Reading Room“™s Inaugural Fellowship Prize for Indigenous Art
Reading Room is proud to announce the launch of the Reading Room Fellowship Prize for Indigenous Art in Australia. The Inaugural Fellowship Prize will be announced at this year's Cairns Read More
Premier and Arts Minister Anna Bligh tonight opened the second Cairns Indigenous Art Fair
Premier and Arts Minister Anna Bligh tonight opened the second Cairns Indigenous Art Fair. Ms Bligh welcomed more than 250 artists and performers, art dealers, collectors and Indigenous art centres Read More
Aboriginal Artists Contemporary Card Project
This collection is supported by Catherine Manuell Design as part of our Women's Aboriginal Artists Project. In buying this card you are directly supporting the artists and their community in Read More
KIRBY IN INDIGENOUS ART ROLE
Former High Court justice Michael Kirby has announced he will become a patron of the Keeping Place Indigenous art collection. The collection, consisting of more than 1000 works by indigenous Read More
Aboriginal art industry struggling
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Broadcast: 19/08/2010 Reporter: Peter McCutcheon Many artists, wholesalers and retailers within the aboriginal arts industry say they are struggling. Blaming in part the recent decline in international Read More
New Indigenous art exhibitions increase indigenous tourism potential in TNQ
Minister for Tourism and Fair Trading The Honourable Peter Lawlor Friday, August 20, 2010 New Indigenous art exhibitions increase indigenous tourism potential in TNQ Tropical North Queensland will increase its Read More
Labor’s efforts a hard act to follow
UNDER Labor the arts has moved centre stage. And that is where it deserves to stay. After all, our artists provide great nourishment for the community, are key to our Read More
CIAF kicks off
The second annual Cairns Indigenous Art Fair begins tonight, promising to build on the spectacular success of the inaugural event in 2009. Simon Crerar catches up with artistic director Michael Read More
SA Artist Mr Donegan Wins 2010 Telstra Art Award
A striking painting depicting ancestral stories by SA artist Mr Donegan has been awarded Australia's most prestigious Indigenous art prize at the 27th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Read More
27th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA)
Check out this absolutely beautiful photograph (link below to the post) of Mr. Donegan addressing the audience. I was in Darwin recently, en route to Balgo for another five months Read More
Revelatory show of strength in tradition
The great achievement of this year's 27th annual Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award exhibition lies in its quality of overview: it is a portrait of the Read More
Colourful Djon has an eye for art
Aboriginal art curator Djon Mundine hasn't had a haircut in 25 years, and his character is as colourful as his eye for art. The dreadlocked Mr Mundine said he wants Read More
Heart Foundation“™s East Coast Aboriginal Art Exhibition
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships Minister Desley Boyle today announced the Heart Foundation's East Coast Aboriginal Art Exhibition would be expanded to Townsville and Mount Isa with the help Read More
Mr Donegan Wins $40,000 Telstra Art Award
Arts and Museums Minister Gerry McCarthy today congratulated Mr Donegan for winning this year's $40,000 Telstra Award. Mr McCarthy said Mr Donegan was judged to have produced the best work Read More
Mr Jimmy Donegan wins the 2010 Telstra Art Award
As I noted here yesterday, you would have had to kill me if I'd released the name of the winner of the $40,000 Telstra Art Award, the big bucks prize Read More
First Australians have had to fight for any advance
From The Age: John Howard always bemoaned the "black armband" view of history, the one historian Geoffrey Blainey said was the pendulum swinging too far in the Aboriginal direction. Howard Read More
Fears raised for island’s Indigenous art future
A Queensland art coordinator has raised fears the future of Indigenous art on Queensland's Mornington Island is under threat as not enough young people are learning traditional painting. Brett Evans Read More
Desert man wins indigenous art award
Seventy-year-old Jimmy Donegan had never seen the ocean before travelling to Darwin to accept Australia's most prestigious indigenous art prize. For a man who has enjoyed painting almost every day Read More
Hetti Perkins opens 2010 Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair
The annual Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair provides a unique opportunity for art buyers within the industry and the members of the public to purchase Aboriginal art directly from the Indigenous Read More
Indigenous art show at South Bank / Tayenebe: Tasmanian Aboriginal Women“™s Fibre Work
A new exhibition showcasing the unique connections that Tasmanian Aboriginal people have with the land and sea opens on August 21 at Queensland Museum South Bank. Tayenebe: Tasmanian Aboriginal Women's Read More