Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2010-03-18 09:49:22
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
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-12-28 00:28:16
The first Pro Community exhibition by ARTKELCH in Germany featuring Papunya Tula Artists was a big success. More than 5000 artlovers saw the exhibition touring 4 major cities in Germany. Over 50 works found their new home in Germany and...» Read More
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2009-12-15 21:09:24
“For better or worse, it is the strangest and most beautiful show of abstract paintings I have seen in a long time”. The Sydney Morning Herald's art critic, Terence Maloon was bemusedly describing his response to the first ever commercial...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-12-03 15:36:32
Smith & Hall invites you to view “Earth Tones”, a new collection of work by Indigenous artists Yinarupa Nangala (Telstra Art Award category winner), Tatali Napurrula and Mavis Napaltjarri. These female artists all hail from the Australian Western Desert and their...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-09-12 17:25:56
Re: the Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya exhibition Sent to the resettlement camp at Papunya, in South Central Australia, to acculturate the Aboriginal children, schoolteacher Geoff Bardon noticed that they were drawing nonstop in the sand, and...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-08-25 15:41:28
PR and POLITICS at the 2009 TELSTRA ART AWARDS. THE POWER of PR The fanfare is over and the red carpet has been rolled away for another year. The winners of the 2009 Telstra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards are...» Read More
Posted by Jeremy Eccles | 2009-08-16 13:03:59
"It's important to have my work in an exhibition where conversations occur between different sorts of art and artists". The National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (the NATSIAAs) at the Museum & Art Gallery of the NT in Darwin...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-08-04 17:25:02
ARTKELCH zeigt Aboriginal Art in Berlin - Papunya Tula Artists im Rahmen von "pro community" Kunst & Kultur Ab 02. Oktober zeigt ARTKELCH eine handverlesene Auswahl der besten aktuellen Arbeiten der Aboriginal Art aus Australiens führendem indigenen Kunstzentrum „Papunya Tula Artists“ in...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-06-23 03:52:56
A new post by Will Owen about Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri with some wonderful photographs: I remember visiting Papunya Tula Artists' Todd Street shop late in 1998, a few months after Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri passed away. Namarari was among the first of...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-06-09 00:31:33
13 AUG 2009 - 15 AUG 2009 Free entry The Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair will provide a unique artistic experience for all lovers of indigenous art and culture. Representing over 30 community arts centres from across Australia, including Arnhem Land, the...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-02-24 07:41:44
From Tuesday 24th February to Saturday 14th March Alcaston Gallery is pleased to present the fifth solo exhibition of Lorna Brown Napanangka, in conjunction with Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd....» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-02-11 06:50:09
Learn about Aboriginal art at Cornell University: Guest curator Roger Benjamin of the University of Sydney will lecture on "Aboriginal Art from Papunya Tula: From the Beginning," Feb. 12 at 5:15 p.m. at the Johnson Museum. He gives a gallery talk...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-01-28 16:55:01
One painting resembles a Roy Lichtenstein, another has the emblematic target of Jasper Johns, and a photographic portrait channels Andy Warhol. If that doesn’t sound like Aboriginal art, then an exhibit touted as Australia’s first major survey of indigenous art...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-01-26 11:29:55
Described by renowned Australian art critic, Robert Hughes, as belonging to ‘the world’s last great art movement’, collectors of art from this extraordinary ancient but vibrant living culture have, in recent years, fuelled a boom in sales. Prices at auction...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2009-01-22 06:54:20
Exhibition of some of the earliest and rarest paintings by Indigenous Australian artists; artists to visit Ithaca and create “ground work” The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University presents Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya,...» Read More
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
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 | 2008-11-17 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 | 2008-10-24 14:15:47
Last opportunity to experience ‘Papunya Painting: Out of the Desert’, the rarely seen art of the Western Desert Aboriginal culture concludes its stay at the Australian Museum on 2 November 2008. This extraordinary exhibition brings together, for the first time in...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-10-24 14:15:47
Last opportunity to experience ‘Papunya Painting: Out of the Desert’, the rarely seen art of the Western Desert Aboriginal culture concludes its stay at the Australian Museum on 2 November 2008. This extraordinary exhibition brings together, for the first time in...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-10-21 20:16:07
Vivien Johnson's emotive book launch as reported by Nicolas Rothwell for The Australian: IT was almost four decades ago, in this harsh desert country, that the Aboriginal painting movement was born. Now, after many tribulations and triumphs, the definitive history...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-10-21 20:15:17
Nicolas Rothwell reports for The Australian: ALMOST four decades ago, in the remote western desert community of Papunya, senior Aboriginal men began painting their traditional designs. Swiftly, insistently, the art map of Australia changed. Within a few years, those first,...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-10-07 01:19:15
CULTURAL CONNECTIONS: Desert Stories Featuring recognised and second generation artists from Utopia and Ikuntji, Warlukurlangu and Papunya Tula Art Centres, including weaves from Nyoongah bush sculptor Janine McAullay Bott. View Artitja Fine Art presents Cultural Connections: Desert Stories, Perth Australia...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-10-03 23:50:59
Last opportunity to experience 'Papunya Painting: Out of the Desert', the rarely seen art of the Western Desert Aboriginal culture concludes its stay at the Australian Museum on 2 November 2008. This extraordinary exhibition brings together, for the first time in...» 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 | 2008-09-18 16:14:04
An auction of Aboriginal Art in Melbourne in October, in support of the Koorie Heritage Trust, will feature a comprehensive collection of works sourced from leading galleries and aboriginal art communities around Australia. The auction curator, Ms Claire Mitchell, says the...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-13 06:50:27
Central Art is proud to present an exhibition of the collective works by the three Western Desert artists; Thomas, Walala and Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri. The Tjapaltjarri brothers were hailed as 'the Last nomads' in the international press when they and six...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-04 02:20:44
Central Art is proud to present an exhibition of the collective works by the three Western Desert artists; Thomas, Walala and Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri. The Tjapaltjarri brothers were hailed as ‘the Last nomads’ in the international press when they and six of...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-09-02 02:24:49
Artist of the Month Septembre 2008 Ngoia Pollard NAPALTJARRI est une femme Warlpiri, née à Haasts Bluff aux environs de 1950. Elle s’est installé dans les années soixante à Papunya, là où est né le mouvement de l’art aborigène contemporain, puis...» Read More
Posted by Central Art Aboriginal Art Store | 2008-08-29 00:00:00
Congratulations to Makinti Napanangka and her art centre Papunya Tula, the winner of this year's $40,000 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award. I met with Makinti only a week prior to the awards. It was lovely to hold...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-08-20 14:40:53
The Adelaide Advertiser reports on the Telstra awards: The artist has been a finalist eight times, but aged 83 and frail, she did not come to Darwin from her traditional homeland west of Alice Springs to collect her award. Sarita Quinlivan, her...» Read More
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
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 | 2008-07-31 00:26:54
The Aboriginal Art Directory talks to Vivien Johnson, University of New South Wales Global Professor and curator of Papunya Painting: Out of the Desert. An exhibition currently showing at the Australian Museum bringing together for the...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-07-16 03:32:36
Patron: Her Excellency the Governor of NSW Professor Marie Bashir AC CVO Featured Artworks Yuendumu, Bidyadanga, Peppimenarti, Maningrida, Utopia, Spinifex, Papunya Tula and other communities Featured Artists Shorty Jangala Robertson and Shane Pickett The exhibition will be officially opened by The Chancellor of...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-07-14 06:01:40
Discover the rich and special meanings behind Indigenous 'dot patterning' in 'Papunya Painting: Out of the Desert'. Featuring a stunning collection of rarely seen artworks, 'Papunya Painting: Out of the Desert' will answer all the questions you have wanted to...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-07-03 08:53:50
Jeremy Eccles scans the most lavish book of Aboriginal art in years 'Beyond Sacred' : Recent Paintings from Australia's remote Aboriginal communities. Designed by Jane Kleinmeyer Published by Hardie Grant Books @ $120 Edited by Colin and Elizabeth Laverty Contributions from Judith Ryan, Nick...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-06-24 08:26:44
Discover the rich and special meanings behind Indigenous ‘dot patterning’ in ‘Papunya Painting: Out of the Desert’. Featuring a stunning collection of rarely seen artworks, ‘Papunya Painting: Out of the Desert’ will answer all the questions you have wanted to ask...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-04-16 05:02:39
Mervyn Rubuntja was born at the Telegraph Station in Alice Springs. His mother was a Western Arrernte woman. His father was the famous painter, the late Mr. W Rubuntja Pengarte. His father has been an important role model for Mervyn. He...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-04-09 23:20:17
Lecture Perceiving the Landscape in/through Western Desert Acrylic Paintings Fred R. Myers New York University Guest curator of Virtuosity: The Evolution of Painting at Papunya Tula Thursday, April 10, 7:00 pm Reservations required, call 434...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-04-09 23:10:56
The Aboriginal art heist made the China Post. Seven historic Aboriginal paintings were stolen Tuesday from an Australian museum then recovered hours later after the thief apparently changed his mind and dumped them in a park, police said. The paintings, valued at...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-04-02 20:05:50
Seven historic Aboriginal paintings were found in bushland in the northern Australian city of Darwin. They were found several hours after they were stolen from a Northern Territory art gallery, police said on Tuesday. The seven paintings included six works from the...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-04-02 20:03:32
More about the Darwin heist and recovery. "Well, it's not an April Fools' Joke, it has just been a rather excessive occurrence, an extreme occurrence," museum director Anna Malgorzewicz said. And despite the happy ending, she said the robbery was no laughing...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-04-01 15:37:56
Another article about the stolen paintings. Quoted from the article that appeared on the West Australian online. Dots of blood could help police catch two thieves who stole seven Aboriginal paintings worth more than half a million dollars from a museum in...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-04-01 15:35:39
Seven paintings have been stolen from the Northern Territory Museum and Art Gallery. Quoted from the article: Darwin Police are investigating the theft of seven Aboriginal paintings from the Northern Territory Museum and Art Gallery. Security staff at the museum alerted the police...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2008-02-26 03:04:08
Article from The Star in Malaysia about Alice Springs, and buying Aboriginal Art in Central Art. Quoted from the article: You can’t leave Alice Springs without learning about the Aboriginal way of life, and if you have the means, buying a piece...» 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 | 2008-01-05 06:41:52
Bold vision of artistic rebirth January 5, 2008 Quoted from article: In a dusty corner of the outback, among artworks covered in dirt, Judith Ryan set out on a journey that has transformed the NGV's indigenous collection, writes Robin Usher. Judith Ryan will never...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-12-27 06:33:15
The Australian Forging a language of emotion Nicolas Rothwell December 27, 2007 Quoted from the article: A little more than a year ago, the style of Makinti Napanangka, queen of the Western Desert's Pintupi painters, began to change. The trademark yellow and white arcs of...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-12-16 08:27:13
An extensive collection of Indigenous Australian art has been built over many years by Dr Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, through longstanding relationships with artists and advisers across several remote communities and with city gallerists. Today it is recognised as one...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-12-06 02:12:34
An article in the news about the recent Papunya Tula sale, with some interesting quotes from Tim Klingender from Sotheby's Australia. Mr Klingender said the Aboriginal art market was at an all-time high. Sotheby's cleared 88 per cent of indigenous works at...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-12-06 01:29:46
Paintings from remote communities: Indigenous Australian art from the Laverty Collection, Sydney 15 December 2007 - 24 February 2008 The most expansive exhibition of Indigenous Australian paintings ever seen in Aotearoa New Zealand opens at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery on 15 December...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-12-03 07:30:49
An article about the current exhibition Out of the Desert, at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. The paintings showing at the exhibition were tracked down by art historian Vivien Johnson, who has been researching Papunya Tula for 30...» 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 | 2007-10-09 13:01:08
Red Sand Art Gallery sues journalists who accuse them of defrauding indigenous artists In mid July in the massive modernist Supreme Court in Darwin, a frail Aboriginal man with a shock of grizzled white hair and beard took the witness stand...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2007-09-05 07:07:16
The Australian New start in Papunya Simon Kearney September 04, 2007 Article in the Australian about Papunya Tjupi. Quoted from the article: The work of these two men and many of the children and grandchildren of the original Papunya artists will be shown at an exhibition...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2006-10-27 03:17:47
Faults aside, the new McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art is a mammoth achievement and a must-have for art buffs, writes Sebastian Smee From the Australian: Alan McCulloch began compiling his Encyclopedia of Australian Art as a loose-leaf filing system in the 1940s,...» 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 | 2006-07-27 13:17:35
An article by James Cockington in The Age previewing the upcoming Sotheby's Aboriginal Art exhibition. The article follows the trend of dramatically increasing prices and the large proportion of international buyers. From the article: Starter guide $6000+ For those who prefer a more authentic...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2005-12-03 13:13:55
Sindicated article by Germaine Greer in the Guardian talking about the Aboriginal Art industry and asking whether the bubble has burst following a relatively weak showing by the Papunya Tula Artists at a recent exhibition raising money for a community...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2005-11-10 07:27:40
An article by Germaine Greer in the Guardian talking about the Aboriginal Art industry and asking whether the bubble has burst following a relatively weak showing by the Papunya Tula Artists at a recent exhibition raising money for a community...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2003-05-08 06:49:53
Geoffrey Bardon has died aged 62. Bardon's work with Aboriginal artists in the Papunya community in Central Australia, where he was an art teacher, included introducing them to canvas and to acrylic paints and became legendary as the Aboriginal Art...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2001-08-25 07:41:39
The groundbreaking Papunya Tula, Genesis and Genius exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales was the first major retrospective by artists from Papunya in Australia’s Western Desert. Consisting of 150 works by over 50 artists, the exhibition provided...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2000-09-29 07:53:19
International Herald Tribune Arts Guide Elisabeth Hopkins Friday, September 29, 2000 Quoted from article: Art Gallery of New South Wales, tel: (2) 9225-1744, open daily. Continuing/ To Nov. 12: "Papunya Tula: Genesis & Genius." Aboriginal art tracing the Western Desert movement, which originated in the...» Read More
Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 2000-09-08 05:09:55
In 1986 a small group of women produced the first paintings for Warnayaka Art Centre, Lajamanu NT. These paintings have become important documents of Warlpiri culture held in the National Gallery of Victoria, collected at the instigation of the curator...» Read More