Tag: Aboriginal art
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Wayne Eager – interview: ‘In Central Australia, I was mesmerised by the bright light and colour in the wide, open landscape’
A three-month stay in Central Australia with his partner, the artist Marina Strocchi, turned into a 30-year sojourn. Eager talks about working with Indigenous people to further their art and witnessing a transformation in the art market’s view of Aboriginal…
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Marina Strocchi – interview: ‘I quit regular employed work to focus on my own, although I still did workshops in the bush’
An internationally recognised artist in her own right, Strocchi has also spent many years in Central Australia mentoring Indigenous artists. She talks of how she was first moved by Aboriginal art and how she fought to carve out time for…
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Philip Hughes – interview: ‘Drawing captures the memory of a place like a diary’
Philip Hughes talks about his practice and what informed his new book, Painting the Ancient Land of Australia, which includes work he has created over the past 50 years
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Ann Thomson – interview: ‘Art is a means of renewing culture’
Now in her late-80s, the Australian artist discusses how her love of Aboriginal art was sparked as a child, being influenced by the Scottish-born artist Ian Fairweather along with American, French and Chinese art, and being compared to Cy Twombly
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Ken Done – interview: ‘We white blokes could learn from collaboration in Aboriginal art’
Now 80, Done says you should be fearless as you age and take more risks. Here he talks about why a good work is like a long-term relationship, collaborating on art with his grandchildren – and swimming with sharks
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Damien Coulthard: Songlines XXX, Adnyamathanha Yarta – ‘It’s exciting when you feel a connection with ancestral lands’
To mark its 30th anniversary, Rebecca Hossack Gallery is showing the Australian artist Damien Coulthard. Here, he talks about painting the creation stories of his people, the Adnyamathanha
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Henry Skerritt and Margo Smith talk about the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection
With more than 1,900 works, the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection at the University of Virginia is the largest collection of Indigenous art in the US. Here, Margo Smith, the director, and Henry Skerritt, the curator, talk about the museum and…
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When silence falls
This is a group exhibition of work by contemporary artists exploring humanitarian crimes. It presents us with alternative perspectives on history, including those of minority groups or people with little power, and the exhibition is an example of how the…
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Artists in the Bush: Land Issues in the Art of GW Bot, Wendy Stavrianos and Helen Geier
Many artists live in rural parts for the ‘silence and contemplation’ that the country affords. But with this year’s appalling bushfires in Victoria, which killed over 200 people, the bush is no longer safe. The work of these women artists…
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Mediators and Messengers: Contemporary Art in the Landscape
The entire agenda for painting about landscape has shifted in the 21st century. Concepts and readings of the land have a weighty and protracted precedence but in the 1970s, far-reaching revisions were explored by artists. These have generated a powerful…
