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
Mawurndjul Makes Headlines in DC
Under the bracing headline: 'Introducing the greatest aboriginal artist unknown in America' expatriate Aussie art critic, Sebastian Smee, a Pulitzer Prize-winner at the Boston Globe, told his now-Washington Post readers Read More
Whispering Still
Twenty years ago, almost single-handedly kicking off the History Wars, Henry Reynolds published 'This Whispering in Our Hearts'. For him it was the culmination of researches stimulated in 1971 by Read More
Indigenous Pots Are Hot
The Biennial Indigenous Ceramic Award winner at the Shepparton Art Museum in mid-Victoria is about to be announced on Saturday. As a $20,000 acquisitive prize, the 2018 ICA is open Read More
CIAF Sets Records
Sunshine filled days and starlit skies drew the crowds and community together for last month's Cairns Indigenous Art Fair (CIAF), capping off its ninth successful iteration with record breaking success. Read More
SCHIZOPHRENIA OF THE COLONISED
Dance is a wonderfully abstract medium which can allow for a myriad of interpretations. But, aided by the persuasive writing in the program for 'Le Denier Appel' (The Last Cry) Read More
The Politics of Art in Darwin
One of the factors that makes Darwin such a dynamic place to be during the August week of the Telstra NATSIAAs is that so many of Indigenous art's key players Read More
NATSIAAS 2018
When a tsunami comes your way, all you can do is head for higher ground very fast. This year's Telstra NATSIA Awards have been hit by the Buku Tsunami “ Read More
A SENSE OF PLACE
The crow djang has two navels, declares the artist in the didactic accompanying one of the 165 barks, sculptures and lorrkons in the marvellous, career-spanning exhibition of the work of Read More