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

Artrave

Published June 2011

Aboriginal art at the Vatican

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

Action at Canopy Artspace in Cairns

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.

Published June 2011

Trevor Nickolls: Other side Art

This is the first time that noted historian and writer on Aboriginal art Ian McLean has written a substantial interpretive artcile on the work of Trevor Nickolls. Nickolls began working in the 70s and is still painting his own particular brand of cross-cultural art.

Published June 2011

Where the Dust Settles

Published June 2011

FELTspace Gold

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

Published June 2011

New Exhibitions Projects Initiatives

Published June 2011

Ken and Julia Yonetani / Janet Tavener

Still Life: The Food Bowl: Ken and Julia Yonetani
Artereal Gallery, Sydney, June 2011
Mildura Palimpsest #8, 9-11 Sept 2011
GV Art, London, October 2011

Melting moments: Janet Tavener
Incinerator Art Space, Willoughby
2 -27 March 2011

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

An encounter with the National Galleries

Lecturer in the Australian Indigenous Studies program at the University of Melbourne, Odette Kelada describes her visit to the National Gallery of Australia's new Indigenous galleries and the National Portrait Gallery that is just next door and views them as sites of contemporary Frontier warfare.

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