Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2010-03-11 14:47:49
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 to...» Read More
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2009-09-01 16:07:14
For the first time in its 26 year history, the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards in Darwin will include on-line voting in its People's Choice Awards. In Darwin, people still have a couple of weeks to vote for...» Read More
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2009-02-18 18:00:12
The dynamic activities of the Queensland government to promote indigenous art creation and its marketing have born potentially rich commercial fruit. The Government has announced plans to put $12M into the development of Queensland Indigenous arts over the next 4...» Read More
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2009-01-28 20:02:36
There are many strange things happening in the US at the moment, but few can be more intriguingly circular than Mabuiag Islander Alick Tipoti's mask inspired by the mask from Picasso's own Collection – which visited Brisbane last year. For...» Read More
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
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
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
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
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-04 14:18:32
Leading Torres Strait Islander artists, Alick Tipoti and Dennis Nona will see their work in major exhibitions in Berlin and London this month. Nona’s monumental six metre linocut, ‘Yawarr’ has been included in the exhibition, ‘The Tropics, Views from the Middle...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-07-14 02:46:30
Opening night drinks at 6pm, Tuesday 15th July The artist will be in attendance on the opening night "My art is built on, and held together by, traditional Torres Strait designs, based on legends of the past." Alick Tipoti was born in 1975...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-03-14 14:34:18
Alick Tipoti was born in 1975 on Thursday Island in the Torres Strait. He has completed an Associate Diploma of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at Tropical North Queensland Institute of TAFE. Tipoti has also received a Bachelor of...» Read More
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
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2006-08-12 05:52:39
The 23rd Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, open to all adult Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander artists, aims to showcase the very best Indigenous art from around the country. The Telstra Award of $40,000 is awarded to...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2003-08-16 03:58:39
20th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award 16 August 2003, the winner was Richard...» Read More