A major survey of Gordon Bennett’s work showcases a dizzying blend of styles and themes.
Articles on Indigenous art
Displaying 61 - 80 of 136 articles
For the first time in its 99 year-history, the Archibald Prize has been won by an Indigenous painter. The Wynne and Sulman Prize winners also signal a time of change.
The Senate has just announced an inquiry into the use of the Aboriginal flag. Unlike other flags, it is still protected by copyright.
For non-Indigenous Australians, the last summer of bushfires seemed to mark the end times. Indigenous Australians have a long perspective on history, which offers hope.
Monuments are testaments to how a society wants to remember. Now is the time to ask which monuments can withstand introspection. Artists are opening those conversations – sometimes hilariously.
For too long, Cook was a promise recollected in pigment, bronze and stone. Contemporary First Nations artists are challenging this imagery.
Though galleries have since closed their doors, this reviewer got to see Mavis Ngallametta’s works in all their glory. Their birdseye view of Country provides a perspective we’re missing right now.
In some communities, art sales account for 15% of Indigenous income. They are vanishing with the coronavirus, making conditions worse.
In his autobiography, Tell Me Why, musician Archie Roach tells the stories of loss, pain and survival behind his songs.
Bringing together innovative and traditional works, the Linear exhibition gives us a new map for sharing land and knowledge.
As musuems are forced to face their colonial past, could a radically re-imagined museum become a place for genuine exchange, reconciliation and restitution?
Indigenous fashion design today is being shaped by First Nations people at every level.
Most Indigenous art works are produced in around 90 Indigenous art centres located in very remote regions. But there are staff and management issues, which can be solved by better VET programs.
As the flag’s copyright owner, Luritja artist Harold Thomas has the right to grant licences to whomever he pleases. Asking the government to buy back his copyright licence could be seen as an appropriation of Aboriginal property rights.
Art historians argue that the life of the artist should be viewed independently of their art but, for most Aboriginal artists, art is a cultural expression that encompasses their lives.
Romantic comedy meets road movie in Wayne Blair’s much anticipated new film.
It is plausible to suppose that human memories of long-extinct creatures today underpin many stories we have generally regarded as fiction.
Indigenous artists and arts centres from the Kimberley region were invited to help curate this new exhibition, presented as part of the Perth Festival 2019.
Petyarre, who won the Telstra prize for Indigenous art in 1996, has died in Alice Springs.
This Perth exhibition is a raucous, overwhelming, exciting and at times confusing immersion into ideas about national identity.
Top contributors
-
Joanna Mendelssohn is a Friend of The Conversation.Honorary Senior Fellow, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
-
Chair in Rock Art Research and Director of the Place, Evolution and Rock Art Heritage Unit (PERAHU), Griffith University
-
Professorial Research Fellow, Adelaide University
-
Honorary Professor, Edith Cowan University
-
Honorary Senior Lecturer, Australian National University
-
Professor, College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities, Adelaide University
-
Distinguished Professor of Design History, UTS, University of Technology Sydney
-
Chancellor’s Indigenous Research Fellow, Faculty of Design and Society, University of Technology Sydney
-
Adjunct professor, Adelaide University
-
Professor, Critical Indigenous Studies and Director of The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures, Macquarie University
-
Professor, Australian and Aboriginal History, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, Convenor: Indigenous Land & Justice Research Group, UNSW
-
Adjunct Professor of Art History, Australian National University
-
Professor, Director of Centre for Rock Art Research + Management, The University of Western Australia
-
Senior Curator of Australian and First Nations Art, National Gallery of Victoria, The University of Melbourne
-
Professor, The University of Melbourne