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The APT10 Experience

04/03/2022 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

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 a major milestone in the flagship exhibition series of the Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA). This behemoth effort of the curators […]

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Filed Under: Exhibitions, Members Only, V27 Issue 1

Pacific Views

03/03/2022 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

Jude Philps showing Bill Rathmell

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 catch up with it. Photography is a cleaver that grabs a stunning moment in eternityHenri Cartier-Bresson This exhibition is jointly curated by Jude Philp of […]

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Filed Under: Exhibitions, Members Only, V27 Issue 1

Hermannsburg: the Barossa Connection

28/11/2021 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

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 of Central Australia.[1]  It is a tangible representation: revealing to the community not only the art which has stemmed from the Hermannsburg school of watercolour […]

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Filed Under: Exhibitions, Members Only, V26 Issue 4

Pacific artists respond to Matisse

28/11/2021 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

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, including significant collaborative projects by Pacific Islander artists form a significant part of the contemporary response to work of Henri Matisse in the Art Gallery […]

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Filed Under: Exhibitions, Members Only, V26 Issue 4

Creatures: Ochred, Pokered, Carved & Twined

31/05/2021 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

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 Museum of Anthropology at the Lawrence Wilson Gallery, Perth, Western Australia. Exhibition continues until 5 June 2021. Review by Margaret Cassidy Any visit to Perth […]

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Filed Under: Exhibitions, Members Only, V26 Issue 2

Easter Island at the NGA

08/03/2020 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

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 and remote as Rapa Nui (Easter Island). Known primarily for the enigmatic stone monolith giants, moai, found across its plains and coastlines, it is in wood […]

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Filed Under: Exhibitions, Exhibitions, Members Only, V25 Issue 1

Poka Francis – Mountain Carver from PNG

10/12/2019 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

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, […]

Filed Under: Exhibitions, V24 Issue 4

Wylda Bayrón at Le Musée de la Castre, Cannes

03/09/2019 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

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 […]

Filed Under: Exhibitions, V24 Issue 3, Volume 24

Melanesian art: redux

26/03/2019 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

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 […]

Filed Under: Exhibitions, Exhibitions, V24 Issue 1, Volume 24

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

23/12/2018 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

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”, […]

Filed Under: Exhibitions, V23 Issue 4

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Pacific Views

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At the intersection of ancient and contemporary

At the intersection of ancient and contemporary

Sydney Oceanic Art Fair - SAOF 2021

Sydney Oceanic Art Fair – SAOF 2021

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