2011 VICTORIAN INDIGENOUS ART AWARDS OPEN
From the Minister for the Arts Monday, 11 October 2010 Entries are now open for the 2011 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards (VIAA), the State's premiere celebration of our Indigenous visual Read More
New Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander art galleries
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have existed on the continent of Australia for tens of thousands of years. Their art and traditions are among the oldest and richest in Read More
Indigenous artists finding a steady income
An arts manager in South Australia's far north-west Aboriginal lands says a record number of artists are working on the lands. Skye O'Meara from Tjala Arts in the APY Lands Read More
The spirit wakes anew
BINDI Cole's first response when she was invited to curate an exhibition for the Melbourne International Arts Festival was one of relative calm. The 35-year-old Melbourne-based artist, who last year Read More
Keeping Place collection seeks a permanent home
Keeping Place consists of 1500 artworks plus artefacts and photographs collected over 40 years by Aboriginal artist and activist Gordon Syron and his wife Elaine. The collection had been housed Read More
Landmark space embodies soul of the nation
Indigenous art has found a welcome home at the reinvigorated National Gallery of Australia. AT last, indigenous art has the national showcase it needs: 11 luminous, purpose-built galleries at the Read More
An aboriginal art exhibition; latest works by Barbara Weir
Mbantua Gallery have an art exhibition running from today until Thursday 4th November, of works by a prestigious aboriginal artist named Barbara Weir. The Grass Seed paintings represent a grass Read More
2009 NAIDOC Artist of the Year Wayne Quilliam nominated for International Award
One of Australia's leading Indigenous photographers has been nominated as a Master of Photography by National Geographic. The 2009 NAIDOC Artist of the Year Wayne Quilliam said To be considered Read More
art + soul – Home And Away
In this three-part documentary series, Hetti Perkins takes us on a personal journey into the world of Aboriginal art. art + soul, directed by Warwick Thornton (Samson and Delilah), is Read More
Art + Soul
7 October, 2010 1:06PM ACST Art + Soul By Emma Sleath ( Cross Media Reporter)The new three part series on Aboriginal Art debuts tonight on ABC1. Directed by Warwick Thornton Read More
HETTI’S MULTI-MEDIA PROJECT
Bigger than Ben Hur (which is soon to be at a football stadium near you)! Hetti Perkins, Senior Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at the Art Gallery Read More
Victorian Indigenous Art Awards 2011
The 2011 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards is being presented and hosted by fortyfivedownstairs in partnership with Arts Victoria. For the first time the VIAA will be curated by resident Indigenous Read More
INDIGENOUS VISUAL ARTS RESIDENCIES
INDIGENOUS VISUAL ARTS RESIDENCIES - call for artists now open! Arts Victoria's INDIGENOUS VISUAL ARTS RESIDENCIES is a new residency program funded by the Victorian Government providing Victorian Indigenous visual Read More
Indigenous Cultural Development Officer
Communities NSW Arts NSW Position: Indigenous Cultural Development Officer Location: Sydney Job Grade/Classification: Clerk Grade 9/10 Vacancy ref: ART1075-000008GZ The Arts NSW Indigenous Cultural Development Officer leads and manages the Read More
US gallery adds to indigenous collection
Next year I'm off to America, where I have been invited to do a show at the Kluge-Ruhe Museum at the University of Virginia. The Kluge-Ruhe institution is dedicated to Read More
Aboriginals of Australia: Museum Shows Contemporary Natives“™ Art
WSU's Museum of Art showed Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art: From the Collection of Margaret Levi and Robert Kaplan, Thursday [30 September 2010] . The new, free exhibit is open to Read More
The Healing Power of Indigenous Art
What a long weekend of Indigenous art! While I haven't seen the new Indigenous galleries in Canberra, I did dive wholeheartedly into art + soul at the Art Gallery of Read More
Connection, Dislocation, Reclamation and Innovation: The 2010 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards
In its 27th year, the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAAs) inaugurated a sixth category. The ˜New Media Award' required artists to submit works reflecting the theme Read More
Size may count at revamped gallery
The National Gallery of Australia flung open its new narrow doors for the first time on Thursday night to 1000 guests including Culture's spies who reported that while the new Read More
Aboriginal art demands dignity
Amnesty International's Demand Dignity and Eora College art exhibition opened at the Boomalli Aboriginal Arts Gallery on September 22 to a crowd of 50 people. The exhibition was based on Read More