Promoting the understanding and appreciation of Oceanic art.
by Harold Gallasch It was to be a night like no other. It all started with a late afternoon drive from Kerevat, and the Lowlands Agriculture Experiment Station where I had been working for some years since 1968 as a coconut agronomist or didiman (agriculturalist or farmer). In my small VW “beetle”, I had driven up to […]
2021, 180 pages, Robert K. Paterson, 5 continents www.fivecontinents.com Reviewed by Crispin Howarth Every once in a while, a publication comes along which deep dives into a specific Pacific subject. This is one of those rare publications and it is likely to be the sole reference for these cultural objects for some time to come. […]
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 […]
2021, 396 pages, John Carty, UWA Publishing Crawley WA Review by Margaret Cassidy While in my final term break of my undergraduate degree in Art History in 1986 I visited the Adult Education Centre at Balgo (Wirrimanu), a remote Aboriginal community on the edge of the Great Sandy Desert at its intersection with the Kimberley […]
This edition of the Journal includes articles about the early encounters between European missionaries and Aboriginal Australians in Central Australia and European anthropologists and people from the Torres Strait and […]
by Bill Rathmell The COVID-19 pandemic restrictions lifted in Sydney in time for SOAF 2021 to be held, complete with masks and vaccination checks at the National Art School on Saturday 6 November. The crowd seemed very happy to be seeing objects and art in the real – as opposed to in a digital format! […]
By Garance Nyssen On 14 July 2019, in the port district of the Gabut in La Rochelle, south-western France, George Nuku was hurrying to finish a large whale made from transparent green, blue and red bottoms of plastic bottles[1]. Children had been making jellyfish all afternoon with the help of Nuku and Mathilde, his spouse, […]
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 […]
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 […]
2020, 378 pages, Edited by Anita Herle and Jude Philp. In association with the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge. Sydney University Press. Review by Crispin Howarth Alfred Cort Haddon is something of a founding father for modern anthropology. His fieldwork resulting from scientific expeditions to New Guinea and the Torres Strait Islands […]
