Students of Oceanic Art - future curators and academics - from the Ecole du Louvre in Paris banded together in 2019 and launched an association with a fantastic blog which is named CASOAR (cassowary … [Read More...]
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HERE : Kupe to Cook Exhibition
The National Maritime Museum in Sydney reopens partially and with social distancing. This exhibition featuring artworks by twenty leading Aotearoa New Zealand and Australian contemporary artists … [Read More...]
Latest OAS Journal now available.
See the latest issue of the OAS Journal - Volume 25 Issue 2 (Winter Edition) available now. Subscribers will be receiving a printed copy in the mail and access is also available online. View or … [Read More...]
A Sea Of Islands – Masterpieces from Oceania at Museum Volkenkunde in Leiden
This wonderful exhibition opened in February 2020 and had to close in March due to Covid. Instead of ending in August 2020, it is now reopened until April 2021. PAA-Europe is planning to hold the … [Read More...]
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OAS responds with flexibility during COVID-19
The worldwide virus lockdown has hit all aspects of art and culture particularly hard. Cultural spaces and gatherings are often run on a low budget and it is hard to see some of them recovering. As well, the Oceanic and Aboriginal communities that are the custodians of the art and culture that we revere are […]
Navigating for a Place in the Museum: Stories of Encounter and Engagement between the Old and the New from the Highlands of Papua New Guinea
A paper by Dr Michael Mel, Australian Museum. Reviewed by Bill Rathmell Dr Michael Mel. Image courtesy of the Australian Museum, Sydney. Michael Mel, the Manager of Pacific and International Collections at the Australian Museum in Sydney, is well known in Oceanic art circles. In an interview in the OAS Journal Vol 23 (2018, #2) […]
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Obituary – Barbara Perry
13 August 1938 – 10 November 2019. By Ron May Barbara Perry was a larger than life character, well known in Oceanic art circles in Sydney, and later in Brisbane. Barbara Perry (née Hockey) was born in Dubbo and grew up on her father’s sheep station, Courallie, before boarding at the Presbyterian Ladies College, Sydney. Following her […]
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War Art & Ritual: Shields from the Pacific
Edited by Bill Evans, Two Volumes, 518 pages, 140 Shields illustrated with additional images, eight essays and introduction. Published by William Nathaniel Evans, Woollahra, NSW, Australia, 2019. Reviewed by James Elmslie This lavish and beautifully produced book by Bill Evans is a rich resource for anyone with an interest in the shields of the Pacific […]
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