Senior, respected artist from the Torres Strait Island, presents his visions and art with grace and eloquence. With his wife Liz by his side, they have been transported from one world to another to be honored in Washington,...» Read More
Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair 2009
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.07.09
Indigenous Instyle is excited to announce we will be attending the Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair in August to search for artworks from established and new artists....» Read More
Indigenous art on show
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.07.09
The opening of the Visual Voices - Aboriginal Art of the South East Exhibition at Central Tilba Hall on Friday evening felt like something of an historic occasion. The atmosphere was one of pride in achievement, cultural reaffirmation and reconciliation....» Read More
Shapes offer no hint of the horror within
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.07.09
A Rover Thomas recording tells the story behind a dark work, writes Louise Schwartzkoff. At first glance, the painting looks innocent enough; a few abstract shapes and dotted lines that could be an aerial map or a stylised design. In...» Read More
New theory may put location of Joseph Lycett painting in perspective
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.07.09
A 200-year-old mystery about one of Newcastle's most famous pieces of Aboriginal art history may have been solved, with a new theory about the location of a Joseph Lycett painting. Lycett was a convict and one of Australia's earliest colonial...» Read More
Warlukurlangu Survey Show 2009
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.07.09
The beautiful and colourful works of the Warlukurlangu Artists' Aboriginal Association, hailing from Darwin, Australia, will be in town between 26 August to 3 October. International. Dubbed the Warlukurlangu Survey Show 2009, the exhibition pays homage to the aboriginal art...» Read More
Generation Next set to hit WA
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 15.07.09
After a sell out exhibition in 2008, Generation Next will open at Randell Lane Fine Art on 22 July 2009 showcasing Australia's best new talent and new directions in contemporary Indigenous art. This much anticipated show will promise to dazzle...» Read More
GENERATION NEXT 2009
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 15.07.09
Generation Next is an annual exhibition focusing on new directions in contemporary Indigenous Art. This stunning exhibition is not to be missed....» Read More
Ada Bird Petyarre c. 1930 - 2009
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 15.07.09
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
Page 8
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 15.07.09
Adelaide Festival Centre's Australian Stories program presents Company B's production of Page 8 written by David Page and Louis Nowra Following a successful, critically acclaimed 2005 Adelaide Cabaret Festival season, Page 8 has been thrilling audiences around the world. An...» Read More
NGA to run programs to foster indigenous art curating
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 10.07.09
The Aboriginal art market generates more than $300 million a year and produces some of Australia's most talented artists. But when it comes to managing and curating art, only a tiny percentage of Australia's visual arts professionals are indigenous. For...» Read More
Di West - Murmurs and memories realised in Di's artwork
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 10.07.09
Di admits that she loves Aboriginal art and believes it is not appreciated enough. “Aboriginal art is so beautiful, underestimated and undervalued and the lovely thing about their work is that they don't know who Picasso is or who Van...» Read More
Aboriginal art on show
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 10.07.09
MEMBERS of Hume’s indigenous community have been busily preparing for NAIDOC week, which kicked off on Sunday. During NAIDOC (National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee) week indigenous Australians celebrate their cultures and their contribution to society. Hume City Council...» Read More
Peter Garrett to open Dailan Pugh’s exhibition in Lismore
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 10.07.09
The Federal Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, Peter Garrett, will have the chance to soak up the rich cultural and environmental heritage of our region during a full day of events when he visits Page on Wednesday....» Read More
State Government helps indigenous artists with program support
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 10.07.09
The Liberal-National Government has provided a $30,000 grant to help remote indigenous communities develop their art as a sustainable means of income. Premier Colin Barnett today confirmed the funding when he visited FORM Contemporary Craft and Design in Port Hedland,...» Read More
National Arts and Crafts Industry Support
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 10.07.09
The National Arts and Crafts Industry Support (NACIS) program provides direct funding support to Indigenous art centres and arts support and advocacy organisations. The program's overall objectives are to assist art centres to become stronger and to build a more...» Read More
Cash for Desart, other centres
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 10.07.09
Central Australian Aboriginal art centres are the big winners from the federal government's latest arts funding package, which divides $9.3 million between 86 organisations. The biggest recipient is Desart, the umbrella body for central Australian Aboriginal art centres, with $1,489,300...» Read More
Taking Bundjalung art to the world
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 10.07.09
Arts Northern Rivers and Lismore Tourism have put their heads together and created an Indigenous art space at the Lismore Visitor Information Centre so people can enjoy and buy homegrown Bundjalung art. The centre attracts around 50,000 visitors each year...» Read More
2 Live 2 Deadly
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 10.07.09
TIGA BAYLES: It's hard to have a blackfella radio station without blackfella music, and it's hard to get the promotion and get known as an Aboriginal artist if you haven't got Aboriginal radio stations, because the mainstream stations and mainstream...» Read More
GWAS Media Musings
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 10.07.09
ArtWorld magazine, the bi-monthly glossy dedicated to the contemporary art scene launched in early 2008 by publisher Steve Bush, is set to fold, along with stablemates Adam & Eve and Aboriginal Art magazine....» Read More
Gallery on wheels
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 06.07.09
A unique vehicle, which has spent the past few years spreading the message on indigenous culture, is undergoing an amazing transformation. But the stunning artwork, which makes the message stick unique, will not be touched. The ex army Landrover ambulance...» Read More
Campbelltown Arts Centre - Aboriginal Art Display
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 06.07.09
Great post by Kate on the bike about the Aboriginal Art Display at the Campbelltown Arts Centre:...» Read More
Seattle Museum to Return Aboriginal Object, Without Being Asked
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 03.07.09
In 1970, Seattle Art Museum (SAM) founder Richard Fuller purchased an Australian Aboriginal sacred object that the museum has never shown. Now it’s being returned, even though no one has asked SAM to do so. The person responsible is SAM's...» Read More
Outstation launches new website
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 03.07.09
Outstation recently celebrated its 1st Birthday by re-launching its website....» Read More
Aboriginal Art Shines in Charlottesville
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 03.07.09
Aboriginal Art Date:2009 Auction House:Sotheby's Location: Australia Catalogue Information: 153 lots 150 with images Viewing Notes: Fri, 17 Jul 09, 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM Sat, 18 Jul 09, 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM Sun, 19 Jul 09, 11:00 AM...» Read More
Karen returns to her artistic roots
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 03.07.09
“After studying for four years I discovered I was a Victorian Koori. So we do more line work rather than dotting,” she said. She is now studying to be a teacher at the Indigenous Education Centre at Kangan Batman TAFE...» Read More
FIRST STEP IN TACKLING RACISM
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 03.07.09
Last week the head of WA’s peak multicultural lobby group, the Ethnic Communities Council of WA warned that Australian society is becoming more racist as the economic downturn fuels hostility towards foreigners. In response the Council has developed a website...» Read More
From little things . . .
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 03.07.09
Another business entrepreneur who captured a simple idea and took it to the next level is Kelli Ryan, who last year started the Boolarng Nangamai Aboriginal Art & Culture Studio in Gerringong, on the south coast of NSW. While many...» Read More
The Prairie Hotel Flinders Ranges
Posted by | 01.07.09
The Prairie Hotel is Australia’s most-awarded Outback hotel. Why do people fly in from all over the world to stay or eat here? See for yourself… The Prairie Hotel perfectly blends Outback adventure with a slice of city luxury -...» Read More
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