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Curiosity about the Pacific

OAS Journal | Volume 27 Issue 4

From the Editor

The latest OAS Journal stories.

The latest stories, reviews and more from the Oceanic Art Society Journal – published quarterly.

Stolen God in Museum

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.

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David Said (1945 – 2022)

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

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Pacific Arts Association 2022 Conference ‘Gendered objects in Oceania’ – Paris, France

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 – …

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Oceans, Reflections, Collections

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 …

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Magic Masks and Figures from Oceania

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 Review by Jim Elmslie The strength of this book is in its excellent images, many previously unpublished.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 …

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OAS Tour 8 – 9 September 2022 – The museums in Rochefort and La Rochelle

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 …

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Segar Passi, meriba ged a gur (our land and sea)

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 …

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Oceanic Art Society is at Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney.
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Persistent patterns: a workshop on Pacific barkcloth
📍 Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney
📆 18th February 2023 from 1:30 to 3:30 PM
💰 $150.00 (including afternoon tea)
Book early, places are strictly limited

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Salatasi waist cloth in Wallis and Futuna style. Transferred from Anthropology Department, University of Sydney 1965-1979 (Macleay Collections, ET87.6.5).
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Timeline photos🌟 2023 PROGRAM HIGHLIGHT
Is it possible for a painting to BE Country?

This is the question that Ngura Pulka – Epic Country asks. The Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Art Centre Collective’s latest and most ambitious initiative is coming to the National Gallery.

Ngura Pulka – Epic Country
1 Jun – 8 Oct 2023
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Sylvia Ken, Pitjantjatjara people, Seven Sisters (detail), 2022, image courtesy and © Sylvia Ken and Tjala Arts
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Oceanic Art Society is at Galerie Meyer – Oceanic Art.
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Exhibition: Mana – in the Art work, the Power
📍 Galerie Meyer – Oceanic & Arctic Art, Paris
📆 From the 2nd of February to the 25th of March 2023

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Oceanic Art Society is at Mainvilliers.
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Conference: Renc’Art “Gauguin et l’art océanien”
📍 Micro-folie, Mainvilliers, France
📆 27th June 2023 from 7 to 8 PM

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Renc’Art “Gauguin et l’art océanien”

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Une conférence d’histoire de l’art.
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Oceanic Art Society is at Centre Pompidou.
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Exhibition: Décadrage colonial
📍 Paris, Centre Pompidou
📆 Until 27th February
💰 Free

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Season’s Greetings from the Oceanic Art Society President & Committee

The OAS ended the year with a bang at a wonderful tenth Forum held in Adelaide’s South Australian Museum at the end of November.

Chau Chak Wing Museum in Sydney.

Ömie nioge (barkcloth). The next exhibition opening on 9 January 2023 in our Ian Potter Gallery celebrates the unique and dynamic barkcloth art movement of the Ömie people of Papua …

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Curiosity about the Pacific

Stolen God in Museum

David Said (1945 – 2022)

Pacific Arts Association 2022 Conference ‘Gendered objects in Oceania’ – Paris, France

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