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
Desecration in the East Kimberley
According to Elders from the art community of Warrmun, supported by the Kimberley Land Council, sites of cultural significance in the East Kimberley have been destroyed by large-scale granite mining Read More
The Gambay Language Map
Ever wanted to speak just a little of the language of the artists who created your artworks? Or even just to find out what language or languages they do actually Read More
ARTISTS HONOURED
The Queens Birthday Honours may have hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons “ too many politicians going over and beyond in backstabbing and power-grabbing, for instance “ but Read More
ONLINE SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL
In a foreshortened and online film festival, the normal Sydney winter feast is a comparatively muted affair this year as a result of the COVID crisis. Sadly, only two First Read More
An Archive of the Industry
Incredibly this is my 600th report, critique, commentary or essay for Aboriginal Art Directory. It all began in 2007 when the site was set up privately to assist remote art Read More
RIP Malu Gurruwiwi ““ Custodian of the Banumbirr
It is with great sadness that the Vivien Anderson Gallery has announced the passing of Malu Gurruwiwi, custodian of the Banumbirr - Morning Star ceremony. He lived from1942 to 2020 as Read More
First Nations Arts Awards
The annual recognition of cultural heroes in the Indigenous world took place online tonight as COVID denied the event its usual physical form in the Sydney Opera House. It also Read More
Media Muddles Aboriginal Politics
A fascinating study of 45 years' media coverage of important Indigenous issues, beginning with the Larrakia Petition in 1972, concludes that, at last, Aboriginal people appear to be effectively shaping Read More
The War in Mparntwe
Do we have a solution or do we have war in Alice Springs over the long-contended National Aboriginal Art Gallery (NAAG)? The NT Labor Government has finally stamped its feet, Read More
‘Truganini’ ‘Journey Through the Apocalypse’
In doleful monochrome, they seemed so desolate I couldn't bear to look at them. It was a melancholic requiem for the disappeared that reeked of regret without responsibility. Author Cassandra Read More
BIDYADANGA CLOSE-UP
In 1999, a young Daniel Walbidi entered Short St Gallery in Broome. He shyly declared that he lived out at Bidyadanga, a coastal Aboriginal Community 180 kilometres south of Broome, Read More
Boomerang Back to the Start
Bad news (in a time of almost exclusively bad news); hopes for a law that would have made amendments to the Australian Consumer Law to ban the sale or supply Read More
