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
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