From the ABC News Web Site:
A painting by a renowned Indigenous artist depicting what is known as the Mistake Creek Massacre has been displayed at the National Museum of Australia for the first time since it was purchased in 2005.
The artwork, by the late Queenie McKenzie, was bought by the museum in 2005, but due to disagreement and controversy about what actually took place almost a century earlier, it was never hung.
From the ABC News Web Site: More than 90 per cent of Australians support reconciliation but less than 30 per cent of non-Indigenous people know what they can do to improve reconciliation. Every two years, Reconciliation Australia releases a barometer which measures the progress of reconciliation between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and non-Indigenous… Continue Reading
From the ABC News Web Site: “Warning: this article contains the names of Aboriginal people who have died. Cecilia Alfonso and Gloria Morales come from dramatically different social, cultural and political backgrounds. In their home country of Chile they would likely have never met. They’re also not the most obvious candidates to negotiate the fraught… Continue Reading
From the ABC News web site: “The death of Mr Tjungurrayi, one of Australia’s most outstanding contemporary artists, in December has gone largely unnoticed outside the Aboriginal art community. It’s really sad when someone like Tjungurrayi passes, but it also should give us real pause to reflect on the extraordinary lives and the really giant… Continue Reading
From the QANTAS web site: “In celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Australia, we’re proud to launch the latest aircraft in our Flying Art Series, Qantas Dreamliner Emily Kame Kngwarreye…” Read more about this amazing story on the QANTAS web site. And you can view ART MOB’s selection of Emily Kame Kngwarreye’s works here. Continue Reading
Great to see Dennis Nona getting a mention in the Aboriginal Art Directory about his recent exhibition here at ART MOB. You can read the full story here… Continue Reading
From the ABC NEWS web site: “For thousands of years, the Wardaman people of northern Australia have had a name for the smallest of the five stars that make up the Southern Cross. They call it Ginan — a name that’s now been officially recognised by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). “It was very exciting to… Continue Reading
In this fascinating article (you can read the full article here) by Christine Judith Nicholls Senior Lecturer in Australian Studies, Flinders University we discover what sets this exhibition apart from so many others and why it is so important to the preservation of this Dreaming. “Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters is a peerless exhibition of Aboriginal art,… Continue Reading
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A painting by Aboriginal artist Peter Mungkuri has taken out the inaugural Hadley’s Art Prize, the world’s richest landscape art prize. Read the full story here! Continue Reading
FROM THE ABC NEWS web site: The art of remote Australia can often be seen in the background when corporate giants and political leaders appear on the evening news. Depictions of waterholes, dreaming tracks and ancestral spirits animate the walls of many boardrooms and government offices. But is there any meaningful connection between the corporate… Continue Reading
The theme for NAIDOC Week this year is Songlines: The Living Narrative Of Our Nation. Here five Tasmanian Aboriginal community members share a part of their narrative… Continue Reading
Commercial galleries are the most essential element in the entire enterprise that is the Australian Visual Arts, Here, artists first exhibit their works, and institutions, and collectors purchase them, thereby providing artists with the lion’s share of their income. Classic small businesses, they employ less than 10 people and turnover less than $3 million. According… Continue Reading
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