A “sitting and thinking” Triennial
The National Gallery of Australia and curator/artist Tony Albert have announced the artists selected for the 5th National Indigenous Art Triennial opening in December in Canberra. The Triennial (often a Read More
Redfern 1965
The First Nations capacity for passing stories through the generations is unsurpassed. I’ve just been to Budj Bim – no longer Mt Eccles! - and the Gunditjmarra are still telling Read More
Blak In-Justice: Incarceration and Resilience
Heide Museum of Modern Art has today announced a major exhibition developed in partnership with The Torch. Presented from 5 April to 20 July 2025, the exhibition Blak In-Justice: Incarceration Read More
Weatherall and Douglas Go Solo
The poor old Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney – prime site beside the cruise ships at Circular Quay – has recently had to start charging patrons an entry fee. Read More
New Works By…At Art Leven
Walyalup (Fremantle) artist duo Stephen Brameld and Jay Staples, recipients of the 2024 Art Leven Award as part of the Paddington Art Prize, are to be featured at Art Leven. Read More
Jorna Newberry 1959 to 2025
Jorna Newberry was a Pitjantjatjara woman and artist who was born around 1959 at Angus Downs, the 320,500-hectare pastoral lease, 300 kilometres south-west of Alice Springs, which is now an Read More
Tarpaulins, wire, tin and copper: The Inaugural Exhibition at Newstead Art
After four decades of dedication to the arts and the sale of Cooee Art in March 2023, Adrian Newstead has established Newstead Art as an independent venture. And the gallery's Read More
Pay Attention at CIAF ’25
Inspired by Tony Albert’s striking digital print, ‘Pay Attention!’, (2011) the theme for Cairns Indigenous Art Fair 2025 calls on artists to reflect on the powerful message of this moment Read More
A Time Capsule for Australia
It was a momentous double act of diplomacy….offering a form of treaty between two sovereign nations. “You are now initiated into our law, so please show respect to our sovereign Read More
Teho Ropeyarn
As I predicted last October, the board of the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair has announced the appointment of Teho Ropeyarn as Artistic Director, effective immediately. Teho, who has served as Read More
John Mawurndjul 1951-2024
The man to be known as Balang Nakurulk for the forseeable future has died peacefully on 21st December in Maningrida, the north-western Arnhemland home of his art centre since he Read More
Justice from Juno
In a text headed, ‘Capturing History Through the Lens’, Eualeyai Professor Larissa Behrendt hails Juno Gemes’ book as “Bittersweet for Juno – so many pioneers have passed or fallen; but Read More
Cumpston for the Kluge
Nici Cumpston OAM, an artist, curator and writer specialising in Australian Indigenous art will be the next director of the University of Virginia’s Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection. An international committee Read More
Plant a Promise
“How to get people to care for Mother Earth in a careless country?”. Sydney Festival’s answer to that question is Plant a Promise – a multi-part program in the hands Read More
Jacky Jacky
It’s not often that a contemporary Aboriginal play brings Ibsen to my mind. But I’ve always thought that Ibsen’s identification of the truth-teller as the ace-disrupter in his tortured plays Read More
State of Surprises
“I can think of no more authentic eco-tourism experience than immersing that story of 60,000 years of culture, I think we can do a lot better”. Now which Australian political Read More
Ever Present, but Less Past
A month or so ago it looked as though there was a real competition on for the biggest ever First Nations art show. The NGV in Melbourne announced plans for Read More
2025 – Annus Mirabilis?
Is 2025 destined to be an annus mirabilis for Aboriginal art? As ever with Australian culture, the enthusiasm of foreigners is oft regraded as the benchmark of success at home. Read More