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Ngurrara: The Great Sandy Desert Canvas

Posted by Aboriginal Art Directory | 17.06.08

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Developed by the South Australian Museum, Ngurrara: The Great Sandy Desert Canvas exhibition has been touring Australia recently celebrating one of the largest and most spectacular Aboriginal Western Desert paintings: the great Ngurrara Canvas. Painted by senior traditional owners of... » Read More

 

They Are Meditating: Bark Paintings from the Museum of Contemporary Art's Arnott's Collection

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Larissa Behrendt reviews the first expanded showing of over 200 bark paintings at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. "If these paintings are sacred, how can they be done for Balanda (Europeans) to buy? The Balanda can buy the... » Read More

 

Investing in Aboriginal Art

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The booming Australian Indigenous art market has ridden the wave of economy prosperity since the early 1990’s when the first Aboriginal artworks broke through the $10,000 ceiling. 2007 saw the first million-dollar-plus sales at auction, with Lawson~Menzies achieving a record... » Read More

 

What's the proper way to buy Aboriginal art?

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Jeremy Eccles examines the changing face of Aboriginal art. There was a time when it seemed easy to answer the frequently asked question: What's the proper way to buy Aboriginal art? I simply said go to a city gallery that's... » Read More

 

Emily Kame Kngwarreye in Osaka

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From the very first time he laid eyes on the work of Emily Kame Kngwarreye (c.1910-96), in the 1998 retrospective at the Queensland Art Gallery, Akira Tatehata knew that it was something special. At that time, Tatehata was a curator... » Read More

 

Aboriginal Art goes Overseas: 3 Contintents, 3 Exhibitions

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By Jeremy Eccles The intercontinental trio are the first big commercial showing of Aboriginal Art on barks in London, courtesy of Josh Lilley Fine Art September-October 2007; the imminent opening of Utopia - The Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye in... » Read More

 

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