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Streets of Papunya
Having thoroughly enjoyed Vivien Johnson’s previous book, Once Upon a Time in Papunya, her attempt to chronicle the rise of Papunya Tula Artists, I didn’t really think twice when Rosina Di Marzo of New South Books reached out to ask … Continue reading
Local Color Purple
Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone? I had feared that Joni Mitchell’s rhetorical question would be dead on once again when I heard that Campbell Newman was slashing the arts … Continue reading
Inventing the Contemporary
2013 was a year of many and varied accomplishments for me. Not the least of these was reading Ian McLean’s anthology How Aborigines Invented the Idea of Contemporary Art: writings on Aboriginal contemporary art (Power Publications, 2011) from cover to cover. … Continue reading
Vivid Histories, Living Memories
The latest in a stunning series of international exhibitions of Indigenous Australia art opened on Octover 16, 2013 at the Musée d’Acquitaine in the French city of Bordeaux. It is called Mémoires Vives: une histoire de l’art aborigène. In the … Continue reading
There’s an App for That
I bought my iPad about two and a half years ago, not long before my last trip to Australia. It was the perfect solution to hauling half a dozen cheap paperbacks across the globe and discarding them in a series … Continue reading
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Aboriginal Academy
I’m beginning to wonder if naming something “Australia” is a bad idea. I’m not quibbling about the continent and country. But there was that Baz Luhrmann film that attracted a lot of flack. And now there’s this show over in … Continue reading
A Bloke’s Own Story
Until recently, I knew of Bruce Pascoe chiefly as one of the commentators who added notes of scholarship to Rachel Perkins’ SBS series First Australians and as the author of The Little Red Yellow Black Book guide to Indigenous culture. In … Continue reading
In Poetry, History
Few recent books of poetry by an Indigenous author have made such headlines as Ali Cobby Eckermann’s Ruby Moonlight (Magabala Books, 2012). In truth, I can’t think of another. Eckermann was awarded a black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowship by the State Library … Continue reading
Aboriginal Art & Culture: an American eye 