PARRTJIMA ““ TELLING STORIES THROUGH LIGHT
The success that has been the Vivid light festival in Sydney is about to go bush; two and a half kilometres of the West MacDonnell Ranges outside Alice Springs will Read More
Edward Albee, Art Collector
News from America that Edward Albee, one the 20th Century's greatest playwrights, has died aged 88. I had the good fortune to meet him six years ago and talk to Read More
SKIN & BONES MAP THE GARDEN PALACE
Fourteen thousand (or is it fifteen thousand) white gypsum shields litter Sydney's Royal Botanic Garden for the next two and a half weeks. When seen them from the air, the Read More
DESERT MOBBED
Author: Jeremy Eccles Why have I never been before??? I've experienced both the NATSIAAs/Telstras in Darwin frequently and CIAF in Cairns occasionally “ both important gatherings of the Indigenous art Read More
Goulburn Art Gallery is Speaking Colours
While English has become the first language of many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, it is far from being the only language used. A new exhibition opening this Saturday Read More
SCHOLL’S WOMEN
America continues to be challenged and delighted by Aboriginal art in ways we've forgotten in Australia “ and once again it's the Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection that's setting the Read More
MILINGIMBI ALL OVER
The unfashionable name of Milingimbi “ a place that doesn't even appear in the index for the 'Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture' published in 2000 “ may soon Read More
EIGHTSOME REELS IN THE MET
A gift of eight Aboriginal artworks to the prestigious Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has been hailed by its Director as introducing a dynamic new dimension to The Read More
THE ANNIVERSARY NATSIAAs
It's a big anniversary year for the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards - aka The Telstras. As Luke Scholes, the newish Curator of Aboriginal Art & Material Read More
Michael Nelson Jagamara in Sydney
Sydney received a 'royal' visit yesterday as significant as the coincidental coming of the US Vice-President, as Michael Nelson Jagamara left his Desert home to attend the launch of a Read More
KEN SISTERS WIN THE WYNNE!
It's that time of year again when the Art Gallery of NSW gets down and populist with its Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes announced today. The Archibald is the 'Big Read More
STREETS OF PAPUNYA
It's impossible to see it on the ground. You need to be in the air over Papunya to discover that, rather than being laid out like some white 'burb in Read More
Ken Sisters to Win the Wynne?
It's that time of year again when the Art Gallery of NSW gets down and populist with its Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes to be announced next Friday. The Archibald Read More
WHAT A WASTE!
I've written a couple of times about the pro bono project between the Australia Council and Deloitte Access Economics to attempt to establish a realistic size and shape for the Read More
PILBARA ‘JEWEL IN THE CROWN’
At the beginning of May, Western Australia's 29 Aboriginal art centres received the huge boost of the opening of the $8 million East Pilbara Art Centre, home to one of Read More
ART INSTALLATIONS ALL OVER
Telstra is celebrating its 25-year association with National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (the NATSIAAs) by bringing the event out of Darwin with a series of installations of Read More
DANCING NYAPANYAPA
It was an emotional night as the Bangarra Dance Theatre - wasn't it once called Bangarra Aboriginal Dance Theatre? “ opened a triple bill of dances in Sydney which will Read More
STATISTICS 2
It would seem that I'm a naïve optimist! Whereas I thought the 'industry' around Indigenous art would really like to know an honest figure for the size of the business Read More
FILMS GO BACK TO COUNTRY
The Sydney Film Festival opened with an Indigenous thriller and followed up with a Black documentary that is also slated for a theatrical release. But the coincidental parallels between the Read More
VITAL STATISTICS
For a long time I've mocked the guesstimates which have attributed huge numbers to the 'market' for Indigenous art “ a $200 million a year turnover is a common fantasy. Read More