Rising Queensland Indigenous artists

As leaders of unique working partnerships between the Indigenous art industry and the Queensland Government, pioneers like Judy Watson, Dennis Nona, Vernon Ah Kee, Richard Bell and Sally Gabori have established strong international reputations.

Published June 2011

John Barbour

John Barbour (1954-2011), a complex, intelligent and much loved South Australian artist and academic, was in the prime of his life and at the height of his career when he died on Sunday 17 April 2011.

Published June 2011

Paperartzi '11

Perth International Art Festival
Albany, WA
5 - 20 March 2011

Published June 2011

Torres Strait Islander watercolours

The Queensland State Library Executive Manager of Indigenous research and projects Tom Mosby writes about the Margaret Lawrie Works on Paper Collection and the role of art in the lives of Torres Strait Islanders. Between July and October 2011, the watercolours in the Margaret Lawrie Works on Paper Collection will, for the first time, be exhibited together as part of 'Strait Home' at the State Library of Queensland.

Published June 2011

A Third Path: the Musée des Confluences

French curator Arnaud Morvan, who recently completed his Phd at the University of Melbourne on the art of the East Kimberley, writes about the new approach to showing and consulting about Indigenous art taken by the still-under construction Musée des Confluences (due to open in 2014) in Lyon.
"It represents a first step towards an abolition of the segregation endured by non-Western art in Europe and an attempt to rise above the antiquated opposition between art and ethnography."

Published June 2011

Tracey Moffatt / Stop(the)Gap /
tall man

Tracey Moffatt: Narratives
Curators: Stephen Zagala, Maria Zagala
Art Gallery of South Australia
26 February - 20 March 2011

Stop (the) Gap: International Indigenous art in motion
Curator: Brenda Croft
Samstag Museum of Art
24 February - 21 April 2011

Vernon Ah Kee: tall man
Australian Experimental Art Foundation
23 February - 26 March 2011

Published June 2011

FELTspace Gold

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

Published June 2011

TextaNudes: Arlene Textaqueen

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

Published June 2011

Branded: The Indigenous Aesthetic

I hate the word brand. People have forgotten the importance of sub-culture. We are a community and an intervention.

Ben Watt, Founder, Buzzin’Fly Records

Published June 2011

Euraba Paper Company, Boggabilla

Associate Lecturer at the College of Fine Art in Sydney Tess Allas writes about when she was NSW Regional Indigenous Cultural Officer and first met the women of Boggabilla who formed the Euraba Paper Company which won the Parliament of NSW Aboriginal Art Prize in 2010.

Published June 2011

Fiona Foley: Public and Political

Fiona Foley's recent public work has gone from strength to strength most recently at Mackay where her six large new works form a trail commemorating the Pacific and black history of the region.

Published June 2011

Artrave

Published June 2011