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
The 12th National Indigenous Arts Awards
Tonight Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians and all who love the arts will celebrate the contribution of First Nations artists at the 12th National Indigenous Arts Awards being presented Read More
The Gagosian Effect
As I predicted, the arrival of a significant Aboriginal art collection at one of the world's most prestigious art dealers “ Gagosian in New York “ accompanied by the name Read More
Art and the Election
The arts haven't exactly been at the centre of debates during the current election campaign. Let's face it, the arts haven't turned the electoral tide since 1993 when Paul Keating Read More
DIGGING FOR HONEY ANTS AT PAPUNYA
Unusual for Aboriginal Art Directory “ a link with something to listen to! Recently, John Kean “ an early Papunya Tula Artists staffer, researcher and frequent writer about those pioneering Read More
INTERESTING TIMES
Every day I get a feed from Google telling me of every mention of Aboriginal art on the internet. Some days it's just a couple. Today there's Aboriginal art in Read More
GAGOSIAN OPENING TONIGHT
In a few days time an exhibition will launch in New York that will reshape the future for the Indigenous Australian art market. That's an incredibly bold statement by Melbourne (and New Read More
WHO’LL WIN THE WYNNE IN 2019?
It's been 4 years since anyone but an Aboriginal artist has won the country's premier prize for landscape painting “ the Art Gallery of NSW's Wynne Prize. And this year Read More
Telstra NATSIAA finalists announced
68 Indigenous artists from across Australia have been selected as finalists for the 2019 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAAs), the country's longest running and most Read More
Gagosian Goes Aboriginal
The prodigious Gagosian Gallery has announced that it is pleased to present a special exhibition of contemporary Indigenous Australian painting from two significant American collections - the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Read More
An Indigenous Biennale?
Well, do we have an Indigenous Sydney Biennale or not? The third oldest Biennale in the world (after Venice and Sao Paulo) has begun to announce its artists selected for Read More
Does the Souffle Rise Twice in Alice?
The Northern Territory Government insists that it is building The National Aboriginal Art Gallery in Alice Springs. And to prove an advance on what had looked a process stalled when Read More