Remote Arts Workers at UniMelb
Young Aboriginal artists and arts workers from across northern Australia are spending two weeks taking part in a ground-breaking Indigenous learning program at the University of Melbourne. It is the Read More
Introduction – The perplexing case of indigenous art
A few months ago, the Pulitzer Prize-winning US critic Jerry Saltz wrote an essay in which he referred to Aboriginal art as "outsider art". He was using this term as Read More
KATHLEEN PETYARRE
We've lost another of the first white contact pioneers of acrylic painting from Utopia “ Kathleen Petyarre, who died aged 80 on 24th November. Kathleen, or, as she was born, Read More
NONGGIRRNGA
In the catalogue for the excellent solo showing of artworks by Nonggirrnga Marawili at the Art Gallery of NSW there's a blissfully ordinary picture of the artist “ barefoot below Read More
Two Iconic Art Galleries for the NT?
How many iconic art galleries can one State or Territory need? While the rest of us “ especially the online alicespringsnews.co.au “ were exciting almost hourly over the chances that Read More
Passing Clouds
Sadly, a deluge of death has flowed through Aboriginal communities in recent days taking artists, art centre elders and even one of the most significant non-Indigenous art centre facilitators. For Read More
The Uluru Statement comes to Sydney
With far too little fanfare, a week of action was launched on November 4 in support of the vital Uluru Statement from the Heart, released last year by delegates to Read More
Skye’s the Limit
At the height of the global financial crisis in 2009, the sale of Indigenous art hit an all-time low, galleries around Australia closed their doors and many artists simply stopped Read More
DO WE WANT AN INDIGENOUS ARTS AUTHORITY?
In a process not unlike the one that lead to the hugely consultative Uluru Statement from the Heart, a year of consultation is about to start towards establishing a National Read More
MAJOR INDIGENOUS COMMISSION FOR THE ASIAN STAGE
The National Gallery of Australia and its longstanding Indigenous arts partner, Wesfarmers Arts, have announced a new six-year, $4 million partnership which includes a major international touring exhibition of Aboriginal Read More
Tommy Watson in Sydney
Sydney is at last getting a serious show of the art of the late Tommy Yannima Watson “ the Pitjantjatjara artist who died in 2017 aged about 82. Is it Read More
The Aboriginal Memorial – A Smouldering Reproach
The 30th anniversary of the 1988 creation of The Aboriginal Memorial of 200 dupun/hollow log bone coffins by 43 artists from Ramingining is being celebrated this weekend with a lecture, Read More
Closing the Craft Circle
Sturt Gallery and Ernabella Arts present In These HANDS: Mara nyangangka, an exhibition of new paintings, ceramics, tjanpi weavings and punu from the artists of Ernabella, celebrating 70 years of Ernabella Arts Read More
Quilliam’s Blood, Bone, Ascension
The work of award-winning photographer, Wayne Quilliam, is currently on show at The Mining Exchange in Ballarat. Quilliam, whose photographs are featured in the Aboriginal Art Directory's social media, is Read More
Greg Weight: More Stories
Our original piece on Greg Weight Stories behind the Images was published on 4 September 2018. In September 2016, Michael Nelson Jagamara's 1984 work, Five Stories set a Sotheby's auction Read More
OCEANS APART
He's young and he's earnest, he's British and he's white, and he's telling the Brits all about Aboriginal art. Anything wrong with that? Well, in Australia, it couldn't happen. Because, Read More
SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY 2018
I'm not sure they really get it! 'Australiasia's Premier International Art Fair', Sydney Contemporary, opened today with expectations of exceeding last year's c$16m. turnover before it closes on Sunday. Yet Read More
Alice Springs Gallery Project ““ Mixed Views
The findings of a three-month consultation program by the NT Government with the local Alice Springs community have been released with 88 per cent of the Alice Springs community consulted Read More
The Museum Race Hots Up
The SA Liberal Government today allocated $60m. in its inaugural Budget for the first stages of construction of a world-leading Aboriginal art and cultures gallery on the old Royal Adelaide Read More
Greg Weight: Stories Behind the Images
Note: The details of Greg Weight's life which appear here have been edited from his brief life story - used with permission. We encourage you to read this interesting story Read More