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Voting Now Online for Big WA Indigenous Art Prize
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2008-11-20 12:17:21
A unique opportunity to vote online for the big Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards' People's Choice Prize is on offer until January 4. All the works by 16 artists selected for the first WA Indigenous Art Awards exhibition can now be...» Read More
Papunya Tula Cleans up the Big Art Prizes
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2008-11-03 14:18:29
Pintupu artist Patrick Tjungurrayi has taken out the richest indigenous art prize in the country - the new WA Indigenous Art Award, established last year at $50,000 for the national prize, and $10,000 for a WA winner. June Walkutjukurr Richards...» Read More
Not just the usual suspects
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-11-01 01:05:52
The Australian previews the announcement of the WA Premier's Indigenous Art awards: The $50,000 WA Premier's Indigenous Art Award aims to reveal new talent as well as the known. Can a group of men from the Great Victoria Desert win Australia's richest...» Read More
Aboriginal Art Exhibition in Florence
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-10-21 11:55:55
The Australians, the original ones, are coming Aboriginal Australian Art has an universal theme: “the Dreaming”. This concept permeates Aboriginal culture, from ritual to contemporary art. The term refers to the time of creation when Aboriginal people and all of...» Read More
Grand Opening Exhibition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-13 06:11:10
Grand Opening Exhibition September 14 - October 15, 2008 Reception on September 14, 1-5 p.m. ...» Read More
25th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award - Celebrating the Silver Jubilee
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-17 14:18:54
The 25th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award - Celebrating the Silver Jubilee has an online gallery of all...» Read More
25th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award Winners
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-17 14:14:07
Major Prize Winner, Makinti Napanangka from Kintore in the Northern Territory has been awarded Australia’s premier Indigenous art prize at the 25th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award. The winning painting depicts designs associated with the site of...» Read More
Primavera 2008 Artists Announced
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-09 00:02:59
The MCA has announced the thirteen artists selected for Primavera 2008, the Museum's annual exhibition showcasing young Australian artists. Throughout its 17 year history the Primavera series has showcased more than 120 young Australian artists aged 35 years or under,...» Read More
The Laverty Collection
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-08 15:51:23
The Laverty Collection goes on display in the new book Beyond Sacred as well as in exhibition form at the Newcastle Regional Art Gallery. The photo below is a spectacular shot of the Laverty's with their collection. ...» Read More
Beyond Sacred – The Laverty Collection of Indigenous Art in Print and on Exhibition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-08 15:48:57
Jeremy Eccles looks at Beyond Sacred. Quoted from the article: It's a crucial time for Aboriginal art. We should be sitting up and admiring the maturing of the most dynamic art movement in the country from a condition of amateur...» Read More
Traditional source, modern take
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-01 23:42:04
The Australian reports on the Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award 2008. The third year of the Queensland Art Gallery’s emerging indigenous art award again has a focused selection of innovative contemporary art, showing several works from 10 artists. And emerging...» Read More
Australian fashion gets hip
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-07-28 23:34:33
An article in the Sunday Times that talks about Australian fashion and mentions the impact of Aboriginal art. Quoted from the article: THE ART Contemporary Aboriginal art is “the most important new art movement in the world today”, according to the critic...» Read More
Tjukurrpa Arts One Day Only Exhibition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-06-16 13:49:26
Tjukurrpa Arts presents an exhibition of extraordinary new paintings from artists of the Central Desert communities Utopia and Watiyawanu in Central Australia Prices starting from $50.00 This is an exclusive opportunity to purchase this significant works by Indigenous artists of...» Read More
Aboriginal Art Directory top search queries for April
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-05-29 01:00:11
The Aboriginal Art Directory has released its Top Aboriginal Art search queries for April. As always it makes for interesting...» Read More
Ngurrara, The Great Sandy Desert Canvas
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-03-05 08:03:11
This exhibition centres on the great Ngurrara canvas, painted by Great Sandy Desert traditional owners during National Native Title tribunal hearings in 1997. In counterpoint to the installation of Michael Riley’s cloud, this imposing painting will be exhibited with paintings and...» Read More
Culture in colour
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-02-26 00:19:54
This exhibition celebrates Aboriginal art of the 'New Wave': the daring and visionary use of colour by Aboriginal artists throughout Australia. The use of bright acrylic paints rather than ochres has fired the imagination of artists and liberated them...» Read More
AboriginalArtDirect #1
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-02-19 09:34:59
Welcome to the first issue of AboriginalArtDirect, the Aboriginal Art Directory Newsletter. Its been an exciting and challenging first four months for the Aboriginal Art Directory and we are thrilled to be able to bring you the first edition of...» Read More
Kirriwirri 2007
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-11-28 08:37:52
Short St Gallery proudly presents Daniel Walbidi's first solo show in Sydney @ Mary Place, Paddington. All welcome to attend 28th Novemeber 2007 @ 6...» Read More
24th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award 10 August 2007
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-08-10 06:00:53
The 24th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, open to all adult Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander artists, aims to showcase the very best Australian Indigenous art from around the country. The non-acquisitive Telstra Award of $40,000 is...» Read More
Aboriginal Objects, Sculpture & Bush Toys
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-07-11 04:10:00
Michael Reid at Elizabeth Bay Aboriginal Objects, Sculpture & Bush Toys 7th November 2007 to 24th November...» Read More
22nd Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award 12 August 2005
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2005-08-12 05:38:20
The opening night of the Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award is a major dry season event in Darwin and attracts visitors and artists from all over the country. The evening provides free entertainment from Indigenous traditional...» Read More
Major Aboriginal art exhibition supports Indigenous health
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2005-06-25 06:38:58
A major exhibition of Aboriginal art, featuring more than 60 works by some of Australia's most celebrated Indigenous artists, is being held at Shalom College at UNSW this week (24-28 July). The Shalom Gamarada Art Exhibition will help raise funds to...» Read More
The Age Yulparija show their colours
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2004-04-20 06:42:31
An article about the Yulparija people from Bidyadana painting about the time before the white man. The article was associated with an exhibition "New Paintings from Bidyadanga, William Mora Galleries", in association with Short St Gallery, Broom, Richmond, until April...» Read More
FACE UP - Contemporary Art from Australia, Hamburger Bahnhof
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2003-10-06 03:12:59
People milled around Mikala Dwyer's tactile installation, I Maybe You, only barely prevented from reaching out to feel the intriguing shapes of cloth and blow-up clear plastic by the presence of a stern-looking museum guard. James Angus's huge upside-down hot...» Read More
Face Up - Contemporary Art from Australia
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2003-10-02 03:10:49
The Hamburger Bahnhof Museum for the Present, Berlin, will present the exhibition Face Up - Contemporary Art from Australia from the 2 October 2003 to 4 January 2004 as part of artsaustralia berlin 03, a program of contemporary Australian art...» Read More
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