Panorama: are we there yet?

Daniel Boyd, Nadine Christensen, Sarah Goffman, Fiona Lowry, Bennett Miller, Arlo Mountford, Joan Ross, Caroline Rothwell, Bernie Slater, Jemima Wyman

Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, NSW
27 January 2011 – 13 March 2012

Published June 2012

The performative print: Alick Tipoti's Girelal

Torres Strait Islander artist Alick Tipoti has developed a rigorous and passionate art practice to ensure the maintenance and survival of his cultural traditions. Printmaker Jan Hogan explores the making and the experience of Tipoti's 8 metre long linocut Girelal hung in the 18th Biennale of Sydney 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

Spaced: Art out of place

Artistic Director: Marco Marcon
Fremantle Arts Centre
4 February - 11 March 2012

Published June 2012

Presences in the land: Nici Cumpston

Adelaide-based artist and curator Nici Cumpston's work is examined by Newcastle-based artist and curator Una Rey. Cumpston's work studies her family and ancestral history as well as being inextricably concerned with environmental issues.

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

Exhibitions to Watch

Published June 2012

Science Fictions: Tricky Walsh

Bett Gallery, Hobart
9 – 31 March 2012

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

®ECLAIMED Closing the gap of radical apathy

Daniel Browning takes a long hard look at the gap of apathy in Australia.

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

Sitting & connecting: Goulburn Art Class 2-0-1-1

Goulburn Class 2-0-1-1 was an exhibition curated by Djon Mundine at the Goulburn Regional Art Gallery of work made by prisoners at the local Correction Centre in response to ten one day workshops in the prison by seven Aboriginal artists whose work was also in the show. Writer and editor Maurice O'Riordan reviews the exhibition and more importantly the processes it involved.

Published June 2012