FAIRA: Cultural Heritage Initiatives in Queensland

The Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action is an independent Aboriginal community based and controlled organisation located in Brisbane Queensland.

Published June 1990

Bluey Roberts: Interview

Published 01 March 1990

Aboriginal Community College - Port Adelaide

The broad aims of the Aboriginal Community College in Port Adelaide, South Australia, are to provide time, space, and resources to Aboriginal people that will allow them to make discoveries about themselves, their heritage and their environment, and to move in directions that they establish as relevant to themselves and/or their community.

Published June 1990

Wanjidari

Looks at the art practice of Wanjidari.

Published June 1990

Aboriginal Rock Festival

It's now early September 1989 and Aboriginal Rock Bands from the Northern Territory and interstate are travelling by any means possible to Darwin for the Sing Loud Play Strong 2nd Festival of Aboriginal Rock Music.

Published June 1990

Designer Aboriginals

Looks at her art practice and design issues, copyright and textiles.

Published June 1990

Keringke Arts

Looks at the Santa Teresa Community 80 kilometres south of Alice Spring and home of the Arrernte people where the Keringke Arts Centre was established in 1987.

Published June 1990

Poetry in Review

Aboriginal poet Ken Canning ( Burraga Gutya) looks at the nature of poetry. 3 poems of Burraga Gutya included in the issue.

Published June 1990

Paddy Fordham Wainburranga

Paddy inherited his unique style of painting form his father and father before him. It is the old 'style'.

Published June 1990

Superstar or Generic

Should art centres cater more for the few 'Top Quality' artists that each has or should they support and encourage artistic activities by all who are interested?

Published June 1990

Isolation: Jimmy Pike and Patricia Lowe in the Great Sandy Desert

There can be few artists who live and work in such isolation as does Jimmy Pike. His isolation is not merely geographical, though our camp on the edge of the Great Sandy Desert is two and a half hours' drive in dry weather from Fitzroy Crossing and inaccessible in dry weather, but also social and artistic.

Published June 1990

Australia to the World

In the choice of Rover Thomas and Trevor Nickolls to echibit in the Australian Pavilion at the 1990 Venice Biennale, Australia will present a combination that challenges many conventional attitudes to Aboriginal art. Simultaneously the exhibition offers an appropriate platform to two important if highly idiosyncratic contemporary painters.

Published June 1990