Aboriginal Arts Unit Australia Council

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Wardlipari Homeriver: Vulnerable observations
Feature
Uncle Lewis Yarluburka O’Brien and Ali Gumillya Baker

Published 01 March 2019
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Local colour: Dyeing and women's wealth
Feature
Julie Ewington

Published 01 March 2019
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Hi-vis commodities: A body corporate's toxic economy
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Tessa Laird with Debris Facility

Published 01 March 2019
Crown Resorts
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Revisiting colour problems: Emily Vanderpoel, Hilma af Klint, Becca Albee, Clare Milledge
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Amelia Wallin

Published 01 March 2019
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Queer uses of colour: A tinted hermeneutics
Feature
Abbra Kotlarczyk

Published 01 March 2019
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Meet Lisa Walker in her workshop: VR in the museum
Feature
Justine Olsen and Prue Donald

Published 01 December 2018
NAVA
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Eugenie Lee's Seeing is Believing: VR in pain management
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Dylan DeLosAngeles

Published 01 December 2018
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Artificial imagination: Deepfakes from latent space
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Sean Dockray

Published 01 December 2018

The Aboriginal Arts Board was dis-established in June 1989...the Australia Council established the Aboriginal Arts Committee to replace the Board.

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Tiwi Designs
Feature
Kathy Barnes

Bathurst and Melville Islands lie of the north coast of Australia about 100 kms from Darwin. They are the home to the Tiwi. As a result of the isolation of Tiwi people their culture has developed independently from others on the mainland. This is reflected in their art which is very bold.

Published June 1990
Mecca for Printmakers
Feature
Theo Tremblay

Looks at the Canberra School of Art Print Workshop has played a key role in encouraging Aboriginal artist to make prints.

Published June 1990
Country in Mind
Feature
Jenny Green

In the 1940s the name Albert Namatjira became a household word and the skill of this Arrernte artist brought the vivid colours and beauty of the central Australian landscape into the galleries and living rooms of Australia. He and other painters who lived around Hermannsburg mission and in Alice Springs came to be known as the Arrernte watercolour school.

Published June 1990
Wanjidari
Artist Profile
Libby Morgan

Looks at the art practice of Wanjidari.

Published June 1990
Pitchat and Beyond
Feature
Neil Turner

Until recently, Pitjantjatjara communities had very limited acces to or influence from mainstream media, communications, technology and information systems. English is still a foreign language to most of the population and functional levels of literacy are very low.

Published June 1990
Murris' Coming Out Show
Feature
Marshall Bell

Hello. My name is Marshall Bell. I live at Inala in Queensland. My father was from the famous Jiman Tribe of Hornet Hill massacre mob. My mother was from the Kamilaroi nation Gunedah/Kooma clans. I was born at the now defunct Charleville Aboriginal reserve in the desert of south west Queensland. Having been living off my art for the last 5 years in a suppressive Queensland environment, I think I know what it is like to be living in isolation.

Published June 1990
Milton Budge
Artist Profile
Leone Stanford

Looks at the art practice of Milton Budge.

Published June 1990
Milpatjunanyi: Recent Pitjantjatjara Women's Painting
Feature
John Kean

The Pitjantjatjara share a common heritage with Anangu (Aboriginal people) throughout the vast Western desert. They use the same rich vocabulary of visual symbols that has now become well known through the work of the Papunya Tula artists.

Published June 1990
Kinship and the Dreaming
Feature
Neva Grzybowicz

Looks at a family history project beginning with the Koonibba Mission in South Australia.

Published June 1990
Lin Onus - Cultural Mechanic
Artist Profile
Michael Eather

Contemplating the work of Lin Onus the artist, the arts administrator and the panel beating mechanic.

Published June 1990
Yolngu Women Artists
Feature
Margie West

If the 70s is remembered as a period of nurture for Aboriginal art, the 1980s will certainly be remembered as the decade of its dramatic development...there has been an eflorescence of community based enterprises in the remote areas of Australia.

Published June 1990
Donna Leslie
Artist Profile
Natalie Greenwood

Looks at the art practice of Donna Leslie.

Published June 1990
 
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