The Larrakia Legacy of Billiamook

Larrakia people bore the brunt of colonial expansion in the Northern Territory when Darwin was settled by beraguds (white people) in 1869. Gary Lee writes of Billiamook, one of the first Larrakia to interact with the settlers and the first Aboriginal artist to have his work exhibited and recognised as art.

Published June 2005

Metaphor and Climate

Ooms writes of her personal experiences as an Anglo artist living and working in a small, sticky town on the edge of everywhere. A tale of humidity, nature, art and weather. The coming together of Eurocentric imagination and the metaphysical qualities of the work of the Northern Territory; the communally held spiritual beliefs play out in Ooms ongoing dialogue between personal and communal space.

Published June 2005

Looking Forward Looking Back: in the East Kimberly

Marrying visual art, dance and inspirational rhetoric has been one of the hallmarks of the Jirrawun Artists Co-operation operating out of Kununarra. These traditional people have been at the forefront of contemporary political debates and Indigenous art practice. Cath Bowdler follows the story of Jirrawun Artists Co-operation from its inception in 1998 to the present day. A non-government funded body, Pro bono partnerships with the corporate and private sector.

Published June 2005

From Fregon to Srinigar and Back

Kaltjiti Arts is a community owned arts centre in Fregon. A cross-cultural project between two groups of community artists based in South Australia's remote and traditional Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands and in Srinigar, the turbulent capital of Kashmir is based on the combining of these two isolated and very different cultures via their arts and traditions.

Published June 2005

Giant Steps and Transcriptions

Experimental Art Foundation
25 February - 2 April 2005

Greenaway Art Gallery
22 February - 1 March 2005

Adelaide Film Festival

Published June 2005

Not Far From Here

Davenport Regional Gallery
28 January - 6 Marcg 2005

Bett Gallery, Hobart
9 March - 23 March 2005

Published June 2005

Kuninjku Modernism

Kuninjku Modernism pays respect to the wellspring of the Indigenous art movement and the many artists of Western Arnhem Land, furthermore exploring the several countries or nations of this large civic nation.

Published June 2005

Remote

Published June 2005

Making the Gospel Their Own

Eastern Arrernte Catholics at Ltentye Apurte, the former Santa Teresa Catholic mission east of Alice Springs, are making the local church and liturgy a ground for telling their recent history and reflecting their ancient yet evolving traditions. A mural project was initiated by a local non-aboriginal woman Cait Wait in 2002 with the help of eight neophyte artists.

Published June 2005

Proof: The Act Of Seeing With One's Own Eyes

Curator: Mike Stubbs
Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne
9 December 2004 - 13 February 2005

Published June 2005

The Art of Fiona Hall

Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
19 March - 5 June 2005

Julie Ewington, Fiona Hall, Piper Press, 2005, RRP $88.

Published June 2005

Crash Sites

The rapprochement between Aboriginal and white Australian people and the bridging of cultural division, explored through the work and lives of Rod Moss and Therese Ritchie. Both artists have immersed themselves in the day-to-day lives of their aboriginal friends, involved in relationships of reciprocity as part of an extended network of kin. In an effort to cross the cultural divide of difference created by colonisation, they negotiate a situated form of cultural practice.

Published June 2005