Chiharu Shiota: State of Being Sue Saxon and Jane Becker: All that is solid melts into air

TarraWarra Museum of Art
25 February - 27 May 2012

Published June 2012

Indigenous Art Code: cracking the code

The Director of the Indigenous Art Code John Oster explains the Code, how it works, why it is needed and who isn't complying.

Published June 2012

Culture Warriors as cultural diplomacy

Senior lecturer at the College of Fine Arts (CoFA), University of New South Wales, Gail McDonald analyses the exhibition Culture Warriors, the first National Indigenous Art Triennial curated by Brenda L. Croft, that travelled to Washington in 2009. McDonald argues that, rather than diplomatic blandness, real political confrontation was present in the exhibition.

Published June 2012

How did Aborigines invent the idea of contemporary art?

Brenda L Croft, artist, curator and Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute for Experimental Arts, UNSW, reviews and finds gaps in the big pink book put together over many years by Ian McLean that collects iconic bits of writing about Aboriginal art and knits them together.

Published June 2012

I Forgive You: Bindi Cole's seventy times seven

Bruce McLean, Curator of Indigenous Art at the Queensland Art Gallery/ Gallery of Modern Art, writes about Bindi Cole's work and how it links personal and historical notions of forgiveness.

Published June 2012

Exhibitions to Watch

Published June 2012

Glen Skien: MYTHO-POETIC

The Webb Gallery
Queensland College of Art
Griffith University
19 – 28 April 2012

Published June 2012

The Ghost Net art project

Program Director for Ghost Nets Australia Sue Ryan describes how the Ghost Net Art Project began and what it is all about - people using eco-trash to share stories and express their creativity.

Published June 2012

The elephant in the room: public art in Brisbane

Artist-activist Fiona Foley recounts a recent incident of the commissioning of a public art work for Kurilpa (place of the kuril or native water rat). Kurilpa is the cultural precinct where GOMA is located. Foley imagines works by prominent Queensland Aboriginal artists dotted along that place.

Published June 2012

Reviewing Our Mob: A state-wide celebration of South Australian Indigenous art

Our Mob is a state-wide celebration of South Australian Indigenous art held annually at the Adelaide Festival Centre since 2006. Curator Susan Jenkins who worked on it for three years from 2009-2011 analyses what works about Our Mob and what the future might be.

Published June 2012

Parallel Collisions: 2012 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art

2 March to 29 April 2012
Art Gallery of South Australia
Curators: Natasha Bullock, Alexie Glass-Kantor

Published June 2012

Queerly speaking

The art practice of Troy-Anthony Baylis uses knitting, performance, collage and other 'crafts' to engages with queering as a strategy, to unsettle the ways that Aboriginality is constructed as pure and untainted by the complexity of sexuality, mixed ethnographies, mixed geographies and mixed appearances.

Published June 2012