Planned super changes affecting Aboriginal art
Proposed changes to superannuation law are already severely affecting the Indigenous art market, an accountant says. The Cooper review into superannuation was handed down late last month. In it were Read More
Desert Art from Utopia
Opening, Wednesday, 28 July, 5:00pm DACOU (Dreaming Art Centre of Utopia) and Monash Southern Health have developed a fundraising initiative in bringing indigenous contemporary art from the Central Desert to Read More
New Works: Old Stories – Indigenous Art Exhibition and Auction
Curated by Beverley Bloxham The University's Centre for Australian Indigenous Knowledges, supported by the John Clancy Bequest presents abiannual exhibition and auction of works by Indigenous artists. The exhibition aims Read More
Save Boomalli art co-operative
Boomalli, one of Australia's longest running Aboriginal artists' co-operatives, is threatened with closure. Based in Sydney's inner-city suburb of Leichhardt, Boomalli was set up in 1987 by Aboriginal artists to Read More
Bindi Cole“™s SISTAGIRL Documentary Screening this Friday, Bunjilaka
Melbourne photographer, Bindi Cole's documentary entitled Sistagirl is screening this Friday, 30 July, 6:30-8:30pm at Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre, Melbourne Museum.
Bindi Cole: Artist Spotlight Interview with the 2009 Deadly Art Award winner
Bindi Cole is a Wathaurung woman and a budding photography, video and installation artist from Melbourne. In November 2009, she won the $25,000 Deadly Art Award for her evocative photograph Read More
Indigenous artworks auction likely to fetch $6m
WHEN the late Australian art dealer Gabrielle Pizzi was at school in the 1950s, students were taught that Aboriginal culture was of no interest. The young schoolgirl couldn't have paid Read More
Jumbana Group has become a leading indigenous design and strategy company
Now, 27 years into its corporate life, Sydney-based Jumbana Group is a leading indigenous design and strategy company. Established by the Moriartys, Jumbana comprises the contemporary design studio, Balarinji, and Read More
Torres Strait on show at World Expo
Managing the cultural program at the Australian pavilion for the Shanghai World Expo has been a major career highlight for local Torres Strait Islander Leilani Bin-Juda. With nearly 3.5 million Read More
Before time today: Reinventing Tradition in Aboriginal Art from Aurukun
Date: 11 September “ 28 November 2010 Time: 10:00 - 16:00 daily Venue: UQ Art Museum, Building No. 11, St Lucia Campus Reinventing Tradition in Aboriginal Art from Aurukun The Read More
Wilcannia Indigenous art proves popular
The artwork of a group of Indigenous artists from Wilcannia has proved popular, with most works selling in the first week of a Sydney exhibition. Executive officer of West Darling Read More
Public works
In August last year, however, a group of artists from the region caused a sensation when they showed new experimental work at the inaugural Cairns Indigenous Art Fair. It was Read More
Indigenous youth learn life and work skills through Beyond Billabong program
Thirteen indigenous teenagers from remote Queensland communities have come to the busy Gold Coast as part of Beyond Billabong, a program aimed at helping them make a better life for Read More
Art market – best of intentions, worst of realities
In July 2010 was announced that the Cooper Recommendations will be absorbed into Australia's new laws for Self Managed Super Funds. Clearly, art has been diagnosed in these quarters as Read More
Wilcannia pride
The gallery idea comes from 37 mainly Barkindji men and women who are transforming a dusty town park in Wilcannia in western New South Wales. It will become Reconciliation Park, Read More
Papunya and Balgo exhibitions at the National Art Museum of China – promotion of Australia“™s rich cultural heritage
Extraordinary collections of Indigenous art from Australia's remote deserts are now on display in Beijing. The highly regarded Papunya Painting: Out of the Australian Desert and BALGO: Contemporary Australian Art Read More
Wilcannia Indigenous art proves popular
The artwork of a group of Indigenous artists from Wilcannia has proved popular, with most works selling in the first week of a Sydney exhibition. Executive officer of West Darling Read More
Winning means freedom from day jobs
Ian Potter Museum of Art director Chris McAuliffe, one of the judges of the sport-themed $100,000 Basil Sellers Art Prize, being announced in early August, guesses that Australia has more Read More
Kirby joins fight to save indigenous art collection
The campaign to salvage The Keeping Place, one of the largest collections of indigenous art in Australia, has found a staunch ally in the former High Court judge Michael Kirby. Read More
Indigenous art code launched
Art galleries, dealers and auction houses have been urged to sign up to code of conduct aimed at ending dodgy sale practices within the multi-million dollar indigenous art sector. The Read More