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

A place of our own

This conversation between curator Hetti Perkins and co-editor Daniel Browning looks at Perkins call for a National Institution, or Centre, of Indigenous Art, which might become, as she puts it, “a living space that breathes culture”.

Published June 2012

Long Way Home: A celebration of 21 years of Yunggorendi First Nations Centre

Yunggorendi First Nations Centre for Higher Education and Research at Flinders University, celebrated 21 years of operation in 2011 with an exhibition of work selected by staff and students from the collection of Flinders University Art Museum. Artist Ali Gumillya Baker critically reviews selected works in the exhibition and the issues they raise.

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

No Place without Other Places: Spinifex Arts Project at fifteen years

University of Western Australia lecturer Darren Jorgensen examine the Spinifex Arts Project from its inception with reference to a new exhibition happening August-October 2012 at John Curtin Gallery and asks the big question: "What would it mean if Aboriginal artists were not tied to language groups, communities, art centres and regional styles?"

Published June 2012

FotoFreo 2012: The City of Fremantle Festival of Photography

Perth, Western Australia
17 March – 15 April 2012

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

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

PROMISE PROGRAM !Metro Arts, Brisbane

21 March – 14 April 2012

Published June 2012

Exhibitions to Watch

Published June 2012

Trepang: Crossing cultures, creating connections

The exhibition 'Trepang: China & the story of Macassan-Aboriginal trade' opened in the Capital Museum, Beijing on 1 April 2011 and at the Melbourne Museum on 23 July 2011.
Melbourne-based academics Susan Lowish and Alison Inglis describe the exhibition's genesis and some of the issues that it raises in terms of cultures, history and collaboration.

Published June 2012

Andrew McQualter: A partial index

Daine Singer, Melbourne
27 January - 3 March 2012

Published June 2012