Read Barry Craig’s account of the Pacific collection at the new Wantok Place Museum in North Adelaide.
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OAS tour of South West France Galleries
Pre-2020 Parcours des Mondes If enough members are interested in viewing the Oceanic Art collections from early French navigators and collectors, the Oceanic Art Society, under the direction of Pierre Laffont, proposes to organize a tour in the South West of France in the 4 days preceding the opening of the September 2020 Parcours des Mondes in Paris. […]
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Australian Museum’s Cultural Collections Centre Opens in Western Sydney
By Bill Rathmell, OAS President Half-a-dozen members of the Oceanic Art Society were present on 30th July at the opening of the “Cultural Collections Centre”- the new storage for the bulk of the Pacific Island collections of Sydney’s Australian Museum. Since its inception in 1995, the OAS has tried to lobby for this superb world-renowned […]
Expanding the Visual Canon: Fifty years of Oceanic art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1969-2019)
By Maia Nuku The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection of Oceanic art includes over two thousand works of art from the Pacific: ancestral treasures handed down across the generations that were created in islands and archipelagoes that extend across a vast expanse of ocean. Highlights of the collection include the landmark architectural installation or ‘Kwoma […]
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor – Part V
By Barry Craig. Continued from OAS Journal Vol.21 No.3. In this issue of the OAS Journal, I provide a short biography and a sample of the collections of: Walter Mansell Balfour Ogilvy and Harry Lort Spencer Balfour Ogilvy The two Ogilvy brothers from Renmark will be considered together but as Parts 5, 6. They both […]
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor – Part III
Hunter was born in Adelaide in 1871 and served three years in the South Australian Infantry during the Boer War (1899-1902). He married in 1905 and was an accountant at the time of enlistment in the AN&MEF in October 1914. He was immediately given the rank of Sergeant, promoted to Lieutenant a year later and […]
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor – Part II
By Barry Craig. Continued from the last edition of the OAS Journal In a previous issue of the OAS Newsletter, I provided an introduction to the WW1 military collectors and the collections of things that came to the South Australian Museum. In this issue I provide a sample of the biography and collections of Arnold […]
Discovering Worlds: transforming the Pacific displays at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum
By Tony Eccles The Royal Albert Memorial Museum is an award-winning[1] local authority-run museum which is based in the city of Exeter, in Devon. The acquisition of ethnographic items started as early as 1865 when the museum was being built. In 1998 it received designation status.[2] The collection numbers some 12,000 items from Africa, the […]