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OAC Journal Cover Stories

New places, new ways of engaging across cultures

05/03/2021 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

The summer of 2020-2021 has seen the opening of some significant new or renovated/expanded museums from the east to the west coast in Australia. Those of us in Sydney have been blessed with the opportunity to tour the refreshed Pacific gallery as well as the expanded exhibition spaces resulting from the major renovation of Australia’s […]

Filed Under: Cover Story, V26 Issue 1

25 years of the OAS

30/11/2020 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

Photo Caption: The 2012 OAS Forum at the SA Museum. Photo by Michelle Haywood.  2020 is a very significant milestone in the history of the Oceanic Art Society. As is outlined in former OAS President Crispin Howarth’s detailed history in this special 25th Anniversary edition, this is a remarkable achievement for the group of Oceanic Art […]

Filed Under: Cover Story, V25 Issue 4

Oceanic art market in the time of COVID

10/09/2020 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

This edition of the Journal features Barry Craig’s account of the Pacific collection at the new Wantok Place Museum in North Adelaide as well as Jim Elmslie’s story behind the recent sales with remarkable provenance of works from the Hermannsburg school in Central Australia. We’ve introduced a new feature, the President’s Corner, where Bill Rathmell interviewed Nick Mitzevich, Director of the National Gallery of Australia, following news reports of the deaccession of Pacific pieces from the collection.

Filed Under: Cover Story, V25 Issue 3

OAS responds with flexibility during COVID-19

07/06/2020 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

The worldwide virus lockdown has hit all aspects of art and culture particularly hard. Cultural spaces and gatherings are often run on a low budget and it is hard to see some of them recovering. As well, the Oceanic and Aboriginal communities that are the custodians of the art and culture that we revere are […]

Filed Under: Cover Story, V25 Issue 2

Hongi Hika: The Legacy Continues

08/03/2020 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

Modern research continues to reveal secrets long held in uncatalogued documents and artefacts in rich archives. The centrepiece of this edition is the story of current research to identify which of three early Maori carvings is the wooden self-portrait of rangatira (chief) Hongi Hika carved from a fencepost at the farm of missionary Reverend Samuel Marsden in […]

Filed Under: Cover Story, V25 Issue 1, Volume 25

Curiosity Remains a Driving Force

10/12/2019 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

Image: Mathias Kauage ‘Independence Celebration 1999’, Andrew Baker Collection. Image by Mick Richards. The desire to know – curiosity – has long been a motivating force in human endeavour. In this issue of the OAS Journal we see that evident nearly 200 years ago in the travels of Frenchman Dumont d’Urville in Melanesia (a term […]

Filed Under: Cover Story, V24 Issue 4

The Story Keeps Unfolding

03/09/2019 By James Elmslie

PNG highlands dancer

With so much information available in the modern digital age it sometimes feels that we know, collectively, almost everything. In this edition Professor Ian McNiven shows us that this is wrong and that something as simple as the geographic origin of an artefact is still a matter of research.  In Ian’s thought provoking paper, Beyond Bridge […]

Filed Under: Cover Story, V24 Issue 3, Volume 24

Times Are A Changing

02/06/2019 By James Elmslie

Metropolitan Museum of Art Te Maoriexhibition cover 1984

In this issue of the of the OAS Journal we are fortunate to have Dr Maia Nuku, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, chart the evolution of that institution over the last 50 years, particularly in the decisions taken that resulted in its present day collections of Pacific art. Through the actions […]

Filed Under: Cover Story, V24 Issue 2

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

A Successful Year – President’s Report on 2018

23/12/2018 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

The Oceanic Art Society’s Annual General Meeting was held  on  10th November at the Middle Harbour 16ft Skiff Club, Mosman NSW – a lovely venue on a sunny day. Twenty-one members were present, with apologies from three more. After the formalities, the President, Bill Rathmell,  provided a brief report on the state of the Society, […]

Filed Under: Cover Story, V23 Issue 4

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