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
The Kelton Collection Heads to Switzerland
What's claimed to be the largest ever single private transfer of Australian Indigenous Art has taken place in California. The legendary Kelton Collection built up by Richard Kelton, who died Read More
Getting Back into the Habit in Sydney
A plumply welcoming Wesley Enoch greeted me at the Sydney Festival offices, with just the hint of designer stubble on his chin. Or was he just too exhausted to shave Read More
Putting the Cart Before the Horse?
Excitement last weekend when 'The Australian' newspaper carried a quarter-page ad for a 'Senior Director, National Aboriginal Art Gallery'. Sadly, this call for a visionary leader capable of delivering a Read More
VICTORIA OPENS!
Wonderful to report after all that State's travails, art galleries in Victoria are opening by the bucket-load “ and, naturally, First Nations art and culture is taking precedence! At the Read More
Aboriginal Art Storms Online
This year has been one of terrible isolation for many people “ none more so than the remote First Nations communities that produce so much of Australia's greatest art at Read More
‘Nilimurra Dhuwal: Here We Are’ by Guynbi Ganambarr
Ever since his first appearance at Bill Gregory's Annandale Galleries in 2004, Guynbi Ganambarr has been making waves. Indeed, Will Stubbs, his art director at the dynamic Buku Larrnggay Art Read More
Michael Nelson Jagamara AM 1946 ““ 2020
The death was announced in Alice Springs last night of the leading Desert artist Michael Nelson Jagamara. The Warlpiri man wasn't amongst the first in Papunya to take to the Read More
GORDON BENNETT SOLO IN QUEENSLAND
'Unfinished Business: The Art of Gordon Bennett' is the first large-scale exhibition of Bennett's oeuvre since 2007. The exhibition showcases Bennett's key series in depth, his most important and admired Read More
Sunshine Coast Art Prize Finalists Paint BMWs
Hitting the Sunshine Coast streets now until December 11 are a BMW, Mini and BMW motorbike featuring the artwork of Sunshine Coast Art Prize 2020 finalists, Michael Nelson Jagamara, Natalya Read More