The OAS has shifted gear under the energetic leadership of our new president, Bill Rathmell, who has revitalised the main OAS committee and various sub-committees working on the website, the forthcoming Tribal Art Fair Sydney and the next OAS forums. The principal aim is to increase the appeal and … [Read more...]
Indigenous perspectives in The National 2017: new Australian art
NEXT LECTURE Wednesday 17 May 2017 – OAS Lecture, in the Centenary Auditorium, Art Gallery of NSW, 6:30 – 8pm. Free. Anneke Jaspers – Curator, Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of NSW will be presenting a lecture on: The National is a major new exhibition surveying key directions … [Read more...]
The Reverend Fellows Collection of Trobriand Art
A report on Crispin Howarth’s OAS Lecture, by Jim Elmslie The ‘lost’ collection of Massim art of the late Methodist missionary, the Reverend Samuel Fellows, lay undisturbed beneath the family home (called ‘Kiriwina’) in Swanbourne, Western Australia, for decades after his death. By chance his … [Read more...]
Axel Bojsen-Møller – Globetrotter, the wreck of the Monsoon and the first New Guinea expedition
By Leif Birger Holmstedt The Department of Ethnography at the Danish National Museum has one of the largest and finest collections in the world of artifacts from Oceania, Melanesia and Micronesia with more than 9,000 objects of which the largest part was acquired between 1845 and 1959. A large … [Read more...]
Gottfried Lindauer’s New Zealand The Maori Portraits
Edited by Ngahiraka Mason and Zara Stanhope. Auckland University Press in association with Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, 20l6. Reviewed by Marina Garlick This splendid tome complements a fascinating exhibition of mainly Maori portraits by Gottfried Lindauer held at the Auckland Art Gallery, Toi … [Read more...]
Illustrated Catalogue of Ethnographical Specimens Photographic Reference
By W. D. Webster. Review by Crispin Howarth William Downing Webster (1868 – 1913) began collecting and dealing in arms, armour and ethnographic material from the 1890s until his death. In this period of some twenty years he dealt in the flotsam and jetsam of the vast colonial trading networks … [Read more...]
