Call for entries in Taiwanese Art Award
The Taitung County Government in Taiwan is offering artists from all over the world an opportuntiy to take part in the Austronesian International Arts Award 2012. According to their site, Read More
Australia’s ancient Aboriginal rock art to be catalogued
Australia's greatest ancient Aboriginal rock art detailing kangaroos, turtles and humans on boulders in the remote Pilbara area will be studied under a US$1.1 million deal announced Monday. Tens of Read More
Desert’s spirit on show in Newcastle
THEY were thousands of kilometres from the desert, but that didn't stop a group of local Aboriginal students tapping into its rich spirit at a watercolour workshop at Newcastle Art Read More
Art show link for young and old
A GENERATION-spanning exhibition of indigenous artwork from around the Lower Clarence will go on show from today in Maclean's CWA building. The Yaegl Country Aboriginal Art Exhibition - now in Read More
US art collector sees red over ‘dysfunctional’ ban on Aboriginal painting
A WEALTHY American art connoisseur has decided against donating his collection of 90 blue-chip Aboriginal artworks worth $10 million to an Australian museum or gallery after his attempt to add Read More
Aboriginal Art is Modern
The grand re-opening of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney has confirmed for many the view that the Aboriginal art of today is as contemporary as such trendy names Read More
Finding harmony through film
Students from Robinvale P-12 have been given the chance to explore cultural identity in one of the most ethinically diverse communities in Victoria, and all through the process of making Read More
Storehouse of cultural memory
A WORKING studio, a soaring palace, a temple where the past's shadows cluster and hang thickly in the air: such is the new Jilamara Arts & Crafts Association art centre Read More
Fairer arts trading
Transcript of a Newslines Radio Broadcast Broadcast date: 26 March“1 April 2012 Duration: 12 minutes Presenter: Nathan Ramsay Content: New initiatives are making Indigenous artists more aware of their rights. Read More
Northcote artist’s winning dream
A PRIZE-winning work in Victoria's Indigenous Art Awards was literally a dream come true for its creator Glenda Nicholls. Two weeks ago, Nicholls, a Northcote resident, won the $5000 Koorie Read More
$6 for a Namatjira? Almost…
There's no accounting for taste when a masterpiece is ignored in a garage sale. It was the spring-clean that almost cost a Cairns woman a masterpiece. She had put a Read More
ABORIGINAL ART DRESS SPAT
"The Mulleavy sisters stand out from the New York Fashion Week crowd with an imaginative Fall line full of Outback influences", pronounced The Daily Beast blog on February 14 this Read More
Women with Clever Hands
The two year tour of fibre work from the small, almost unknown Arnhemland community of Gapuwiyak is continuing with its opening in Sydney, at the Object Gallery later this month. Read More
Honour for Bendigo amateur artists
A BENDIGO artist has taken out a Victorian award for a confronting black and white photograph of his nephew. Simon Penrose, 25, last night won a Victorian Indigenous Art Award Read More
Winners of 2012 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards announced
Melbourne artist Trevor 'Turbo' Brown has received the Deadly Art Award, Victoria's highest honour for an Indigenous artist, at the 2012 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards. Turbo received the $25,000 award Read More
Ernabella Craft Pioneer Dies
In her 1968 book, The People in Between, about her life at Ernabella Mission station, Winifred Hilliard wrote, ''To the north there are bad people, and to the south there Read More
Studio Opps for Aboriginal & TS Islanders in Sydney
Applications are now open for Marrickville Council's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) Arts Studio Program. The Program provides support to Aboriginal artists and crafts people living or contributing to Read More
Yalangabara and the Marikas
Just as Mankind emerged from the sea in evolutionary history, Aboriginal life in Arhemland advanced mythologically out of the Gulf of Carpentaria at Yalangabara to become the many clans of Read More
Historic images rescued from cupboard
A previously unknown collection of rare colonial drawings from 1818, including landscapes and Aboriginal portraits from the Newcastle area, has been unveiled after being discovered in the back of a Read More
