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
Saltwater Country Opens in the Netherlands
A new exhibition Saltwater Country is set to open at the Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art in Utrecht on January 11, showing a great diversity of art produced by sixteen Read More
2014 in Review
No one could call it a stunning year for Indigenous art - with the market delicate and the product, perhaps in response, not leaping any dramatic hurdles. No one, that Read More
Vale Peter Taylor
Kwementyaye Taylor (c 1940 - 12/2014) Watercolourist Peter Taylor has died in a car accident. Peter Taylor was born into a large family at Oodnadatta in South Australia. His father Read More
A Lycett for Christmas
A delightful project has emerged from the National Library in Canberra and the University of Newcastle's Wollotuka Institute of Aboriginal Studies. True Light and Shade takes the early 19th Century Read More
THE CODE REFRESHED
The recent AGM of the Indigenous Art Code has been singularly unreported by mainstream press. Thank heavens for the specialists like AAD! For we can report a new CEO to Read More
TRACEY MOFFATT IS SPIRITED
When I first arrived in Australia, an early writing commission was to preview the expat playwright Ray Matthew's wonderful outback play, 'Spring Song'. It captured country values and setting perfectly Read More
DOOM & GLOOM??
The Australian newspaper's galumphing headline writers had a field-day last Friday with their ultra-bold claim: 'Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi's demise echoes the fate of Aboriginal art'. The obituary continued in the Read More
THE KIMBERLEY ONLINE
Desert River Sea: Kimberley Art Then & Now has gone live online at last after a mighty development saga. It's been developed in two phases over 6 years by the Read More