IDAIA post on this exhibition here
Here is a quote of Henry Skerritt:
“these works have to be stunningly beautiful because of what
they’re trying to do … to enact all of the power of the landscape, and
it’s a power that they see in the shifting of the light, in the
blossoming of the desert blooms, in the movement of the sand dunes; all
of these things are enactments of this spiritual power of the landscape.
It has to be beautiful because what it’s trying to do is occupy you….
These are not sentinels standing guard to protect their culture against
the onslaught of colonialism. These are not defensive paintings, these
are actually occupying forces and the point of them is to travel out
into the world … to impress upon you with this purely affective visual
power, to realize how powerful this landscape is.”[v]
http://www.idaia.com.au/en/article-make-it-new-make-it-now-just-what-is-it-that-makes-australian-aboriginal-art-so-appealing-so-contemporary/
Thursday, 6 February 2014
Saturday, 4 January 2014
Critics
On the iconophilia website, full text of Ian McLean's paper : Anxious identities: reinventing Australia in a changing world presented at the symposium at the Royal Academy 1 November 2013
Ron Radford (Director of the National Gallery of Australia and a co-curator of the exhibition)
The British have not been as exposed to contemporary Aboriginal art compared with, say, the French, Germans, Canadians or Americans. Indigenous painting was too baffling for some of the older British critics.
Ron Radford (Director of the National Gallery of Australia and a co-curator of the exhibition)
The British have not been as exposed to contemporary Aboriginal art compared with, say, the French, Germans, Canadians or Americans. Indigenous painting was too baffling for some of the older British critics.
Royal visit, Rothwell commentary and menu
Australian Channel 9 News reports on Prince Charles' visit to Australia at the Royal Academy
link
And reported in Royal Central here
Nicolas Rothwell 'Hanging in a post-colonial disconnect ' in The Australian 6 December 2013
'The indigenous way of seeing the country is being woven more and more into the nation's understanding of its landscape - but that art's resonance is Australian, not global.
...
On its own, bereft of background, seen by eyes without sympathy, it remains hieratic, jumbled; it is patterns, emblems, decoration, nothing more. For us, it may reveal a degree of meaning; for outsiders, it is the exotic, resistant unknown. This is the divide Australia at the Royal Academy has brought out. And if indigenous art makes its strongest appeal only to those implicated in its stories, if it remains mute without interpretation, is it somehow diminished? Are we?'
Royal Academy restaurant review of Australian themed menu
link
And reported in Royal Central here
Nicolas Rothwell 'Hanging in a post-colonial disconnect ' in The Australian 6 December 2013
'The indigenous way of seeing the country is being woven more and more into the nation's understanding of its landscape - but that art's resonance is Australian, not global.
...
On its own, bereft of background, seen by eyes without sympathy, it remains hieratic, jumbled; it is patterns, emblems, decoration, nothing more. For us, it may reveal a degree of meaning; for outsiders, it is the exotic, resistant unknown. This is the divide Australia at the Royal Academy has brought out. And if indigenous art makes its strongest appeal only to those implicated in its stories, if it remains mute without interpretation, is it somehow diminished? Are we?'
Royal Academy restaurant review of Australian themed menu
Tuesday, 26 November 2013
Last gasp for Australia at the RA
Final notes from google alert for Royal Academy & Australia show History Extra BBC History note of dates for exhibition
And google alert search also sent me this one:
mention of Ihtsahymn by Ihtiram, a son of Royal Academy, best known in Western Australia as the sire of Miss Andretti - horse racing and breeding
Interview with Christian Thompson included in this video about the RA show
And google alert search also sent me this one:
mention of Ihtsahymn by Ihtiram, a son of Royal Academy, best known in Western Australia as the sire of Miss Andretti - horse racing and breeding
Interview with Christian Thompson included in this video about the RA show
Kimberley still at risk to Govt plans for industrialising area
Link to video interviews with Phil Roe and Terry Hunter, plus footage of the Lurujarri Heritage trail Goolarabooloo on The Age website here.
Sunday, 17 November 2013
Tolokonnikova & Žižek
Link to letters between Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (Pussy Riot) and
Slavoj Žižek (Cultural theorist & philosopher)
A Pussy Riot protest in Red Square in Moscow in January 2012. Photograph: Denis Sinyakov/Reuters
Slavoj Žižek (Cultural theorist & philosopher)
A Pussy Riot protest in Red Square in Moscow in January 2012. Photograph: Denis Sinyakov/Reuters
Saturday, 16 November 2013
Bedford on a plane
News of the launch of Qantas plane
Qantas and Boeing have unveiled the most complex paint job ever undertaken on a plane to celebrate one of Australia's most famous indigenous artists. It took 10 days and - for the first time - Boeing used paintbrushes to recreate the textures of the late WA artist Paddy Bedford. Done in partnership with Australian designers Balarinji.
Qantas and Boeing have unveiled the most complex paint job ever undertaken on a plane to celebrate one of Australia's most famous indigenous artists. It took 10 days and - for the first time - Boeing used paintbrushes to recreate the textures of the late WA artist Paddy Bedford. Done in partnership with Australian designers Balarinji.
Friday, 8 November 2013
More 40th anniversaries of note
Johanna Mendelson on 40th anniversaries additional to that of the Sydney Opera House of note in Australia for The Conversation
Establishment of Aboriginal Arts Board
The first Sydney Biennale
Establishment of Aboriginal Arts Board
The members of the first board included Dick Roughsey (chairman), Raphael Apuatimi, Albert Barunga, Harold Blair, Ken Colbung, Kitty Dick, Charles (Chicka) Dixon, Ruby Hammond, Eric Koo'oila, Albert Lennon, Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri, Wandjuk Marika, Mick Miller, Violet (Vi) Stanton and Terry Widders. Dick Roughsey OBE (about 1920–85) is recognised as an important Lardil artist and storyteller. The board's second chairman, Wandjuk Marika OBE (1927–87), is recognised as an important Rirratjingu artist and was a respected leader of Yirrkala
The first Sydney Biennale
2013 Victoria Indigenous Art Awards: Deadly Award winner Ray Thomas
Ray Thomas has won the overall Deadly Award in the Victoria Indigenous Art Awards 2013 for a portrait of his
94-year-old mother, a Gunnai elder.
Radio National interview here
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| Ray Thomas' portrait of his mother, Gunnai Elder - Mum Alice. |
Radio National interview here
Catholic Herald review
Jill, Duchess of Hamilton reviews the Australia exhibition for the Catholic Herald
Art review: Australia, Royal Academy
Despite some evocative landscapes, the latest RA blockbuster struggles to squeeze two centuries of art from an entire continent into an exhibition of 200 works
Art review: Australia, Royal Academy
Despite some evocative landscapes, the latest RA blockbuster struggles to squeeze two centuries of art from an entire continent into an exhibition of 200 works
Tuesday, 5 November 2013
Yirrkala Drawings, 1947, in Sydney
In 1947, senior ceremonial leaders at Yirrkala in north-east Arnhem Land
produced hundreds of vibrant crayon drawings on paper for the
anthropologists Ronald and Catherine Berndt, which are now held at the
Berndt Museum of Anthropology at the University of Western Australia.
On display in Sydney at AGNSW from 12 Dec to 23 Feb 2014
On display in Sydney at AGNSW from 12 Dec to 23 Feb 2014
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Left to right: Mowarra Ganambarr Dätiwuy Thunderman and shark site at Arnhem Bay 1947, lumber crayon and chalk on butchers paper; Nänyin’ Maymuru Djarrakpi 1947, lumber crayon on butchers paper; Mundukul Marawili Fish trap at Baraltja 1947, lumber crayon on butchers paper. Ronald M Berndt Collection, Berndt Museum of Anthropology, University of WA, Perth
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