Fondation Opale Glows Opalescent
A follow-up to my Menil Collection story from Houston “ for my enthusiasm for America's current positivity towards Aboriginal art may have allowed me to miss the Big Story. Which Read More
‘Mapa Wiya’ (Your Map“™s Not Needed)
The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas is opening today its first major museum exhibition devoted to Australian Aboriginal art:'Mapa Wiya' (Your Map's Not Needed): Australian Aboriginal Art from the Swiss Read More
Sydney Goes Contemporary
It's that time of year again for the now-annual Sydney Contemporary art fair at Carriageworks in Sydney. Ever innovative, this year the show began early in the unlikely setting of Read More
Victorian Bonanza!
Victoria is positively buzzing with the exciting breadth of First Nations' art and craft this month. I wonder how it's all coincided? But let's start with the Bendigo show of Read More
Woven Furniture
Koskela, one of Australia's leading furniture and design brands, is presenting Ngalya, celebrating the 10th anniversary of Koskela's social impact projects working with Australia's First Nations People. Koskela has opened Read More
Funding for Indigenous Art
It's a long list but important to have on the record for anyone interested in the sheer size of the Aboriginal arts industry and the amount of public money that Read More
Movement at the Station in Alice
The Business Case for the Northern Territory's National Aboriginal Art Gallery in Alice Springs (Mparntwe) has been published by EY Consultants (aka Ernst & Young) at a cost of $224,000. Read More
THE NIGHTINGALE
As Australian audiences brace themselves for Quentin Tarantino's latest exploration of gratuitous violence, bear in mind that Australia's own dark side will be on view in cinemas from August 29th Read More
2019 Telstra NATSIAAs
The political flavour of last weekend's Garma Festival has swept across Arnhemland to Darwin and crept up in the background for this 36th iteration of Australia's major Indigenous art event. Read More
Blak Douglas Wins the Kilgour
When we interviewed Blak Douglas about his Lucky Country series being acquired by the National Gallery of Australia in 2017, we ended by asking, Where to from here? And he Read More
Save the Date – Tarnanthi in October
Tarnanthi, the Art Gallery of South Australia's Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art, returns for the fourth time in October. Internationally acclaimed and recognised as the largest Read More
The McKenzie Powerhouse
In 2016, Elder Regina McKenzie and her daughter, Juanella, woke to the news that the Flinders Ranges in outback South Australia was being considered as a dumping site for nuclear Read More
Large Scale Digital Art Exhibition
A large-scale 24-hour digital art exhibition featuring photographic work of Wayne Quilliam, curated by aMBUSH Gallery, will run in the bustling outdoor space of Sydney's Darling Quarter over NAIDOC Week. Read More
SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL
The Sydney Film Festival has had an honourable history of selecting excellent Indigenous films in recent years “ with particular mention of Warwick Thornton's witty Southern Cross doco, 'We Don't Read More
FAIRS FAIRS
Have you noticed that no city these days seems to be able to survive without an Aboriginal art fair “ held annually? Is this market demand, or is it the Read More
NY is the Epicentre
As predicted some time ago on AAD, Sotheby's is moving its Aboriginal art auctions from London to New York in November. There contemporary canvases and historic artefacts will hang in Read More
Marrugeku ‘Dancing Forwards’
The Marrugeku Company has an interesting history. It grew from the non-Indigenous Stalker Company which discovered the First Nations through the innovative work, 'Mimi' “ the spirits of Arnhemland wielding Read More
Namatjira Wins the Ramsey
The vision and ingenuity of artists under 40 from across Australia is on display at the second iteration of the Ramsay Art Prize in the Art Gallery of South Australia. Read More
The Spirit of Churaki
They've escaped from Queensland and appeared for one night only (why??) in the Sydney Opera House as part of the Vivid Festival. And what sunny Queensland joy they brought with Read More