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
Letter from Pittsburgh: Aboriginal art in America
The following article originally appeared in the January/February 2013 issue of Art Guide Australia (link below). The author is Henry F Skerritt. Reproduced with permission. In his recent compendium, How Read More
THE SHADOW KING/LEAR
An ebullient black King Lear in a white suit arrives regally on high and breaks into a We have survived rap. Where are we? In Joan Littlewood's Stratford East? Barrie Read More
GUDIRR GUDIRR/GOOD GOOD
This solo work of dance theatre from Broome brought back such happy memories of the first appearance of a confident Josie/Ningali Lawford from The Kimberley in 1997, I was almost Read More
BRIAN ROBINSON WINS ANOTHER WA AWARD
Brian Robinson from Waiben (Thursday Island) in the Torres Strait, has won the People's Choice Award of $5,000 in the Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards 2013. He received the highest Read More
WA Indigenous Art Award People’s Choice Winner
Brian Robinson, from Waiben (Thursday Island), Queensland, is on a winning streak, taking out the People's Choice Award of $5,000 in the Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards 2013, with Ray Read More
Summer Collector’s Exhibition at McCulloch’s
Some seriously lovely offerings at McCulloch's Summer Collector's Exhibition opening this Friday evening, January 17 from 5.30pm. Attending will be Mornington Peninsula Indigenous artists, as well as the directors and Read More
‘TOURIST TAT’ IN HOBART
Back in September, I responded to some depressingly bad critical reviews of the Indigenous content in the big Australia show at the Royal Academy in London. My blunt heading then Read More
Reclamation exhibition launched as a part of the Wominjeka Festival
The works of Dennis Thorpe, John Winch, Steve Verde, and Terry Atkinson will be on show in the Reclamation exhibition from January 11-24 at the Footscray Community Art Centre, as Read More
Contributing Writers
The Aboriginal Art Directory invites contributors which to date have included Ralph Hobbs, Susan McCulloch, Adrian Newstead, Nicholas Forrest, Larissa Behrendt, Frannie Hopkirk and Greg Weight.
Frannie Hopkirk
Frannie is from one of Australia's most pre-eminent art families, the Whiteley's - she is Brett Whiteley's sister, both having grown up amidst Australian art royalty. Frannie twice sat for Read More
BARKS ‘R US
With Aboriginal bark paintings there's the constant dilemma “ how important is the aesthetic appeal of the work, and how important the story “ and the status of the man Read More
“The Bottom has been Reached“
That's the tentative conclusion of a group called Ninti One “ more formally The Cooperative Research Centre for Remote Economic Participation “ based in Alice Springs. They're doing what they Read More
SYDNEY FESTIVAL BLACKS UP
There was a time after the great Olympic Dreaming Festival of 1997 when I thought the case had been made for all Australian multi-arts festivals to incorporate a serious Indigenous Read More