Artist Opportunities in Sydney
Marrickville Council has numerous opportunities for local artists. Applications are invited now for a range of programs for residents and practicing artists that encourage participation of arts and cultural activities Read More
The adventure story of two young brothers encountering a native bee
Written by Nola Turner-Jensen and Illustrated by Dub Leffler, The Sugarbag is an adventure story of Jimmy and Max, two young brothers, who are on their way to visit their Read More
WA shares in $48 million funds for Indigenous arts
Country Arts WA is one of the largest recipients to share in the $48 million allocated nationally for two ongoing projects supporting Indigenous arts, culture and languages. It will receive Read More
Kangaroo Point new home to Indigenous performing artists
Arts Minister Ros Bates has joined students from the Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts (ACPA) for a brief tour of their new home at Brisbane's Kangaroo Point. Ms Bates Read More
NEW ART CENTRE FOR KATHERINE
The Katherine community in the NT now has access to an $8.6 million arts hub after the official opening of the Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts and Culture Centre last week. Read More
Aboriginal Art Finds Favour at Paris Auction
On the 3rd of July French auction house Artcurial auctioned 45 works of Australian Aboriginal art during their Art abstrait et contemporain - Art aborigène Australien (Abstract and Contemporary Art Read More
UWA Professor Sets Sights on Pilbara Rock Art
ARCHEOLOGIST Professor Jo McDonald is the inaugural Rio Tinto chair of Rock Art Studies at the University of Western Australia. She says her main focus will be the study of Read More
AGNSW ‘S TENTATIVE REHANG
Almost three years ago, I reported here about the strange and wonderful arrival of the Art Gallery of NSW's iconic Pukumani Poles in its so-called Colonial Courts “ perfectly placed Read More
Indigenous artist wins Waterhouse art prize
Margaret Loy Pula has won this year's Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize, an award that commemorates the life and work of Frederick George Waterhouse, the first curator of the emerging Read More
Waiting at the Gate – abandonment to Aboriginal Artist of the Year Nomination
At the age of five, after years of abuse, and just months after the death of her father, Robyn was sent on a ˜holiday' and was never returned to her Read More
Adam Hill’s Very Public Art
COMMUTERS visiting Campbelltown railway station will have their day brightened thanks to a public art project by Aboriginal artist Adam Hill. Sydney-based Hill was commissioned to design 80 panels around Read More
Prof Larissa Behrendt releases Dummies Book
YOU probably knew that indigenous art was ''more than rocks and dots'', as academic Larissa Behrendt explains in her new book, Indigenous Australia for Dummies. But were you aware that Read More
Solid Prices for Aboriginal Art at Menzies Art Brands June 20 Sale
The Menzies Art Brands Melbourne 20th June Important Australian and International Fine Paintings and Sculpture sale included a number of important works of Aboriginal art. Prices for the Indigenous paintings Read More
CAT AMONGST THE PIGEONS 2
Sadly, the cat never escaped! Last Saturday's promising discussions at the Sydney Opera House - Aboriginal Art: it's a white thing and Write the truth, or shut up “ turned Read More
CAT AMONGST THE PIGEONS
This weekend in Sydney, two free discussions about Aboriginal art are likely to set the proverbial cat amongst the pigeons. Both are at the Opera House on Saturday and involve Read More
Tribal Trend Sparks International Hunt for Aboriginal Artefacts
Collectors and investors have been scouring auctions all over the world in the hunt for Aboriginal artefacts as a global tribal artefacts trend continues to emerge. Bonhams Australia sold a Read More
Art prize of $40k open to Aboriginal artists from NSW
THE 2012 PARLIAMENT OF NEW SOUTH WALES ABORIGINAL ART PRIZE IS NOW OPEN FOR ENTRIES Aboriginal artists born in or living as residents of New South Wales are invited to Read More
GORDON BENNETT SOLO IN UTRECHT
In Outsider / Insider: The art of Gordon Bennett, the AAMU Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art will present a selection from the wide-ranging oeuvre of Gordon Bennett, who is regarded Read More
ART MARKET CHEER
As has been reported elsewhere on Aboriginal Art News, the May/June spate of auctions for Aboriginal art hit a highpoint as Mossgreen to watch auctioneer Paul Sumner sell every one Read More
British Daily Mail find Sex Angle in Rock Paintings
Here's an unsual take on the recent discovery of ancient rock art, reproduced here in full. Aboriginal erotic rock art proves that “ even 28,000 years ago “ men had Read More