Australian Indigenous art
Australian indigenous art
Australian art events join forces to form first-ever national ‘grand tour’
The multi-city occasion will offer unprecedented access to and insight on the country’s art scene
Despite the no vote, Australia reinforces First Nations voices
While a referendum to recognise Indigenous people failed, the country’s cultural institutions are striving to reflect their lives
Vast ‘fish fence’ takes centre stage at Melbourne’s NGV Triennial
A team of Aboriginal women artists, working in Australia's far north, spent two years weaving the 100m-long work from local plant material
Which heritage sites have been damaged or destroyed in Gaza?
Plus, the life and work of the pioneering Indigenous Australian artist Emily Kam Kngwarray, and a revealing manuscript by Paul Gauguin
Superstar of Australian art Emily Kam Kngwarray to get Tate Modern show in 2025
The Indigenous painter, whose survey opens at the National Gallery of Australia this week, only started her artistic career in her mid-70s
New show at London's No.9 Cork Street opens doors to Australian art’s diversity
Australia’s new cultural initiative launches its international arm at Frieze London with a group show co-curated by the Indigenous artist Tony Albert
Ahead of major Indigenous rights vote in Australia, Desert Mob Aboriginal art fair welcomes collectors to the Outback
The event, one of the most remote art festivals in the world, features more than 280 artists
Manchester Museum returns 174 items to Indigenous Australians in major restitution move
Objects handed over as part of the extensive repatriation project include shell dolls, bark baskets and spear throwers
National Gallery of Australia investigates whether Indigenous artists had ‘creative control’ over works in new exhibition
An independent review will assess allegations that white studio staff painted on canvases attributed to leading Aboriginal artists
Artificial intelligence is helping researchers identify and analyse some of the world’s oldest art
New applications for artificial intelligence can help researchers identify millennia-old rock art more easily
‘Enema of the state’: Aboriginal artist Richard Bell on his protest pieces heading to Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall
Works going on show include a ticker tape calculating what the British government owes Indigenous Australians for use of their country during colonisation
For a renowned Aboriginal artist, a posthumous star turn in Paris at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, who died in 2015 and whose work has been embroiled in the scandal surrounding the dealer who “discovered” it, has her first major museum show outside Australia
Aboriginal art to take centre stage at $225m expansion of Sydney's Art Gallery of New South Wales
The Sydney Modern Project—due to open in December—is the Australian city’s largest cultural development since the creation of its opera house
Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art highlights ‘marginalised artists on the precipice of being the next establishment’
Exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia opening today aims to provoke discussions around Aboriginal heritage
After years of wrangling, Australia commits $228m to build a landmark centre for Indigenous culture
Ngurra precinct in Canberra will provide a home for returned ancestral remains in the heart of the capital
The Winnipeg Art Gallery’s Qaumajuq centre opens inaugural Indigenous triennial exhibition
The show features works by artists from Canada, New Zealand and Australia and considers themes and politics around water
After social media backlash, Dark Mofo art festival in Tasmania launches fund for Aboriginal artists
The festival drew criticism last month for an art project that would crowd-source blood from Indigenous and Aboriginal people
The destruction of Australia’s ancient Aboriginal heritage
Plus, art under threat in Putin's Russia and George Shaw on Thomas Jones. Produced in association with Christie's
Emily Kame Kngwarreye show in New York highlights spike in interest for Australian indigenous art
The exhibition brings together museum-quality pieces, most consigned by US collectors
Ethnographica or art?
Some European and American museums have bought work by Aboriginal artists but there is no broad base of collectors outside Australia for such paintings and no consensus that this work qualifies as “art”