Working in Indigenous Art Centres

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Meet Lisa Walker in her workshop: VR in the museum
Feature
Justine Olsen and Prue Donald

Published 01 December 2018
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Eugenie Lee's Seeing is Believing: VR in pain management
Feature
Dylan DeLosAngeles

Published 01 December 2018
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Artificial imagination: Deepfakes from latent space
Feature
Sean Dockray

Published 01 December 2018
ACMI
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Brenda Laurel's Placeholder: In dreams everybody flies their own way
Feature
Claire L. Evans

Published 01 December 2018
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The distributed virtual: Jill Scott's Eskin4 and other electronic environments
Feature
Rob La Frenais

Published 01 December 2018
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Against realism: The badly rendered potential of VR
Feature
Ian Haig

Published 01 December 2018
Hazelhurst
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The virtuous politics of Alejandro Iñárritu's Carne y Arena
Feature
Vince Dziekan

Published 01 December 2018
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Metascape, memory and spacetime: The museum in VR
Feature
Andrew Yip

Published 01 December 2018

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.

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Action at Canopy Artspace in Cairns
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Paloma Ramos

Canopy Artspace first opened for the 2009 Cairns Art Fair. It houses the Australian Art Print Network, New Flames Foundation and Editions Tremblay NFP (no Fixed Press). Paloma Ramos who works at Editions Tremblay vividly decribes the intense and fertile work in printmaking and sculpture that happens at Canopy.

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Aboriginal art at the Vatican
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Margo Neale

The National Museum of Australia's Margo Neale writes in depth about the curation of a 100 year old collection of Aboriginal art at the Vatican in Rome. She asks: "How do Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, previously captive to the anthropological gaze and to unequal power relations, not only interrogate the histories that defined them as ‘other’ and ‘lesser’, but also regain their voice and agency over historic cultural objects that reside in collections around the world?"

Published June 2011
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Dialogues with Landscape
Review
Paul Uhlmann

Exhibition Co-ordinator: Katie Lenanton
University of Western Australia Cultural Precinct
15 February – 6 March 2011

Published June 2011
New displays at Pitt Rivers Museum
Feature
Susan Lowish

In 2009 eight new case displays were added to the legendary 1884 Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. Indigenous art scholar and lecturer Susan Lowish examines how Aboriginal art fared in this rejig of history.

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Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route
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Sarah Scott

Sarah Scott reviews and questions Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route exhibition at the National Musuem of Australa. She asks: "Why don’t the NMA’s collections of Indigenous material culture feature more strongly in their exhibition program? Why are both the NMA and the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) collecting the highly sought after and expensive works produced by major Papunya artists? If the commissioning of art and associated documentary material is a priority for the NMA what other Indigenous material culture may they be neglecting?"

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Torres Strait Islander watercolours
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Tom Mosby

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.

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Fiona Foley: Public and Political
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Louise Martin-Chew

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
Rising Queensland Indigenous artists
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QIAMEA

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
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TextaNudes: Arlene Textaqueen
Review
Naomi Gall

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

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Ulli Beier
Obituary
Thorolf Lipp

Ulli Beier (1922-2011)
I remember a Yoruba saying that Ulli often quoted: “If an old man dies, you shall not weep but congratulate his family for that his life has come full circle.”

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Jo Rootsey: Painting Country
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Dina Ibrahim

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.

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Branded: The Indigenous Aesthetic
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Glenn Iseger-Pilkington

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
 
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