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ABORIGINAL ARTIST GOES TO OXFORD
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2010-03-18 12:53:49
The 32 year old Bidjara artist from SW Queensland, Christian Bumbarra Thompson has been announced as one of the first two Aborigines to go to study at Oxford University. Working mainly in Melbourne in recent years, and operating mostly in...» Read More
Warwick Thornton discusses Samson and Delilah with the WSWS
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
ABORIGINAL ART AT CANNES!
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2009-05-01 20:11:33
The Cannes Film Festival will host the world-wide launch of the Aussie film, Samson & Delilah – featuring the great Warlpiri artist, Mitjili Napanangka Gibson, in her second film role. Not only the artist, but her art features seriously in...» Read More
Finding salvation in film
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
Icons of the Desert
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-01-04 20:02:48
Post by Will Owen about the new icons of the desert exhibition: The largest exhibition in the United States to date of seminal works of contemporary Aboriginal painting from central Australia will open on January 10 at Cornell University's Herbert F....» 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
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
Winning painting 'singing' to judge
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-17 14:28:14
The NT News reports about the winners of the Telstra Art Awards: A painting that sang out to one of the judges has won a revered artist from Kintore the $40,000 Telstra Art Award. Makinti Napanangka, who is in her late seventies,...» 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
The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Announces Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya
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
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