Daniel Browning

Contributors

Daniel Browning

Daniel Browning is a journalist and radio broadcaster from the Bundjalung nation of northern New South Wales and south-eastern Queensland. Trained as an artist in Queensland, he presents and produces Awaye!, the weekly Indigenous art and culture program and one of the flagship programs of the ABC's Radio National, the celebrated ideas and current affairs channel of the national broadcaster. Daniel is guest editor of this issue.

Articles

Nothing if not uncritical: Revisiting re-visions and Indigenous art criticism INDIGENOUS_Visualising Sovereignty

Perceiving the distant Indigenous Global

Yhonnie Scarce: A lens and a mirror Indigenous: Blackground

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.

Indigenous: Re-visions

My Country, I Still Call Australia Home: Interview with Bruce McLean

On curating My Country, I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art from Black Australia, opening at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane on 1 June 2013.

Indigenous: Re-visions

Let's be polite

Editor Daniel Browning interviews artist Vernon Ah Kee who discusses the lack of criticism of Aboriginal art and the abundance of 'mass production' Aboriginal art emanating from remote communities seen by some as 'real Aboriginal art' but in the eyes of Ah Kee simply and uncritically playing into false romantic notions of the lives of Aboriginal people.

Indigenous: Re-visions

The dearth of criticism

Some artists are often heard to complain about the lack of honest criticism of Aboriginal art. But in such a limited sphere, criticising an Aboriginal artist in formal or aesthetic terms, or at a deeper level, is a bit like shooting fish in a barrel. Too often, critics play the man and not the ball. Can we handle the truth?

Indigenous: Re-visions

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”.

Indigenous: Indignation

Editorial: ®ECLAIMED closing the gap of radical apathy

Daniel Browning takes a long hard look at the gap of apathy in Australia.

Indigenous: Indignation

Ben McKeown: Sunshine and Lollipops Indigenous: Beauty & Terror

Alive and Kicking

This issue is subtitled ‘beauty and terror’; let me explain.

Indigenous: Beauty & Terror

Gary Lee: the outsider

Photographer Gary Lee makes work saturated with beauty and homoeroticism. His photographs of Aboriginal men are celebratory, bold and uncompromising.

Blak on Blak

Not black enough, the politics of skin

Bundjalung man, journalist and radio broadcaster Daniel Browning, guest editor of this issue of Artlink, writes about the current state of racism and Aboriginality in Australia.

Blak on Blak

Editorial Blak on Blak