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Collectors and Collections: OAS Forum 2019 a Triumph

26/03/2019 By James Elmslie

The 2019 Oceanic Art Society Forum was an intellectual and emotional odyssey. Oceanic art represents and encompasses many things: sublime beauty and irresistible mystery; cultural treasure; markers of colonial dispossession and loss, but also continuity and hope. That indeed is what Oceanic art is: objects that bind people through time; binding those who made them […]

Filed Under: Cover Story, Forums, V24 Issue 1

Ninth OAS Forum in Sydney

25/08/2018 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

Aboriginal and Pacific art: Collections and artists, then and now. OAS in conjunction with the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Australian Museum, 1-3 February 2019 After the stunning success of the 8th OAS Forum at the Savage Club in Melbourne in October last year, the Forum 2019 Subcommittee convened by Chris Boylan is […]

Filed Under: Featured Slider, Forums, V23 Issue 3

OAS Forum at the Savage Club, Melbourne

13/11/2017 By James Elmslie

Matthew Magers successfully bidding for the OAS Savage Club Forum official poster

By Jim Elmslie Dr. Ross Bowden gave an overview of the Savage Club collection, noting that very little documentation exists concerning the origins of the works but that most are from the nineteenth century, with some works of great quality and rarity. Two sources that were recorded were the famous anthropologist and Director of the […]

Filed Under: Forums, V22 Issue 5

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