Artrave

Published June 2011

TextaNudes: Arlene Textaqueen

Sullivan and Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
3 - 27 March 2011

Published June 2011

Networks (cells & silos)

Monash University Museum of Art
1 February – 16 April 2011
Curator: Geraldine Barlow

Published June 2011

Space Antics: Sue Henderson, David Marsden, Penny Mason

Burnie Regional Art Gallery
19 March - 8 May 2011

Published June 2011

To hold and protect: Mulka at Yirrkala

The Mulka Project is a Yolngu archive and production centre incorporating a theatre, media lab, project office, audio video library and museum. “As the Mulka Project is growing up we need to be clear that it is just a resource and the law and culture is coming from the land where people are staying, even where there is no one staying, its patterns, the designs and culture, are coming from the country.” states Djambawa Marawili.

Published June 2011

FELTspace Gold

FELTspace, 12 Compton St, Adelaide
9 March – 3 April 2011

Published June 2011

Conjure: Zoe Porter

Level Gallery, Brisbane
12 March – 1 April 2011

Published June 2011

Jo Rootsey: Painting Country

Dina Ibrahim looks at the Joe Rootsey Retrospective curated by Bruce McLean at the Queensland Art Gallery in 2010 to find an artist who in his short life achieved compelling evocations of his relationship to country.

Published June 2011

Donning Oxford

Christian Thompson who is one of the two inaugural Charlie Perkins Scholars at Oxford University writes about this experience and how it makes him think of his upbringing and the responsibility it entails. "...it is our arrival at Oxford that reminds me of how much work we still have ahead of us as young Aboriginal people and future leaders of our communities. This is something you feel as an inherent responsibility when you meet people daily from all around the world, whose communities are facing similar hardships and the symptoms of the ravages of colonisation; time is of the essence."

Published June 2011

Darren Siwes: dialogue with Rembrandt

Dutch art historian Marianne Riphagen, whose PhD looked at contemporary Indigenous photo-media artists, draws togther the dark and light in the artwork of Rembrandt and South Australia-based Darren Siwes to question the Dutch Golden Age.

Published June 2011

Working in Indigenous Art Centres

Felicity Wright speaks from long experience, as a worker and as a reviewer of art centres on Aboriginal lands. Her thoughtful article teases out many do's and don'ts in this highly contested field.

Published June 2011

Dis-covery

Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart
25 March - 1 May 2011
Curator: Colin Langridge

Published June 2011