Modern encounters with the past
Living in Sydney we are in a year of magnificent Oceanic art exhibitions. It is a great time to be developing a greater understanding and hence appreciation of Oceanic art …
Living in Sydney we are in a year of magnificent Oceanic art exhibitions. It is a great time to be developing a greater understanding and hence appreciation of Oceanic art …
by Crispin Howarth Image Caption: Shane James uses the pūkaea (horn) to signal our arrival and that we can approach the wharenui. Image courtesy Mark Tantrum. The National Gallery of Australia is now into …
by Lesley Wengembo Presented at the Sydney Oceanic Art Fair at the National Art School in 2021, updated in 2023 My life as an artist, the challenges I experienced in …
by Krisztina Turza The Ainu (meaning ‘human’ in their native language) are Japan’s oldest indigenous people, and they have survived and maintained their culture from the Late Palaeolithic period through …
25 & 26 February at the One + 2 Artist Studio Balmain, Mansfield Street, Rozelle, NSW. Review by Rita Uechtritz & Margaret Cassidy In many ways the work of two …
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 31 March – 9 July 2023 Image caption: Ivi, Kato Kakala (detail), 2022–23. Installation view, The National 4: Australian Art Now, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2023. ngatu (barkcloth); single-channel …
Developing a greater understanding and hence appreciation of Oceanic art is surely the aspiration of all readers of this Journal. The place from which each reader and viewer commences this voyage …
by Lisa Hilli In late 2020, I was invited to be part of a curatorial advisory at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Led by former curator of Modern Art, Beatrice von Bormann, …
by Adrian Newstead Have you ever wondered how it is that Aboriginal art became an international phenomenon with pieces selling for thousands, even hundreds of thousands of dollars, while indigenous …
This speech was presented by Steven Gagau at the opening of Ömie barkcloth: Pathways of nioge Exhibition, Thursday 9 February at the Chau Chak Wing Museum Steven Gagau speaking at the launch …
2022, 215 pages, Leah Lui-Chivizhe, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Publishing Review by Stan Florek I opened this book with great anticipation. My interest in Torres Strait Islander culture and …
2023, 352 pages, Elise Patole-Edoumba & Helene Guiot, La Geste www.gesteditions.com Review by Pierre Laffont Thanks to an alert on the Oceanic Art Society’s Facebook page, I participated in the …
Hurstville Museum and Gallery – 29 October 2022 to 29 January 2023 Review by Margaret Cassidy At the OAS Adelaide Forum in November 2022 keynote speaker Djon Mundine (Bandjalung) presented …
Oceanic art and objects have travelled the world from the “Blue Continent”. Along the way they have been traded and stories about them have embellished their reputations and attracted new …
Page five of the News (Adelaide, SA) on Saturday 3rd March 1934 featured the headline 'Stolen God in Museum' and this account of how and when the carved figure arrived at the South Australian Museum.
Founding Newsletter editor for the Oceanic Art Society, David Said was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1945, the start of a long and interesting life enriched by his love of tribal people, their cultures and their artworks
By Krisztina Turza. Gender was central to this conference commencing with Yuki Kihara’s 'Paradise Camp', New Zealand’s offering at the 59th Venice Biennale. This focuses on Fa’afafine (Sāmoa’s third gender) utopia – …
George Nuku’s presentation at the Pacific Arts Association 2022 Conference Review by Pierre Laffont George Nuku has become one of the best-known Māori artists due to his creation of a …
Leif Birger Holmstedt, Torso Publishing, 2021, 158 pages. Review by Jim Elmslie The strength of this book is in its excellent images, many previously unpublished. The images are mostly of …
By Pierre Laffont & Bill Rathmell. It is easy to fall for the peaceful charm of Rochefort and La Rochelle, two ports on the Atlantic Coast of France only a …
Cairns Art Gallery, 8 October-11 December 2022. Review by Margaret Cassidy This comprehensive retrospective of Torres Strait Islander artist Segar Passi was an unexpected discovery on a recent visit to the …
Creators, curators, collectors, students, visitors, audiences all have encounters with cultural objects both old and new. The new can be a celebration of the old or it can be a …
Grace Vele, a/Chief Curator Anthropology, PNG National Museum and Art Gallery The Papua New Guinea (PNG) National Museum and Art Gallery [NMAG] is a world of its own with multiple …
Interviewed by Bill Rathmell in Brussels, May 2022 BR: In 2003 you were interviewed by Tribalmania in Santa Fe (https://www.tribalmania.com/interviewconru.html) where you described your early career playing professionally in symphony orchestras …