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Mathias Kauage, PNG Artist

10/12/2019 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

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 era. He was artistically active in the six crucial years leading up to 1975 (when PNG became an independent nation), until 2003 when he died. […]

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Filed Under: Artists, Members Only, V24 Issue 4

Another Successful Tribal Art Fair Sydney

10/12/2019 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

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 of its kind in the world (as is the Parcours des Mondes, elsewhere in this Journal), it is certainly set fair to become the best in […]

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Filed Under: Art Fairs, Members Only, V24 Issue 4

Notes on Dumont d’Urville

10/12/2019 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

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 of the earth including through the then-unchartered waters of the South Pacific. He named many locations previously unknown to Europeans, most of them with a […]

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Filed Under: Collections, Members Only, V24 Issue 4

OAS tour of South West France Galleries

10/12/2019 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

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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Filed Under: Members Only, Museums, V24 Issue 4

An Awan for SAM

10/12/2019 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

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 Middle Sepik River, PNG, and played an important role in traditional ritual life. Initially it was thought to pertain to the naven ceremony of the Iatmul people […]

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Filed Under: Artefacts, Members Only, V24 Issue 4

Poka Francis – Mountain Carver from PNG

10/12/2019 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

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, […]

Filed Under: Exhibitions, V24 Issue 4

An Australian at the 2019 Paris Parcours des Mondes

10/12/2019 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

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 September in balmy autumn weather in the Saint-Germain-des-Près quartier of Paris. With a new drawcard: archaeology. Amongst sixty-five dealers of calibre this year, eight were offering Egyptian, […]

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Filed Under: Members Only, V24 Issue 4

Curiosity Remains a Driving Force

10/12/2019 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

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 […]

Filed Under: Cover Story, V24 Issue 4

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