November, 2009
ART + OBJECTS: small + affordable
Posted by Artitja Fine Art | 30.11.09
ARTITJA - THE GIFT COLLECTION: ART + OBJECTS Over 20 Indigenous artists work will feature in an exhibition to be held in South Fremantle throughout December as part of Artitja Fine Art’s final show for 2009. From famed artists Minnie...» Read More
Kwementyay Stockman passed away
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 29.11.09
We have sadly confirmed that Utopia artist Kwementyay* Stockman was killed in a single vehicle roll over on Saturday 21st November 2009. Kwementyay was one of few young high profile aboriginal artists with what seemed a bright future ahead of...» Read More
RESALE ROYALTY SOON FOR ABORIGINAL ARTISTS
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 28.11.09
While all else in Parliament was in chaos, the Senate quietly passed the Resale Royalty for Visual Artists Act 2009 on Thursday November 26th. Not that it comes into effect until the Queen has signed off on it (date unknown),...» Read More
Indigenous art in the Office of the Maire of the City -Ein Werk von Aborigines für das Arbeitszimmer
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 26.11.09
Ein Werk von Aborigines für das Arbeitszimmer (mabie) 23.11.2009, 15:48 Übach-Palenberg. Die «King Sisters», zwei australische Top-Künstlerinnen, machten kurzfristig in der ehemaligen Zechenstadt Station. Von Brit Susann Hanstein organisiert war die Stippvisite von Sarrita und Tarisse King sowie deren Manager...» Read More
Stunning patterns emerge from circles, dots, lines
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 26.11.09
It was not until the second half of the 20th century that Aboriginal art gained true international recognition. This is staggering, especially when considering the long history and rich culture of Indigenous Australians; but the explanation is simple. Not until...» Read More
Sky's the limit at $1.38m
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 26.11.09
Sotheby's posted the week's best auction result - bringing in a total of $7.36 million (including commissions) on Monday night, and another $2 million on Tuesday at its Aboriginal art sale. As the week drew to an end, Tim Goodman,...» Read More
Dr Garry Darby runs seven-week courses at the Centre for Continuing Education
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 26.11.09
Join the dots SNAGs love to wear serious spectacles and look knowledgeable in a gallery. So enrol your bloke in a course to learn all about indigenous art. Aboriginal art expert Dr Garry Darby runs seven-week courses at the Centre...» Read More
Dhapirrk Djama, a remarkable group exhibition of new limited edition prints, Mokuy Spirit carvings and sculptures, including Morning Star Poles, from Elcho Island Arts
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 26.11.09
Elcho Island Artists prints and sculptures by Margaret Gudumurrkuwuy Tommy Minburra Sandy Pascoe Joe Manyguluma Charmaine Ashley Jeremiah Bonson David Djarrka Paul Buwang Buwang Gali Yalkarriwuy Gurruwiwi Alcaston Gallery is proud to present Dhapirrk Djama, a remarkable group exhibition of...» Read More
Queensland Indigenous Art Diary 2010
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 26.11.09
The Queensland Indigenous Art Diary 2010 is a beautifully illustrated, small format, high quality diary that celebrates the work of more than 60 Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander painters, weavers, carvers, printmakers, photographers and new media artists with more...» Read More
The ideal art gifts
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 26.11.09
Lavishly illustrated with a page of art for each spread, our beautiful art diaries are hugely popular gift items. Published first in 2009, our McCulloch’s Australian Art Diary was greeted as a popular addition to Australian art publishing. For the...» Read More
McCulloch's Contemporary Aboriginal Art Updated 2009 Edition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 26.11.09
It’s arrived! McCulloch's Contemporary Aboriginal Art Updated 2009 Edition After selling out its first print run in bookshops and galleries in under a year, the eagerly awaited new edition of Australia’s top selling art guide book McCulloch’s Contemporary Aboriginal Art:...» Read More
Dollar downer for Aboriginal art sale
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 26.11.09
The rise of the Australian dollar had a negative effect on a ''disappointing'' Sotheby's auction of Aboriginal and Oceanic Art at its Armadale showroom yesterday. The indigenous art market is mostly international and is generally measured in US dollars. When...» Read More
Fine Tribal, Aboriginal Art & International Antiquities
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 26.11.09
Auction 13 December Catalog Information: 337 lots with images View lots Viewing Notes: Friday 20 November - Sunday 13 December 2009 11:00am - 5:00pm. Sale Notes: Bid Live! online with Invaluable or Artfact. www.invaluable.com/guyearlsmith Accepted Forms of Payment: Visa, MasterCard,...» Read More
Nampitjinpa Sisters: Sacred Places
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 25.11.09
Smith & Hall invites you to view "Nampitjinpa Sisters: Sacred Places" a new collection of work by Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa (aka, Mrs. Bennett) Tjawina Porter Nampitjinpa Esther Giles Nampitjinpa Opening night drinks: Thursday 26th November 2009 6pm to 8pm Please RSVP...» Read More
New McCulloch's Contemporary Aboriginal Art has arrived!
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 25.11.09
McCulloch's Contemporary Aboriginal Art Updated 2009 Edition After selling out its first print run in bookshops and galleries in under a year, the eagerly awaited new edition of Australia’s top selling art guide book McCulloch’s Contemporary Aboriginal Art: the complete...» Read More
BEAUTIFUL BEASTS IN DARWIN
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 23.11.09
There aren't many art shows that could place side by side paintings, carvings, sculpture and weaving by a disparate of artists such as John Mawurndjul and John Olsen, the late Lofty Bardayal Nadjmirrik and James Gleeson, the Tjampi weavers and...» Read More
It's hammer time for Sotheby's
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 20.11.09
It IS the end of an era for Sotheby's art auction house as it heads into its final sales for the year - a tough year marked by falling profits, the global financial crisis, and an audacious takeover by an...» Read More
East Kimberley Painting Revisited
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 19.11.09
East Kimberley Painting Revisited ROVER THOMAS PADDY JAMINJI FREDDIE TIMMS RUSTY PETERS Caruana & Reid Fine Art is pleased to announce its collaboration with Jirrawun Arts to represent Freddie Timms and Rusty Peters. The inaugural exhibition to feature the recent...» Read More
PRIZES FOR KOORIE ARTISTS
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 18.11.09
18 Indigenous artists from across Victoria have been shortlisted in the 2009 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards, with the three winners to be announced on 27 November. The three prize categories are headed by the Deadly Art Award of $25,000 at...» Read More
Kaminabend mit Tarisse and Sarrita King
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.11.09
AUSTRALIEN - PARIS - ÜBACH-PALENBERG Liebe Aborginal Art Freunde, Es ist uns eine grosse Freude und Ehre, Gastgeber sein zu dürfen für die frisch aus Paris eingetroffenen und gefeierten „King Sisters“ - die indigenen Künstlerinnen aus Australien - Sarrita und Tarisse...» Read More
Kaminabend mit Sarrita and Tarisse King
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.11.09
AUSTRALIEN - PARIS - ÜBACH-PALENBERG Liebe Aborginal Art Freunde, Es ist uns eine grosse Freude und Ehre, Gastgeber sein zu dürfen für die frisch aus Paris eingetroffenen und gefeierten „King Sisters“ - die indigenen Künstlerinnen aus Australien - Sarrita und Tarisse...» Read More
"Verbindungen" Die Kunst der Ureinwohner gestern und heute
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.11.09
Die Idee der Gemeinschaftsausstellung von zeitgenössischer Aboriginal Art und den Photographien der Höhlenmalerei der Ureinwohner Australiens wurde 2007 geboren, als Dieter Grins und Brit Susann Hanstein sich zum ersten Mal Anlässlich der KUNSTTOUR begegneten. Diese Begegnung war geprägt durch die...» Read More
Find a Dream at the Chrissie Cotter Gallery
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.11.09
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...» Read More
HELEN MCCARTHY BRINGS THE DALY RIVER TO SYDNEY
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 16.11.09
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
East - West Exhibition Prairie Hotel until 11 January 2010
Posted by | 16.11.09
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
Claims Aboriginal art being traded for grog
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 15.11.09
The Northern Territory Licensing Commission says it is concerned by claims that Aboriginal people are swapping art for alcohol in Alice Springs. The commission is investigating claims an Alice Springs bottleshop accepted an Aboriginal bush tucker painting as payment for...» Read More
Artists vie for top indigenous award
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 15.11.09
Portland artist Ray Thomas and former Koroit artist Vicki Couzens have been shortlisted for the 2009 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards. Thomas and Couzens are two of the 18 indigenous artists in the running for the $25,000 first prize, which comprises...» Read More
ART Sense launches in Cairns
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.11.09
A new Aboriginal art sales service and community development organisation has been founded in Cairns, with a second office set to open in Alice Springs. General Manager Tim Cram said four years of development had gone into the ARTSense business...» Read More
How can I visit a remote Aboriginal Art Centre?
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.11.09
Many people write in asking about visiting an Aboriginal Art Centre in remote desert Australia. There is information on the Desart website that can help you with all of the questions related to this type of enquiry. Desart suggests you...» Read More
Important aboriginal art collection for private sale
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.11.09
Welcome to this fine aboriginal art collection to be offered by individual lots or offers to be considered for the purchase of the entire collection. Accumulated over 14 years, each painting has detailed provenance documents available for actual perusal by...» Read More
Bai Bai Napangarti and Pauline Sunfly at Alcaston Gallery Sunday 14 November
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.11.09
High Profile Aboriginal Artists to Exhibit at Ayers Rock Resort
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.11.09
The artists Bessie Nakamarra Sims and her daughters, Wendy Nungarrayai Brown and Alma Nungarrayai Granites will be painting and exhibiting their art among other artists work from Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation of Yuendumu, a not-for-profit organisation of more than 600...» Read More
Aboriginal art-inspired Wicked Campers (thanks to Music Outback Foundation)
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.11.09
The Music Outback Foundation uses music and arts based programs to help improve education outcomes on remote Indigenous communities. Their annual event Mobfest Tanami is a three day festival held at Ti Tree School in the Northern Territory, 200km...» Read More
Alice Springs, city of fraud
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 13.11.09
Dishonest employees have allegedly fleeced more than $600,000 from a range of Alice Springs businesses. Police said they had seen a disturbing trend where a large number of workers in the town had been duping their bosses of tens of...» Read More
THEY JUST LOVE SHANE
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 11.11.09
He may not win the judges' favour, but West Australian Nyoongar artist Shane Pickett just keeps on picking up the Peoples' Choice prizes. He's won the WA Indigenous Art public's choice for the second year in a row. And he's...» Read More
Jung's Secret Book, Aboriginal Paintings, and Mandalas
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 09.11.09
Very interesting article, here is an excerpt: But Is It Art? Here I want to make the case that we should not look at Australian Aboriginal paintings, Jung's visionary drawings (1902-1913), or Tibetan mandalas as art, for to do so...» Read More
Desert Knowledge makes $34m funding bid
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 07.11.09
The Desert Knowledge Co-operative Research Centre is hoping three projects aimed at understanding and responding to the needs of remote Aboriginal people will help it secure long-term funding. The projects are part of a new bid the centre is making...» Read More
Art and Meaning
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 07.11.09
John Perreault’s popular blog, Artopia, has a recent posting that brings together a disparate variety of themes. Braided into Perreault’s personal ruminations is reference to “Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya”, the aboriginal art show at Grey...» Read More
Thomas Ray Ahwang
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 07.11.09
THOMAS RAY AHWANG At Pandanus Gallery, Palm Cove Saturday, 14 November, 2009 from 2 – 5pm Thomas is a Torres Straits Islander born in December, 1974. A precocious child, primary school did not satisfy his yearning and craving to learn,...» Read More
2009 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards shortlist announced
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 06.11.09
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...» Read More
Carriers of Culture
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 02.11.09
“Our work is drawn from this knowledge using distinct pigment colours of the region on paper. One of the works shows the relationship between the cabbage palm and Kokoberrin Elder Henry Gumhole, a Senior Kokoberrin Elder who fought to have...» Read More
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