DEBIL DEBIL CORROBOREE
We live in exclusive times! Or should that be exclusionary? Two major Indigenous events announced in Sydney this week turn out to be less than they appear in that they Read More
Emerging Aboriginal & TSI Artists Sought
Early career Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists are being encouraged to enter the John Fries Memorial Prize which carries prize money of $10,000. Entries for the prize close on Read More
EUBENA 1921 to 2013
Eubena Nampitjin, the doyenne of Aboriginal artists at Balgo Hills (Wirrimanu), the former mission established by the Palatines to cut off Desert peoples heading north into the pastoral lands of Read More
CHANGE & CONTINUITY IN THE KIMBERLEY
In a marvellous piece of irony, the Kimberley Foundation, which was established by the likes of Elisabeth Murdoch and Allen and Maria Myers to assist the late Grahame Walsh continue Read More
Good Results for Laverty Collection
Some highlights from Bonhams Laverty Collection auction yesterday include 3 Emily Kngwarreye's, one which fetched $244,000 (all prices include premium): Untitled (Alagura/Alhalkere), 1989 inscribed 'Emily' and bears catalogue number B154 Read More
CHRISTIAN DISPLACES THE CARDINAL
A portrait of one of England's most important religious figures - Cardinal Henry Newman, beatified by Pope Benedict in 2010 - has been placed in storage to make way for Read More
ABORIGINAL ART ON STAGE
It's one hundred years since Stravinsky's Rite of Spring was first heard on May 29, 1913, at Théatre des Champs-Elysées in Paris. Hailed by the Oxford Dictionary of Dance as Read More
EMILY ON SALE
It's a fascinating time for the reputation of the great Emily Kngwarreye. Some time in May a whole museum is opening in Melbourne dedicated to her works from the collection Read More
CREATIVE AUSTRALIA?
With wonderful synchronicity, just as I'd been writing about the damaging effects of the last cultural policy “ Creative Nation - introduced by the Keating Government in October 1994, a Read More
New investment in Australian creativity
The Australia Council for the Arts has today welcomed the launch of the National Cultural Policy and response to the recommendations of the Australia Council review. The arts sector is, Read More
“Founding Documents of Aboriginal Art“ Go On Show
I hate to hide things away. Western thinking is that a museum collection is for the public benefit, and it's anathema to deny them access. But there are different rules Read More
LANCE BENNETT 1938-2013
Lance Bennett was one of the more enigmatic figures in the very conflicted world of interlocutors betweens Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal cultures....neither an anthropologist nor a dealer, but a heroic warrior Read More
Vale – Kunmanara Tjilpi Kankapankatja
One of the APY Lands most respected cultural leaders, ethno-botanists and senior artist of Kaltjiti Arts has died, aged in his mid 80s. Kaltjiti Arts notice of his passing states Read More
JEAN-BAPTISTE APUATIMI
The deaths go on! Yet another senior artist has been taken from us with the announcement today that Jean Baptiste Apuatimi has died on Bathurst Island at the age of Read More
WA Announces Art Award Finalists
The Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards, the richest Indigenous arts prize in the country since they began in 2008, today announced the 16 artists who'll fight it out for a Read More
COL LAVERTY 26/5/37 to 09/02/13
A huge hole has opened up in the Indigenous art collecting world with the death of Dr Colin Laverty OAM at the age of 75. The gentle giant who, in Read More
The Late Mrs Bennett
We reported that Mrs Bennett had passed away in January 2013 - near her ancestral rockhole at Punkilpirri, WA. That notice sparked great interest about her life and so we Read More
Hermannsburg watercolourist, Mervyn Rubuntja’s Open Studio
Watercolour landscape artist Mervyn Rubuntja will be travelling to Sydney from Alice Springs for a weekend of events in Sydney in February, which include a painting session at a local Read More
PAT CORRIGAN, COLLECTOR
In the torrent of art books with an Indigenous flavour that were published last year, one stands out for the sheer exuberance of its art “ and the quality of Read More
Obituary: Farewell to Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa (Mrs Bennett)
One of the great characters of the Kintore region, Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa's (aka Mrs Bennett) paintings were executed with the same energy, cheer and enthusiasm that she exhibited in life. Painting Read More