SALLY GOES SOLO
Danda ngijinda dulk, danda ngijinda malaa, danda ngad - This is my Land, this is my Sea, this is who I am. That pretty much sums up the extraordinary mind Read More
THE EMILY MUSEUM
An event of national significance occurs on Monday (May 6th) with the opening of The Emily Museum in the inauspicious setting of a converted factory in a back street in Read More
SHAKE-UP IN THE DESERT
An important article appeared in The Australian a week or so ago. Almost inevitably, it was penned by Nicolas Rothwell, the paper's Darwin-based master of prose and Indigenous insight. Somehow, Read More
SELL OUT SHOW IN SHANGHAI
Waringarri artists from Kununurra returned triumphant from a recent visit to Shanghai after two successful exhibitions, including the sale of all 41 artworks taken to China, and ten days of Read More
Entries flood in to 30th NATSIAA
The 30th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award is in full swing with over 240 entries received from almost every state and territory in the country, all Read More
DESERT RIVER SEA : KIMBERLEY ART THEN & NOW
After two years of consultation, the Art Gallery of Western Australia with support from the Rio Tinto Community Investment Fund have announced the launch of a six year, $1.8million art Read More
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