Djilpin Arts Arrives at Melbourne’s Federation Square
Walk with Us: Djilpin Arts, the Northern Territory's globally recognised Aboriginal Corporation located at the remote Beswick (Wugularr) community on the south-west border of Arnhem Land, brings a rich and Read More
Tali Gallery gives Sydney’s International Grammar School Helping Hand
The co-educational secular school in Ultimo (Sydney), International Grammar School (IGS), is hosting an Indigenous art exhibition to benefit Sydney's Indigenous community through the school's Indigenous Scholarship Program. The event, Read More
Man on Fire: the Art of Tim Storrier and Other Desert Masters
Polarities between Australia's artists and painters, black or white, achieve compatibility and oneness of intent when they collectively embrace the one big thing about this country “THE DESERT. Storrier, Nolan, Read More
CAIRNS HEADS THE PACK
Winter in Australia may well make tourists dream only of skiing in the Snowy Mountains. But in 2014, art is throwing up a fair challenge to the world of goggles, Read More
DANIE MELLOR’S YEAR
We recently reported here on a major solo show for Danie Mellor “ Exotic Lies, Sacred Ties - touring from Brisbane to the TarraWarra Museum of Art in the Yarra Read More
Monstrous figures in Arnhem Land
There's some impressive writing going on at The Conversation at present - and that's not only from the contributors, check out the feedback as well. The following is an excerpt Read More
27TH MERREPEN ARTS & CULTURAL FESTIVAL
The Daly River community (Nauiyu), 240 kilometres south-west of Darwin, celebrates the 27th Merrepen Arts and Culture Festival from Friday 30 May to Sunday 1 June, with a weekend of Read More
Entries now open for the Victorian Indigenous Art Awards
The Victorian Indigenous Art Awards (VIAA) celebrate the quality and diversity of art practice among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and the richness of Victoria's Indigenous arts and culture. Read More
Danie Mellor: Exotic Lies Sacred Ties
A decade of artwork by leading contemporary Indigenous artist Danie Mellor is the focus of a major survey exhibition opening at TarraWarra Museum of Art on May 10, on tour Read More
Desert Song and the Pike Family
There are two very worthwhile exhibitions on in the West right now, and if you're not able to make it the good folks there have also reproduced these exhibitions online: Read More
Djilpin Arts to stream live on YouTube
Djilpin Arts, with host Tom E Lewis, is set to stream live in the first ever YouTube screening by an indigenous community. Located in the remote community of Beswick (Wugularr) Read More
ABORIGINAL ARTIST WINS BIG BULGARI PRIZE
Anyone who bought a painting by Daniel Boyd (via the Ros Oxley9 Gallery) will have had their taste and wisdom confirmed by this week's announcement that he's taken out the Read More
PATRON/ COLLECTOR = THE FUTURE
I had arranged to meet Pat Corrigan 'Art Collector and Patron', especially of Aboriginal art, at the Art Gallery of NSW at 5 o'clock for a glass of wine and Read More
TRAGIC CONFRONTATION IN THE DESERT
Anyone reading the usually-reliable Nicolas Rothwell in The Australian newspaper a couple of weekends ago (The Review 22/23 March) in a major essay entitled 'Culture War', would have come away Read More
TIWI PANTO
It's taken a while to get all of its act together, but the world's first Tiwi Island pantomime is off and touring the country currently. 'Wulamanayuwi and the Seven Pamanui' Read More
Painting is the Skin of the World
"Painting is the Skin of the World." Robert Motherwell Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula said: "When you sit down without a painting, you are lonely." These simple words from two giants of Read More
The courage of a few, and the backing of the Nation
Introduction by the Aboriginal Art Directory In a recent interview, Uncle Max, head of Culture is Life said, "Strengthening Indigenous youth back to the land and culture gives [Aboriginals] a Read More
Aboriginal Art from the Eastern APY Lands (South Australia) tours Germany in 2014
From March to September 2014 ARTKELCH, the leading gallery for Contemporary Aboriginal Fine Art in Germany, presents artists from South Australia´s Eastern APY Lands in their yearly touring exhibition PRO Read More
EXCITING TIMES AT MAGNT
Two significant developments have taken place in Darwin which will hopefully begin the process of re-establishing the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (the NATSIAAs) as the pre-eminent Read More
Prodigy at Eighty – The Miracle of Emily
Emily Kame Kngwarreye. Diversity in the Desert. It has been said that her work enabled the flowering of a whole new generation of Aboriginal artists. My first experience of Emily Read More