April, 2010

Pre-Selection Underway to Select Telstra Art Award Finalists

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 30.04.10

Pre-selection for the 27th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award is underway at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) this week. Telstra Art Award curator Kate Podger said MAGNT and Telstra were thrilled...» Read More

Pre-Selection Underway to Select Telstra Art Award Finalists

Pre-Selection Underway to Select Telstra Art Award Finalists

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 30.04.10

Pre-selection for the 27th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award is underway at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) this week. Telstra Art Award curator Kate Podger said MAGNT and Telstra were thrilled...» Read More

Film - 'Black Man's Houses' showing at Human Rights Arts & Film Festival

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 29.04.10

The award winning film, Black Man's Houses, documents a powerful story of indigenous survival that challenges skin-deep assumptions about Aboriginality today, as descendants of 'extinct' Tasmanian Aborigines set out to claim the lost graves of their ancestors on Flinders Island....» Read More

Australian Trilogy: Dennis Nona, Abie Loy Kemarre, GW Bot

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 29.04.10

INVITATION : "Drinks Party" Wednesday may 5th 5pm to 9pm "Australian Trilogy: Dennis Nona, Abie Loy Kemarre, GW Bot" Exhibition runs until May 15th 2010 Tuesday through Saturday, 2.30pm - 7pm open on the 1st and the 8th of May...» Read More

Rare and elegant art wins buyers

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 27.04.10

Rival auctioneers rolled up to the Armadale showroom to watch Goodman take to the Sotheby's podium, among them Deutscher-Menzies' national head of art, Tim Abdallah, and Deutscher and Hackett's head of Aboriginal art, Crispin Gutteridge, and head auctioneer Anita Archer....» Read More

Mapping Me - Call for Artists

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 27.04.10

Mapping Me: A Landscape of Women's Stories Editors: Orchid Tierney and Tamara Azizian We are seeking submissions in any artistic format (photography, painting, sketching etc) from indigenous women for a new anthology project titled, "Mapping Me, a Landscape of Women's...» Read More

Margaret Kemarre Turner Interview Part 2

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 24.04.10

Visit the link below to watch the video ”We grew up in that feeling of land. Our trees and hills and creeks are really important to us, you know. Never in our lives would people move anything. If they went...» Read More

Museum explores Australia's Balgo region

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 24.04.10

An exhibition entitled Balgo: Contemporary Australian Art from the Balgo Hills has opened at the Viet Nam Museum of Ethnology in Ha Noi. The largest collection of indigenous works ever displayed in Viet Nam, features 26 paintings by 18 established...» Read More

Tiwi art takes centre stage for opening of new gallery

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 24.04.10

The new art gallery at Charles Darwin University will open this week with an exhibition of Tiwi Island art. NT Administrator Tom Pauling will open the new Art Gallery at Charles Darwin University. The gallery's first's exhibition, Jilamara: Looking back,...» Read More

All artists welcome to join in new group

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 24.04.10

In her new role as the Outback Arts Regional Indigenous Cultural Development Officer (RICDO) for the Lightning Ridge district, Karin Thurston has established a group for artists. The group meets at the CDEP rooms on Shincracker Street every Friday from...» Read More

Big name, big art, big chance

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 24.04.10

The National Parks and Wildlife Service Northern Rivers Region Aboriginal Art Award has one of the longest names in art history. Maybe we can just call it the NPWSNRRAAA… yes, that’s better. Anyway, the NPWSNRRAAA is in its ninth year...» Read More

5 By 5 at Menier Gallery

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 24.04.10

Contemporary Modern Australian Art (COMODAA) will premiere new and recent works by Australian artists in London this spring with an exhibition entitled 5 By 5. The exhibition, running from 27th May until 5th June 2010 at The Menier Gallery in...» Read More

Innate Calling

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 24.04.10

The Dreamers celebrates the lives and outstanding work of eight distinguished Aboriginal artists who have contributed significantly to Australia’s cultural landscape through their creative endeavors. The exhibition is drawn exclusively from the Art Gallery of New South Wales’s collection, and...» Read More

WA Art Award Nominees Named

WA Art Award Nominees Named

Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 23.04.10

The 16 finalists in the nation’s richest indigenous arts prize, the Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards, were today announced by State Culture and the Arts Minister, John Day.   Mr Day congratulated the artists who have been invited to participate...» Read More

Moral Lip Service: Government's Hard Hit at the Art Market is a Soft Form of Redress

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 23.04.10

Since the 1970s, a significant rise in Indigenous rights debates and protocols on the world stage has occurred in tandem with dramatic growth in the appreciation of Aboriginal art. Over the same period the federal government has introduced legislation and...» Read More

Tangentyere Artists - The Story Belonging to Us

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 22.04.10

Tangentyere Artists is an Australian Aboriginal Art Centre, owned and directed by Tangentyere Council. The enterprise represents artists from the 18 Alice Springs town camp communities who produce acrylic paintings and local seed jewellery. A defining feature of this product...» Read More

NPWS Aboriginal Art Award

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 21.04.10

One of the Northern Rivers Region’s most prestigious art prizes is once again set to build community bridges and celebrate local art. Now entering its ninth year the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) Northern Rivers Region Aboriginal Art Award...» Read More

Dutch Icons of Aboriginal art on Show

Dutch Icons of Aboriginal art on Show

Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 20.04.10

Aboriginal art today! provides a fascinating overview of the evolution of contemporary Aboriginal art from its beginnings in1971 right up to its most recent developments. What is particularly significant is that all the works featured in this exhibition come from...» Read More

Australasian Arts Projects Presents The Utopia Story The art and artists of Utopia

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 19.04.10

Australasian Arts Projects is a regionally focused arts production company, newly established to entertain, inform and educate the general public about art, artists and artistic practice. Initially based in Singapore, Australasian Arts Projects is delighted to present its first event...» Read More

Curator Announced for Telstra Art Award

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 16.04.10

The Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) and Principal Sponsor Telstra are pleased to announce Kate Podger as the curator for the 27th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award. Kate has worked in the...» Read More

Indigenous award nabs new curator

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 16.04.10

Kate Podger was yesterday named as the curator for the 27th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award. Ms Podger has more than 10 years experience in the indigenous arts industry, most recently at the Araluen Arts Centre...» Read More

The Ngal Sisters: Painting Country

The Ngal Sisters: Painting Country

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 15.04.10

Lauraine Diggins Fine Art presents an exhibition of paintings by the prominent Ngal sisters from the Utopia region of the Northern Territory. Angelina, Kathleen and Poly Ngal depict their country, Aharlper, each in an individual painting style with a focus...» Read More

Balgo Indigenous Painting Exhibition

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.04.10

Opening: Sat 17 Apr, 10 am – 12 pm Exhibition: 17 Apr – 12 May Vietnam Museum of Ethnology As part of its “Once in a 1000 years: An Australian Gift to Hanoi” program, the Australian Embassy is pleased to...» Read More

$1000 up for grabs in Aboriginal art competition

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.04.10

Members of the Wangan and Jagalingou Native Title Claim Group have the chance to win $1000 in prize money by designing a new logo featuring a local endangered hairy-nosed marsupial. The logo will be used to represent Rio Tinto's Clermont...» Read More

Curator Announced for Telstra Art Award

Curator Announced for Telstra Art Award

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 14.04.10

The Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) and Principal Sponsor Telstra are pleased to announce Kate Podger as the curator for the 27th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award. Kate has worked in the...» Read More

RESALE ROYALTIES START IN JUNE

Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 14.04.10

Arts Minister Peter Garrett announced on April 7th that Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) was the successful tenderer to act as the collecting society to implement and administer the resale royalty scheme for visual artists. “CAL has 20 years experience collecting...» Read More

Grand Showroom Opening and Fire & Lightning: Press Release

Grand Showroom Opening and Fire & Lightning: Press Release

Posted by Central Art Aboriginal Art Store | 12.04.10

Central Art is proud to present the first major exhibition in central Australia of the work of two rising stars in contemporary art: Sarrita (22 years) and Tarisse King (24). Fresh from a sellout tour of Paris, Amsterdam and Germany,...» Read More

Once in a 1000 years: An Australian Gift to Hanoi

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 11.04.10

In keeping with the 2010 party spirit, the Australian Embassy is proud to present "Once in a 1000 years: An Australian Gift to Hanoi”, a celebration of Australia-Vietnam relations through exhibitions, performances and exchanges featuring Australia's proud Indigenous heritage. Wednesday...» Read More

Nomad Art Gallery - Manuka, A.C.T - Now Open!

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 08.04.10

Nomad Art Gallery Shop 11, M Centre Palmerston Lane Manuka, A.C.T. Tel: 61 2 6162 1512 canberra@nomadart.com.au www.nomadart.com.au Nomad Art Gallery - Manuka, A.C.T - Now Open! Where: Shop 11, M Centre, Palmerston Lane, Manuka, A.C.T Open: Tuesday to...» Read More

Anmanari Brown & Tjayangka Woods

Anmanari Brown & Tjayangka Woods

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 08.04.10

This exhibition marks Anmanari Brown and Tjayanka Woods’s first co solo exhibition in their intense painting careers, with a new body of work focussing on the Kungkarrakalpa, or Seven Sisters Tjukurpa. Anmanari Brown and Tjayanka Woods are two of the...» Read More

Boost for Telstra Art Awards

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 04.04.10

Minister for Arts and Museums Gerry McCarthy today welcomed the announcement by Telstra CEO David Thodey of a new 3-year sponsorship of the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA). "It is a pleasure to have Mr...» Read More

Telstra Art Award now on Twitter

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 01.04.10

The art world is twittering with anticipation as the countdown to Australia's most prestigious Indigenous art award begins, and now the latest news and updates can be shared and discovered by people all across the world through social networking site...» Read More

Exploring Aboriginal Art Prints with Dean Dass

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 01.04.10

Dean Dass, Professor of Studio Art at the University of Virginia, will explore Aboriginal art prints in the exhibition Etched in the Sun: Prints by Australian Indigenous Artists on Thursday, April 1, at 7:00 pm at the Kluge-Ruhe Collection. Dass...» Read More

Indigenous art prize

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 01.04.10

The Parliament of New South Wales Aboriginal Art Prize (long name but a rich art prize) is awarded to a NSW Aboriginal artist . The prize is $20,000. Yeeha! And the winning work is bought by the Parliament of New...» Read More

New museum catalogue published in April

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 01.04.10

Simultanously with the opening of Aboriginal art today! our new museum catalogue will be released. The richly illustrated book entitled Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Dutch collections at AAMU provides an extensive overview of Aboriginal art, based on Dutch collections only, from...» Read More

As of April 21: new exhibition Aboriginal art today!

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 01.04.10

Aboriginal art today! provides those who are keen to know more about this young and dynamic art movement a fascinating overview of the evolution of contemporary Aboriginal art from around 1970 right up to the most recent developments. The various...» Read More

Blood River

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 01.04.10

New Works by Joanne Currie Nalingu Opening Tuesday 6th of April at 6pm 6th of April - 1st May 2010 Blood River Louise Martin-Chew February 2010 Joanne Currie was born and spent her earliest childhood years at an Aboriginal mission...» Read More

Yakai – We’re Coming

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 01.04.10

New work by artists from Lockhart River, QLD Featuring paintings by Patrick Butcher, Josiah Omeenyo, Irene Namok and Susie Pascoe. Puunyas, traditional weaved baskets, will also be on display. Opening Event: Saturday 17th April 2010, 2 - 4pm Josiah Omeenyo,...» Read More