Jenny Crompton wins Victoria’s Richest Indigenous Art Award
Bellbrae artist Jenny Crompton has taken out the State's richest Indigenous art prize, the $30,000 Deadly Art Award at the 2014 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards. Crompton, who takes much of Read More
DARWIN 2014 – The Bigger Picture
In the wash-up to the 31st National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, it seems possible that the man who lead the charge to free MAGNT (the Museum & Read More
31st NATSIAAs: TONY ALBERT DOES IT AGAIN
The three judges for this 31st NATSIAA Award all come from the south; Tina Baum from the National Gallery, Clotilde Bullen from the WA Gallery and David Broker from the Read More
LIFE IMITATES ART IMITATES ART AT SELLERS PRIZE
Announced tomorrow is the lucky winner of the $100,000 Basil Sellers Art Prize for a work or works which confront issues and themes in sport. As an enthusiastic press release Read More
TARNANTHI ““ THE NEW NAME IN FESTIVALS
South Australia's Premier Jay Weatherill has announced that the State's new Aboriginal visual arts festival will be known as Tarnanthi “ pronounced TAR-NAN-DEE - a local Kaurna word meaning 'to Read More
ABORIGINAL ART ‘COMES HOME’
A significant dinner held in Melbourne last week was a homecoming of sorts for that dominant feature of the Aboriginal art market over the past two decades “ the auction. Read More
ART IS THE VOICE OF OUR PEOPLE – TAKE 2
Hetti Perkins second 'Art+Soul' TV series returns to the ABC tonight, and winds up with a third episode next Tuesday. And the question I asked after previewing her first program Read More
GULPILIL’S COUNTRY
I've often said that the major problem with the Intervention “ and all the hyperventilation about the reported spate of child abuse and domestic violence in remote Aboriginal communities that Read More
FEAR & LOATHING AMONG THE SMSFs
Art values are suffering as a result of misinformation and disproportionate anxiety about changed rules for art investments in Self-Managed Super Funds, says accountant and Indigenous art community expert, Brian Read More
ART IS THE VOICE OF OUR PEOPLE
So, Hetti Perkins is back with us, refreshed from a sabbatical period post-Art Gallery of NSW, where she used to be the first, and so far only, senior curator of Read More
RED OCHRE FOR HECTOR BURTON
At the end of May, the supreme national Indigenous arts awards “ the Red Ochres “ were handed out by the Australia Council. And the senior, peer-reviewed award went to Read More
GORDON BENNETT 1955 to 3 June 2014
I am an Indigenous Australian. My mother is an Indigenous Australian and her mother before that and so on for countless generations. My father was English. My work comes out Read More
NATSIAA SURPRISES
The great names are there at this year's National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards “ Namatjira, Marawili, Marika, Burton, Thaiday, Petyarre, Mabo, Yalandja and Nadjamerrek. But rather than Read More
MAGNT ushers in New Board
With the legislation now passed which establishes the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) as a statutory authority, a new board has been appointed as it prepares Read More
BLACK PANTHER WOMAN
My interest in the history of Aboriginal activism in Australia is unbounded “ so the prospect of the two documentaries selected by Blackfella Films for this year's Sydney Film Festival Read More
THEATRE AS POLITICS
With the shining exception of Stephen Sewell, political theatre in Australia has only ever played the role it might have done “ think early David Hare in Britain, Arthur Miller Read More
Bowness Photography Prize Open
An initiative of the Monash Gallery of Art Foundation, the William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, established in 2006 to promote excellence in photography, is one of the country's most Read More
Applications Open – Accelerate Program for Future ATSI Leaders
Now in its 5th year, the Accelerate Program offers Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders who have at least 5 years' experience in an arts-related field, with no formal age limit Read More
Sydney Film Festival to Premier Black Panther Woman and The Redfern Story
Sydney Film Festival, in partnership with Screen Australia's Indigenous Department (Screen Black), will premier documentary films by two Indigenous directors, Rachel Perkins and Darlene Johnson. Rachel Perkins, who founded Blackfella Read More
Wayne Quilliam at NZ Photography Festival
One of Australia's most respected Aboriginal photographers, Wayne Quilliam, will deliver a keynote address at the prestigious Auckland Festival of Photography on Saturday 31st of May. Quilliam's expertise in contemporary Read More