Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2012-02-01 17:55:22
ROCK ART ON WESTERN AUSTRALIA'S Burrup Peninsula is facing more industrial threats, despite new scientific findings that the ancient Pilbara site is "a masterpiece of human creative genius" worthy of World Heritage status. Around one million rock engravings, or petroglyphs, are...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2011-09-10 17:06:08
Greenough Regional Prison is an unlikely home to a gifted group of Aboriginal artists hailing from communities with a strong heritage in painting throughout regional Western Australia. Let the country come in exhibits the results of an artist development...» Read More
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2011-04-01 17:02:02
The longer one spends with this book, the more intense and varied the experience. A hazy impression from exhibitions past that Tommy Yannima Watson painted everything red – with surprising patches of oppositional colour...a ring of white, splashes of blue,...» Read More
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2011-02-01 17:26:59
On the morning of Saturday 29 January, at the age of 63, Aboriginal artist Ian Abdulla passed away at the Berri Hospital, South Australia after a brief battle with cancer. His family was by his side. Born under a gum tree...» Read More
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2010-11-24 11:53:07
The Art Gallery of SA has organised its second big exhibition of Aboriginal art from the Desert, showing until the end of January and accompanied by a big catalogue. It's a very generous and gentle introduction to the art that...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-10-22 03:56:10
A thousand miles from any ocean, Alice Springs is the biggest outpost in the Outback. It is a major hub for Aboriginal or indigenous artists who travel from their desert communities to sell their works. Aboriginal art took millennia to...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-10-05 12:15:42
In its 27th year, the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAAs) inaugurated a sixth category. The ‘New Media Award’ required artists to submit works reflecting the theme ‘connections’ with the stated aim to provide ‘a national platform...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-08-05 20:21:47
Investing in art for your retirement has got the all-clear, but hanging that framed nest egg on your wall could be a no-no if Labor is re-elected next month. In news that will have Australian artists breathing a little more easily,...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-07-27 01:59:50
Boomalli, one of Australia’s longest running Aboriginal artists’ co-operatives, is threatened with closure. Based in Sydney’s inner-city suburb of Leichhardt, Boomalli was set up in 1987 by Aboriginal artists to get their art recognised. Boomalli means “to strike, to make a...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-07-22 23:17:59
The gallery idea comes from 37 mainly Barkindji men and women who are transforming a dusty town park in Wilcannia in western New South Wales. It will become Reconciliation Park, a green, welcoming space with picnic tables, a playground, barbecues...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-07-07 16:38:46
Alice Springs and the world of Aboriginal art form the background to “Hot Rock Dreaming”, the second novel from Martin Roth starring private detective Johnny Ravine. Australia’s most famous Aboriginal painter is dead - supposedly killed when a heavy object tumbled...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-07-06 22:36:37
The Aboriginal art market could be devastated by a recommendation to ban art, jewellery, wine and collectables from self-managed superannuation funds, says the director of a big art auction house. The recommendation to ban collectables is one of 180 made in...» 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 | 2010-07-02 17:47:01
Sydney Greens councillor Irene Doutney echoed calls by the National Trust to set up an indigenous art centre at Barangaroo, saying it could be an ideal location to permanently house the world-renowned Aboriginal art collection known as The Keeping Place. “The...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-06-27 17:45:20
Tayenebe, a Tasmanian Aboriginal word meaning 'exchange', celebrates the revitalisation of tasmanian Aboriginal weaving that has been taking place over the past three years. The tayenebe exhibition includes beautiful baskets and kelp water carriers in contemporary and traditional styles, along with...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-05-28 03:32:30
On Monday 3rd May, an aboriginal legend was lost. Greeny Purvis Petyarre, a man of prestige and honour, an aged boss man of Alhalkere country in Utopia passed away at the Alice Springs hospital. I'd like to make this an...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2010-05-24 23:43:32
As the old adage goes “a picture is worth a thousand words” and 15 Aboriginal prisoners from Greenough Regional Prison have used brushes to tell their stories. These artworks are now on display at Port Hedland Courthouse Gallery until 23...» Read More
Posted by Mbantua Gallery | 2010-05-07 17:50:17
Respected elder and artist Greeny Purvis Petyarre passed away at the Alice Springs hospital on 3rd May 2010 from an infection related to dementia. Apart from being a prestigious artist, Greeny was also a very high ranking tribal elder...» Read More
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2010-02-25 16:45:45
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 whose...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-10-22 03:46:51
Jeannie Petyarre (Pitjara) was born in c.1951 on the Boundary Bore Outstation of Utopia, Aboriginal Art Regions of Central Australia. She is the sister to well known artists Greeny Purvis Petyarre, Evelyn Pultara, Rosemary Petyarre and Anna Price Petyarre. Her...» Read More
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2009-09-11 18:23:51
We think of Aboriginal art primarily in terms of painting and abstraction. The land, the stories and even the Dreamtime characters – often people morphing into animals – are invariably represented on canvas or bark without figuration. But indigenous art is...» 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 | 2009-08-04 05:34:09
Sotheby's Aboriginal art sale on Monday night is likely to see prices equal those of earlier sales of white-fella art this year. That means a discount of 20 to 30 per cent on the prices that were being paid before the...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-07-19 05:34:09
Sotheby's Aboriginal art sale on Monday night is likely to see prices equal those of earlier sales of white-fella art this year. That means a discount of 20 to 30 per cent on the prices that were being paid before the...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-07-18 05:24:54
Ginger Riley Munduwalawala, Limmen Bight River Country (1992). Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, bought 1992. On display until December 6. IN the 1950s Ginger Riley Munduwalawala was working as a stockman, droving cattle from the vast stations of the Northern Territory...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-05-16 22:46:50
Samson and Delilah writer, director and cinematographer Warwick Thornton spoke with the World Socialist Web Site this month when his film screened at the Message Sticks film festival in Sydney. Thornton, who was born and raised in Alice Springs, Central Australia,...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-05-06 09:05:39
Aboriginal art to many tourists in Australia means paintings on bare rock and the Rainbow Serpent creation myth rendered in rich colours with the dot technique. Aborigines and watercolours hardly seem to go together. But Albert Namatjira, who ranks as...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-05-04 19:45:59
The Pitt Rivers Museum in Parks Road closed last July for the £1.5m revamp, which won £1m from the Heritage Lottery Fund and other grants. A special programme of Bank Holiday weekend events starts tonight. Collections move assistant Kate Greenaway said:...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-04-27 18:37:34
Article in The Age about Samson & Delilah director Warwick Thornton. The future film director and writer spent three years skipping school and roaming the streets of Alice Springs, where he was born, some 400 kilometres south of the country of...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-03-26 18:48:20
The ReDot gallery is proud to welcome the 1st Singaporean show for the exciting works of the Yulparija and Mangala artists of Bidyadanga. “FROM DESERT TO SALTWATER COUNTRY” will showcase the very best from this art community whose ancestral lands...» Read More
Posted by Central Art Aboriginal Art Store | 2009-03-06 00:00:00
Central Art is proud to launch a collection of unique Aboriginal beaded Jewellery hand crafted by Aboriginal artists Leonie Campbell and Marie Napurrula. Each necklace or bracelet is comprised of gum nuts, acacia seeds and ininti seeds. Aboriginal...» Read More
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2009-02-13 15:43:31
Two opportunities for indigenous artists to win fine prizes have been announced. Australia’s richest indigenous contemporary art award for 2009 has been launched in WA, with nominations closing on Feb 25th. There's a little more time for both Black and White...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-12-11 09:38:36
Evelyn Pultara was born during the outbreak of World War II at Woodgreen Station, the cattle property adjoining Utopia Station and has now become a senior custodian for her Dreaming the bush yam. She began painting traditional bush tucker and...» Read More
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
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
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 Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-25 22:04:55
Article about the chemical code that is being trialled in Western Australia which protects the authenticity of artworks: A secret chemical code has been painted into an Aboriginal art work in a world-first step to outwit forgers who prey on indigenous...» Read More
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
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
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-11 10:47:48
Greenie Purvis Petyarre is the most successful male artist in an artistic dynasty that includes his aunt Emily Kngwarreye, cousin Gloria Petyarre and a number of blood sisters and half sisters. Now a highly respected tribal elder for...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-11 10:47:13
Contents Top 200 Australian Aboriginal Artists Insight: Greenie Purvis Petyarre Latest Aboriginal Artworks From The Gallery Most Popular Art: Top 5 This Month Most Popular Art: Top 5 From The Art Lover's Gallery Latest News Hosted By Aboriginal Art News Upcoming Aboriginal Art Exhibitions Hosted By...» Read More
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
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 | 2008-08-02 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
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-07-29 02:34:24
An interview with Kate Khan about the Australian Museum’s permanent collection of 94 Papunya paintings called the Papunya Permanent Collection. These paintings were offered to the Museum by the Papunya artists’ collective in 1983 and when they were acquired by...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-07-12 04:29:29
Date: 7/11/2008 through 9/28/2008 Sponsored By: Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art Location: Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, Howard Greenberg Family Gallery Contact: Nancy Lautenbach, x3872, Lautenbn@newpaltz.edu For the Noongar people of South-western Australia the word boodja means "land" or "home." This exhibition features paintings...» 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 | 2008-06-05 07:41:34
Works from new artists who have not previously exhibited will take centre stage in Perth next week as part of the Bundi Gurdurdu (Good Heart) mid-west Aboriginal Art Exhibition. More than 40 Indigenous artists will be featured in the exhibition, which...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-05-28 01:34:32
“Dreamtime logic helps save the planet”, says internationally respected Australian Aboriginal artist, Walangari Karntawarra. Walangari’s exciting work is included in the “Kick the Carbon Habit” exhibition launched by the Natural World Museum and United Nations Environment Programme at Te...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-05-16 01:57:56
Michelle O'Byrne, MP Minister for Environment, Parks, Heritage and the Arts Thursday, 15 May 2008 First-time Funding for Aboriginal Arts in Tasmania The Minister for Environment, Parks, Heritage and the Arts, Michelle O’Byrne, today announced funding of almost $50,000 in grants to Aboriginal artists...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-04-01 01:09:25
An article in the Green Left about Aboriginal art and the changes to the CDEP program in the Northern Territory. Quoted from the article: The long-term CDEP support for Aboriginal art cooperatives would also be maintained, and more training aspects, particularly in...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-03-06 02:48:46
Evelyn Pultara was born in c.1940 at Woodgreen Station, Utopia and has been painting since 1997. Evelyn paints the bush yam, the totem she shares with her late aunt Emily Kngwarreye - the most notable Aboriginal Artist. Evelyn Pultara is a...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-03-04 14:22:33
Central Art is excited to present its fifth online exhibition and second artist feature Evelyn Pultara feature from Central Art - Aboriginal Art Store. This feature has been created to showcase the enormous and growing talent of Evelyn Pultara. Evelyn Pultara...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-02-25 02:34:04
The Menzies School of Health Research, prominent in the field of childrens' health in remote communities, has organised an auction of art works in order to raise money to fund significant research into and treatment of Indigenous child health issues. Commercial...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-02-15 03:16:21
A new film about forgery in the Aboriginal Art world will begin filming shortly. Quoted from the article: A new film about forgery in the Aboriginal art world will begin shooting in central WA after the project got the green light from...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-02-13 03:16:29
A very interesting post about John Moriarty. Quoted from the article: But now I want to make my little tribute to a member of the stolen generation. John Moriarty was picked in 1960 to represent Australia in football. The first aboriginal to do...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-02-08 02:44:08
Eco-Art: GreenGallery Guide launch The Australian art community is showing its eco-sensibility through the launch of the GreenGallery Guide, a collaboration between the Australian Commercial Galleries Association (ACGA) and the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF), on 7 February. The GreenGallery Guide will help gallery owners and...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-02-07 02:41:10
‘GREENGALLERY GUIDE’ LAUNCH 7 February 2008 A JOINT INITIATIVE OF THE AUSTRALIAN CONSERVATION FOUNDATION AND THE AUSTRALIAN COMMERCIAL GALLERIES ASSOCIATION The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) and the Australian Commercial Galleries Association (ACGA) will launch the ‘GreenGallery Guide’ on 7 February 2008 to assist gallery owners and managers...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-12-03 01:54:37
Warakurna Artists Aboriginal Corporation 2007 Annual Christmas Special and Sale $40 - $200 plus postage Available online from the 1st...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-11-27 02:04:38
It's the closest thing in Central Australia to a celebrity event. The windows are covered in brown paper, the doors are locked and there's been a line up since 7am this morning. On deckchairs with black rimmed glasses, strong coffee and...» 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 | 2007-08-15 02:28:56
Mossgreen Auctions specialises in single owner auctions for collections covering fine art and antiques. Services include auctions held in our stylish multi-level building on Toorak Road South Yarra, on site auctions at the owner’s property or staged events in hired...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-08-08 07:32:31
Shapiro: Aboriginal Art Exhibition Mon – Sat 11am – 5pm 7 – 25 August...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2006-10-15 03:43:00
In her book, Metonymy in Contemporary Art: A New Paradigm (University of Minnesota Press, 2005), Green outlines her understanding of Greenberg’s formalist position and her complaints against it, which are complex, far-reaching and personal. From her perspective as an Australian,...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2006-03-26 02:45:49
The Important Early Aboriginal Art was held at Mossgreen Auctions in early...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2004-10-20 07:39:57
October 19, 2004 -- New International Auction House Enters Aboriginal Art Market. The significance of the Aboriginal art movement and its impact on the global art market has been compared to the emergence of the French Impressionists. The exponential growth of...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2004-10-11 14:26:43
A select slice of Paris’s art collecting elite gathered at elegant rooms on Avenue Matignon earlier this month for auction house Christie’s first-ever exhibition of Australian Aboriginal art. Thirty or so works on preview had been selected especially to tempt...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 1998-05-16 13:31:38
“The all-over picture relies on a surface knit of identical or closely similar elements which repeat themselves without marked variation from one edge to the other. It…dispenses apparently with beginning, middle and end…dissolving the pictorial into sheer texture, sheer sensation…seeming...» Read More