Emily at the Tate
Our Em is going to London. It’s belated recognition of her pre-eminence in both Australian and First Nations art, as she was pioneering in being recognised for her individual brilliance Read More
Konstantina Goes to the Footy
Every twelve years, the British & Irish Lions, the rugby union team made up of the best players from England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland come to Australia for a highly Read More
Yolŋu power
“What do you think of Australia?”. How many local artists would pose that question when opening an exhibition of their works? But that was the challenge that Djambawa Marawili AM Read More
Yolŋu Time
What a time for the Yolŋu – surely the most traditional people in NE Arnhemland. They’ve just won a huge compensation case in the High Court for land handed to Read More
Yurlu – Country
The traditional Indigenous protocol of not naming or viewing the image of a dead person is widely accepted. But it was resisted fiercely by the late Banjima elder, Maitland Parker. Read More
Kaplan Levi Gifting
The remarkable American partnership of Bob Kaplan and Margaret Levi continues to work miracles in the promotion of our First Nations art across America. They already have relations with their Read More
First Nations First
With almost a year to go until the doors open on the next Biennale of Sydney, its Artistic Director, Hoor Al Qasimi has named 37 artists to participate, of which Read More
Red Ochre Day
The First Nations Arts and Culture Awards are held each year on the 27th May, anniversary of the 1967 referendum win. In 2025, the prestigious Red Ochre Award for Lifetime Read More
Cultural Chaos in the NT (Update)
You wouldn’t want to get involved in a project in the Northern Territory if it involved anything cultural! Back in 2017, for instance, a National Aboriginal Art Gallery was proposed Read More
LUME in US
While New York has just thrown up the melancholy picture of great First Nations art being sidelined at this year’s Sotheby’s Aboriginal Art auction, the fine city of Indianapolis can’t Read More
Sad Day at Sotheby’s
There were 65 lots, many exciting, culturally important works, yet only 23 sold at the Sotheby’s Tim Klingender auction in New York on Tuesday. Just two were sold in six-figure Read More
“An Australia that could have been”
“An Australia that could have been”. What a challenging thought from Prof Peter Yu, Vice-President, First Nations Portfolio at the ANU. He’s describing an exhibition that’s now open at the Read More
Zaachariaha Challenges the Sulman
So, Julie Frager won the $100,000 Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW – her subject, fellow-artist Justene Williams, floating whimsically in the air. And Jude Rae won the Read More
NATSIA Awards Finalists
71 finalist works have been announced for this year’s Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards – the NATSIAAs, Australia’s longest running and most prestigious art awards of Read More
Significant Pilbara History
So – who’s heard of the 1946 Pilbara Marrngu (Aboriginal) Stockmen’s strike – a full 20 years before the Wave Hill walk-off? For that was immortalised by Gough Whitlam pouring Read More
Archie Wynnes!
While the Dutton Coalition has done its best to ignore or denigrate the Indigenous in its election campaign, the Art Gallery of NSW under new Director, Maud Page, has done Read More
Thomson’s Time
“Thomson is reputedly brilliant in the world of science, but does not think readily along the same lines as ordinary people”. Is that assessment from Donald Thomson’s CO during the Read More
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