March, 2010
Australian Trilogy: Dennis Nona, Abie Loy Kemarre, GW Bot
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 31.03.10
Spring 2010 is upon us and we will begin on a journey to the heart of 6, Mandel. This special journey will take us to the antipodes of Paris where we will discover three Australian artists of international fame -...» Read More
Glady Kemarre from Utopia announced finalist in 2010 City of Albany Art Prize
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 31.03.10
Yesterday the 30 finalists for the 2010 City of Albany Art Prize were announced and Glady is one of just three from the Northern Territory to make the cut. The City of Albany Art Prize is a national prize for...» Read More
Aboriginal art sale draws artists
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 31.03.10
Fairymead House is about to get a whole new collection with some of the biggest names in Australian art – but this time, they will be for sale. Paintings and artworks by Albert Namatjira, Walter Ebaterinja, Pro Hart and David...» Read More
‘Ngamu nu la ngurra ra kujupa – Bringing Cultures Together’
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 30.03.10
ReDot Fine Art Gallery is proud to announce the 2nd Singaporean show of innovative works of the Martumili Artists. Following on from last year’s first ever, sell out, international show we will be exhibiting the latest and most exciting works...» Read More
What a petrol-sniffing Aboriginal boy tells us about Australia today
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 30.03.10
Germaine Greer on Samson and Delilah: Some people say they don't get Warwick Thornton's film, Samson and Delilah. And some people who say they do get it, don't. It's a film about an Aboriginal boy who sniffs petrol, and an...» Read More
Last chance to view in Melbourne CBD
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 29.03.10
If you'd like to view the artwork by Gloria Petyarre, Lena Pwerle and Jeannie Mills that we have here, please contact us as soon as possible. Best Regards, Dale Below is a Gloria Petyarre that we have with us -...» Read More
Top End Arts - Off the Leash
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 29.03.10
Top End Arts has been around in one form or another since 1999 when it was set up to provide arts organisations with joint marketing. It grew in 2004 from a Darwin focus to a Top End focus and began...» Read More
Aboriginal artist goes to Oxford University
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 29.03.10
The 32 year old Bidjara artist from SW Queensland, Christian Bumbarra Thompson has been announced as one of the first two Aborigines to go to study at Oxford University. Working mainly in Melbourne in recent years, and operating mostly in...» Read More
First Friday Lecture: Australian Aboriginal Art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 27.03.10
First Friday Lecture: Australian Aboriginal Art Friday, Apr 2 11:00a to 12:00p at Seattle Art Museum Downtown, Seattle, WA Phone: (206) 654-3137 SAM's Curator of Art of Africa and Oceania discusses how a contemporary art movement has emerged from one...» Read More
Aboriginal Art Exhibition – Seasons Greetings Opens Blackheath
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 27.03.10
Aboriginal Art Exhibition – Seasons Greetings Opens Blackheath 26 March 6pm March 23rd, 2010 Blue Mountains seasons… Aboriginal perspectives An exhibition of mixed media work in progress lino cuts & prints, painting, photography, audio & dance on video Opens Friday...» Read More
Buyers show restraint
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 27.03.10
The art auction year got off to a hesitant start in Melbourne on Wednesday night, indicating that it was still very much a buyers' market - and that buyers were treading warily. In the year's first big auction, Deutscher and...» Read More
Big Artwork Sale at Mbantua Gallery
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 27.03.10
From Mbantua Gallery: Yesterday we launched an artwork sale in the gallery - 30 pieces of art have been marked down (some by more than 50%) as a way to clear out some stock and make way for new art...» Read More
Inside Frank Gehry’s New Art Gallery of Ontario
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 26.03.10
Today’s media tour of the revitalized Art Gallery of Ontario did more than just showcase Frank Gehry’s architectural grace, at a cost of $300 million. It also displayed new artwork from the likes of the Group of Seven and Peter...» Read More
Now Goolagong is a big name in art too
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 26.03.10
More than ten years ago Maurice Goolagong first picked up a paintbrush. He is completely self-taught and after years of hard work his skills were showcased in the 2010 National Parks and Wildlife Aboriginal art competition. The winners of the...» Read More
Collaboration etched in the desert
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 26.03.10
How to track the rhythmic dotting of a desert artist, hand poised close above the canvas? How to convey the smooth, floating line of an East Kimberley master or the fine, cross-hatched brushstrokes of a bark painter from north Arnhem...» Read More
Outsider, aboriginal art in Springs show
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 25.03.10
Despite the hundreds of assorted exhibitions that take place each year in scores of museums and galleries along the Front Range, certain types of art, for unexplained reasons, remain scarce. Two of the most notable such examples are outsider and...» Read More
The Modrogorje Gallery Affair
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 25.03.10
A Croatian gallery owner in Katoomba has been forced to abandon her home in the face of death threats and vandalism after inciting the rage of the local Aboriginal community. Vesna Tenodi commissioned art teacher, Benedikt Osvath to carve the...» Read More
Aboriginal family donates 'Possum Dreaming' to the Canberra Hospital
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 25.03.10
ACT Minister for Health, Katy Gallagher MLA, today accepted the artwork ‘Possum Dreaming' from an Aboriginal family, which has donated the painting as a way of thanking Canberra Hospital staff for the culturally sensitive care, commitment and professionalism provided to...» Read More
"Ngamu nu la ngurra ra kujupa" – Bringing Cultures Together
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 24.03.10
ReDot Fine Art Gallery is proud to announce the 2nd Singaporean show of innovative works of the Martumili Artists. Following on from last year’s first ever, sell out, international show we will be exhibiting the latest and most exciting works...» Read More
"Ngamu nu la ngurra ra kujupa" – Bringing Cultures Together
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 24.03.10
ReDot Fine Art Gallery is proud to announce the 2nd Singaporean show of innovative works of the Martumili Artists. Following on from last year’s first ever, sell out, international show we will be exhibiting the latest and most exciting works...» Read More
China, Australia sign MOU on reciprocal years of culture
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 24.03.10
The Year of Australian Culture in China, the opening ceremony of which is scheduled for June 8 in the National Center for the Performing Arts, lasts from June 2010 to June 2011. It will be a showcase of cooperation between...» Read More
OPR Supports Mid-West Aboriginal Artists with ‘Good Heart’
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 23.03.10
Oakajee Port and Rail (OPR) is calling for mid-west Aboriginal artists to start painting and begin creating pieces for this year’s ‘Good Heart’ Mid West Aboriginal Art Exhibition to be held in Perth in June. OPR promoted the development of...» Read More
27th Telstra Art Award
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 23.03.10
27th Telstra Art Award - News Update Entries for the 27th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award opened to Indigenous artists nationally on Friday, 19 February and close Friday, 2 April 2010. The Telstra Art Award is...» Read More
“Ingalimpa Tjuntu” - Singing songs, ‘We sing the country and that’s how we find the way’
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 22.03.10
MEDIA RELEASE The ancient and the modern- a perfect partnership Redot Gallery- Singapore, Warlayirti Artists- Balgo, Audi Japan Group- April 2010 Question: What would bring the new hi-tech Audi navigational system side by side with the ancient Aboriginal Australia Tjukurpa...» Read More
First Friday Lecture: Australian Aboriginal Art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 22.03.10
Friday, Apr 2 11:00a to 12:00p at Seattle Art Museum Downtown, Seattle, WA Phone: (206) 654-3137 SAM's Curator of Art of Africa and Oceania discusses how a contemporary art movement has emerged from one of the world's oldest living cultures....» Read More
Firestick sculptures light the way
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 22.03.10
Far north Queensland indigenous artists are taking a new approach to traditional artefacts THE reaction to the first showing of ceramics by the Girringun artists of Cardwell, in far north Queensland, was overwhelming. "We were mobbed," says Valerie Keenan, manager...» Read More
Museum Victoria: 2010 Lecture Series, Indigenous Cultures Department
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 21.03.10
When: 1pm – 2pm, last Tuesday of every month, February to November, 2010 Where: The Discovery Centre, Lower Ground Floor, Melbourne Museum The Indigenous Cultures Department of Museum Victoria is launching a monthly lecture series in February 2010 entitled Culture...» Read More
Heaven and Earth
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 21.03.10
Before and After Science: 2010 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. Until May 2. It is significant that the Adelaide Biennial coincides with the Art Gallery of South Australia's purchase of an enormous work by...» Read More
Art battle turns ugly as Aborigines condemn sculpture's sacred image
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 21.03.10
"This is the most beautiful thing that has been done for Aboriginal people," a Blue Mountains gallery owner, Vesna Tenodi, says. "They should be thanking me, but instead I get yelled at wherever I go." Tenodi is the owner, together...» Read More
Tayenebe: Tasmanian Aboriginal Women’s Fibre Work
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 20.03.10
Tayenebe, a Tasmanian Aboriginal word meaning ‘exchange’, celebrates the revitalisation of Tasmanian Aboriginal weaving that has been taking place over the past three years. Tayenebe includes beautiful baskets and kelp water carriers in contemporary and traditional styles, along with a...» Read More
Australian Aboriginal Art and the contemporary gallery
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 20.03.10
Colin Laverty speaks on Beyond Sacred - Australian Aboriginal art and why it belongs in contemporary galleries + institutions and not ethnographic + anthropological museums. Colin and Elizabeth Laverty began collecting Aboriginal art twenty years ago, and their collection has...» Read More
Indigenous art in Nundah
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 19.03.10
Art enthusiasts can view the works of nationally renowned indigenous artists at Centred Art Gallery from March 19 to May 1. The gallery’s latest exhibition is titled Senior Desert Artists and owner Rene Dings said the art on display was...» Read More
ABORIGINAL ARTIST GOES TO OXFORD
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 18.03.10
The 32 year old Bidjara artist from SW Queensland, Christian Bumbarra Thompson has been announced as one of the first two Aborigines to go to study at Oxford University. Working mainly in Melbourne in recent years, and operating mostly in...» Read More
GEORGE WARD TJUNGARRAYI
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 18.03.10
It's been a bad time for Aboriginal art – far too many deaths of the Old People have occurred, the artists who often saw no white people until their maturity and are painting the deserts and their stories first hand....» Read More
CAIRNS INDIGENOUS ART FAIR ARTISTIC DIRECTOR RETURNS FOR 2010
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.03.10
Premier and Minister for the Arts The Honourable Anna Bligh Monday, March 15, 2010 CAIRNS INDIGENOUS ART FAIR ARTISTIC DIRECTOR RETURNS FOR 2010 Premier and Arts Minister Anna Bligh today announced Michael Snelling would return as Artistic Director of Cairns...» Read More
A TRIBAL WORLD ON VIEW
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 13.03.10
I was drawn to this gorgeous and important book, 'We Are One' by the prospect of Damien Hirst – the English artist infamous for his crazy concepts like a floating shark or a diamond encrusted skull – sharing his views...» Read More
Registration opens for Indigenous Australian Art Commercial Code of Conduct
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 12.03.10
Registration is now open for art dealers, including agents, galleries and arts centres to register their interest in becoming signatories to the Indigenous Australian Art Commercial Code of Conduct. Arts Minister, Peter Garrett, congratulated the Code Administration Committee on their...» Read More
13th Annual West Hollywood Art & Design Walk
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 11.03.10
On March 26th & 27th our gallery will be a part of the 13th Annual West Hollywood Art & Design Walk event. This year, the event will be held in conjunction with Westweek at the Pacific Design Center. A must-see...» Read More
CODE OF CONDUCT NOW IN FORCE
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 11.03.10
Registration is now open for art dealers, agents, galleries and arts centres to register their interest in becoming signatories to the Indigenous Australian Art Commercial Code of Conduct. Arts Minister, Peter Garrett, congratulated the Code Administration Committee on their efforts...» Read More
60% OF AUSSIES HAVE AN INTEREST IN INDIGENOUS ART
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 11.03.10
A recent Australia Council survey of 3000 Australians – over the age of 15 and selected on the basis of geographical, age and gender quotas – shows a growing enthusiasm for the indigenous arts. 17% of the total sample have...» Read More
Grand Showroom Opening and Fire & Lightning: Sarrita and Tarisse King exhibition on 16 April 2010
Posted by Central Art Aboriginal Art Store | 10.03.10
Central Art is proud to present the first major exhibition in central Australia of the work of two rising stars in contemporary art: Sarrita and Tarisse King. Fresh from a sellout tour of Paris, Amsterdam and Germany, the King sisters...» Read More
Central Art Grand Showroom Opening featuring Fire & Lightning: Sarrita and Tarisse King
Posted by Central Art Aboriginal Art Store | 10.03.10
Central Art is proud to present the first major exhibition in central Australia of the work of two rising stars in contemporary art: Sarrita and Tarisse King. Fresh from a sellout tour of Paris, Amsterdam and Germany, the King sisters...» Read More
Grand Showroom Opening and Fire & Lightning: Sarrita and Tarisse King Exhibition & Catalogue on 16 April 2010
Posted by Central Art Aboriginal Art Store | 10.03.10
Central Art is proud to present the first major exhibition in central Australia of the work of two rising stars in contemporary art: Sarrita and Tarisse King. This exhibition also marks the grand opening of the Central Art showroom. Central...» Read More
INDIGENOUS IMAGE WINS NATIONAL PORTRAIT PRIZE
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 05.03.10
Mr Andrew Sayers, Director, National Portrait Gallery yesterday announced the winner of the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2010 as Scott Bycroft for the work titled Zareth. VISA has generously sponsored the exhibition and will provide the winning prize money of...» Read More
HOODIES IN MELBOURNE
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 05.03.10
The hoodie jacket, sometimes associated with youth alienation and crime, will be celebrated as a symbol of cultural pride and strength in an arts project aimed at giving positive direction to a group of 15 at risk Koorie youths. “Kooriez...» Read More
EAST KIMBERLEY IN SYDNEY
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 04.03.10
Upon seeing the painting 1957 #20 by Mark Rothko at the National Gallery of Australia, Rover Thomas, the star of the original group of East Kimberley painters, asked: ‘Who’s that bugger who paints like me?’. Rothko himself was not averse...» Read More
The rainforest travels to Hahndorf
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 02.03.10
THE ARTISTRY OF JAWUN: Neriba Gallasch, Abe Muriata, Erima Gallasch and Sarenah Gallasch at the opening of Bi-cornual Artistry at the Tineriba Gallery in Hahndorf, South Australia. Photo Girringun Aboriginal Corporation. VIEWING THE JAWUN: Artist Abe Muriata, Gallery Director Neriba...» Read More
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