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
Lecture offers insight into native art
WSU's Museum of Art showed Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art: From the Collection of Margaret Levi and Robert Kaplan, Thursday. The new, free exhibit is open to the public from Oct. Read More
Colours of our Country returns to Perth
Accomplished and emerging artists, traditional stories and stunning Pilbara imagery was once again on show at this year's ˜Colours of our Country' Aboriginal art exhibition in Perth on the 22nd Read More
Half Light Retrospective
The exhibition of Art + Soul, Hetti Perkins' dramatic new survey of Indigenous art and artists opened this weekend at the Art Gallery of New South Wales; the tripartite ABC Read More
Joining the dots
Hetti Perkins helps viewers understand the complexity and diversity of Aboriginal art 'I THINK I initially imagined the series being able to satisfy my simple curiosity about what the dots Read More
Aboriginal dance tells Tracy story
Painted Aboriginal dancers decorated with leaves and earth colours move rhythmically to the beat of sticks and the song of elders. Although the cadences feel ancient, the Gurrir Gurrir ceremony Read More
Gallery offers an indigenous opening
ABORIGINAL art takes centre stage at the revamped NGA in Canberra. THE entrance to the National Gallery of Australia, in Canberra, used to be hidden mysteriously in a side street, Read More
Indigenous art
KERRY O'BRIEN, PRESENTER: From the inner city to the remotest part of the nation, Australia's contemporary Aboriginal art movement is on the move. A new exhibition in Sydney is showcasing Read More
NEW PARADIGM IN CANBERRA
Prototype, precedent, templet, archetype, scantling, paradigm...so reads my Roget's Thesaurus “ which I think gives you the drift of my thinking regarding the importance of recent events in Canberra. No Read More