Natsiaas 2017
Given the anniversaries celebrated this year - the 1967 Referendum, the Mabo verdict, etc - and the recent Uluru Statement process, it was perhaps inevitable that the 2017 NATSIAAs would Read More
ABORIGINAL ART ECONOMICS
At a time when the whole future of the Indigenous relationship with non-Indigenous Australia is up for discussions like last night's eloquent ABC TV 'Q&A' program, the centrality of art-making Read More
SCHOLL’S NEXT MOVE
Dennis Scholl may have fired up Aboriginal art on the US stage with his overnight Damascene discovery in 2008 of abstraction in Indigenous paintings, leading to a collection that had Read More
APY ART DOMINATES THE WYNNE
After last year's triumphant win by the five Ken Sisters from Amata in the Art Gallery of NSW's annual Wynne Prize for landscape painting, artists across the Lands have got Read More
Anangu Artist Wins $100,000 Prize
A drawing by Aboriginal artist Peter Mungkuri has taken out the inaugural Hadley's Art Prize, which claims to be the world's richest landscape art prize. Mungkuri will take home $100,000 Read More
The End of AAMU
Sadly, the Aboriginal Art Museum of Utrecht (in the Netherlands) is no more. It was innovative, didactic in introducing the Dutch to our Indigenous cultures, it was challenging, it even Read More
YOU ARE HERE
Presented by actress Miranda Tapsell, the TV series of films under the title of You Are Here explores the place of Indigenous people in Australia today. Included in the series are Read More
ART ACROSS THE COUNTRY
Major Indigenous art exhibitions and/or art fairs are opening this month in Queensland and Western Australia “ two, in fact in Queensland, headed by the annual Cairns Indigenous Art Fair Read More
TARNANTHI IN OCTOBER
Artistic Director, Nici Cumpston has announced highlights of the program for the biennial 2017 TARNANTHI: Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art , which returns to Adelaide this Read More
TJUNGU NGUTJA – from having come together
The efflorescence of imagery that struck in the hothouse conditions of the Men's Painting Room will never be repeated, for these works were created at the moment when the epic Read More
Blak Markets at Barangaroo
The Blak Markets will return to Sydney's spectacular harbour headland park, Barangaroo Reserve, with an Aboriginal art market on Sunday, 2 July. Taking place at the beginning of NAIDOC Week, Read More
COUNTRY COMES TO SYDNEY
After the wit, imagination and depth of traditional story-telling in Warwick Thornton's opening night film at the Sydney Film Festival, it was always going to be hard for other Indigenous Read More
Art for the Environment
The Environmental Defenders Office of the Northern Territory (EDO NT) is again holding an online Aboriginal art auction to raise funds for its important work (advising and acting for individuals, Read More
Ghost-Nets Straddle the World
There are three spin-offs from last year's exhibition, Australia: Defending the Oceans at the Heart of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art, held at the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco, currently Read More
THAT BIG FELLAR UP THERE
That Big Fellar..... is none other than the Southern Cross, the 5 stars that grace the sky in the Southern Hemisphere, and feature on our national flag (or flags, if Read More
Grayson Perry Going Indigenous?
Remember Grayson Perry, the out-spoken English artist who featured at the Museum of Contemporary Art in 2015 and 16 with his Hogarthian commentaries on contemporary UK life in the form Read More
Barks Bigger than Ben Hur
The bark paintings of Australia's Aboriginal North, so easily put into the shade by the brilliant acrylics of the Deserts, are coming out into the sun. As a foretaste, the Read More
Red Ochre for Ken Thaiday
The delightfully modest Ken Thaiday Snr from the Torres Strait has taken out Indigenous culture's most important award “ the 2017 Red Ochre. Selected by his peers and managed by Read More