Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2012-01-20 11:31:38
The Lavertys - Colin and Liz - are legends in their own lifetimes. For they've not only built the largest Aboriginal art collection in this country – others overseas, such as the late John Kluge's, now at the University of...» Read More
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2011-06-20 12:56:28
The phrases 'Aboriginal time' and “Gone walkabout' are generally uttered with pejorative intent – they're seen as part of the 'failure' of Aboriginal society. But as film director Ivan Sen would say – indeed he did at his film Toomelah's...» Read More
Posted by Artitja Fine Art | 2011-05-25 13:51:58
MINMA – Contemporary Women’s paintings from Mt Liebig Walking across the desert in the early1950’s with her nomadic family heading towards a promised land, a young Wentja Napaltjarri learnt many of her ancestral dreamings from her father Shorty Lungkata Tjungurrayi one...» Read More
Posted by Artitja Fine Art | 2011-03-03 12:17:41
MEMORIES AND MAPS: Stories from the Bush In transitioning from her intricate yet abstract paintings of her epic dreamtime story to the figurative portrayal of her childhood at Ernabella Mission in the 1950’s, Imiyari (Yilpi) Adamson shows her range and skill...» Read More
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2010-12-01 14:09:43
The Museum Ludwig in Cologne has opened a significant exhibition of Australian art in a series which has included important Western artists such as Gerhard Richter in 2008 and Christopher Wool in 2009. Here is the curatorial take on this pioneering...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-11-04 21:20:12
BREAKING WITH TRADITION: Cobra and Aboriginal art explores the influence of the ideas of the European avant-garde movement Cobra on the development of contemporary Aboriginal art. Work by Paji Honeychild Yankarr, Narputta Nangala Jugadai and Yata Gypsy Yadda will be...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-10-27 22:44:44
BREAKING WITH TRADITION: Cobra and Aboriginal art explores the influence of the ideas of the European avant-garde movement Cobra on the development of contemporary Aboriginal art. Work by Paji Honeychild Yankarr, Narputta Nangala Jugadai and Yata Gypsy Yadda will be...» Read More
Posted by Artitja Fine Art | 2010-10-03 15:51:21
KIN AND COUNTRY Fire, storm, sand and water are themes explored by feature artist Maureen Hudson Nampatjinpa, who will be present at Artitja Fine Art’s KIN AND COUNTRY exhibition opening on Friday 15th October in South Fremantle. Keeping it...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-09-22 20:36:09
Beverly and Anthony Knight in conjunction with Hermannsburg Potters,Northern Territory proudly invite you to view Themes of the Central Desert New ceramics by the Hermannsburg Potters, NT Judith Inkamala Rahel Ungwanaka Lindy Rontji Rona Rubuntja Irene Entata Dawn Wheeler Clara Inkamala Stephanie Ratara Hayley Couthard Exhibition dates: Tuesday 28th September – Friday...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-09-21 20:35:10
Tuesday 28th September - Saturday 16th October Please join watercolour artists at the opening on Friday 1st October from 5pm - 7pm Watercolour Workshop Saturday 2nd October from 10am - 12pm Birrung Gallery is delighted to present Namatjira: The Next Generation, an exhibition...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-09-13 19:33:52
ARTS D’AUSTRALIE • STÉPHANE JACOB has great pleasure in inviting you to its new exhibition ABORIGINAL ART: THE SONGLINES Opening Wednesday September 8, 3 pm to 9 pm Galerie SEINE 51 - 51 rue de Seine, Paris 6ème Showing from September 9 to September...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-09-07 21:27:40
Four interpretations of ancestral dreamings from members of the same family will be the focus of Artitja Fine Arts exhibition KIN AND COUNTRY opening on 15th October in South Fremantle. The four closely connected family members - Jean Nampitjimpa, Maureen Hudson...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-08-29 22:14:17
Paris-based dealer and Australian Indigenous Art specialist, Stéphane Jacob, will exhibit works by several of Australia´s most admired and innovative Contemporary Aboriginal Artists at this year’s “Parcours des Mondes” the world’s leading international tribal art fair which will take place...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-08-29 22:05:51
Storylines -- the first comprehensive assessment of Indigenous artists from urban Australia is being launched this week. The three-year Australian Research Council project brings together biographical information about the artists on a website, completing a full picture of Aboriginal art in...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-08-17 22:08:55
The great achievement of this year's 27th annual Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award exhibition lies in its quality of overview: it is a portrait of the art-making currents of remote central and northern Australia, broad-brush, yet...» Read More
Posted by Central Art Aboriginal Art Store | 2010-08-10 00:00:00
In ancient Australian Indigenous culture, Aboriginal people from the Central Desert depicted beliefs, dreamings and ceremonial rituals in ephemeral sand drawings. In recent times, this practice was translated onto canvas using coloured pigments and original expressions for traditional storytelling and depictions...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-07-28 00:54:58
Opening, Wednesday, 28 July, 5:00pm DACOU (Dreaming Art Centre of Utopia) and Monash Southern Health have developed a fundraising initiative in bringing indigenous contemporary art from the Central Desert to a major public hospital in Melbourne. An exhibition of works by...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-07-17 23:53:42
A VIBRANT but little-recognised style of Aboriginal art produced in Wynnum and Manly will be showcased to the world next year. London’s Coningsby Gallery has accepted the works of award-winning Wynnum artist Troy Little and Hemmant’s Nancy Torrens, who approached the...» Read More
Posted by Artitja Fine Art | 2010-07-06 15:48:48
Colour is the inspiration behind Artitja Fine Art’s mid year Indigenous art exhibition entitled DESERT COLOURS - featuring the best from the central desert communities of Utopia and Yuendumu, a new Adelaide based art centre nurturing desert artists...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-06-21 20:42:06
The Kluge-Ruhe Collection opened an exhibit of western desert art at the Embassy of Australia in Washington DC on June 14. Circles in the Sand: Aboriginal Art from Central Australia in the Kluge-Ruhe Collection features work from the art centers...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-06-01 18:00:25
Artists from Arnhem Land and the central desert region have again dominated the finalists' field at the 27th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award. The 96 finalists, selected from 321 entries, were announced by the Museum and Art...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-04-19 12:20:33
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
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-04-14 17:40:11
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 Indigenous...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-03-31 13:46:33
Fairymead House is about to get a whole new collection with some of the biggest names in Australian art – but this time, they will be for sale. Paintings and artworks by Albert Namatjira, Walter Ebaterinja, Pro Hart and David Badcock...» Read More
Posted by Artitja Fine Art | 2010-02-23 09:09:08
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER: Lulu and Selina Teece Coinciding with International Women’s Day Lulu Teece Apetyarre and Selina Teece Pwerl two members of the same family from the remote community of Ampilatwatja (pronounced Um-blud-a-witch) north of Utopia in the eastern central...» Read More
Posted by Artitja Fine Art | 2009-09-01 19:31:48
A bilby woven from palm fronds and sporting pine nut eyes won the Wandjuk Marika Three-Dimensional Memorial Award at this years 26th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards held in Darwin earlier this month. Fibre textile artist and...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-08-25 08:31:40
WHAT are these colours amid the shadowed greenery? What are the sounds of chant and dance rhythm in the dark? Here, at the rainforest-surrounded Tanks Art Centre on the northern fringe of Cairns, in a set of converted World War...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-08-10 17:56:59
The current global financial crisis may be putting the economic pinch on the Australian art market but Aboriginal art centres in the Northern Territory are more than weathering this fiscal storm. “The global financial crisis is an interesting phenomenon,” said John...» Read More
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2009-07-19 11:05:13
"I'm privileged I'm able to use my success to help other people", says Yulparija artist Daniel Walbidi from Bidyadanga near Broome. Walbidi - still in his 20s - discovered art as a ten-year-old at school, starting out painting still life scenes....» Read More
Posted by Artitja Fine Art | 2009-06-03 15:49:11
BACK ROOM PASS – Indigenous Fine Art Affordable and Collectible It can be quite a challenge operating a home based Indigenous Fine Art gallery which doesn’t publicise a street address or hang signage inviting in walk-by traffic, but Artitja Fine Art...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-05-18 08:06:49
Culture vulture: The clutch of modern and heritage buildings on the city's northern shoulder house the Western Australian Museum, the Art Gallery of Western Australia and the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts. Founded in 1895, the art gallery collection contains...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-05-16 22:37:37
Some might say it is a simple love story, but delve deeper and you will find one of the richest narratives told in Australian cinema. In an isolated community in the central desert of Australia, Delilah (Marissa Gibson) spends the days...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-04-07 03:08:35
New Delhi, Apr.6 (ANI): Warlukurlangu Artists, Australia, in partnership with art curator, Durga Vishwanathan, are showcasing contemporary Australian art in New Delhi. Titled 'Desert Dreamings', the paintings from the Central Desert of Australia is the first exhibition of contemporary art of...» Read More
Posted by Artitja Fine Art | 2009-02-24 14:08:10
GOOD ONE THAT ONE! Sitting down observing the creativity of the central desert painters, whether it be a very well known and respected artist or one of the younger emerging artists who have grown up watching their elders paint is a...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-02-12 12:26:02
Red Desert Gallery in Eumundi presents a prime medley of colourful art featuring "Rockholes and Claypans" with narrative from some of the most remote desert regions of Australia. A showcase of select artworks from both female and male central desert artists...» Read More
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
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
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-11-14 00:00:00
The artists of the northern regions of Alyawarra country paint the hunting grounds and water holes of their traditional country, located around the Davenport Ranges, 450 kms north of Alice Springs. By combining the depth of landscape painting with the...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-11-11 06:01:14
The artists of the northern regions of Alyawarra country paint the hunting grounds and water holes of their traditional country, located around the Davenport Ranges, 450 kms north of Alice Springs. By combining the depth of landscape painting with the...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-10-01 10:18:46
Nice article in The Age by Gabriella Coslovich celebrating the success of Desert Mob: Running for 18 years, the exhibition, which shows the best and newest work of central desert artists, is so esteemed that when it opens the scramble to...» Read More
Posted by Artitja Fine Art | 2008-09-30 20:38:35
THE CANVAS IS THE ATLAS It is generally expected that a work of Indigenous art will carry a story with it. In some cases, the story is the main attraction for the collector of the art. For others, it...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-24 23:44:31
Japingka is celebrating the arrival of Spring and the associated rebirth of colour in the desert country by dedicating both of its gallery exhibition spaces to outstanding works by 12 Australian Indigenous women artists from the remote west of Australia...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-30 14:59:18
The newly formed Kimberley Aboriginal Artists alliance has established a successful presence amongst a national audience. The alliance took part in the Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair in August. The art fair, now in its second year, exhibits indigenous art which...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-27 06:40:54
Eastern Desert Art has recently acquired the work of two local painters who paint the Dreaming – Bush Plum of their Ancestors. Julie Pungata and Mary Ngala Jones are talented painters who live permanently in the heart of the Bush on...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-27 00:18:54
Tjukurrpa Arts presents an exhibition of extraordinary new paintings from artists of the Central Desert communities Utopia and Mt Liebig (Watiyawanu) in Central Australia. Featuring Works by Various Artists including Jeannie Mills Pwerl Janelle Stockman Greeny Purvis Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri This is...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-27 00:16:54
Tjukurrpa Arts presents an exhibition of extraordinary new paintings from artists of the Central Desert communities Utopia and Mt Liebig (Watiyawanu) in Central Australia. Featuring Works by Various Artists including Jeannie Mills Pwerl Janelle Stockman Greeny Purvis Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri This is...» Read More
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
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-18 17:57:06
"The Dreamtime manifests itself in an infinite number of ways and for thousands of years we, Australian Aboriginal people have used it as a means of communication, primarily through Songlines" says international award winning, central desert...» Read More
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
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-11 14:05:33
Will Owen gives a talk at the Newcastle Regional Art Gallery which is currently hosting an exhibition of works from the Laverty Collection. Quoted from the article: Ron Ramsey, whom we'd known from his stint at the Australian Embassy in Washington, DC,...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-07-30 07:49:08
Works from communities and artists from the western and central deserts including established and emerging...» Read More
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
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
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-05-28 01:17:21
Perhaps the most widely publicized issue in the contemporary art world is the misrepresentation and unethical sourcing of indigenous art. While we generally hear about the detrimental effect that this can have on the individual artists and communities, we rarely...» Read More
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
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-02-19 01:27:59
Post on blogger about Ronald M. Berndt's book, Australian Aboriginal Art. New York: The Macmillian Company and London: Collier-Macmillan Ltd, 1964. This is a very interesting post by Steve Thornton about an early book on Aboriginal Art. Quoted from the post: This...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-02-02 11:02:07
La Jolla CA – January 9, 2008 – Molloy Gallery of La Jolla announced today that it will be holding the first major US exhibition of works by renowned Australian Aboriginal artist, Kudditji Kngwarreye (pronounced “koo-ba-gee noo-war-uh”). A satellite exhibition...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-02-02 10:59:29
(Media-Newswire.com) - Ithaca, NY—The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University presents Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya, which will be on view at the Museum beginning in January 2009. “Drawn from a private collection, these...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-02-02 02:37:15
UTSA gallery presents aboriginal art collection By Ashley Harris Public Affairs Specialist (Jan. 28, 2008)--The UTSA Department of Art and Art History will present "The Lam Collection of Aboriginal Art," an exhibit featuring work by contemporary Australian aboriginal artists, from Wednesday, Jan. 30...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-01-21 13:28:24
An republication of a Eureka Street article where Rosemay Crumlin recalls travelling in search of Aboriginal Christian art for an exhibition to coincide with the World Council of Churches Assembly. She was joined on her pilgrimage by exhibition co-curator Anthony...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-01-16 06:28:49
La Jolla CA – January 9, 2008 Molloy Gallery of La Jolla announced today that it will be holding the first major US exhibition of works by renowned Australian Aboriginal artist, Kudditji Kngwarreye (pronounced “koo-ba-gee noo-war-uh”). A satellite exhibition of LA...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-12-05 13:36:47
Monday 3 December and Sunday 9 December Galerie Yapa, Morteza Esmaili The Yapa Gallery invites you to discover the painting of Australian central desert in the presence of the artists : Nancy Petyarre Margaret Lewis Napangardi Abie Loy Kemarre Galerie YAPA Morteza Esamaili 18 Rue Saint Roch 75001 Paris...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-11-23 12:51:32
Mossenson Galleries Subiaco is delighted to present Mission Times, an exhibition of new paintings by Pauline Moran representing her time as a child on the Roelands Mission. The exhibition will be opened by Diana Warnock, Former Member for Perth and...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-09-07 06:40:04
Jeremy Eccles, Financial Times (UK) 7 September 2007 “Are you ready for London?” Apolline Kohen asks artist Samuel Namunjdja. “What time we going?” is his eager response about a visit that is still a month away. Time has an elastic quality out...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-06-15 00:00:00
Utopia artists continue to produce some of the most innovative and diverse artworks currently produced in the Central Desert. As senior artists pass away, the tradition is constantly invigorated by new artists stepping up to maintain the quality of painting...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-03-03 08:23:06
Mary Place Gallery 12 Mary Place (off Brown Street) Paddington NSW 2021. Opening 3rd March concluding 3rd April. Tuesday to Sunday 11am to 5pm or by appointment. Palya Art, in association with Didgeri Air Art Tours, presents a chance to see the best of...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2006-10-20 02:59:28
The Aboriginal people of Australia are that country's most impoverished group. They have an average household income 40 percent lower than the rest of Australia's residents, according to the Australian government's social justice commission. They have an unemployment rate three...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2006-09-11 06:36:35
As the Aboriginal art community struggles against a growing culture of fraud, one group of desert artists is taking a stand, writes Nicholas Rothwell A thread of rich, autumnal colours, fit for the burning season, runs through the latest Desert...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2006-02-17 00:00:00
The community of Utopia has a long history of artistic tradition and has produced some of the best-known Indigenous artists of our time. These include nationally and internationally acclaimed artists such as the late Emily Kngwarreye, together with Gloria Petyarre,...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2005-11-06 07:44:47
International Herald Tribune Powerful growth of Aboriginal art All about Earth and the people on it Susan Gough Henly Sunday, November 6, 2005 Quoted from the article: With the opening next year in Paris of the Musée du Quai Branly, focusing on the art and culture...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2005-07-15 00:00:00
Linda Syddick, a member of the Pintupi people from Lake Mackay, W.A. and Evelyn Pultara from the Utopia Community north of Alice Springs are around the same age as both were born around 1940 and both experienced a very traditional...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2005-04-08 07:18:14
An interesting article about Australian Aboriginal artists, focussed on women from the Central Desert region, that describes the difficulties facing artists and the industry and why critical success in the art world does not necessarily lead to...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2003-09-20 06:43:40
The Age - September 20, 2003 Gabriella Coslovich As the value of Aboriginal art increases so, too, do claims that artists are being exploited, reports Gabriella Coslovich. An incredibly interesting article about the impact of the boom of Aboriginal Art sales globabbly in...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2003-03-21 00:00:00
The Community of Utopia has a very long history of artistic tradition and has produced some of the best-known artists of our time. Artists such as Emily Kngwarreye, Kathleen Petyarre, Gloria Petyarre and Ada Bird. All of who have featured...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2002-12-13 08:47:35
A list of exhibitions held by Japingka Gallery prior to 2003: Lorna Napurrula Fencer Generations - Utopia artists - click for preview Painters of the Kimberley & Western Desert Minnie Pwerle & Mary Mclean Little Gems Lajamanu Artists of the Tanami Michael Nelson Jagamara Sand Spinifex & Salt-...» Read More