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New places, new ways of engaging across cultures

05/03/2021 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

The summer of 2020-2021 has seen the opening of some significant new or renovated/expanded museums from the east to the west coast in Australia. Those of us in Sydney have been blessed with the opportunity to tour the refreshed Pacific gallery as well as the expanded exhibition spaces resulting from the major renovation of Australia’s […]

Filed Under: Cover Story, V26 Issue 1

Ambassadors and embassies in the new Chau Chak Wing Museum

05/03/2021 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

by Matt Poll Image: Djon Mundine OAM. The easiest way I could describe the Ambassadors exhibition is that I am using the protocols of an acknowledgement of country as a framework for engaging with both the collection objects and the people who generously gave their time to work with me throughout this new exhibition’s development at the […]

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Filed Under: Members Only, Museums, V26 Issue 1

An Important Addition to the Sculptures Known to be from the Kiwai area

05/03/2021 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

by David Ferguson This article describes a remarkable and previously undocumented female ancestral sculpture carved in the round in a fully conceived naturalistic style (Fig.1) which appears most closely related to the art style of Kiwai people living on the larger islands of the lower Fly River Delta and considered an important addition to the […]

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Filed Under: Members Only, Research, V26 Issue 1

Introducing CASOAR

05/03/2021 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

by the Members of CASOAR In the Summer of 2017, a group of friends studying at the Ecole du Louvre in Paris who specialised in the Arts and Anthropology of Oceania came together and created CASOAR. The acronym stands for “Cabinet Atypique de la Société des Océanophiles Amateurs de Rocambolesque”, and is also the French word […]

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Filed Under: Members Only, Societies, V26 Issue 1

Evarne Coote

05/03/2021 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

by Eric Coote On 5 January 2021 we lost Evarne Coote, a long time friend of the OAS and the world of tribal art collectors. Evarne spent her life serving people one way or another – firstly, her family of three children and seven grandchildren but also as a government officer in Papua New Guinea […]

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Filed Under: In Memoriam, Members Only, V26 Issue 1

The Stranger Artist:

05/03/2021 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

Stranger-Artist

Life at the edge of Kimberley painting  2020, 278 pages, Quentin Sprague, Hardie Grant Books, Melbourne.  Reviewed by Margaret Cassidy The rise of the Aboriginal art industry in the 1980s and 1990s is full of characters, myths and legends. For art lovers living in the coastal cities of Australia or around the world, great indigenous […]

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Members Only, V26 Issue 1

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New places, new ways of engaging across cultures

Ambassadors and embassies in the new Chau Chak Wing Museum

An Important Addition to the Sculptures Known to be from the Kiwai area

Introducing CASOAR

Evarne Coote

Stranger-Artist

The Stranger Artist:

25 years of the OAS

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