Exhibition 17 October 08: Randell Lane Fine Art Gallery presents Dry Season – Long Time, Perth Australia
"Dry Season is a body of works so translucent the colours flow over each other as the light plays on the country and the memory of country is revealed... we Read More
The National Indigenous Golf Championships, Ochre Art Auction and 2008 Deadlys
More than 70 Indigenous Golfers will tee off in Brisbane this week when the National Indigenous Golf Championships get underway. Nudgee Golf Course Coordinator, Peter Trudgian will take you through Read More
Master’s desert way of seeing
Nicolas Rothwell for The Australian reports: JUST as the passing of desert artist Darby Jampijinpa Ross in 2005 possessed a certain elegance, the day after he received a congratulatory telegram Read More
The intervention into NT Aboriginal communities: the approach by the Rudd Labor Government
Barrister and Lecturer-in-Law at Charles Darwin University, Mr. Michael O'Donnell will open the University's free public lecture series on Tuesday, October 14 by exploring legal implications of the NT intervention. Read More
Auction airs possum skin cloak tradition
Interesting article in The Age about possum skin cloaks: SEVERAL years ago, Aboriginal women Treahna Hamm and Lee Daroch drove from their respective homes in Gippsland and Wodonga to view Read More
Art auction to benefit health care
INDIGENOUS health care in the Territory will benefit when Aboriginal art is auctioned in Melbourne next week. A new organisation, Ochre, backed by the business community and philanthropists, including Western Read More
First Contact
A new series shows how the infant NSW colony lost the chance to be an inclusive society, Graeme Blundell from the Australian writes: I GREW up in outer suburban Melbourne Read More
ABC TV Puts Regional Artists on the Digital Map
artpost, an interactive website and short video series for TV broadcast, which showcases artists working in regional and remote parts of the country, was launched last night. Peter Garrett, the Read More
Give me your hand friend and bridge the cultural gap
Celebrated Indigenous photographer Wayne Quilliam will join with household names such as Nancy Petyarre, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Sally Morgan, Charlie Tjapangati and many other highly sought after artists at Deutscher Read More
Across the desert Aboriginal Batik from Central Australia
Across the Desert: Aboriginal batik from Central Australia celebrates the emergence of a dynamic art form and the genesis of Aboriginal women's art practice in five distinct desert communities “ Read More
Aboriginal farm’s history revealed
The Penrith Regional Gallery will create an educational kit to accompany an exhibition, uncovering the story of an Aboriginal mission farm in western Sydney. The gallery will develop the kit Read More
A culture celebrated
CAMPBELLTOWN Arts Centre kicked off its latest exhibition with a talk about the concerns facing Aboriginal artists in NSW. Ngadhu, Ngulili, Ngeaninyagu was launched last month by activist, actor and Read More
Artitja Fine Art presents Cultural Connections: Desert Stories, Perth Australia
CULTURAL CONNECTIONS: Desert Stories Featuring recognised and second generation artists from Utopia and Ikuntji, Warlukurlangu and Papunya Tula Art Centres, including weaves from Nyoongah bush sculptor Janine McAullay Bott. View Read More
Aboriginal artists gain royalties for resold art
Reuters reports: Australian Aboriginal artists whose paintings sell for millions of dollars internationally but who often struggle for money will get a lifeline through a royalty charge imposed on Friday Read More
Honey Ant Gallery presents Watiyawanu Artists of Mt Liebig, Sydney Australia
Watiyawanu Artists of Mt Liebig Some of the most interesting Aboriginal art today is coming from the Mt Liebig community - 325kms west of Alice Springs in the heart of Read More
October Gallery presents Our Life…. is Land…. is Culture, London UK
Our Life.... is Land.... is Culture An exhibition of new paintings by Samantha Hobson. Samantha Hobson began painting with the Lockhart River Art Gang, a group of young Indigenous artists Read More
Walala Tjapaltjarri
Walala Tjapaltjarri, brother of well-known painters Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri and Thomas Tjapaltjarri, was born in the Gibson Desert east of Kiwirrkura in the early 1960's. He was one of a small Read More
Artists to benefit from Resale Royalty Right
A resale right for Australia's visual artists is expected to be in place by 1 July 2009, Arts Minister Peter Garrett said today. Mr Garrett said legislation would be introduced Read More