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
SOL AND EMILY
People have been trying to force Emily Kngwarreye's art into baskets familiar to Western art aficionados for years - Abstract Expressionism being the favourite. And then along comes Sol LeWitt, Read More
MAGNT focuses on contemporary Australian art with string theory
An exhibition that brings together Aboriginal artists who work with expanded notions of textile and craft-based tradition will open at the Museum and Art Gallery of the NT (MAGNT) this Read More
MT BUNDY STATEMENT
The body that represents Aboriginal art centres in the far North - ANKAAA “ is being as dynamic as ever. I've reported before on its collaborative efforts to train up Read More
The Shock of the Old
Arabs believe that the soul can travel at the rate of a trotting camel. From that one can imagine that the souls of millennia of aboriginal nomads, roving the desert, Read More
The Marvellous Frannie Hopkirk joins the Aboriginal Art Directory
We are delighted to announce that Frannie Hopkirk has joined the Aboriginal Art Directory as a Feature Writer for our News. For those who don't know, Frannie is from one Read More
THE DEALER IS THE DEVIL
Adrian Newstead is probably uniquely qualified to write a history of that contentious business, the market for Australian Aboriginal art. He may once have planned to be an agricultural scientist, Read More