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Exhibitions

Ömie barkcloth Exhibition Opening Speech

11/03/2023 All Journal Articles, Exhibitions, Members Only, V28 Issue 1, Volume 28

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 …

Guraban: Where the Saltwater meets the Freshwater

11/03/2023 All Journal Articles, Exhibitions, Members Only, V28 Issue 1, Volume 28

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 …

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

26/11/2022 All Journal Articles, Exhibitions, Members Only, V27 Issue 4, Volume 27

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 …

Carnets Kanak, Voyage en Inventaire de Roger Boulay – Musée Hèbre, Rochefort

31/08/2022 Exhibitions, Members Only, V27 Issue 3

by Pierre Laffont As a local precursor to a similar exhibition being hosted later this year in Paris at the Musée du quai Branly – Jacques-Chirac, the exhibition Kanak Notebooks, Journey …

The APT10 Experience

04/03/2022 Exhibitions, V27 Issue 1

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 …

Jude Philps showing Bill Rathmell

Pacific Views

03/03/2022 Exhibitions, V27 Issue 1

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 …

Hermannsburg: the Barossa Connection

28/11/2021 Exhibitions, V26 Issue 4

By Sally Goers Fox This recent exhibition in the Barossa Regional Gallery in Tanunda, South Australia highlights the longstanding relationships and reciprocity between the Barossa Valley and the Hermannsburg/Ntaria community …

Pacific artists respond to Matisse

28/11/2021 Exhibitions, V26 Issue 4

Matisse Alive exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales 23 Oct 2021 – 3 April 2022 Review by Margaret Cassidy Artist projects from around and across the Pacific, …

Creatures: Ochred, Pokered, Carved & Twined

31/05/2021 Exhibitions, V26 Issue 2

Main image caption: Yibiyung Roma Winar, Noongar Language, Mountain Devil, c.1998. Perth, Western Australia. Emu Egg, 9.5 x 15 x 8.5 cm. Berndt Museum of Anthropology Collection [1998/0058] Presented by the Berndt …

Easter Island at the NGA

08/03/2020 Exhibitions, Exhibitions, V25 Issue 1

Story By Crispin Howarth | Photo Caption: Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Moai Kavakava, 18th-mid 19th century. Wood, bone, obsidian. Private Australian collection. There is perhaps nowhere in the world as isolated …

Poka Francis – Mountain Carver from PNG

10/12/2019 Exhibitions, V24 Issue 4

Image: Centre: Poka Francis in Koranigle, 2017. Photo courtesy Helen Dennett. Left: Arbelo ensnared by python c2002. Right: Soldier c2002. Poka Francis lives in the village of Koranigle, in Simbu Province, …

Wylda Bayrón at Le Musée de la Castre, Cannes

03/09/2019 Exhibitions, V24 Issue 3, Volume 24

by Chris Boylan  Dominating the hill overlooking Cannes city and the Mediterranean is the ancient medieval castle and tower, now the  ethnological museum, of Cannes, Le Musée de la Castre. The …

Melanesian art: redux

26/03/2019 Exhibitions, Exhibitions, V24 Issue 1, Volume 24

By Natalie Wilson, Curator Australian & Pacific Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales In November, the Art Gallery of New South Wales will celebrate the life and art of …

Oceania: Royal Academy of Arts, London, 29 September to 10 December 2018

23/12/2018 Exhibitions, V23 Issue 4

by Michael Martin The Royal Academy in London is holding a major exhibition of the art of the Pacific from the 29th September to the 10th December 2018. Entitled “Oceania”, …

Solomon Islands – Re-enchantment and the Colonial Shadow Exhibition

01/03/2017 Exhibitions, V22 Issue 1

At the University of Queensland Anthropology Museum. Review by Krisztina Turza. Since I missed the opening of the University of Queensland Anthropology Museum’s recent exhibition on the Solomon Islands as …

A Focus on Some of the Exhibition’s Gems

01/03/2017 Exhibitions, V22 Issue 1

Solomon Islands – Re-enchantment and the Colonial Shadow Exhibition See linked article Dr. Diana Young, Director, University of Queensland Anthropology Museum, assembled the following notes on some of the more …

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No.1 Neighbour: Art in Papua New Guinea 1966–2016

01/03/2017 Exhibitions, V22 Issue 1

By Ruth McDougall, Curator, Pacific Art, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Geographically, the mainland of Papua New Guinea lies just 3.7 kilometres from the island of Saibai …

Parcours subjective

01/11/2016 Exhibitions, V21 Issue 5

By Krisztina Turza, TurzaArt Tribal Gallery A short and subjective review of this year’s Parcours des Mondes. Short, because it will only focus on the art items via the many …

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