Tag Archives: Alice Springs

Papunya Tula, Alice Springs

Posted on February 3, 2013 by

The catalog for Unique Perspectives: Papunya Tula Artists and the Alice Springs Community (Araluen Arts Centre; Papunya Tula Artists, 2012) is deceptively slim in size, a mere 96 pages that is, however, packed with vivid color and equally vivid memories. … Continue reading →

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Eleanor Hogan’s “Alice Springs”

Posted on January 13, 2013 by

In 2010 Newsouth Books began publishing its City Series of monographs about major Australian cities.  Apart from Perth and Darwin, the capital cities have been covered to date.  Each volume combines personal memoir with a bit of history, anecdote and … Continue reading →

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There Is No Town Like Alice

Posted on August 15, 2011 by

Let’s backtrack a week or so to Alice Springs, although the memories seem tame now by comparison to the rush of Darwin’s events.  We arrived on the midday flight from Sydney, which gave us just enough time to drop our bags … Continue reading →

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Good Light in Alice

Posted on August 22, 2010 by

We seem to be in a season of memoirs.  Some might say it is a season in hell, but all of these memoirs, despite the sorrows they chronicle, offer hope.  Whether it is Howard Goldenberg’s Raft (Hybrid Publishers, 2009) with its … Continue reading →

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Art Market Intrigue: a novel

Posted on August 7, 2010 by

Well, if the vagaries of the art market and last week’s post haven’t sated your appetite for the intrigues of buying, selling, trading–and stealing–then you might want to check out the new novel by Martin Roth, Hot Rock Dreaming (Ark … Continue reading →

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Alice Forever Changes

Posted on August 1, 2008 by

They say that if you see the Todd River flow three times you’ll never leave Alice Springs again.I’ve seen water in the Todd twice, and I haven’t given up hoping. I first arrived in Alice Springs nearly twenty years ago … Continue reading →

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Santayana’s Curse

Posted on August 12, 2007 by

After seeing the Colliding Worlds exhibition at the Australian Museum earlier this year I’ve been doing some occasional reading on early contact in the Western Desert. I recently picked up Robert Tonkinson’s Aboriginal Victors of the Desert Crusade (Cummings Publishing, 1974), which recounts observations … Continue reading →

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Notes on the Senate Inquiry: Alice Springs

Posted on March 25, 2007 by

The fourth day of testimony before the Senate Inquiry into Australia’s Indigenous Arts and Crafts Industry took place in Alice Springs on February 21, 2007 in Alice Springs. If one thinks of the emergence of Aboriginal painting into the fine arts market … Continue reading →

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October Books: Aboriginal Biography

Posted on November 18, 2006 by

I’ve been traveling so much in the last month that I feel like I’m way behind in my writing…and to an extent in reading too. But in early in October I was inspired by Nicolas Rothwell’s review in The Australian of Liam Campbell’s new … Continue reading →

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The News (Direct) from Alice Springs

Posted on March 14, 2006 by

The March 9 issue of the Alice Springs News has a couple of reports on the migration of artists into Alice Springs. The first gives both Paul Sweeney of Papunya Tula and Chris Simon of Yanda the opportunity to comment on what’s going down. … Continue reading →

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