The tension between sacred mysteries that must be shielded from outsiders and those that can be revealed animates an ...

The work tells the story of the events leading up to Maḏayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala ... according to art historian and co-curator Henry Skerritt.

The Yolngu Bark Petitions were immediately recognised by many as emblems of the unshakeable confidence of Indigenous ...

Marcia Langton and Judith Ryan are truth tellers. Their book 65,000 years: A Short History of Australian Art, should be in ...

D'Lan Contemporary has an exciting solo show of Paddy Beford at Frieze Masters and an ambitious line-up for the year ahead.

Amid growing recognition of Indigenous art in the contemporary art ... Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala,” an exhibition highlighting the rich history of ...

Concluding its nationwide tour at the Asia Society, Maḏayin gathers intricate eucalyptus bark works by artists from the Indigenous community of Yirrkala.

Mr Ellwood said Aboriginal ... bark paintings and nine sculptural poles. “Everything in the show is a total masterpiece,” Mr Russell-Cook said. The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous ...

Three works by the important Aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira (1902-1959) have just sold for a total of £61,000 in Toovey’s ...

Award-winning artists including Richard Bell, Maree Clarke and Emily Kam Kngwarray will lead the largest-ever exhibition of ...

By around the 2000s, Dr Kean estimates almost all Aboriginal people across Australia would have seen the success of desert art, with many taking it up themselves. "The men's painting shed at ...

SYDNEY, Sept 27 (Reuters) - An Australian court on Friday lifted a ban on a women's only art exhibit at a gallery ... including what looked like paintings by Pablo Picasso, to a women's toilet.