GEORGE WARD TJUNGARRAYI

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

 

INDIGENOUS IMAGE WINS NATIONAL PORTRAIT PRIZE

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

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

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

 

BLACK & WHITE ARTISTS IN NT VIE FOR TOGART AWARD

BLACK & WHITE ARTISTS IN NT VIE FOR TOGART AWARD

Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 25.02.10

The Northern Territory's Togart Contemporary Art Award is one of Australia’s richest contemporary art awards and entries are now open until 15th March. The annual Award is open to all artists who base their practice within the Northern Territory or...» Read More

 

‘Kinti kinti, Purrka purrka – The Balgo Way’

‘Kinti kinti, Purrka purrka – The Balgo Way’

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 13.02.10

ReDot Fine Art Gallery is proud to present the second Singaporean show of the colourful works of the Warlayirti Artists Aboriginal Corporation. Warlayirti Artists is located in Balgo, in the arid north east of Western Australia, between the Great Sandy...» Read More

 

IT'S ALL FOLK ART AT BOS 2010

IT'S ALL FOLK ART AT BOS 2010

Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 10.02.10

David Elliott, director of the 17th Biennale of Sydney later this year, scratched an old sore today in launching his forthcoming feast of visual arts by asserting that “all art is folk art”. As a major feature of his BOS...» Read More

 

Indigenous Prints

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 10.02.10

Recent works from remote communities across Australia 18 February - 14 March, 2010 Over the past 20 years printmaking has become a major art form in many Indigenous communities with celebrated artists such as Rover Thomas creating works that have...» Read More

 

McCulloch's Aboriginal Art @ Flinders 2010: A Summer Exhibition from The Lands

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 09.02.10

A wide variety of more than 55 new and vibrant Aboriginal artworks as well as baskets, books, jewellery and more from the APY Lands, Utopia, Kintore, Yuendumu, the Canning Stock Route and the Tiwi Islands. Opening drinks: Thurs. Feb 18...» Read More

 

Sorry: More than a Word

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 09.02.10

National Australia Bank together with the Aboriginal Artist of the Year Wayne Quilliam is pleased to host the photographic exhibition "Sorry: More than a Word" to commemorate the second anniversary of the Apology to Australia's Indigenous Peoples. The popular exhibition...» Read More

 

Parcours Nomad’s en Australie

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 08.02.10

La Galerie Arts d’Australie • Stéphane Jacob et le Restaurant Nomad’s ont le plaisir de vous convier Lundi 8 février 2010 de 18h à 22h à un apéritif convivial dans le cadre de l’exposition “Parcours Nomad’s en Australie” 12 place...» Read More

 

Coming soon: Sale to support the Western Desert Dialysis Program!

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 06.02.10

From 15 February until 7 March 2010 we are holding a sale of high quality donated art works to raise funds for the Western Desert Dialysis Program (click link for more details). All funds raised will go to this important...» Read More

 

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