What is Modern Art of the Pacific?
Recent months have seen Oceanic art enthusiasts gathered for two art fairs in Paris in September and Sydney in October. By all accounts, there was great enthusiasm and artworks. In …
Somuk: The First Modern Artist of the Pacific?
by Nicolas Garnier Biographies of Pacific artists usually focus on contemporary artists and artists coming from wealthy Pacific countries, especially Australia. Scholars or museum curators have devoted substantial biographies to …
Ron Perry
by Carolyn Leigh Ron (Roland Lewis) Perry grew up in Tucson, Arizona, USA during the 1930s Depression. Both his grandfathers died young. Their widows and extended families instilled an early …
Some thoughts about the Awaiama Stone Spatula
by Stéphane Duckett Stone artefacts in Oceanic Art are relatively uncommon and almost wholly limited to axe or club heads. It is perhaps not surprising that in the Massim area, …
Sun & Shadow: Art of the Spinifex People
2023, 384 pages, John Carty & Luke Scholes, Upswell Publishing. Review by Margaret Cassidy Opening this dark blue bound book launches the reader forth into the colour and patterns of …
Great Vibes at the Art Fairs
by Noëlle Rathmell-Stiels The 2024 Sydney Oceanic Art Fair at the Art Leven Gallery in Redfern was a great success thanks to a dynamic organising subcommittee under the leadership of …
Crispin Howarth – Art of the Yuan River: The Biwat Project
Lecture 30 November 2024 | OAS AGM https://youtu.be/kkGT-jtAGs4 . . . This content is restricted to subscribers only. For access, become an Oceanic Art Society member or login to your …
From kastom objects to Pacific art
In early August we gathered for the Oceanic Art Society’s 2024 Forum at the Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney. This brought a rich and diverse set of presenters into one of the best contemporary museum spaces in Australia.
A Dilettante in the Humboldt Forum
by David Hourigan I have been responsible for the graphic design of each OAS Journal for many, many years. I do not collect Oceanic art (my own collecting focuses on …