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
Paddy Japaljarri Stewart – 30/06/35 to 30/11/13
Sadly, we have lost one of the real pioneers of Desert Aboriginal art, Paddy Japaljarri Stewart. Once known as Cookie Stewart, he was a chef at Papunya and was involved Read More
THE LATE N. NAPURRULA
Papunya Tula Artists are sad to announce the passing of N Napurrula on 11th November. As many would know, Napurrula was a dialysis patient for many years at the 'Purple Read More
NAMATJIRA IN LONDON
The third generation of the Namatjira family water-colour artists from Hermannsburg - Kevin and Lenie Namatjira - yesterday had a private audience with the Queen at Buck House in London. Read More
PADDY’S PLANE
A fourth Qantas aircraft now has Indigenous designs on its body “ this time the work of the late, great Paddy Goowoomji Bedford, leader of the Jirrawun group of Gija Read More
Cultural Connection, Art and the Value of Life
Through a series of strong and sometimes poignant interviews with Aboriginal elders from around Australia, Culture is Life (led by Uncle Max Dulumunmun Harrison, elder from the NSW South Coast) Read More
DESERT RIVER SEA PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR INDIGENOUS ART LEADERS
From 11-15 November 2013 a group of 11 emerging Indigenous art leaders throughout the Kimberley region of Western Australia will gather in Perth for the Emerging Leaders Program, a week-long Read More