Archie Has First Aboriginal Winner
Well, I was pretty right about the Wynne Prize - giving Hubert Pareroultja the guernsey for his brilliantly-coloured, outsize Hermannsburg work in acrylics, as his illustrious forebear Albert Namatjira would Read More
Why not the Wynne?
The global debates about race and ethnicity are reflected in the prominence given to Indigenous artists in this year's prize, was the reflection of Sydney Morning Herald critic John McDonald Read More
SUNSHINE SUPERGIRL
Just about everyone knows Evonne Goolagong Cawley AC, MBE is the greatest Aboriginal tennis player that Australia has ever produced. But how many know she's Wiradjuri? Mind you, it's even Read More
LONG JACK PHILLIPUS 1932-2020
Kumantjayi Long Tjakamarra, the last of the founding painters at Papunya, has died. An era has come to an end. The 88-year-old Warlpiri man, who lived on independently in Papunya Read More
Consulting the Industry
The Ministers for the Arts and Indigenous Australians this morning jointly announced that they will develop an Indigenous VisuaI Art Action Plan to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, Read More
Goodies from Canberra
Just three years from its last iteration, the National Gallery of Australia has announced a new National Indigenous Art Triennial “ its 4th “ though it won't actually occur until Read More
Aboriginal Art is “An Exceptional Art Form“
Many Australians are sharply divided as to whether they prefer more traditional genres of art like landscapes or more contemporary and abstract visual forms. And these divisions relate to differences Read More
Tarnanthi 2020
The Art Gallery of South Australia has announced that this year's Tarnanthi Festival, its annual celebration of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, will highlight how the creativity of Read More
Art Fairs Exit – and Entrance
The online art fairs are over for 2020. Still no sales figures from either Darwin (See Below) or Cairns though an examination of their websites suggests that sales at the Read More
Fairs Fare
The two biggest First Nations art fairs are both either on or about to be. So, if you've a sense that these devastating times are just the right ones to Read More
“The Art of the Nation“
Thank you mob in Darwin for this business. Thank you. At last. I feel proud. I've been trying all my life, all the time second, fourth, last, sometimes nothing. But Read More
Art Is Fashionable
The inaugural National Indigenous Fashion Awards were handed out last night in Darwin (ie online) courtesy of the Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair (also online), which has been promoting this sub-branch Read More
The Salon, 2020
For the first time in umpteen years, I haven't been in the balmy night in Darwin attending the opening of the Salon des Refuses - Aboriginal art's response to the Read More
MR R PETERS 1935-2020
The outstanding philosophical thinker of the Gija people in the East Kimberley, Rusty Peters has died in his 86th year. This long tall, thin and reticent man let his painting Read More
EMILY v DOROTHY
What a year for the women! Major exhibitions are currently on (with serious catalogues) for Mavis Ngallametta (QAG), Nyapanyapa Yunupingu (MAGNT) and Destiny Deacon (NGV); earlier this year Emily Kngwarreye Read More
The Convict Valley – The Hunter
Commandant James Wallis emerged for me “ though not perhaps for Mark Dunn, The Convict Valley's author “at the symbolic epicentre of this history. Have you ever heard of him Read More
Repatriated Art at Auction
Coincidentally, two substantial foreign collections of Aboriginal art have been returned home in COVID-time to be sold at auction. Tonight, online, Deutscher & Hackett offer the Peter and Renate Nahum Read More
Kaurna Shield Comes to Adelaide
The Federal Government has announced $100,000 to support the acquisition of a rare 19th century Murlapaka (also spelt Mulubakka) shield, attributed to the Kaurna people from the Adelaide Plains, by Read More
Fashion Goes Indigenous
Everywhere you turn at this time there's news of some new venture in First Nations fashion. The ladies fashion mags are full of it, the museums are leaping on the Read More