aboriginal art
Today, April 29, marks the launch of a unique project that will see a giant work of art by Australian Aboriginal artist Lena Nyadbi installed on the roof of the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris. To be revealed on June 6, the 700 square-metre installation will be...
Selling the art collection of former tax lawyer Ross Clarke and his wife Rona Clarke in Brisbane was always going to be a gamble for Melbourne-based Mossgreen Auctions. Although the couple are based in Queensland and are well known in their home state,...
Big hART, Australia’s leading arts and social change company, has launched an iPad/iPhone app that allows users to paint watercolours on their phone in the style of contemporary Aboriginal watercolour artists such as Albert Namatjira, Elton Wirri, Kevin...
Tiwi artist Timothy Cook has won the $40,000 29th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award with a very traditional, natural pigment painting titled Kulama depicting the designs applied to the bodies of men during the coming of age...
On show at the National Gallery of Australia until the 22nd of July, unDisclosed: the 2nd National Indigenous Art Triennial is an invite-only exhibition featuring the work of 20 Aboriginal artists from regional, remote and urban communities across Australia...
A developing international interest in tribal artefacts has sparked a global hunt for rare Australian Aboriginal objects in auctions all over the world. Rare and early shields, spears and boomerangs have proven particularly popular with collectors and...
The confronting work of Melbourne based artist Cameron Hayes has sparked outrage in an Aboriginal community after being shown to residents of the community whom Hayes used as inspiration for his work.As a result of the backlash, Hayes, a white non-Aboriginal...
Adelaide based auction house Theodore Bruce Auctions took another step into the big league last week when their 12th June Australian Aboriginal and Oceanic Art sale produced results that rival those of the bigger Australian auction houses.Carefully curated by...
Mossgreen Auctions achieved an extraordinary 100% clearance rate and a sale total of $787,485.60 against an estimate of $330,900.00 for their auction of the Indigenous art collection of John W. Kluge.The amazing result featured a number of works which soared...
Sotheby’s Australia produced a solid result with their June 5 Important Aboriginal Art sale held in Melbourne. A clearance rate of 59% and a sale total of $1,167,450 (hammer price) was good news even though the sale total was below expectations."These...
