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
The ‘Seven Sisters’ Heading for England
The National Museum of Australia's pioneering Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters exhibition will tour to the United Kingdom in 2021. Here's what I thought of curator Margo Neale's original show Read More
$80K Across Seven Awards – The Big Telstra Open for Entries
It's time for First Nations artists to choose their entries for Australia's longest-running and most prestigious Indigenous art Award, the Telstra NATSIAA. The categories are: Telstra General Painting Award Telstra Read More
Jutta Malnic 1924/2020
The photographer Jutta Malnic has died in Sydney aged 95. The German-born woman is significant for her picturing of Australia's ancient rock art in two books - 'Yorro Yorro “ Read More
David Rathman to Promote SA Museum
A great leader and advocate for South Australia's Aboriginal communities has been appointed as ambassador for the Aboriginal Art and Cultures Centre (AACC), now in development for the Lot Fourteen Read More
Ambassador Appointed for SA Culture Centre
David Rathman AM has been appointed as ambassador for the Aboriginal Art and Cultures Centre (AACC) in South Australia. Rathman's LinkedIn profile reads: "Commercial broadcasting was part of my life Read More
SE Aboriginal Arts Market at Carriageworks
Carriageworks, Australia's largest contemporary multi-arts centre, today announced it will present its fourth annual edition of the SOUTHEAST Aboriginal Arts Market over four days from (5pm AEDT) 26 through to Read More
The Ebes Collection
Back in May 2013, I wrote enthusiastically about the opening of Melbourne's 'Emily Museum', celebrating, of course, the career of the woman its owner, Hank Ebes called Australia's greatest artist. Read More
Sun Shines on the Wiradjuri Festival
Refreshed after almost a week in the NSW country, I am excited about the Wiradjuri cultural revival that's going on in the Western Riverina. For the Yarruawala Festival taking place Read More
First Nations Poets in a Dedicated FB Event
Adelaide Festival Centre is celebrating contemporary First Nations poetry with OUR WORDS: Spoken word from First Nations artists, an online initiative, running from today until November 26. OUR WORDS is Read More
Hunter Valley Indigenous Cultural Hub and Museum Set to Go
Hunter Valley tourism and hotel entrepreneur, Dr Jerry Schwartz, will provide land in Cessnock for the construction of a cultural hub and museum celebrating the heritage of the local Wonnarua Read More
New Art Gallery to Open in Granville
The newest gallery for Sydney is the Granville Centre Art Gallery which announced today it will open to the public on November 5 with its inaugural exhibition titled Ngaliya Diyam, Read More
Maliwawa Rock Art
For more than decade, Paul S.C.Taçon, Chair in Rock Art Research and Director of the Place, Evolution and Rock Art Heritage Unit (PERAHU) at Brisbane's Griffith University has been investigating Read More
Wonnangatta
Back to the theatre! Yipee!! But not quite as I remember it so fondly. For the Ros Packer Theatre in Sydney's Rocks is a big place and normally packed out Read More
Movement at the Station
It all seems to be happening in the fraught matter of building one or more Indigenous cultural institutions for Australia and the world to gain greater context and appreciation of Read More