DAPHNE WILLIAMS AM – 1929/2022
The woman who almost single-handedly transformed the Aboriginal Desert painting movement from a cultural phenomenon into a thriving business has died. Daphne Napanangka Williams AM, who managed the Aboriginal-owned Papunya Read More
Wudjang : Not the Past
The omens were so good. Stephen Page's 32 year reign at Bangarra was coming to a massive climax with the largest show the company had ever attempted. After so many Read More
Four Clans—One Canvas
'Four Clans' is a major exhibition of works by Yanyuwa, Garrwa, Marra, and Gudanji artists supported by Waralungku Arts (pronounced Wharr-Ral-Loonghu) in Borroloola and presented at the Godinymayin Yijard Art Read More
Lost in Shanghai
The delightful efforts of journo Jane Hutcheon to tell of the complexities of her Eurasian family in Shanghai, HK and Australia may seem to have nothing to do with Aboriginal Read More
Ngurra Comes Home to Canberra
The Federal Government has announced its intention to invest more than $315m in a national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural precinct in the heart of Canberra. It already has Read More
An NFT for your Stocking this Christmas?
Amongst a cornucopia of events, books and concepts flying around the Indigenous world at this time of year, the outstanding one is surely the debut of First Nations NFTs – Read More
The National Gallery Splashes Out
In September of this troubled year, fans of Australian artist Lindy Lee were delighted to hear that she'd been commissioned by the National Gallery in Canberra to created a 13-tonne, Read More
Kids Books from First Nations
When my 5 year old grandson can have a fair go at explaining the illogicality of Terra Nullius to me, then I'd say the book which introduced him to the Read More
Tarrkarri, The Future, Begins
Construction on the $200 million Aboriginal Arts and Cultures Centre (AACC) has begun, and its name, 'Tarrkarri', was also unveiled at an event on Tuesday. The full name, 'Tarrkarri – Read More
ALICK & ALBERT
Irony of ironies! The delightful new documentary film, 'Alick & Albert', about the remarkably incongruous links made between Torres Strait artist maestro Alick Tipoti and His Serene Highness, Prince Albert Read More
The Pages of Bangarra
In August 2009, I sat down with Stephen Page to review his 20 years running the Bangarra Dance Theatre. After another 13 years, Page has announced that he will finally Read More
GULPILIL PASSES
Sadly, but just as he predicted, actor, dancer, painter and troubled Yolngu man, David Gulpilil's spirit has returned to the billabong at Gulparil from which he was born in 1953. Read More
Dancing at Dubbagullee
It sometimes seems as though the gulf between the remote northern Indigenous cultures of The Kimberley, Arnhemland, the Deserts and the Torres Strait are further removed from urban Blak cultures Read More
Timothy Cook Wins Disability Award
The$50,000 Australia Council National Arts & Disability Award for an established artist this year has gone to Tiwi superstar, Timothy Cook Timothy Cook is one of Melville Island's most decorated Read More
SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL
“We're still waiting to be understood” says a plaintive Ruby Hunter in the warm-hearted documentary 'Wash My Soul in the River's Flow'. And in a sense, the three First Nations Read More
The Last of the Manambarrany
I'm going to indulge myself here. Just as William Mora and D'Lan Davidson in Melbourne are opening the last ever show of market-fresh paintings by the late great Paddy Bedford, Read More
The View from There
Over East, we may feel that the isolationists of Western Australia are missing out on the Freedom that we've just been granted. But Here, as they like to think of Read More
Rhonda Sharpe Sculptor
Eight Hundred and Forty Four entries and Tangentyere artist from Alice Springs/Mparntwe, Rhonda Sharpe emerged today as the proud winner of the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize. So far from the Read More
Another National Art Centre?
It's really weird. Just at the moment when we (in NSW and Victoria anyway) should be relishing the reopening of galleries giving us access to real art for the first Read More