The OAS Forum, held at the Melbourne Savage Club on October 21st, was a fantastic success and the Victorian members of the OAS, especially Dr. Michael Martin, are to be most heartily congratulated. The venue was superb; the speakers all truly world class and the food and company unsurpassable. … [Read more...]
Navigating for a ples namel: Between the Museum, Collections, and Communities
Saturday 11 November 2017 – OAS Lecture as part of our AGM. 10:00am registration, AGM 10:30am, 11:00am lecture in The Australian Museum. Michael A. Mel will be presenting an illustrated talk on Navigating for a ples namel: Between the Museum, Collections, and Communities This paper focuses … [Read more...]
Dr Hugh Gallagher
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. Hugh was OAS Member Number 153. Hugh was an avid collector of Oceanic Art with a fine eye for excellence. He donated … [Read more...]
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 85. In 1960s London, he enjoyed a varied career, creatively, as an intellectual, and as a secular activist. David returned to Sydney in … [Read more...]
OAS Forum at the Savage Club, Melbourne
By Jim Elmslie Dr. Ross Bowden gave an overview of the Savage Club collection, noting that very little documentation exists concerning the origins of the works but that most are from the nineteenth century, with some works of great quality and rarity. Two sources that were recorded were the famous … [Read more...]
‘Parcours’ Pittoresque à Paris Vaut le Voyage
By Noëlle Rathmell-Stiels In its sixteenth year, the Parisian Tribal Art fair has taken visitors on a voyage of discovery to new horizons, sailing from Polynesia to the borders of contemporary art. From 12 to 17 September 2017 a total of sixty-six exhibitors, predominantly from France, Belgium and … [Read more...]
Mugus – the terrible blind god, the lord of pigs – a unique sculpture from Papua New Guinea
By Crispin Howarth, Curator, Pacific Arts, National Gallery of Australia Since the mid-1920s, this masterpiece of Oceanic sculpture with its gently twisting elongated torso, oversized hands and stout powerful legs was displayed in a small museum at the Lutheran Wartburg Theological Seminary, … [Read more...]
