Australia to the World

In the choice of Rover Thomas and Trevor Nickolls to echibit in the Australian Pavilion at the 1990 Venice Biennale, Australia will present a combination that challenges many conventional attitudes to Aboriginal art. Simultaneously the exhibition offers an appropriate platform to two important if highly idiosyncratic contemporary painters.

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This is the text of the Copyright session given at the National Aboriginal Artists Forum Art Gallery of Western Australia February 1989.

Lin Onus

Yolngu Women Artists

If the 70s is remembered as a period of nurture for Aboriginal art, the 1980s will certainly be remembered as the decade of its dramatic development...there has been an eflorescence of community based enterprises in the remote areas of Australia.

Margie West

Ellen Jose

The artist writes about her art practice.

Ellen Jose

Isolation: Jimmy Pike and Patricia Lowe in the Great Sandy Desert

There can be few artists who live and work in such isolation as does Jimmy Pike. His isolation is not merely geographical, though our camp on the edge of the Great Sandy Desert is two and a half hours' drive in dry weather from Fitzroy Crossing and inaccessible in dry weather, but also social and artistic.

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Doris Gingingara

Article about the artist and her works from Western Australia.

David Wroth

Warlukurlangu Artists

Emerging from the heart of central Australia is the most exciting and dynamic development in modern Australian art. The materials are modern -acrylic on canvas. But the content is traditional - mythical and ritual.

Christine Lennard

Aboriginal Theatre in Tasmania

"From the time that whites arrived in Tasmania and up until 1983 Aboriginal performing arts especially theatre arts, had become almost as extinct as whites would have people believe Tasmanian Aborigines were. Not so!"

Jim Everett

The Bicentenary and Beyond: Recent Developments in Aboriginal Printmaking

The period of 1986 - 1989 has been epoch making for Aboriginal printmaking, not necessarily because of an improvement in the quality of the prints produced during that time but because Aboriginal prints in forums broadly motivated by the centenary has allowed them to receive the recognition they deserve.

Christine Watson

Aboriginal Music; Broome Style: Towards Bran Nue Dae

Broome, sleepy, dusty, sub-tropical country town on the north west of Western Australia, with a population of only 7,000 has at least 5 working bands including the well known bands Kuckles and Scrap Metal - a myriad of solo performers as well as traditional Aboriginal musicians.

Marion Granich

Aboriginal Arts in Australia 1990

Original dreaming. Aboriginal people believe that the spirit ancestors watch over us today to ensure the laws are kept and that punishment is inflicted if broken. Photograph of Yuendume women dancing.

Marlene Stewart

Review of the Review

In 1989, Jon Altman, Chris McGuigan and Peter Yu were asked by the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs to look into the viability of the Aboriginal Arts and Crafts industry, to point to ways to improve its efficiency and effectiveness and to advise which government programs could give cost effective support to the industry and to recommend managing and marketing strategies.

Tim Rowse

Bluey Roberts: Interview

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