Two Big Moves
Aboriginal Art Directory doesn't often touch on the commercial gallery scene “ such a competitive and occasionally 'sensitive' area! But it's an essential part of the industry, however much some Read More
The Very Late Charlie Flannigan
Drawings by a prisoner who became the first person to be executed at Darwin's Fannie Bay Gaol are currently on show at the Northern Territory's Library in Parliament House, Darwin. Read More
PAPUNYA ART AT 50
Back in 1971, a revolution took place at the most unlikely place. The remote, government-built desert community of Papunya was full of Pintupi, Warlpiri, Luritja, Aranda and other tribespeople who Read More
ANTEDILUVIAN ROO
A 17,300-year-old painting on the ceiling of a rock shelter in The Kimberley's Drysdale River National Park, painted by ancestors of the Balanggarra Native Title group, the Miwa-speaking people, has Read More
National Endowment for Indigenous Visual Arts
If that name sounds like an official institution set up by some government quango, it is possible that was the intention. In fact, it's the baby of the ever-dynamic Melbourne Read More
lutruwita apology
I'm off to lutruwita tomorrow “ though my flight will say it's going to Tasmania. Coincidentally, the Apple Isle has been in the news this week because an official apology Read More
SONGSPIRALS TWIST AROUND SONGLINES
Artist Paul Klee is famous for saying that drawing was like 'taking a line for a walk'. Can you take a song for a walk? English writer Bruce Chatwin seemed Read More
FIRESTARTER
This film is so much more than a dance film “ which is what most followers of Bangarra Dance Theatre might expect. There are, after all, 31 years of its Read More
A Design for Adelaide’s Aboriginal Cultures Centre
New concept designs have been released today for Adelaide's Aboriginal Art and Cultures Centre (AACC), to be built at Lot 14 in the city's CBD. The AACC Aboriginal Reference Group Read More
A Design for Adelaide’s Aboriginal Cultures Centre
New concept designs have been released today for Adelaide's Aboriginal Art and Cultures Centre (AACC), to be built at Lot 14 in the city's CBD. The AACC Aboriginal Reference Group Read More
The Boy from the Mish
A Young Adult (YA) novel on Aboriginal Art Directory? Well, there has to be a first for everything. And anyone who's read my thoughts upon returning from Griffith's Wiradjuri Festival Read More
HIGH GROUND
This film is a 20 year labour of love by Stephen Johnson and the people of Arnhemland. For Johnson began working with Witiyana Marika on a film to go with Read More
Indigenous Fashion Meets Country Road
Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair Foundation's Indigenous Fashion Projects announces Country to Couture Showcase is coming to our TV screens for the first time! After a successful event held in Darwin Read More
“Lost in Another Person’s Culture”
For the first time from the National Maritime Museum Collection, we bring together works by Zenadth Kes (Torres Strait Islands) artist Alick Tipoti. With over 25 years of art practise, Read More
‘Him Proper Clever Man’
Paddy Compass Namadbara is just about a familiar name in Western Arnhemland bark art. In the 1950s and early 60s, he was part of a group that painted on Croker Read More
Appreciating Mparntwe
By way of a holiday escape, take a magic carpet-ride to Mparntwe - usually called Alice Springs. It's a colonial outpost dumped down on rich Aboriginal country and the real Read More
FOUR DAYS TO GO
An URGENT REMINDER. Back in September, the Arts Ministry asked us how improvements could be made to the Indigenous art industry. You now have just four days to complete that Read More
Museological Sydney
As the venerable Australian Museum reopens after major renovations, so is it being challenged by the brand new Chau Chak Wing Museum in the University of Sydney. Dr Chau, who Read More
Influential Aussies
A year ago I hailed the arrival of the incomparable Emily Kngwarreye on the lists of 20 Influential Artists drawn up by Artsy.com in the US. Sadly, she's gone from Read More