Archie Moore: drilling deep

Freelance curator and writer Tim Morrell studies the art practice of Brisbane-based Archie Moore which is emphatically free from any signature style and is concerned with sharing his experience as an Indigenous Australian in order to put viewers 'in his shoes'.

Published June 2012

Lateral Violence is an Indigenous arts thing

Sam Cook is an artist, educator and currently the Director of The Dreaming: Australia's International Indigenous Festival. She writes incisively about the deep layers of 'lateral violence' in the Indigenous arts sector.

Published June 2012

Postcards from China

Multi-disciplinary artists Jason Wing, who has both Aboriginal and Chinese forebears, undertook a residency in Xucun, a remote village in China, where Chinese artists Qu Yuan and Shen Shaomin have established the Xucun Art Commune in order to protect the village's beauty and heritage.

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

Artefacts of authenticity

Artist and lecturer Garry Jones is undertaking a Phd at the Australian National University School of Art in Canberra. In this article he reveals some of his investigations of Aboriginal artefacts in museum collections and questions notions of authenticity, reclamation and reinvigoration of the past in contemporary Aboriginal art.

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

Big wave: Desert Country

Legendary curator John Kean looks at three recent large exhibitions of Aboriginal art - Tjukurrtjanu: Origins of Western Desert Art, Desert Country and Living Water, and questions whether the same spirit sings in all of them.

Published June 2012

You'll always be my #1: Sarah Jones

Inflight Artist Run Initiative
Hobart
4 – 25 February 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

The performative print: Alick Tipoti's Girelal

Published 01 June 2012

PROMISE PROGRAM !Metro Arts, Brisbane

21 March – 14 April 2012

Published June 2012

On the ground with Our Mob in 2011

Terry Cleary was the Statewide Indigenous Community Artists Development (SICAD) Program Manger with Ananguku Arts and Culture from 2009-2011. He reflects on the potential power of Our Mob when it works.

Published June 2012