AWARD FOR ART CO-ORDINATOR
Arnhemland arts centre co-ordinator Will Stubbs will be presented with the prestigious Australia Council Visual Arts Award (Advocate) for 2015 at the Council's inaugural awards ceremony in Sydney on 19 Read More
Gone But Not Forgotten
If anyone wanted proof of the tribal differences that still define Aboriginal Australia then the individual painting styles that four recently dead women artists made their own ought to be Read More
The life of Daisy Munmurria Andrews
A service commerating the life of Daisy Munmurria Andrews (1935 - January 2015), much loved artist from the West Kimberley, will be held tomorrow at the Fitzroy Crossing Recreation Hall Read More
Major Artist of the Kimberley, Jack Dale
Set to open at the Burrinja Gallery just out of Melbourne is an exhibition of one of the great artists of the Kimberley, Jack Dale Mengenen. Jack Dale was famous Read More
Don’t ‘Kill The Messenger’
Nakkiah Lui is hot. The Gamillaroi and Torres Strait Islander writer now has her second play on at the Belvoir Street Theatre in Sydney “ and she's moved Upstairs from Read More
The Wild Australia Troupe
A little before 1892, a group of 27 Indigenous people came together from the groups of Wakaya, Kuthant, Kurtjar, Arapa, Walangama, Mayikulan, Kabi Kabi, Kalkadoon and Muralag. There were 22 Read More
LAVERTY SALE
I first met the Lavertys “ Colin and Liz “ in 1995, at the peak of their collecting days. It happened in Warrmun, the painting heart of the East Kimberley. Read More
Darwin Art Fair Registrations Open
Art Centre registrations open online from the 23 February for the 2015 Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair (DAAF), this year to be held from the 7th to the 9th of August. Read More
Farewell Sally Gabori
"Danda ngijinda dulk, danda ngijinda malaa, danda ngad - This is my Land, this is my Sea, this is who I am," said Sally Gabori about her solo exhibition at Read More
MAGNT MODIFICATION
The Museum and Art Gallery of the NT advertised for a Director at the weekend. No news of the sacking of the current Director “ Pierre Arpin “ had leaked Read More
Archie and Jandamarra meet the Tandanya Studio
The Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute (NACI) is presenting three separate exhibitions at their Adelaide Galleries, opening this week, which will display works by two contemporary Aboriginal artists, Archie Moore Read More
WALKING WITH BUNGAREE
This is the most important project I've worked on in my life. Veteran Indigenous curator, Djon Mundine's statement quite shocked an audience on Middle Head on Saturday, especially those who Read More
ROTHWELL’S RADICAL RESOLUTION
It's increasingly important to read The Australian newspaper for an understanding of Indigenous affairs. For the culture that Aboriginal Art Directory readers care about emerges only from the conditions in Read More
MAJOR INDIGENOUS EXHIBITION AT BRITISH MUSEUM
The Australian National Museum and the British Museum are joining forces to present one of the most important exhibitions of Indigenous Australian art and artefacts ever staged. 'Enduring Civilisation', as Read More
Cadel Evans Last Ride
Who can't remember the 2011 Tour de France, and the pride and inspiration that arose in us all when Cadel Evans stood on the winner's podium? For though Cadel had Read More
SCHOLL SEEKS THE HOLY GRAIL
If only more art collectors around the world today could open their eyes and admit, We'd grown a little tired of the cult of personality and money that the contemporary Read More
Blak Douglas and Adam Geczy’s BLAKATTAK
The exhibition BLAKATTAK brings together the talents of Blak Douglas aka Adam Hill and Adam Geczy again, and follows the large-scale exhibition BOMB, held at the AAMU (Museum of Contemporary Read More
Bungaree: The 200-year Celebration
Bungaree was the first Aboriginal to have been called an 'Australian'. He was given a land grant at Middle Head in Sydney from colonial authorities and was famous for greeting Read More
Jack Dale Revealing Australia’s Hidden past
Photographer Neil McLeod's professional entree into Aboriginal Australia was through Pastor Doug Nicholls, the first Aboriginal to be knighted and first to be appointed to vice-regal office (he served as Read More