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
First art prize
Ceduna artist Beaver Lennon has won his first major art prize - at just 22 years of age. Beaver has been awarded the Adelaide Festival Centre's South Australian Indigenous Acquisitive Read More
Leichardt Mayor joins Sunnyfield at Aboriginal Community Arts Program
Leichardt's Mayor, Jamie Parker will show his support for NSW disability service provider Sunnyfield at an event celebrating the diversity of culture, and commitment from Leichardt Council. The Sunnyfield Day Read More
The Art Awards 2010
Will Owen's take on the Telstras. And finally, the mainstay of the General Painting category. The winner, Jimmy Donegan's Papa Tjukurpa, Pukara strikes me as a breakthrough for the artist, Read More
History, bold designs of Annan Fabrics on exhibition
Annan Fabrics were part of an emergence in the 1940s and 1950s of a distinctive Australian design style inspired by Australian flora and fauna, and Aboriginal art and culture. Customers Read More
Telstra Art Award Category Winners
Arts and Museums Minister Gerry McCarthy today congratulated Nawurapu Wunungmurra for becoming the inaugural winner of this year's Telstra New Media Award. Mr McCarthy said the Telstra New Media Award Read More
Darwin Festival diary ““ day minus one
From Bob Gosford's, The Northern Myth.... Its only day one of a long week ahead and I'll be up early for a media call for the annual Telstra Aboriginal Art Read More