September, 2009
Walangari Karntawarra "Colours of the Rainbow Serpents"
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 19.09.09
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...» Read More
Dunkeld Open Galleries and Gardens, Nerissa Major's Art Studio
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 18.09.09
Some Local Koori Stories 2.30pm Cost $3 per person Also Available a Large range of Unique Affordable Local Aboriginal Artworks (Traditional, Dot, Modern, Contemporary, Abstract, Landscape and Sculpture), Emu Egg and Wood Art, Handmade Gifts and Gemstone Jewellery. All created...» Read More
Discovery of new genius Desert Artist: Lena Pwerle
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 13.09.09
Yesterday Tim Jennings, the general manager of Mbantua Gallery and Cultural Museum in Alice Springs announced what he termed as "yet another artist genius from Utopia'. “The Soakages exhibition we have on display is a milestone for Australian art. The...» Read More
Coast and country
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 13.09.09
The inaugural three-day Cairns Indigenous Arts Fair has been a festival of peace, love and understanding so far, but the Ariw Poenipan dancers from Saibai Island are dressed for war. When they take to the open-air stage at the Tanks...» Read More
Culture warriors practise soft diplomacy
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 12.09.09
An ambitious Australian arts program aims to grab the attention of the Obama Administration. Washington correspondent Anne Davies reports. The largest contemporary indigenous art exhibition ever to leave Australian shores will open in Washington DC this week, the first event...» Read More
Aboriginal Painting, Gift and Cost
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 12.09.09
Re: the Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya exhibition Sent to the resettlement camp at Papunya, in South Central Australia, to acculturate the Aboriginal children, schoolteacher Geoff Bardon noticed that they were drawing nonstop in the sand,...» Read More
MENAGERIE COMES TO TOWN
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 11.09.09
We think of Aboriginal art primarily in terms of painting and abstraction. The land, the stories and even the Dreamtime characters – often people morphing into animals – are invariably represented on canvas or bark without figuration. But indigenous art...» Read More
Artists vie for Uncle Sam's eye
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 11.09.09
The largest contemporary indigenous art exhibition to leave Australian shores is about to open in Washington, the first event in a cultural initiative that aims to boost Australia's profile in the US. Culture Warriors, which has been curated by the...» Read More
Potomac River dreaming
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 10.09.09
Renda Croft had a clear purpose in mind when she chose Culture Warriors as the title of the first triennial of contemporary Aboriginal art presented by the National Gallery of Australia. She wanted to pay tribute to the 30 artists...» Read More
EXHIBITION OPENING - SINGING THE DREAMING in association with Warlukurlangu Artists
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 09.09.09
Exhibitions opening: Friday 11th 6-8pm Desert Rain - Indigenous Fine Art Gallery, NOOSA MARINA, 2 Parkyn Crt, TEWANTIN QLD, continues until 4th Oct 2009 PUBLIC PROGRAM: Sun 13th, 2pm Film based on Paddy Japaljarri Sims - Singing the Milky...» Read More
NSW Art Gallery renovation mixes old and really old
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 09.09.09
Barry Pearce, head curator of Australian Art, said an extremely important addition to the works of the great masters was Indigenous art. “We are going to surprise people and bring some old Aboriginal art back in to the gallery,” he...» Read More
COLONIAL TUTINI
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 09.09.09
The Tiwi people who drove the first White colonialists off their remote Melville Island (80kms north of Darwin) less than 5 years after they tried to establish a fort there are enjoying yet more schadenfreude as their ancient burial poles...» Read More
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SPEAKEASY
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 08.09.09
OPENING: 25 September, 6 - 8pm Free Admission Gallery 4A’s upcoming group exhibition profiles Asian-Australian history entangled with an Aboriginal history of Australia. Recently returned from representing Australia at the Venice Biennale, Brisbane-based artist Vernon Ah Kee will present work...» Read More
GULUMBU YUNUPINGU Heavens Above!
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 08.09.09
this Tuesday evening GULUMBU YUNUPINGU Heavens Above! Gulumbu Yunupingu will make the long journey to Melbourne to proudly welcome you to her exhibition opening on Tuesday 8 September 6:30 – 8:30pm...» Read More
BENTINCK ISLAND ARTISTS
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 08.09.09
Alcaston Gallery is delighted to present this vibrant and exciting exhibition by the Bentinck Island artists of new paintings and prints that have been recently editioned at Northern Editions, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory. The exhibition is presented in...» Read More
Last hurrah for old man of brush Tommy Watson
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 08.09.09
It was only about a decade ago that Tommy Watson, already an old man, first turned his hand to art. His career took off at once. His works were eagerly sought by collectors, breaking records at auction and establishing him...» Read More
Tommy Watson 'Kutjara Wara' (The Last One)
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 08.09.09
Tommy Watson 'Kutjara Wara' (The Last One) A selection of works September 5 - October 11...» Read More
Flawed vision cops pasting
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 06.09.09
THE widow of painter John Brack is ambivalent about it. Wendy Whiteley says in theory it is a good thing. Gallery owner William Mora, who has an enduring interest in the paintings by his artist mother, Mirka, says while he...» Read More
Aboriginal art master puts on final public show
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 06.09.09
Aboriginal artist Yannima Tommy Watson is a man of few words, but his vibrant works literally shout at audiences from the Muse du Quai Branly in Paris and Australia's most prestigious art galleries. The man widely regarded as Australia's most...» Read More
Life and art in the sky, Part 2: “Ilgarijiri – Things Belonging to the Sky”
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 06.09.09
Further to my previous post on Alma Nungarrayi Granite’s paintings from Warlukurlangu Artists at my home town of Yuendumu I found a fascinating set of links between Aboriginal art, the sky and the objects we find there and modern science....» Read More
Life and art in the sky, Part 1 – the Napaljarri-warnu Jukurrpa of Alma Nungarrayi Granites
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 05.09.09
This small image gives but a very limited impression of the power and majesty of the original of Alma Nungarrayi Granites’ painting of her Napaljarri-warnu Jukurrpa (Seven Sisters dreaming). It is one of a series of large paintings by the...» Read More
Betty Mbitjana competition opens September 7
Posted by Central Art Aboriginal Art Store | 05.09.09
Central Art Aboriginal Art Store is offering all our existing Central Art Mailing List subscribers as well as any new members that join the Central Art Mailing List the chance to win Bush Melons by Betty Mbitjana valued at AUD$2,750!...» Read More
Uluru and Kata Tjuta's Influence On Aboriginal Art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 03.09.09
Uluru - Kata Tjuta National Park and the Ayers Rock Resort is the center of Australia and is considered to be the center for much of the Aboriginal Art world. Around this park and nearby Alice Springs are many Aboriginal...» Read More
El Norte de Australia ofrece el recorrido artístico Aboriginal Art Trail
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 02.09.09
Aboriginal Art Trail de Alice Springs conecta prestigiosas galerías de arte a la cultura de las comunidades aborígenes locales y ofrece excelentes oportunidades para profundizar en el conocimiento de historias y leyendas relacionadas con el Dreamtime, o de lugares sagrados...» Read More
WA NYOONGAR FIBRE ARTIST JANINE MCAULLAY BOTT A WINNER
Posted by Artitja Fine Art | 01.09.09
A bilby woven from palm fronds and sporting pine nut eyes won the Wandjuk Marika Three-Dimensional Memorial Award at this years 26th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards held in Darwin earlier this month. Fibre textile...» Read More
Yannima Tommy Watson
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 01.09.09
‘Watson is a master of invention and arguably, the outstanding painter of the Western Desert ….Each painting tells a specific story, but the most impressive feature is the artist's use of colour…. Like Matisse, Watson knows that one may have...» Read More
ON-LINE VOTING IN THE TELSTRAS
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 01.09.09
For the first time in its 26 year history, the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards in Darwin will include on-line voting in its People's Choice Awards. In Darwin, people still have a couple of weeks to vote...» Read More
REFLECTIONS ON THE WESTERN AUSTRALIAN INDIGENOUS ART AWARD
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 01.09.09
From Will Owen: Having stayed at home this year, I don't have much of substance to say about the 26th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards that hasn't already been said elsewhere. I've never been terribly fond of...» Read More
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