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Volume 24

Mathias Kauage, PNG Artist

10/12/2019 Artists, V24 Issue 4

Image: Mathias Kauage at Ray Hughes Gallery February 1999. Image by Ben Rushton. Mathias Kauage O.B.E. was Papua New Guinea’s best known and most highly awarded artist of the contemporary …

Another Successful Tribal Art Fair Sydney

10/12/2019 Art Fairs, V24 Issue 4

by Bill Rathmell The Tribal Art Fair Sydney, held by the Oceanic Art Society at the National Art School on 17 August, may not be described as the only one …

Notes on Dumont d’Urville

10/12/2019 Collections, V24 Issue 4

One of the early French navigators whose collection will be viewed in La Rochelle on the OAS Pre-2020 Parcours Tour of South West France. By Pierre Laffont Dumont d’Urville survived three circumnavigations …

OAS tour of South West France Galleries

10/12/2019 Museums, V24 Issue 4

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, …

An Awan for SAM

10/12/2019 Artefacts, V24 Issue 4

by Jim Elmslie Caption: The Awan with Sophie Parker, of ArtLab, Adelaide, South Australia. Image credit: Alice Beale. This large body-mask, called a tumbuan in tok-pisin, comes from the  Iatmul people of the …

Poka Francis – Mountain Carver from PNG

10/12/2019 Exhibitions, V24 Issue 4

Image: Centre: Poka Francis in Koranigle, 2017. Photo courtesy Helen Dennett. Left: Arbelo ensnared by python c2002. Right: Soldier c2002. Poka Francis lives in the village of Koranigle, in Simbu Province, …

An Australian at the 2019 Paris Parcours des Mondes

10/12/2019 V24 Issue 4

by Noelle Rathmell-Stiels It’s still really the only one of its kind in the world! The eighteenth iteration of the Parcours des Mondes International Art Fair was held from 10 to 15 …

Curiosity Remains a Driving Force

10/12/2019 Cover Story, V24 Issue 4

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 …

PNG highlands dancer

The Story Keeps Unfolding

03/09/2019 Cover Story, V24 Issue 3, Volume 24

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 …

Margaret White, of the Australian Museum

Australian Museum’s Cultural Collections Centre Opens in Western Sydney

03/09/2019 Museums, V24 Issue 3, Volume 24

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 …

Beyond bridge and barrier: Torres Strait and curious artefact distributions between Queensland and New Guinea

03/09/2019 Research, V24 Issue 3, Volume 24

By Professor Ian J. McNiven, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, Monash University, Melbourne During the nineteenth century Europeans became increasingly aware of …

Wylda Bayrón at Le Musée de la Castre, Cannes

03/09/2019 Exhibitions, V24 Issue 3, Volume 24

by Chris Boylan  Dominating the hill overlooking Cannes city and the Mediterranean is the ancient medieval castle and tower, now the  ethnological museum, of Cannes, Le Musée de la Castre. The …

Massim Canoes – drawings of the unique outrigger canoes from the Solomon Seas

03/09/2019 Expeditions, V24 Issue 3, Volume 24

Tasman Light Gallery, National Maritime Museum, Sydney – 1 August to 29 September 2019 The Massim culture of Papua New Guinea is home to a unique collection of colourful outrigger …

Sepik Ramu Art

03/09/2019 Book Reviews, V24 Issue 3, Volume 24

Edited by Kevin Conru. 296 pages illustrating 170 objects from three private collections. Photographs by Hughes Dubois. Edition limited to 500 copies, €295. Conru Editions, released in May 2019. Review …

Metropolitan Museum of Art Te Maoriexhibition cover 1984

Times Are A Changing

02/06/2019 Cover Story, V24 Issue 2

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 …

Display of Tuhu hoods and Biruko

Pacific Arts Association International Symposium, March 24 – 28, Brisbane

02/06/2019 Symposium, V24 Issue 2

By Pierre Laffont The XIII Pacific Art Association (“PAA”) international Symposium took place over four days on 24-28 March in Brisbane. It was organised by the Queensland Museum in partnership …

Armshells such as this were made in Torres Strait and traded northwards into New Guinea

Bridge and barrier: Torres Strait and curious artefact distributions between Queensland and New Guinea

02/06/2019 Next Lecture, V24 Issue 2

In this talk, Ian McNiven will outline what he calls the “Coral Sea Cultural Interaction Sphere” as a framework to help shed light on why some ethnographic artefact types are …

Oceania gallery

Expanding the Visual Canon: Fifty years of Oceanic art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1969-2019)

02/06/2019 Museums, V24 Issue 2

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 …

Headdress, Roro people, Yule lsland, PNG

Review: Oceania

02/06/2019 Reviews, V24 Issue 2

by Marina Garlick Oceania is the title of the catalogue of the eponymous exhibition held at the Royal Academy of Arts in London to mark 250 years since James Cook …

Collectors and Collections: OAS Forum 2019 a Triumph

26/03/2019 Cover Story, Forums, V24 Issue 1

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 …

Melanesian art: redux

26/03/2019 Exhibitions, Exhibitions, V24 Issue 1, Volume 24

By Natalie Wilson, Curator Australian & Pacific Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales In November, the Art Gallery of New South Wales will celebrate the life and art of …

Interview: Crispin Howarth on Maori Markings: Ta Mokoat the NGA

26/03/2019 Interviews, V24 Issue 1, Volume 24

Jim Elmslie interviews Crispin Howarth, Curator of  Pacific Arts at the National Gallery of Australia on the stunning new exhibition of Maori facial markings that will open in Canberra on …

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