OVER-PRODUCTION OF ABORIGINAL ART
Art Centres need to consider regulating the number of art products that are released on to the market, critically assessing the price points of their art products, and marketing them Read More
Keeping Art in Your Super
You can keep art in your Super advises specialist art market accountant, Michael Fox, in this follow-up to his article on SMSF write-off measures - and invest in more. Here's Read More
Super Art and Write-Off Measures for SMSFs
Unless new Arts Minister in Canberra, Mitch Fifield, can be tempted to cross the Treasury/Brandis line that art is bad for super funds, the months leading up June 30th 2016 Read More
TARNANTHI TRIUMPHANT
Story is so rich in Aboriginal art; it does help to know the back-story when viewing it. Nici Cumpston, Artistic Director of the new Tarnanthi (pronounced Tar-Nan-Dee) Festival that's making Read More
Winners 2015 NSW Parliament Art Prize
Shevaun Wright, a previous finalist and 2012 winner of the UNSW Art & Design Indigneous Professional Development Award, has this year taken out the $40,000 NSW Parliament Aboriginal Art Prize Read More
DOWN TO EARTH
Featuring the work of seven artists from southern Australia, Primavera 2015 opened to the public on 22 September at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art. The artists in this year's curation Read More
DR J.N.GUMBULA
Joseph Neparrnga Gumbula was a generous man. And coming from an influential family “ his father, Tom Djawa's art is held in collections around the world - it was inevitable Read More
PUTUPARRI AND THE RAINMAKERS
The documentary is an astonishing ten-year labour of love by film-maker Nicole Ma, documenting the fragile line by which endangered Indigenous cultures are passed from one generation to the next. Read More
SALTWATER IN ISTANBUL
Prominent Indigenous artists and culturally significant artworks are currently taking part in the 14th Istanbul Biennial, one of the most prestigious biennials on the visual arts calendar, which opened last Read More
A MESSAGE FOR MALCOLM?
This chair is a special chair. This chair tells a story. We the women of the Ngannyatjarra Lands invite the Government people to come here and to sit down with Read More
Question of Ethics
Leichhardt Council is about to host a panel discussion on ethical trade of Aboriginal art. It comes after a pop-up auction house offering Aboriginal art with questions around provenance (reported Read More
TOO MANY FAIRS?
Is it four or is it five art fairs opening in Sydney this week? It seems they have a tendency to multiply; for Sydney Contemporary 13, two years ago, pioneered Read More
HISTORY TO BE MADE THIS WEEKEND
With the annual Desert Mob show and fair happening this weekend in Alice Springs, many will also be dashing up the Tanami Track to Yuendumu on Sunday to be present Read More
LOTS HAPPENING
So much news to share with you, I'm having to collate it all into a single story: 1. The Istanbul Biennial is about to hit the headlines as Sydney's last Read More
Details of Exciting New Tarnanthi Festival
More than 300 artists from across Australia will showcase work in TARNANTHI (pronounced TAR-nan-dee), the inaugural Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, right across Adelaide from 8 Read More
“ABORIGINAL POINT OF VIEW“ IN LONDON.
It is a display that is objective and intelligent enough to recognise the gulfs in understanding between Europe and Australia, not as something to be vainly bridged by an apologist, Read More
DARWIN ““ THE BIGGER PICTURE
This is how I began my first, impressionistic report from the Telstra Prizes last week: Bold' was the word that kept springing to mind as I viewed the 2015 National Read More
Victorian Indigenous Art Awards 2015
Glenda Nicholls has been awarded the $30k Deady Art Award for her woven scuptural work, A Woman's Rite of Passage. Glenda is the granddaughter of the late Sir Doug Nicholls, Read More
32ND NATSIAAS
'Bold' was the word that kept springing to mind as I viewed the 2015 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (the NATSIAAs) in Darwin and considered the winners Read More
Thancoupie“™s Bursary and CIAF 2015
On 28th July the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair hosted a magical breakfast in honour of Thancoupie, the beloved elder artist from Cape York who had passed away in 2011. As Read More