Bark Ladies: Eleven Artists from Yirrkala
by Margaret Cassidy This recent exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria shows the works of eleven Yolŋu women artists. The works combine traditional fine lined detail on bark with …
ADORNED by nature: Adornment, exchange & myth in the South Seas
Wolfgang Grulke, 2022, At One Communications, United Kingdom. Reviewed by Rebecca Conway, curator ethnography Macleay Collections, Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney Wolfgang Grulke has applied his passion, collection, …
Uli : Powerful Ancestors from the Pacific
By Jean-Philippe Beaulieu Published in English by Primedia, Belgium 245 x 330 mm 392 pages, hardcover ISBN: 978 29601375 4 5 Featuring the first and only catalogue raisonné of uli figures from central …
Personal Encounters
Personal experiences and personal passions are a common theme in this edition. Everyone who attended his fascinating lecture for the Oceanic Art Society in October 2021, would be aware of …
The APT10 Experience
Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) until 25 April 2022 Reviewed by Krisztina Turza APT10 Objective The highly anticipated 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT10) is …
The Baining – A Night to Remember
by Harold Gallasch It was to be a night like no other. It all started with a late afternoon drive from Kerevat, and the Lowlands Agriculture Experiment Station where I …
Tattooed History: The Story of Mokomokai
2021, 180 pages, Robert K. Paterson, 5 continents www.fivecontinents.com Reviewed by Crispin Howarth Every once in a while, a publication comes along which deep dives into a specific Pacific subject. …
Pacific Views
Photography gallery, Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney. Until 24 July 2022. Reviewed by Bill Rathmell and Margaret Cassidy Time flies and passes, and only our death manages to …
Balgo: The Creative Country
2021, 396 pages, John Carty, UWA Publishing Crawley WA Review by Margaret Cassidy While in my final term break of my undergraduate degree in Art History in 1986 I visited …
At the intersection of ancient and contemporary
This edition of the Journal includes articles about the early encounters between European missionaries and Aboriginal Australians in Central Australia and European anthropologists and people from the Torres Strait and …