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At the intersection of ancient and contemporary

28/11/2021 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

At the intersection of ancient and contemporary

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 […]

Filed Under: Cover Story, V26 Issue 4

Sydney Oceanic Art Fair – SAOF 2021

28/11/2021 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

Sydney Oceanic Art Fair - SAOF 2021

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! […]

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Filed Under: Art Fairs, Members Only, V26 Issue 4

When plastic becomes sacred, George Nuku’s Bottled Ocean project

28/11/2021 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

Message in a Bottle, Changement climatique et nouveaux continents

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, […]

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Filed Under: Artists, Members Only, V26 Issue 4

Hermannsburg: the Barossa Connection

28/11/2021 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

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 […]

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Filed Under: Exhibitions, Members Only, V26 Issue 4

Pacific artists respond to Matisse

28/11/2021 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

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 […]

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Filed Under: Exhibitions, Members Only, V26 Issue 4

Recording Kastom: Alfred Haddon’s Journals from the Torres Strait and New Guinea, 1888 and 1898

28/11/2021 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

Model of a mask, Op le meket sarik, originally made of turtle-shell.

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 […]

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Filed Under: Members Only, V26 Issue 4

The Agile Art World

30/08/2021 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

Being agile and pivoting are words long associated with innovation and the tech world. However, they are now commonly being used in the art world to describe the quick responses […]

Filed Under: Cover Story, V26 Issue 3

Massim canoes in the Milne Bay Province,Papua New Guinea

30/08/2021 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

by David Payne The traditional canoes of the Massim region of the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea (PNG) are colourful, stylish, and sophisticated. These traditional wooden canoes are woven into the fabric of the culture with their origins dating back through countless generations, yet they are still being made and they are extraordinary. […]

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Filed Under: Members Only, Research, V26 Issue 3

Man Who Cannot Die – Phantom Shields of the New Guinea Highlands – Book launch talk

30/08/2021 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

Chris Boylan These shields are from the New Guinea Highlands and a major feature is their colour. This is very much part of the New Guinea tradition to have colourful shields so that when the warriors are out fighting in the hills and the valleys the shields stand out very strongly from the landscape. These […]

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Filed Under: Book Launch, Members Only, V26 Issue 3

Man Who Cannot Die – Phantom Shields of the New Guinea Highlands

29/08/2021 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

2021, 296 pages, Edited by Jonathan Fogel, with contributions from Chris Boylan, Bruce Cree, Hubert Langmann, Kevin Patrick, and Jessica Lindsey Phillips.  Sydney & Toronto: Boylan and Phillips. Reviewed by Noelle Rathmell-Stiels Published just weeks after the comic book superhero, The Phantom, celebrated his 85th birthday, this new book will appeal to everyone interested in a unique […]

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Members Only, V26 Issue 3

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