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A passionate engagement
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-12-17 05:20:25
Marie Geissler on collecting Aboriginal art Described by renowned Australian art critic, Robert Hughes, as belonging to ‘the world’s last great art movement’, collectors of art from this extraordinary ancient but vibrant living culture have, in recent years, fuelled a boom...» Read More
In the shadow of modernity
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-12-14 04:20:16
The disappearance of a powerful desert artist and magic man offers a rare window into the hidden realm of traditional indigenous beliefs From Nicholas Rothwell at the Australian: One morning in mid-April this year, senior desert lawman Spider Kalbybidi walked out of...» Read More
DESERT RAIN - INDIGENOUS FINE ART STOCK ROOM SALE
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-12-13 14:28:21
To celebrate this festive time, Desert Rain is holding a STOCK ROOM SALE, as an added bonus to your Christmas shopping. Works on canvas or linen from both collectable and emerging artists will be on sale from 15th-21st December. Including...» Read More
Warlimpirringa Tjapaltjarri
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-12-11 09:31:57
Warlimpirringa Tjapaltjarri was born on a hillside east of Kiwirrkura, near the West Australian Northern Territory border in the late 1950’s. He was the oldest of three brothers who came in from the Great Sandy Desert in 1984 along with...» Read More
Turning landscape on its head
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-12-09 04:19:25
Nicholas Rothwell from the Australian on Lydia Balbal, an emerging star in the Aboriginal art world: It was just a year ago that the most mesmerising new star of western desert art, Lydia Balbal, walked into Broome's Short Street Gallery and...» Read More
Identity
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-12-06 04:05:57
Identity exhibition featuring Nyree...» Read More
Art brings health and wealth to Indigenous artists
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-12-06 02:56:05
Building on a highly successful event in 2004, a special art and craft exhibition is planned for the Australia Day long weekend at Lismore City Hall to help build livelihoods for and improve the health of Indigenous communities. The exhibition is...» Read More
Black and White At NG Gallery
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-12-04 09:02:19
The latest in an on-going series of thought provoking Aboriginal art exhibitions at NG Art curated by Coo-ee Aboriginal Art “Aboriginal paintings are often described as landscapes but they are far more than this. They are all about nature and the...» Read More
Manifest Dreams: Contemporary Aboriginal Art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-12-02 00:56:39
'Ancient way meet 21st century life in bold, timeless, tribal images' SF Chronicle Art Reception: 7PM to 8PM, Thursday Dec. 11 Exhibition through Jan. 6 2009 by appointment Concert: at 8PM with master didjeridu artist Stephen Kent 'If your skeptical about being swept...» Read More
Manifest Dreams: Contemporary Aboriginal Art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-12-02 00:52:47
'Ancient way meet 21st century life in bold, timeless, tribal images' SF Chronicle Art Reception: 7PM to 8PM, Thursday Dec. 11 Exhibition through Jan. 6 2009 by appointment Concert: at 8PM with master didjeridu artist Stephen Kent 'If your skeptical about being swept...» Read More
Artitja Fine Art Home Show weekend 6-7 December
Posted by Artitja Fine Art | 2008-11-29 15:29:15
Wall to Wall…. A comment by a visitor to the South Fremantle home of owners Anna Kanaris and Arthur Clarke of Artitja Fine Art back in 2003 changed the course of their lives. “Walking into this house is like walking...» Read More
GOOCH'S UTOPIA
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2008-11-26 11:45:00
Of the key (white) facilitators of the Aboriginal art movement, only Geoffrey Bardon has ensured his own immortality via assiduous publication. And his reputation is based on just 12 months effort between the school wall painting at Papunya and his...» Read More
Launch of Written in the Land: the Life of Queenie McKenzie
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-11-25 01:21:13
I would first like to acknowledge the traditional owners of this land. And I want to acknowledge the contribution made by Argyle Diamonds – the first major company to make Aboriginal employment a priority and a supporter of the book. And Peter...» Read More
Half Light- Portraits from Black Australia
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-11-24 10:23:13
Photography by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists has emerged over the past two decades as a definitive expression of contemporary Indigenous life in Australia. Half Light is the first major survey of the work of Indigenous artists engaging with...» Read More
Art Gallery of New South Wales Presents Half Light- Portraits from Black Australia
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-11-24 10:02:18
Art Gallery of New South Wales presents Half Light- Portraits from Black Australia, on view through 22 February 2009. Photography by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists has emerged over the past two decades as a definitive expression of...» Read More
New works from SANTA TERESA
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-11-20 02:31:35
Today we've received some new works from Santa Teresa, a small community of 500 people south east of Alice Springs. We should have all the new paintings online in the next day or so. Santa Teresa was a Catholic Mission which...» Read More
Self representing artists
Posted by Central Art Aboriginal Art Store | 2008-11-19 00:00:00
AFFORDABLE ART BY A SPECIAL GROUP OF SELF REPRESENTING ARTISTS Central Art is pleased to present an exhibition of works by a group of five especially talented emerging artists. These five artists represent themselves in the art market and distribute their...» Read More
A fortnightly wrap-up of how the media reported Indigenous affairs from the National Indigenous Times
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-11-18 02:17:22
AN art auction house spent more than $100,000 moving a sale from Melbourne to Sydney this month after misinterpreting a new law. Sotheby's admits it was confused about a change to the Australian Heritage Act 2006. The Act requires individual...» Read More
From rock to canvas
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-11-18 02:08:48
An art culture that is thousands of years old has not only evolved successfully but is now a commercial triumph internationally, too. BEYOND THE DOTS Nov 7-21, Pace Gallery, PJ MY fascination with contemporary Australian aboriginal art – in particular the dot paintings...» Read More
Tjungurrayi claims prestigious art prize
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-11-17 20:23:36
From The Western Australian: WA painter Patrick Tjungurrayi has won Australia’s richest Aboriginal art prize with his monumental series of canvases depicting a scrub fire in his Gibson Desert homeland. “They were the best, the best-looking,” judge Djon Mundine said with...» Read More
Poly Ngal
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-11-15 04:08:28
Currently amongst the most senior custodians of her country Arparra, in the heart of Utopia, 250 kms North East of Alice Springs, Poly Ngal shares with her sisters, Kathleen Ngal, and Angelina responsibility as keepers of its cultural...» Read More
GATHERINGS IN SYDNEY
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2008-11-14 15:14:53
A remarkable collaboration of forces from all over the country has resulted in an exhibition of cast metal sculpture by indigenous artists at Danks Street in Sydney. The artists include Tjampawa Kawiny from the Tjampi Weavers in the Western Desert, Jubilee...» Read More
Harrison Galleries invites you and your friends to our first ever sale
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-11-14 01:25:22
Harrison Galleries invites you and your friends to our first ever sale. We have on offer a wide selection of Aboriginal works with some works starting from $300. Doors open at 10am this Saturday. We look forward to seeing you then....» Read More
Gallery on the go looks for a new home
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-11-13 12:00:14
A great story about the unlikely Aboriginal art collection of Gordon Syron: A convicted murderer who learnt to paint in Long Bay jail 30 years ago, he paints and collects art to depict his experience of a racist and unjust Australia....» Read More
New Beginnings: Classic Paintings
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-11-13 12:00:04
From the Brisbane Times comes the announcement of an upcoming event in Queensland, the launch of New Beginnings: Classic Paintings: Therese Rein will launch a book chronicling the master artists of the Western Desert, The Kimberley and Top End at the...» Read More
Fire & Lightning: A Solo Exhibition by Napuwarri Marawili
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-11-11 05:46:52
About the exhibition: For some viewers one of the attractions of Yolngu art is that it stems from such a radically different cultural worldview to that of mainstream Australia. But that can be a turn off as well. If you cannot begin...» Read More
Garrett’s resale royalty proposal - views from the Aboriginal arts industry
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-11-09 09:16:55
A very interesting post from the Crikey blogs by Peter Gosford. The article looks at the royalty system coming out of Canberra and the benefit that it will produce for Indigenous artists. Here is some of the article: Garrett’s model for the...» Read More
Celebrating Ten Successful Years Sharing Indigenous Culture
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-11-06 12:05:59
In November 2008 Muru Mittigar Aboriginal Cultural Centre at Castlereagh New South Wales will acknowledge the 10th anniversary of its formation with a number of planned celebrations. An indigenous art exhibition will be officially opened at the Centre at 6.00pm...» Read More
Indigenous Gambling Awareness Posters Launch
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-11-04 18:55:58
The Indigenous Gambling Poster Group is holding a launch of the Indigenous Gambling Awareness Posters Artworks by Local Indigenous artist David O’Neill. This was an initiative by local services to develop three awareness posters focusing on gambling’s impact on:Finances, Family/Friends, Self. Join...» Read More
Dreams of life and death
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-11-04 03:55:58
A wonderful article by Nicholas Rothwell about Wingu Tingima: For who, among the legions of keen collectors tracking the most admired Aboriginal art star of the western desert, Wingu Tingima, knows anything about her life and the way her mythscapes shape...» Read More
Tjungurrayi claims prestigious art prize
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-11-01 01:00:53
Patrick Tjungurrayi is announced as the winner of the inaugural $50,000 WA Indigenous Art Award: “They were the best, the best-looking,” judge Djon Mundine said with disarming simplicity to explain the choice announced by Premier Colin Barnett at the Art Gallery...» Read More
Aboriginal art triples
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-10-27 05:27:33
Kieran Finnane from the Alice Springs News discusses the new publication, McCulloch's Contemporary Aboriginal Art: McCulloch notes eight Aboriginal-owned arts centres in Alice at present. These, and in particular the two set up to cater for artists from town camps, get...» Read More
Tribal art auction yields mixed results
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-10-25 14:24:21
Peter Fish reviews the Sotheby's auction: Retired NSW politician and tribal art buff Richard Jones was as pleased as punch at Sotheby's Aboriginal and Oceanic Art sale at the Museum of Contemporary Art on Monday. The striking north-east Queensland hardwood rainforest shield...» Read More
Roebourne Art Group Seeks New Manager
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2008-10-23 11:41:28
An exciting opportunity exists for an, energetic and dedicated arts professional to organize and manage the operations of an emerging Aboriginal art centre in Roebourne, Western Australia - on the Pilbara coast, 1500 kilometres from Perth. The position involves management...» Read More
Aboriginal art left hanging as Sydney auction falters
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-10-22 12:24:33
Reuters reports on the Sotheby's Aboriginal and Oceanic art sale: An auction of Aboriginal art fell far short of pre-sale expectations on Monday as the global financial crisis appeared to halt years of rapid growth, although a shield sold for...» Read More
Desert masters claim place in history
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-10-21 20:16:07
Vivien Johnson's emotive book launch as reported by Nicolas Rothwell for The Australian: IT was almost four decades ago, in this harsh desert country, that the Aboriginal painting movement was born. Now, after many tribulations and triumphs, the definitive history...» Read More
Convulsions to test tribal art market
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-10-21 20:12:11
The Sydney Morning Herald reports: With world markets plunging precipitously this week despite unprecedented government handouts worldwide, you could assume quite a few collectors might be reluctant to spend serious money. Yet Sotheby's is certainly anticipating there will be buyers around...» Read More
Shield raises $84,000
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-10-21 20:09:51
Bridie Smith for The Age reports on a new sale record: A SHIELD sold at a Sydney auction last night for $84,000, setting a record price for an Aboriginal artefact sold at auction. The kidney-shaped shield, collected from far north-eastern Queensland...» 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
Sotheby's Aboriginal and Oceanic art sale
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-10-20 11:55:59
Exhibition Previews Location: Kiddell Gallery, London Mon, 22 Sep 08, 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM Tue, 23 Sep 08, 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM Wed, 24 Sep 08, 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM Thu, 25 Sep 08, 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM Location: Melbourne Fri,...» Read More
The head of an organisation representing Indigenous artists in Central Australia says the financial crisis shouldn't stop people buying high-quality Aboriginal art. A charity auction to raise money for health research raised more than 250-thousand Austra
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-10-19 11:52:44
Peter Fish from the Sydney Morning Herald previews tonight's Sotheby's Aboriginal and Oceanic art sale at the Museum of Contemporary Art on Monday night: With world markets plunging precipitously this week despite unprecedented government handouts worldwide, you could assume quite a...» Read More
Koorie Heritage Trust 3rd Charity Aboriginal Art - post auction sale
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-10-17 11:59:23
There was great success for the Koorie Heritage Trust 3rd Charity Aboriginal Art Auction, and the post-auction sales continue. Over half the works were sold and those unsold works will be exhibited for sale for two weeks at the Koorie...» Read More
First Contact
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-10-14 19:58:15
A new series shows how the infant NSW colony lost the chance to be an inclusive society, Graeme Blundell from the Australian writes: I GREW up in outer suburban Melbourne in the 1950s knowing nothing of the original inhabitants of my...» Read More
Give me your hand friend and bridge the cultural gap
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-10-14 19:07:46
Celebrated Indigenous photographer Wayne Quilliam will join with household names such as Nancy Petyarre, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Sally Morgan, Charlie Tjapangati and many other highly sought after artists at Deutscher and Hackett Auction house for the annual ‘Gnokan danna murra...» Read More
Womens Hair String Ceremony by Makinti Napanangka
Posted by Central Art Aboriginal Art Store | 2008-10-14 00:00:00
Central Art is honoured to present this collection by the Pintupi artist Makinti Napanangka in recognition of her exceptional body of work and to celebrate the public recognition of her as one of the all time great artists in Australia...» Read More
Marie Napurrulla Artist Feature
Posted by Central Art Aboriginal Art Store | 2008-10-10 00:00:00
Central Art believes there is an exciting future for emerging artist Marie Napurrulla and is proudly supporting her first exhibition. Marie's fine craft work and beautiful handcrafted baskets shows her artistic eye and dedication, when Marie presented her first painting I...» Read More
Aboriginal artists gain royalties for resold art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-10-06 18:40:33
Reuters reports: Australian Aboriginal artists whose paintings sell for millions of dollars internationally but who often struggle for money will get a lifeline through a royalty charge imposed on Friday on their resold works. In a pointer to the problem, a distinctive...» Read More
Walala Tjapaltjarri
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-10-05 02:59:57
Walala Tjapaltjarri, brother of well-known painters Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri and Thomas Tjapaltjarri, was born in the Gibson Desert east of Kiwirrkura in the early 1960’s. He was one of a small party, that included his brothers, several sisters, and...» Read More
Womens Law
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-10-03 00:00:00
These senior custodians of Womens Law have made substantial works that reflect on the traditions and roles of women in indigenous communities and on the customary practices that they uphold and maintain. The selected artists include Eubena Nampitjin, Makinti Napanangka,...» Read More
Lupulgna by Makinti Napanangka
Posted by Central Art Aboriginal Art Store | 2008-10-02 00:00:00
Central Art is honoured to present this collection by the Pintupi artist Makinti Napanangka in recognition of her exceptional body of work and to celebrate the public recognition of her as one of the all time great artists in Australia...» Read More
MGNT Considers Future of Telstra Art Award
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2008-10-01 20:32:04
The Museum and Art Gallery on the NT (MGNT) declared itself well pleased by the positive attitudes after the first of three proposed forums it's holding on the future of the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards -...» Read More
Portrait of a Distant Land Pt 1
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-10-01 12:50:47
Another interesting news item in regards to Aboriginal photography and an upcoming program on the ABC: Ricky Maynard is a Tasmanian Aboriginal photographer driven by a need to reveal his people’s true history. Ricky is sick of looking at books and...» Read More
Warmun artist named Aboriginal of the Year
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-30 15:08:35
A talented senior artist from Warmun Art Centre, Shirley Purdie, has been named the Aboriginal Person of the Year in the 2008 East Kimberley Aboriginal Achievement Awards. Held in Kununurra in September, the awards are an opportunity to reward the...» Read More
Beauty from within
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-29 04:52:13
Nicholas Rothwell reviews/previews the 2008 Desert Mob Art Show in Alice Springs: The most appealing works on view in this year's Desert Mob hold to the recent pattern: newly established art centres seem to nourish a special creative fire. Martumili Artists,...» Read More
Forums to review Telstra art award
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-28 22:59:32
Telstra's sponsorship of the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards is secure, but the format of the awards is not. Focus groups are being run around the country as the NT News reports: MAGNT acting director Apolline Kohen said...» Read More
Makinti Napanangka artist feature opens today
Posted by Central Art Aboriginal Art Store | 2008-09-26 00:00:00
Central Art's Makinti Napanangka artist feature opens today. Central Art is honoured to present this collection by the Pintupi artist Makinti Napanangka in recognition of her exceptional body of work and to celebrate the public recognition of her as one of...» Read More
Invisible 'fingerprints' guard indigenous paintings
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-25 01:59:03
Victoria Laurie from the Australian writes about a new canvas from Freddie Timms, Wunubi Springs, the first indigenous artwork to contain chemical encoding, a technique being trialled by the University of Western Australia's Centre for Forensic Science as a...» Read More
Where To for the Telstra Prize?
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2008-09-24 12:34:34
Telstra Art Awards Consults Arts Community The Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) announced today (24th Sept) that it will be holding open discussions about the future direction of the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art...» Read More
Fires from the Desert
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2008-09-23 17:38:12
Two of the most vibrant colourists to emerge from the Western Desert are showing at the Agathon Galleries in Sydney and Melbourne. Both women are Wanarn residents working for the Irrunytju Arts centre, and only avid travellers will have the...» Read More
Ulema from Uluru
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2008-09-23 16:55:01
Trust the Birrung Gallery - World Vision's excellent Sydney offshoot - to find yet another new, old artist. From October 2nd, they''ll be hosting the debut solo show by Jim Nyukuti. In his 70s, this Pitjanjatjara elder has been too...» Read More
The Southport School Indigenous Scholarship programme
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-23 00:31:08
The Southport School (TSS) on the Gold Coast is an Anglican Boys Boarding School. They are establishing a scholarship programme commencing in 2009 to offer Indigenous students who are demonstrating potential - in the classroom, in cultural pursuits, leadership or on...» Read More
Ada Bird Petyarre
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-21 02:40:16
Ada Bird Petyarre emerged as a seminal participant in the ‘Summer Project’ organized by the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association CAAMA in 1988. This workshop was to play a vital role in introducing women into what was, at the time,...» Read More
Aboriginal art uproar
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-20 03:43:06
The Herald looks at the works of Lucas Grogan, who interprets Indigenous bark paintings. The works have recently caused some controversy: Lucas Grogan's pictures look indigenous but he is not Aboriginal. The situation is causing a big fuss in the art world,...» Read More
NEW ABORIGINAL ART GUIDE AS VAST AS THE CONTINENT IT COVERS
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-17 16:56:05
McCulloch’s New Edition to be Launched in Red Centre 6pm next Saturday, September 27 at The Lane, 58 Todd Mall, Alice Springs MELBOURNE, SEPTEMBER 17, 2008— The eagerly awaited new edition of McCulloch’s Contemporary Aboriginal Art: the complete guide will be launched...» Read More
Cultural warriors with a different angle
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-17 16:17:43
The curator of an indigenous exhibition tells Stephen Bevis she wants to celebrate the artists as well as their works Culture Warriors: National Indigenous Art Triennial is at the Art Gallery of WA from Friday to November 23. Danie Mellor: The...» Read More
Blayney's Nyree finalist in state art prize
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-16 15:16:32
Last week Blayney community artist Nyree Reynolds found out she had just missed out on having her artwork adorn the cover of the next telephone book for the region. However, as some consolation, one of her works has been short listed...» Read More
Garrett urged to protect cave art from extraction
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-15 13:43:28
Marian Wilkinson, Environment Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald reports: A CAMPAIGN to win World Heritage listing for the Aboriginal rock carvings on the Burrup Peninsula in Western Australia threatens to push the Rudd Government into a confrontation with the energy...» Read More
Central Art Aboriginal Art Store presents Tjapaltjarri Brothers - The Last Nomads
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-13 06:50:27
Central Art is proud to present an exhibition of the collective works by the three Western Desert artists; Thomas, Walala and Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri. The Tjapaltjarri brothers were hailed as 'the Last nomads' in the international press when they and six...» Read More
The power of optimism
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-12 16:34:02
IF Tony Ellwood had not gone through a personal crisis during his first year as director of the Queensland Art Gallery, maybe he would still have chosen optimism as the theme of this summer's exhibition of contemporary Australian art. This...» Read More
From dog days in the territory to gallery top dog
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-12 11:57:07
Natasha Robinson reports on Dion Bealeys latest successes: WHEN retired teacher Joie Boulter devoted her life to looking after a disabled Aboriginal boy, she had no idea that a few years later she would be sitting in a swanky Top End...» Read More
Garma Festival
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-11 03:32:28
Jeremy Eccles finds that life and art are inextricably intertwined at the Garma Festival It was powerful proof of the eternal efficacy of art, and it was a moving exercise in humility. Not, I should hasten to add, any humility by the...» Read More
Ngak Ngak Aboriginal Art Connection
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-09 17:11:05
At the 2008 Sunferries Magnetic Island Race Week, southern sailor Michelle Petrie has been helming in her first regatta aboard her dark blue hulled Beneteau 57 Ngak Ngak. Ngak Ngak have finished second overall in the Cruising Non-Spinnaker division, a...» Read More
Reverb Media presents the award winning documentary Kanyini
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-09 11:03:41
Kanyini (which means connectedness) is a hard-hitting and beautiful film, which exposes the world's oldest living culture in a way that's never been seen before. Proust once said, "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes...» Read More
Kanyini - The Award Winning Documentary Film from Australia
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-09 10:44:54
Kanyini is a story told by an Aboriginal man, Bob Randall, who lives beside the greatest monolith in the world, Uluru in Central Australia. Based on Bob's own personal journey and the wisdom he learnt from the old people...» Read More
Kevin Wirri - Artist
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-09 03:55:36
From ABC Radio's Street Stories comes a story about Kevin Wirri. Listin to it on ABC radio on September 14 2008. This is the story of a great artist who lives with his family in one of the town camps that...» Read More
The great creative Golden Age of long ago and here and now
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-08 23:50:51
Danie Mellor 'The great creative Golden Age of long ago and here and now', Caruana & Reid Fine Art in association with Holmes a Court Gallery, Perth, WA 19th September 2008 to 12th October 2008 About Danie Mellor Danie Mellor is a young contemporary...» Read More
ACPACS Seminar: Art and Politics in Melanesia
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-08 13:25:07
Political crises and social upheavals galvanise artists to give vision and voice to people’s concerns. In Melanesia, as elsewhere, art is an active agency that draws attention to issues of human rights and assists people to make sense of complex...» Read More
First Aboriginal arts global news resource launches
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-06 03:28:07
Aboriginal Art News First Aboriginal arts global news resource launches Over 7,000 visitors a month to new website 4 September 2008: The Aboriginal Art News website www.aboriginalartnews.com.au officially launches this month with over 1,200 articles, events and listings. The official...» Read More
Special Screening of Twelve Canoes in Sydney
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-04 18:01:11
The Yolngu People of Ramingining, Arnhem Land NT invite you and a guest to share a remarkable view of their world with a special screening of Twelve Canoes to celebrate the launch of their site 12canoes.com.au 6.30pm Sunday 7 September,...» Read More
The Colour Black: Photographic Exhibition by Leading Aboriginal Artist Wayne Quilliam"
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-03 16:51:22
The Colour Black' photographic exhibition by leading Aboriginal photographer Wayne Quilliam is certain to evoke a wide range of emotions by people who visit this stunning collection of work when it opens at Alliance Francaise in Canberra on November 14. http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/q/qphotography/>Quilliam,...» Read More
Journey through the Pilbara without leaving Perth
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-02 20:08:22
The biggest ever exhibition of Aboriginal art from the Pilbara will go on show next month, giving West Australians an opportunity to see a style of art that has remained largely undiscovered in Australia, but has been making waves on the international...» Read More
Journey through the Pilbara without leaving Perth
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-02 20:08:22
The biggest ever exhibition of Aboriginal art from the Pilbara will go on show next month, giving West Australians an opportunity to see a style of art that has remained largely undiscovered in Australia, but has been making waves on the international...» Read More
Kluge-Ruhe toasts 'Best' and the 'Son'
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-30 02:34:58
The Kluge-Ruhe Collection will hold an opening reception for its new exhibitions this evening from 5:30 to 7:30. The local gallery will feature two new exhibitions. “All Time Favorites: Best Loved Works from the Kluge-Ruhe Collection” will be on display along...» Read More
AUSTRALIAN ART “BIBLE” TURNS 40
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-29 13:22:00
MELBOURNE, AUGUST 29, 2008— McCulloch’s Encyclopedia of Australian Art, widely referred to as the “bible” of Australian art, turns 40 this year and this significant milestone in Australian publishing is being celebrated with a series of events around the...» Read More
Survival of the Fittest
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-29 13:03:36
Interesting blog entry on the Wordy-Gurdy, blog, by Jackey Coyle: If Darwinian theory can be summed up as the survival of the fittest, how apt that this, the silver anniversary of the Telstra NATSIA Award, is located in Darwin. Talk was rife...» Read More
Congratulations to Makinti Napanangka
Posted by Central Art Aboriginal Art Store | 2008-08-29 00:00:00
Congratulations to Makinti Napanangka and her art centre Papunya Tula, the winner of this year's $40,000 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award. I met with Makinti only a week prior to the awards. It was lovely to hold...» Read More
Aboriginal Art Workshop - Buckingham
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-28 17:48:52
VISITORS to Buckingham's Maids Moreton Avenue experienced aboriginal culture when people were invited to make journey sticks at a recent workshop. The Buckingham Community Wildlife Project invited people to take a walk along the avenue and then decorate a stick with...» Read More
Indian Art and Aboriginal Art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-27 20:51:41
Nicholas Forrest of Art Market Blog makes an interesting comparison between Indian art and Australian Aboriginal art in his entry about the Indian Art Fair and Summit that was held recently: The fact that Australian’s have shown such an interest...» Read More
One big collection
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-26 23:52:30
The Benalla Art Gallery has for some years been collecting indigenous works to add to the opportunities for people and visitors to the North East of Victoria to understand their culture in all its forms and in this exhibition, the...» Read More
Aboriginal Art Organisations Speak Out
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-26 14:25:22
Forty three Aboriginal Art Centres, representing more than one thousand Indigenous artists have united to speak out on the devastating effects that art dealing outside the Art Centres has on Aboriginal communities.The Artists and Art Centres are speaking through their...» Read More
Jirrawun Editions
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-26 13:32:12
Jirrawun Editions recent etchings 2005-2008 Official opening by Nicolas Rothwell 1pm Saturday, 16 August showing until 29 August 2008 The Gallery, Building Orange 10 Jirrawun Editions represents the Darwin launch of a powerful series of etchings by major Kimberley artists Paddy Bedford (dec), Rammey Ramsey, Freddie...» Read More
原住民文化體驗 (Muru Mittigar)
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-24 14:45:10
Ivy Shiue writes about an exhibition at Muru Mittigar. From the post: Then it came the Q & A time. Many ppl asked different questions such as “How many ppl live in the traditional way?” “How many aboriginal ppl are there?”...» Read More
Aboriginal Art & Wine Exhibition in Belgium
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-24 14:32:33
Making Tracks is holding an Aboriginal Art exhibition in Belgium. I've just finished packing some great Aboriginal paintings to go to Belgium, they will be part of an Australian exposition on Australian wines and art held at Antwerp in October...» Read More
The 8th ARTSingapore is the Largest Contemporary Asian Art Fair
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-23 08:06:43
Australian Aboriginal Art will be represented in this years ARTSingapore, with Ballan and Pannan Galleries participating in this enormous contemporary art fair in Singapore this October. The most anticipated Asian contemporary art fair will be here once again to set the...» Read More
Aboriginal Art Organisations Speak Out
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-22 17:13:05
A recent press release highlights the important role art centres play in the world of Aboriginal art: Forty three Aboriginal Art Centres, representing more than one thousand Indigenous artists have united to speak out on the devastating effects that art dealing...» Read More
An epic in the making
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-22 16:57:34
Rosemary Sorensen from The Australian interviews Margo Neale, curator of the retrospective of Kngwarreye's work in Canberra and Japan: A COUPLE of years before the death of Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Margo Neale decided someone had to act. "Every Tom, Dick...» Read More
Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri - circa 1920s - 2008
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-22 16:50:21
It is with great sadness and regret that Japingka Gallery in association with The Watiyawanu Artists of Amunturrngu announce the passing of one of the great Indigenous Artists of our time. Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri was initially renowned and respected as...» Read More
Australian Aboriginal Art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-20 14:28:41
Seven Aboriginal Artists present their stunning works in this exhibition opening at Williams Gallery on 14th September. Williams Gallery was established 2001 in Petone to show and provide quality New Zealand art by established significant New Zealand artists, as well as...» Read More
Michael Nelson Jagamara exhibition shows totemic focus
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-19 14:01:44
The Courier Mail continues their focus on Aboriginal art with an article about Micharl Nelson Jagamara: The work of senior Warlpiri tribesman and artist Michael Nelson Jagamara divides art lovers. There are those who adore his bold, modern take on an...» Read More
Theory of national selection
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-19 14:01:38
Nicholas Rothwell from the Australian discusses the Telstra Art Awards and talks about what else is happening in Darwin at the moment. He makes the case that the Aboriginal art industry has outgrown NATSIAA and that some of the best...» Read More
MAGNT Honors George Chaloupka
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-19 13:51:24
Will Owen writes about a dinner to honour George Chaloupka: On Wednesday night, August 13, the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory's Foundation sponsored a dinner at the Darwin Convention Center to honor George Chaloupka for his contributions to...» Read More
Call of wider sunshine
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-19 13:11:26
Nicholas Rothwell from the Australian, previews the Telstra Indigenous Art Awards. It is a fascinating article, well worth a long read: The realities of the bush tend, though, to disrupt such fine ideas. Consider the far western desert, the golden home for...» Read More
Winner shines amid protests at indigenous art awards
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-17 14:20:28
The West Australian celebrates Makinti Napanangka's Telstra Art award: Judge Hetti Perkins, from the Art Gallery of NSW, said the field of 117 entries in the Darwin-based award was strong despite the withdrawals. “We regret that the withdrawn works aren’t...» Read More
Desart Media Statement
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-14 14:37:59
Over the past few years there have been concerted efforts by many Aboriginal artists to involve themselves in training about governance and the business connected with their art. We think it is commendable that artists are engaging in this debate...» Read More
New centre pledged for Aboriginal art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-14 13:53:44
A brief report n ABC online about funding for a new art centre in Northern South Australia: A new arts centre for remote Aboriginal communities has been promised in South Australia's far north-west. It will replace an old centre being used by...» Read More
New centre pledged
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-14 12:14:39
News today of a new arts centre promised in South Australia's far north-west, to replace the old centre being used by Aboriginal women at Amata, on the APY Lands. More than $700,000 of federal and state funding will allow the bigger...» Read More
Artist Spotlight featuring Walangari Karntawarra
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-12 00:03:24
1. Briefly describe yourself. When and how did you first become interested in art? How long have you been a practising artist? I am an Arrernte man from Alice Springs and lived a traditional lifestyle until I was made a Ward...» Read More
Cautious Garrett exhibits masterpiece of inaction on indigenous art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-10 03:27:29
Nicholas Rothwell launches a scathing attack on the government's response to the Senate inquiry. Quoted from the article published in the Australian: What does the federal Government's new pledge to the indigenous art industry contain? A whole lot of nothing. And why...» Read More
Artists to be paid for every sale, forever more
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-10 03:22:55
The Federal Government has responded to the senate inquiry according to the Sydney Morning Herald. As Australian art continues its record-breaking run at auction, the Federal Government has come good on a promise to share the spoils with artists and their...» Read More
Indigenous art awards furore prompts changes
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-08 01:46:30
The Australian talks to Apolline Kohen about the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards: Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory acting director Apolline Kohen told The Australian she had already started discussing changes to the Telstra...» Read More
Childhood Memories Continue to Inspire Artist
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-08 01:44:41
Acclaimed Yolgnu artist Gulumbu Yunupingu’s entry in this year’s 25th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Garak the Universe, continues on with her universal theme, which is inspired by childhood memories of her father’s night time stories...» Read More
Harry Paints His Way Into Outback Row
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-08 01:42:45
Prince Harry seems to be in trouble with some Aboriginal artists: In terms of cultural distances, they don't come much greater than Buckingham Palace and the deserts of Western Australia. But Prince Harry has unwittingly put the two worlds on a...» Read More
Cornucopia of tribal creativity
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-04 02:13:43
Peter Fish talks about upcoming auctions for East Australian Trading Consolidated and Sotheby's. Quoted from the article: On Sunday, August 17, Guy Earl-Smith's East Australian Trading, based in Double Bay, will hold a typically eclectic auction that willinclude Aboriginal, African and...» Read More
Papunya Painting
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-04 02:08:21
Will Owen visits and review the current exhibition at the Australia Museum, Papunya Painting: Out of the desert. Quoted from his article: Our first goal upon arriving in Sydney was to visit the Australian Museum and see the Papunya Painting: Out...» Read More
Aboriginal Art Searches in July
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-02 05:54:18
In July Minnie Pwerle was no longer the most searched artist on the Aboriginal Art Directory. Joyce James has taken over, followed by Daisy Leura Nakamarra and then Minnie Pwerle. For a complete breakdown of the most popular Aboriginal...» Read More
Aboriginal art award for local artist
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-01 23:42:04
Local artist Nyree Reynolds has received national recognition for her outstanding work, taking home the prestigious 16th Annual Mil-Pra AECG Aboriginal Art Award at Liverpool Regional Museum last Saturday July 26. The Mil-Pra AECG Aboriginal Art Award and associated Exhibition is...» 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
Writing on the wall for Telstra's indigenous art awards after boycotts
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-01 06:05:07
Ashleigh Wilson from the Australian talks to Cecilia Alfonso from Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Association about the boycott of the 2008 Telstra awards. Speaking from Melbourne ahead of the opening last night of an exhibition by Yuendumu artist Judy Napangardi Watson,...» Read More
Artists from the Utopia and Watiyawanu Regions in Central Austraila
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-07-31 02:18:43
Just a gentle reminder for those who missed out on seeing us at Elwood Community Centre in June, Tjukurrpa Arts is holding an Exhibition of new works by various artists from the Utopia and Watiyawanu Regions in Central Austraila. ...» Read More
Drawn into the world of Aboriginal Art" - A Conversation with Vivien Johnson, Curator of Papunya Painting: Out of the Desert Exhibition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-07-31 00:26:54
The Aboriginal Art Directory talks to Vivien Johnson, University of New South Wales Global Professor and curator of Papunya Painting: Out of the Desert. An exhibition currently showing at the Australian Museum bringing together for the...» Read More
Meet the Mr Big of indigenous art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-07-30 11:30:15
Leesha McKenny of the Sydney Morning Herald talks to controversial figure John Ioannou about his experiences in the Aboriginal art industry. Quoted from the article: John Ioannou agrees he is one of the most controversial figures in indigenous art and his reputation...» Read More
Most Popular Aboriginal Art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-07-30 02:14:59
Assimilation by Adam Hill is the most popular artwork in the Aboriginal Art Coop Gallery. The work has received 8 votes already from Aboriginal art lovers around the world. Other popular artworks include: My Country by Kudditji Kngwarreye Bush Potato...» Read More
Gallery accused of selling indigenous fakes
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-07-30 01:55:27
The ACCC is investigating claims that Doongal gallery sold works by an non-Indigenous artist as Aboriginal Fine Art. Quoted from the article: Farzad and Homa Nooravi, the operators of Doongal Aboriginal Art and Artefacts, stand accused of misleading and deceptive conduct by...» Read More
Mil-Pra Aecg Annual Aboriginal Art Exhibition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-07-29 03:18:20
Nyree Reynolds is the winner of the Mil-Pra Aecg Annual Aboriginal Art award. This Award is in conjunction with Casula Powerhouse, which is part of Liverpool Council. About the Mil-Pra Aecg Annual Aboriginal Art award A national annual event aimed...» Read More
Cravin' images
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-07-26 04:35:30
Article in the Sydney Morning Herald about two private collections of Aboriginal Art. Within a week, I visited two impressive exhibitions of private collections of Aboriginal art held in two different parts of the country. The first was My Country 2,...» Read More
NT super shires mean uncertain future for art centre
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-07-23 02:43:03
Harold Furber from the Titjikala Art Centre has spoken out about the Federal Government's intervention and its impact on Aboriginal art centres: Harold Furber says all remote art centres across the territory have been affected by the shire changes. Mr Furber says...» Read More
Cherbourg Time
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-07-22 06:09:40
Cherbourg Time Young Black and Deadly Art The Block QUT Creative Industries Precinct, Musk Ave, Kelvin Grove (how to get here) Dates 7 to 16 August 2008 Info 07 3138 5495 Ratartat has been going to Cherbourg since 2003, working with the children of the...» Read More
Buyer beware
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-07-20 05:29:50
Benjamin Genocchio writes about the Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage Act 1986 which is preventing international collectors from acquiring certain pieces of Aboriginal art. Quoted from the article: I am all for banning the export of art of national cultural value. For...» Read More
Australian Photographic Artist launches Nudes in Europe
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-07-19 09:21:35
Royalty, Television stars and Europe’s finest Art Critics gathered in Berlin, Germany to attend the unveiling of the latest exhibition by one of Australia’s leading contemporary Indigenous artists Wayne Quilliam. More than 150 people were welcomed by the Australian Ambassador...» Read More
Art exhibition a great success
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-07-18 05:14:34
Quoted from the article: The Desert Sands art exhibition closed on Tuesday after displaying local Aboriginal art in the Lightning Ridge Bowling Club foyer during the past three weeks. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art and Culture course is a Technical...» Read More
Joy for Jim as helicopter kid turns up 50 years on
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-07-07 02:29:21
A retired helicopter pilot has learnt that Helicopter Tjungurrayi was the young boy whose life he helped save at about age 10. The woman then brought forward a pitifully thin boy, about 10 years old, with swollen joints. Mr Ferguson thought...» Read More
Atnwengerrp: Land of Dreamings
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-07-03 12:06:49
To celebrate the extraordinary achievements of the late Minnie Pwerle - one of Australia’s most collected Aboriginal artists – Designer Rugs is proud to present an outstanding limited edition collection of Minnie Pwerle rugs. To be launched in Australia on 17th...» Read More
Greetings from Warburton
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-07-03 08:32:42
Mori Gallery is right off the beaten track, beside Sydney's Western Distributor near the Entertainment Centre, and doesn't often associate with Aboriginal art. But the Warburton community is such a law unto itself, any show is of interest. Most art made...» Read More
Atnwengerrp Collection by Minnie Pwerle
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-07-03 08:15:22
Minnie Pwerle, one of Australia's most important indigenous artists, was born in the Utpoia region in approximately 1910. Minnie did not start painting until late in 1999, her first finished pieces became an instant success and quickly captured the attention...» Read More
Artist takes a step into the future
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-06-27 07:46:09
Article in the Donnybrook Mail about Sharlene Harte. Sharlene previously ran the Djinang Kwap retail Aboriginal shop in Donnybrook, where she sold her artwork and taught art classes. She has also worked at the Forrest Nursery in Lowden. “I’m hoping to put some...» Read More
Yilpinji Portfolio Edition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-06-25 08:11:08
This is the first time in the history of Australian printmaking that a portfolio of limited edition prints has become available that focus on a unique aspect of Aboriginal culture. Fifteen senior Aboriginal artists have each created a thematic work on...» Read More
Big guns feature in art tour
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-06-25 07:40:42
Culture Warriors, the National Indigenous Art Triennial, is on tour from the National Gallery of Australia with 90 works by 30 artists. The free exhibition will be at the Art Gallery of South Australia until August 31. Curator Brenda L. Croft says...» Read More
Auctioneers withdraw Rover painting over concerns at listing
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-06-20 07:19:12
A Rover Thomas painting was removed from last night's Lawson-Menzies Aboriginal Art sale over concerns regarding missing information. The auction was a success though: Last night's auction reaped $2,715,600, including buyers' premium, with 122 of the 137 lots sold. This brought in...» Read More
Nyuju Stumpy Brown
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-06-20 00:00:00
Stumpy Browns boldly coloured renditions of her ceremonial country of Ngupawarlu sing out with an intensity that highlights the spiritual significance of this country to her identity as a painter and as cultural custodian. A senior Wangkatjungka law woman, Nyuju...» Read More
Emily Kame Kngwarreye
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-06-19 13:00:39
Edan Crokill from Frieze Magazine reviews the Emily Kame Kngwarreye exhibition in Japan: Emily’s paintings are large in size – up to 8 metres in height or width (the artist painted on the ground, so the works’ orientations are determined by...» Read More
Two Cultures, One Soul
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-06-18 03:52:15
John Weeronga Bartoo Opening Saturday 5th July 1.30pm - 4.00pm Exhibition runs from 2nd July - 3rd August Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery 531 Ruthven Street Toowoomba Qld 4350 About Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery The oldest public art gallery in regional Queensland was established in Toowoomba in 1938....» Read More
Warakurna Artists Kaparli Tjamu Nintipungku
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-06-17 05:43:04
Warakurna Artists and Alcaston Gallery present Kaparli Tjamu Nintipungku – This is the deep knowledge our old people gave...» Read More
Western Australian Premier's Indigenous Art Awards launched
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-06-13 02:40:49
Australia’s richest indigenous contemporary art awards have been launched by Premier Alan Carpenter. The Premier said the inaugural Western Australian Premier's Indigenous Art Awards, worth $1.1million over four years, recognised the significant contribution of indigenous artists to our community. “Australia is home...» Read More
More than dreaming: bringing to light a blaze of beauty
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-06-11 00:09:42
Nicolas Rothwell from Nicolas Rothwell examines the changing face of Australian Indigenous art scholarship and criticism. Quoted from the article: Much about Aboriginal art is complex, and lends itself to specialisation, formal probes and technical examination, and the result of such involved...» Read More
Desert Gems: Small Paintings from Australia
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-06-07 09:04:26
Gallery Reception - Friday June 15, 2008 5:00 ~ 6:30 Nicole Worden on Didgeridoo and drums The spiritual significance of the Dreaming symbols are represented in small acrylic paintings on canvas and wood. Through August 8th. Location: 421 2nd Street, Petaluma - three...» Read More
Debut Show from Wanarn
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-06-07 05:15:25
The Nganyatjarra artists of Warnarn - a remote community in the Simpson Desert, WA - get their first group show in Sydney, opening on Saturday 7 June at Agathon Galleries in the Parramatta Road opposite Sydney University. Previously, artists like Tjaparti...» Read More
Reconciliation is a Flash Beanie
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-06-07 04:02:33
as Jeremy Eccles discovers The Beanie may be the humblest of headwares, but it has proud history going back to the calotte in Ancient Greece and forward to the football terraces of the world, via Cromwell's Roundheads in the English Civil...» Read More
Top class art on show in exhibition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-06-05 09:18:37
The Leeton Art Society exhibition will be held at the Masonic Hall, in Acacia Avenue opposite the Soldiers Club, from 10am to 4pm daily. It will will feature over 120 works from Leeton artists, as well as Aboriginal...» Read More
TV Doco on Aboriginal Art at the Musee Du Quai Branly on SBS Friday 6 June at 7.30pm
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2008-06-05 01:05:15
Was the Aboriginal art contribution to the new Musee du quai Branly in Paris a huge beat-up by Australia's cultural diplomats? Or was it a genuine and lasting tribute by the French to the oldest extant culture in the world?...» Read More
Aboriginal Art Auction
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-06-02 09:12:44
Engineers Without Borders together with Dreamtime Elements are holding an exhibition of Aboriginal Art at 1st Floor Customs House, Circular Quay June 4th to June 8th 11.00am to 7.00pm Daily. On Sunday 8th June 2008 we will be holding an auction...» Read More
Sound buy
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-05-28 01:01:39
The Perth Sunday Times writes about ethical purchasing in the Aboriginal Art Industry: It is estimated that 80 to 90 per cent of Australian indigenous art is sold overseas, but unethical trading threatens to undermine the industry’s reputation. It was the subject...» Read More
Introducing Australia's Premier Aboriginal Art Gallery to the World Wide Web
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-05-24 03:55:39
Bundarra Gallery showcases contemporary and modern Aboriginal art from the finest indigenous artists of Australia. It houses a unique collection of paintings and artifacts displaying the best work of Australian Aboriginal Culture. Port Douglas, Queensland, Australia (PRWEB) May 22, 2008 --...» Read More
Kate Owen Gallery presents 30 Emu Dreamings by Kudditji Kngwarreye, Sydney Australia
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-05-23 14:14:54
A rare solo exhibition of 30 paintings by Kudditji Kngwarreye. Paintings by the eighty year old legend Kudditji, are hot property right now both here and internationally, as his highly individual works soar in popularity. Like his late sister Emily...» Read More
The Heart of Everything
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-05-10 00:12:46
Excellent news is the publication of a book about the extraordinary young art movement on Bentinck and Mornington Islands in the remote Gulf of Carpentaria. The Heart of Everything comes from specialist publisher McCulloch & McCulloch and uses...» Read More
Evolution in sacred tradition
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-05-09 01:44:04
How can it be that the most tradition-bound Aboriginal art centre in Australia, Buku-Larrnggay, at Yirrkala on the tip of northeast Arnhem Land, is pouring forth the nation's boldest and most innovative indigenous paintings and three-dimensional works? asks Nicholas Rothwell...» Read More
Modern landscapes
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-04-21 12:25:54
CHAPEL BY THE SEA BONDI BEACH UNITING CHURCH MEDIA RELEASE 20th April 2008 LEADING ABORIGINAL ARTISTS TO EXHIBIT AT CHAPEL BY THE SEA Ruby's Place Gallery within the Chapel by the Sea will exhibit the work of Mini Heath, one...» Read More
Indigenous art sales stymied by heritage laws, say auction houses
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-04-19 04:20:45
Report in The Age about the impact of the introduction of a new law under the Australian Heritage Act 2006 which adds a fee for each artefact that is sold. Quoted from the article: Leading art auction houses say that changes...» Read More
Artist Slideshow featuring Mervyn Rubuntja
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-04-16 05:02:39
Mervyn Rubuntja was born at the Telegraph Station in Alice Springs. His mother was a Western Arrernte woman. His father was the famous painter, the late Mr. W Rubuntja Pengarte. His father has been an important role model for Mervyn. He...» Read More
Divided Australia sails into the future
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-04-12 23:38:40
An article about the changing face of Australia. Quoted from the article: In an age when the world is becoming aware of the number of cultures that it is losing, the Aboriginal revival came at just the right time. Big business sat...» Read More
Hands on approach to mural
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-04-09 23:12:29
Cultural recognition and appreciation were represented in colourful fashion at Oxley Vale Public School yesterday. Students were eager to get their hands dirty for the sake of fine art and assisted local artist Corey Strong in painting a mural on one...» Read More
Rebecca Hossack - Tales of belonging
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-04-07 22:50:21
An article about Rebecca Hossack's journey to the United Kingdom and her importance to the Aboriginal Art industry in Europe. Quoted from the artcile: Seven years after she arrived, Hossack opened an art gallery, which became the first to seriously show Australian...» Read More
Rebecca Hossack - Tales of belonging
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-04-07 22:50:21
An article about Rebecca Hossack's journey to the United Kingdom and her importance to the Aboriginal Art industry in Europe. Quoted from the artcile: Seven years after she arrived, Hossack opened an art gallery, which became the first to seriously show Australian...» Read More
Australia's best living artists
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-04-05 22:44:07
A discussion about Australia's best living artists in the Australian. The author comments on Australian Aboriginal art: I have included in my list only one Aboriginal artist and no dot painters, despite the fact Aboriginal art is such a key part...» Read More
Mystery of our art in darkness
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-04-05 22:40:36
An interesting article in the Australian with a slightly different take on the heist including some of the mystery's surrounding it. It is a very interesting article about the place of Aboriginal art in the Northern Territory and well worth a...» Read More
'Drunks' pull off $500,000 artwork heist
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-04-02 20:03:32
More about the Darwin heist and recovery. "Well, it's not an April Fools' Joke, it has just been a rather excessive occurrence, an extreme occurrence," museum director Anna Malgorzewicz said. And despite the happy ending, she said the robbery was no laughing...» Read More
Warakurna Artists
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-04-02 19:51:43
This YouTube video and important message is from the artists of Warakurna Artists Aboriginal Corporation. We are an Aboriginal owned and operated Art Centre, Ngaanyatjarra Lands, Western Australia. The short film is about our Art Centre and also shows examples of paintings...» Read More
Aboriginal paintings recovered
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-04-01 15:43:01
ABC online reports that the seven artworks have now been recoved. Quoted from the report: Assistant Police Commissioner Graeme Kelly says all seven works were recovered just before midday. A Northern Territory Government spokesman says the paintings were found hidden amongst bushes less...» Read More
Blood dots a clue to Aboriginal painting heist
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-04-01 15:37:56
Another article about the stolen paintings. Quoted from the article that appeared on the West Australian online. Dots of blood could help police catch two thieves who stole seven Aboriginal paintings worth more than half a million dollars from a museum in...» Read More
Emily's Country
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-03-30 01:17:26
The Emily Kngwarreye show has been very popular in Japan, as Akino Yoshihara writes: An Aborigine community in the boundless red desert of central Australia nurtured a gifted artist who was full of dynamism and creativity. Emily Kame Kngwarreye, who lived...» Read More
Samantha Hobson - Ngayu Aalmana Ngaachi Ngatangku - Growing up with Cuontry
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-03-29 14:37:52
Samantha Hobson was born in 1981 at Lockhart River, Cape York, the northern most settlement of Eastern Australia. She began painting with the Lockhart River Art Gang at the age of 17, producing paintings of the land and reef that...» Read More
Record prices for Aboriginal art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-03-24 01:30:09
Information about a recent Aboriginal art auction from Lawson-Menzies. Quoted from the article: Some 120 works went under the hammer tonight for the Lawson-Menzies auction, many of which were post-1980 Aboriginal works. A spokeswoman for auction house Lawson-Menzies said a clearance rate of...» Read More
Emily Kame Kngwarreye in Osaka
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-03-18 12:28:57
From the very first time he laid eyes on the work of Emily Kame Kngwarreye (c.1910-96), in the 1998 retrospective at the Queensland Art Gallery, Akira Tatehata knew that it was something special. At that time, Tatehata was a curator...» Read More
Art mafia 'ordered' minister's bashing
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-03-13 23:39:06
An article in the NT News about the assault on retired politician Peter Tonyne. Quoted from the article: Peter Toyne, 62, who was stabbed in the leg with a sharpened nulla nulla and clubbed across the head several times by a professional...» Read More
Artist Spotlight featuring Adam Hill
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-03-12 07:37:39
1. Briefly describe yourself. When and how did you first become interested in art? How long have you been a practising artist? I am a complex man striving for simple answers. I became interested in art when I first distinguished...» Read More
Influence and Inspiration
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-03-08 05:01:32
For tens of thousands of years, the Kunwinjku people of western Arnhem Land have painted their stories upon the sandstone escarpments of their ancestral lands. Covered in a vibrant cacophony of images, these rock art galleries present a powerful vision...» Read More
Chance to see Aboriginal Art
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-03-07 02:23:39
Authentic contemporary Australian Aboriginal artwork will be unveiled at 7pm tonight during the opening of the Warlukurlangu Artists exhibition at La Fontaine Centre of Contemporary Art, Manama. The exhibition will showcase the work of Otto Simms and Ormay Gallagher, who work...» Read More
Out of Australia
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-03-04 14:16:46
You are invited to the opening of Out of Australia this Thursday night at the Medea Gallery in San Pedro. The show features works from local collector Sherry Thompson. I have seen her collection and she has some...» Read More
Warlukurlangu Artists - Australia
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-03-04 09:21:27
Australian Aboriginal art is the oldest living art tradition in the world, done by Australian Aborigines, with paintings in rock shelters dating back 20,000 years as well as contemporary art by Aborigines base