Ochres to Dust – Coo-ee Stock Show
Ochres to Dust 15th June - 15th July 2009 This exhibition is a collection of works from put together from Coo-ee's stock.
Australian Company Sold Fake Aboriginal Art, Watchdog Group Says
An Aboriginal art wholesaler and retailer is being sued for allegedly selling works purported to be of Aboriginal origin when actually they were from Indonesia. The Australian Competition and Consumer Read More
Resources sector invests in the arts
From the Western Australia Business News: Supporting Western Australia's arts sector is part and parcel of being a resources company, according to Oakajee Port and Rail (OPR) chief executive Christopher Read More
ACCC investigates ‘Aboriginal’ art dealer
The consumer watchdog has taken legal action against an Aboriginal art dealer which allegedly sold art made in Indonesia under the guise it was Australian. The Australian Competition and Consumer Read More
Shapiro Australian and International Art
AUSTRALIAN AND INTERNATIONAL ART | SYDNEY | MAY 3 | 2.00PM 162 Queen Street Woollahra | On View Saturday 25 April “ Saturday 2 May 11am “ 5pm
Australian Aboriginal Art on Display at Fowler
Friday's Ventura County Star reports on two exhibitions currently on display at the Fowler Museum at UCLA: "Icons of the Desert," which features rarely seen Australian Aboriginal paintings from the Read More
Up Cazaly fly NT artists
Are footy stars Michael O'Loughlin and Leon Davis represented in this year's Telstra Aboriginal Art Award? Or are they figures from a bygone era, perhaps Derek Kickett and Wally Lovett Read More
Journey with art: Descendants of Purfleet band work with visiting artist
Descendants of the members of a Purfleet band in 1909 have placed their hands and finger prints on a huge painting copied from an historic photograph at Manning Regional Art Read More
Aboriginal Art and Australia
Australian Aboriginal Art is much sought after internationally, but Australians overall and Aborigines themselves benefit little from it. By John August Gordon Syron is an Aboriginal artist who understands the Read More
GARMA TALKS CULTURE IN AUGUST
The Indigenous Creative Industries is the 2009 theme of the nationally significant Key Forum at this year's Garma Festival of Traditional Culture, Australia's leading Indigenous cultural exchange, to be held Read More
Barbara Weir – My Country
Central Australia's Barbara Weir has excited audiences all over the world with highly compelling abstract canvases that masterfully evoke a timeless illusion of depth and subtle rhythmic movement' (Marie Giessler). Read More
Aichi World Expo, Japan
Vicki Couzens (Koroit); Lee Darroch (Raymond Island); Treahna Hamm (Wodonga); Eileen Harrison (Warragul); Lisa Kennedy (Toora); Kim Lampton (Rye); Jennifer Mullett (Bairnsdale); Ray Thomas (Lalor); Lyn Thorpe (Preston) and Kevin Read More
ArtiFacts Aboriginal Art Consultancy Launch
Jane Raffan, former Head of Aboriginal Art at Shapiro, has launched ArtiFacts, a consultancy practice focused on delivering dependable and expert advice in the specialist field of Aboriginal and Torres Read More
Ngalla marraaju wuuju dulka kilwanmaruthu / We’ll show you our country
The ReDot gallery is proud to welcome the 1st Singaporean show for the powerful and colourful works of the Bentinck Island Art Gang. "Ngalla marraaju wuuju dulka kilwanmaruthu/we'll show you Read More
RED OCHRE PRIZE GOES TO DOUGHTY FIGHTER
Yolgnu painter and rights campaigner Gawirrin Gumana AO was honoured with the most senior prize in Indigenous arts at the Australia Council's 2009 National Indigenous Arts Awards recently. The $50,000 Read More
Warmurunngu- Nyarrapyi Giles Solo Exhibition
Warmurunngu is the name of a site where women collect Kaarku ( coloured ochres) used in Inma (women ceremonies). When ochres are excavated and the spirits of the Karaya (emus) Read More
Ochre Dreaming: Stories from the East Kimberley
The ReDot gallery is proud to welcome back the natural ochre artworks of the famous Warmun Art Centre. After a very successful 1st exhibition in June 2008, the unique canvases Read More
“FAKE!”, the underbelly of the Australian art world exposed
Reporter Quentin McDermott tells how up to ten per cent of art that's resold across Australia could be problematic. This crisis of confidence has led art lovers to demand that Read More
Aboriginal Paintings Are Larger Than Life
What a great photo of the NAB atms!
From Wirrimanu
Out of the Great Sandy Desert and the home of the Kukatja comes fresh work from the new wave of Warlayirti Artists.