art at the heart conference e-bulletin #2 March 2008
art at the heart conference March update.
Artist Spotlight featuring Adam Hill
1. Briefly describe yourself. When and how did you first become interested in art? How long have you been a practising artist? I am a complex man striving for simple Read More
Wet roads, dry town expected to affect Tiwi art sales
An article from ABC News about the Tiwi art sale associated with the Tiwi Islands football grand final. Quoted from the article: Indigenous artists could be forced to walk to Read More
GIs and Australian Aboriginal Art
An article in IPilogie about the potential use of geographical indicators in Australian Aboriginal art. A reason why ˜new world' countries should support the protection of geographical indicators (GIs) is Read More
Ngaruwanajirri/New Works
A L I S O N K E L L Y G A L L E R Y In association with Ngaruwanajirri Inc, Bathurst Island, Northern Territory, invites you to Read More
New Voices in Gija Art
The first group show for Warmun Art Centre's tenth anniversary year is with the gallery that hosted Warmun Art Centre's first-ever exhibition. Work from established artists such as Shirley Purdie Read More
Influence and Inspiration
For tens of thousands of years, the Kunwinjku people of western Arnhem Land have painted their stories upon the sandstone escarpments of their ancestral lands. Covered in a vibrant cacophony Read More
Warnditch Ngarrangkani (Maker of Dreams)
Born in the bush circa 1920 at what is now called Glenroy Station in the central Kimberley, Ngarra has lived through 90 years of that region's extraordinary frontier history. A Read More
Kunwinjku Songman
Over the past two decades, Bruce Nabegeyo has established himself as one of the most evocative and sophisticated narrative painters of western Arnhem Land. Bruce Nabegeyo's works bristle with a Read More
Decipher Creation Myths, Blow Glass at Singapore Art Galleries
Tiger Palpatja, born around 1920, had a late start as an artist. He began painting only three years ago. Palpatja, who is from Amata in South Australia, about 1,100 kilometers Read More
Special funding recognises the value of Indigenous arts organisations
The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, Peter Garrett today announced funding of $1.3 million from the Indigenous Visual Arts Special Initiative to provide 24 Indigenous art centres Read More
Chance to see Aboriginal Art
Authentic contemporary Australian Aboriginal artwork will be unveiled at 7pm tonight during the opening of the Warlukurlangu Artists exhibition at La Fontaine Centre of Contemporary Art, Manama. The exhibition will Read More
Wynne Prize Finalists
Lauraine Diggins Fine Art congratulates the following artists as finalists in this year's Wynne Prize for Landscape at the Art Gallery of New South Wales: Michael Mcwilliams, Elizabeth Kunoth Kngwarray Read More
Senior artists of Fitzroy Crossing. W.A.
Senior Women artists of Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia Stories about country are the subject of the beautiful contemporary works by the women of Fitzroy Crossing. They are stories that remind Read More
Wynne Prize 2008 Finalists
Andrew Bennett The casual farmer Zhong Chen Rainy day III Lucy Culliton Hartley landscape - cactus garden Joanne Currie Nalingu The river is calm Marc De Jong The middle of Read More
East Gippsland Aboriginal Arts Corporation
East Gippsland Aboriginal Arts Corporation (EGAAC) have hit the ground running after a very successful 2007. Over the past year sales and visitors (local, national and international) have increased dramatically. Read More
Blak Swans Gatherin“™
The Gippsland Art Gallery, SALE Nirmba Gidi Quarenook Blak Swans Gatherin' FRIDAY 29 February at 2.oo pm Featuring Young Spirits Dance Group Welcome to Country by Elder Auntie Katey Bryant Read More
Not just dots
Article about a current exhibition of Aboriginal Art from East Gippsland. Quoted from the article: Aboriginal art, especially Aboriginal art from East Gippsland, is about more than dots - that's Read More
Ngurrara, The Great Sandy Desert Canvas
This exhibition centres on the great Ngurrara canvas, painted by Great Sandy Desert traditional owners during National Native Title tribunal hearings in 1997. In counterpoint to the installation of Michael Read More
Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula
Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula Discovering the past is just the beginning Paintings on linen and board by the late Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula Tuesday 4 March “ Saturday 15 March, 2008 John Read More