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V26 Issue 4

At the intersection of ancient and contemporary

At the intersection of ancient and contemporary

28/11/2021 Cover Story, V26 Issue 4

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 …

Sydney Oceanic Art Fair - SAOF 2021

Sydney Oceanic Art Fair – SAOF 2021

28/11/2021 Art Fairs, V26 Issue 4

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 …

Message in a Bottle, Changement climatique et nouveaux continents

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

28/11/2021 Artists, V26 Issue 4

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 …

Hermannsburg: the Barossa Connection

28/11/2021 Exhibitions, V26 Issue 4

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 …

Pacific artists respond to Matisse

28/11/2021 Exhibitions, V26 Issue 4

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, …

Model of a mask, Op le meket sarik, originally made of turtle-shell.

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

28/11/2021 V26 Issue 4

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 …

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