Mouths and Meaning Bronwyn Platten, Sarah Coggrave and others

Australian Experimental Art Foundation Adelaide
1 February – 2 March 2013

Published June 2013

Ghostnets go global, and local

Ghost nets are fishing nets that have been abandoned at sea, lost accidentally, or deliberately discarded. The GhostNet Project, which began on islands and in communities around the top of Australia, uses the nets to make artworks, to raise awareness of marine pollution, to be creative. Awareness of Ghostnets is on the rise both nationally and internationally.

Published June 2013

Ken Thaiday Senior, Darnley Man

Exhibitions Manager at Cairns Regional Gallery Justin Bishop tells the rich story of how Ken Thaiday Sr. came to be a major Torres Strait Islander artist. In August 2013, Cairns Regional Gallery, in partnership with Cairns Indigenous Art Fair (CIAF), will be presenting a survey exhibition of Ken Thaiday Sr.’s work.

Published June 2013

Tracking Bluey Roberts

Published 01 June 2013

The (white) elephant in the room: Criticising Aboriginal art

Does Aboriginal art exist in a critical vacuum? 

Published June 2013

Toward Indigenous Criticism: The Ah Kee paradox

Métis artist, curator and academic David Garneau explores the current situation of indigenous art through increasing global links and connections. 

Published June 2013

The limits of criticism

Anthropologist John Carty casts his eyes over the last ten years of writing on Desert art, mostly in newspapers, and finds many cliches and inconsistencies. He asks: "Where are the fine-grained localised art histories, the rich biographies of our most interesting and important individual artists? Where are their voices?" And replies: "They are still waiting in the Desert."

Published June 2013

New currency: Ryan Presley

Ryan Presley's 2011 series 'Blood Money' is remarkable. These commemorative banknotes substitute the heroes of the white Australian monoculture (Banjo Patterson, Dame Mary Gilmore, Dame Nellie Melba and Sir Henry Parkes) with Aboriginal heroes, resistance fighters such as Pemulwuy, his son Tjedaberiyn (also known as Tedbury), Dundalli and Jandamarra and others such as the Gurindji stockman Vincent Lingiari who led the Wave Hill walk-off, and the late Wik elder Gladys Tybingoompa.

Published June 2013

Savanhdary Vongpoothorn: The Beautiful as Force

Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney
7–31 March 2013

Published June 2013

Thancoupie/Thanakupi (1937-2011)

Thancoupie (aka Dr Thancoupie Gloria Fletcher James AO) was a trailblazer in Aboriginal art, studying, showing and making work in ceramics for many years. Her work was shown nationally and internationally. After many years she returned home to Weipa, and while still making and exhibiting, focused much of her attention on her family, community, land rights and the next generations.

Published June 2013

Carving into Country: The work of Badger Bates

Published June 2013

Sculpture@Bathers

Curators: Tony Jones, Joanna Robertson
Kidogo Arthouse and Bathers Beach Arts Precinct, Fremantle
16 March – 1 April 2013

Published June 2013