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Georgina Beier 1938 – 2021

29/08/2021 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

By Keith Jackson Georgina Beier, called the ‘founding mother’ of contemporary art in Papua New Guinea, died in Sydney on Sunday 11 July 2021 aged 82. Her husband, Ulli Beier (1922–2011), was a German editor, writer and scholar who pioneered the development of literature in Nigeria and Papua New Guinea. Caption: Georgina Beier, Mathias Kauage, Ulli […]

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Filed Under: In Memoriam, Members Only, V26 Issue 3

Harry Beran | Tributes received by the OAS

31/05/2021 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

Main image caption: Dr Harry Beran interviews residents of Egum Islet in Milne Bay in October 2017. Photograph: Luke Wong, ABC. Reproduced with permission of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Scholar, author and collector specializing in the art of the Massim area of Eastern New Guinea, Harry Beran died in Cambridge, England on 26 February 2021. He […]

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Filed Under: In Memoriam, Members Only, V26 Issue 2

Evarne Coote

05/03/2021 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

by Eric Coote On 5 January 2021 we lost Evarne Coote, a long time friend of the OAS and the world of tribal art collectors. Evarne spent her life serving people one way or another – firstly, her family of three children and seven grandchildren but also as a government officer in Papua New Guinea […]

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Filed Under: In Memoriam, Members Only, V26 Issue 1

Jutta Malnic (1924 – 20 October 2020)

29/11/2020 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

by Chris Boylan Photographer and author; above all, a person of great learning, wisdom and generosity. Jutta was educated in Switzerland where her father was the German Consul-General, but after his death in 1934, she and her mother returned to their home in Berlin, and lived there throughout the Second World War. Jutta studied philosophy and art […]

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Filed Under: In Memoriam, Members Only, V25 Issue 4

Obituary – Barbara Perry

07/06/2020 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

13 August 1938 – 10 November 2019. By Ron May Barbara Perry was a larger than life character, well known in Oceanic art circles in Sydney, and later in Brisbane. Barbara Perry (née Hockey) was born in Dubbo and grew up on her father’s sheep station, Courallie, before boarding at the Presbyterian Ladies College, Sydney. Following her […]

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Filed Under: In Memoriam, Members Only, V25 Issue 2

Vale Jim Sinclair

05/03/2018 By Robin Hodgson

James (Jim) Sinclair CSM OBE D.Litt, passed away in Queensland’s Sunshine Coast on 9 October 2017. Jim Sinclair was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1992, an […]

Filed Under: In Memoriam, V23 Issue 1

Dr Hugh Gallagher

13/11/2017 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

Vale Dr Hugh Gallagher OAS is sad to announce the passing of another of its founding members who remained with us until the last, Dr Hugh Gallagher, 29.09.1929 – 12.09.2017. […]

Filed Under: In Memoriam, V22 Issue 5

David Tribe

13/11/2017 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

David Tribe

Vale David Tribe OAS mourns the loss of one of its founding and staunchest members, David Tribe, OAS Member number 66, who passed away in Sydney 30 May 2017 aged […]

Filed Under: In Memoriam, V22 Issue 5

Senta Taft Hendry

01/02/2015 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

28 January 1924 – 6 December 2014 Last December saw the passing of tribal art collector and adventurer, Senta Taft-Hendry. At 85 years of age she was easily Australia’s oldest […]

Filed Under: In Memoriam, V20 Issue 1, Volume 20

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