Published December 2014
Mazie Turner 1954–2014
Published 01 September 2014
Gordon Bennett 1955–2014
Published September 2014
Howard Taylor 1918 – 2001 WA
Published September 2001
Published 01 September 2013
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
Assistant Curator of Indigenous Heritage Collections at the Macleay Museum Matt Poll writes a thoughtful, engaging and detailed account of the life and art of Harry Wedge, known as 'Big H' in his home community in Cowra. Poll says:" Harry’s artistic career remained an enigma to those closest to him throughout his life. His work is an exemplary case of an Australian outsider art – though not in the conventional definition."
John Neylon is an Adelaide-based art writer and curator.
Cockatoo Island, Museum of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Carriageworks, Artspace
Published June 2014
Meriam/Barkindji/Malyangapa woman and emerging curator Tahjee Moar writes about working with Tess Allas on the Woollarawarre Bennelong of the Wangal exhibition held at the Sydney Opera House in 2013 which increased her awareness of the inextricable interweaving of the personal, cultural and political in culture.
Professor Andrea Witcomb of Deakin University walks through the new First Peoples exhibition in Bunjilaka Gallery at Museum Victoria in Melbourne and finds its mixture of politic and poetics shows that the Musuem is a place of advocacy as well as exposition.
Western Australia based artist and art writer Dr Vanessa Russ finds the role of memory in art and in history to be paramount in the String Theory exhibition curated by Glenn Barkley and first held at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, then PICA in Perth and MAGNT in Darwin.
Jonathan Jones on the revival of traditional activities and practices in communities
In April 2014 artist and writer Stephanie Radok attended the symposium Museums, Collecting and Agency, the third event in a large ARC grant project called Museum, Field, Metropolis, Colony: Practices of Social Governance.
Art historian and manager at Ikuntji Arts Chrischona Schimdt writes about the photography of Christine Multa whose photograph My Grandmother went hunting won the inaugural Desart Artworker Photography Prize in 2013.
Warnandi woman Clotilde Bullen describes the diverse work of Torres- Strait Islander artist Brian Robinson, a Cairns-based artist inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's versatility and erudite embrace of logic as well as fantasy.
Fontanelle Gallery, Adelaide
Curator and historian Wally Caruana ranges across many examples of Indigenous Australian art to show how the contemporary and the traditional are woven together to embody the empowered agency of the artists and their culture.
Published 01 June 2014
Gallery Central, Perth
