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Volume 27

Curiosity about the Pacific

26/11/2022 All Journal Articles, Cover Story, V27 Issue 4, Volume 27

Oceanic art and objects have travelled the world from the “Blue Continent”. Along the way they have been traded and stories about them have embellished their reputations and attracted new …

Stolen God in Museum

26/11/2022 All Journal Articles, Members Only, Objects, V27 Issue 4, Volume 27

Page five of the News (Adelaide, SA) on Saturday 3rd March 1934 featured the headline 'Stolen God in Museum' and this account of how and when the carved figure arrived at the South Australian Museum.

David Said (1945 – 2022)

26/11/2022 All Journal Articles, In Memoriam, Members Only, V27 Issue 4, Volume 27

Founding Newsletter editor for the Oceanic Art Society, David Said was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1945, the start of a long and interesting life enriched by his love of tribal people, their cultures and their artworks

Pacific Arts Association 2022 Conference ‘Gendered objects in Oceania’ – Paris, France

26/11/2022 All Journal Articles, Conferences, Members Only, V27 Issue 4, Volume 27

By Krisztina Turza. Gender was central to this conference commencing with Yuki Kihara’s 'Paradise Camp', New Zealand’s offering at the 59th Venice Biennale. This focuses on Fa’afafine (Sāmoa’s third gender) utopia – …

Oceans, Reflections, Collections

26/11/2022 All Journal Articles, Conferences, Members Only, V27 Issue 4, Volume 27

George Nuku’s presentation at the Pacific Arts Association 2022 Conference Review by Pierre Laffont George Nuku has become one of the best-known Māori artists due to his creation of a …

Magic Masks and Figures from Oceania

26/11/2022 All Journal Articles, Book Reviews, Members Only, V27 Issue 4, Volume 27

Leif Birger Holmstedt, Torso Publishing, 2021, 158 pages. Review by Jim Elmslie The strength of this book is in its excellent images, many previously unpublished. The images are mostly of …

OAS Tour 8 – 9 September 2022 – The museums in Rochefort and La Rochelle

26/11/2022 All Journal Articles, Members Only, V27 Issue 4, Volume 27

By Pierre Laffont & Bill Rathmell. It is easy to fall for the peaceful charm of Rochefort and La Rochelle, two ports on the Atlantic Coast of France only a …

Segar Passi, meriba ged a gur (our land and sea)

26/11/2022 All Journal Articles, Exhibitions, Members Only, V27 Issue 4, Volume 27

Cairns Art Gallery, 8 October-11 December 2022. Review by Margaret Cassidy This comprehensive retrospective of Torres Strait Islander artist Segar Passi was an unexpected discovery on a recent visit to the …

Personal encounters with objects

31/08/2022 Cover Story, V27 Issue 3

Creators, curators, collectors, students, visitors, audiences all have encounters with cultural objects both old and new. The new can be a celebration of the old or it can be a …

Life in a Museum, Papua New Guinea style

31/08/2022 Members Only, Museums, V27 Issue 3

Grace Vele, a/Chief Curator Anthropology, PNG National Museum and Art Gallery The Papua New Guinea (PNG) National Museum and Art Gallery [NMAG] is a world of its own with multiple …

Kevin Conru, Oceanic art collector

31/08/2022 All Journal Articles, Members Only, V27 Issue 3

Interviewed by Bill Rathmell in Brussels, May 2022 BR: In 2003 you were interviewed by Tribalmania in Santa Fe (https://www.tribalmania.com/interviewconru.html) where you described your early career playing professionally in symphony orchestras …

Bruce Laurie Seaman (1926 – 2022)

31/08/2022 In Memoriam, Members Only, V27 Issue 3

by Chris Boylan Bruce Seaman will be remembered as a great family man, married to his beautiful Tahitian wife, Ramine, for 61 years, and as a Voyager and collector of …

Carnets Kanak, Voyage en Inventaire de Roger Boulay – Musée Hèbre, Rochefort

31/08/2022 Exhibitions, Members Only, V27 Issue 3

by Pierre Laffont As a local precursor to a similar exhibition being hosted later this year in Paris at the Musée du quai Branly – Jacques-Chirac, the exhibition Kanak Notebooks, Journey …

Hongi’s Hikoi: Tales through Tāonga

31/08/2022 All Journal Articles, Members Only, V27 Issue 3

18 June 2022 - Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney. Review by Margaret Cassidy A highly successful project launch of Hongi’s Hikoi: Tales through Tāonga was held at the Chau Chak …

Mariw Minaral (Spiritual Patterns)

31/08/2022 Expeditions, Members Only, V27 Issue 3

Australian National Maritime Museum. Review by Margaret Cassidy Ngay, Alick Tipoti 2009. Linocut and handcoloured print on paper. ANMM Collection 00055474. In recent years the Australian National Maritime Museum has …

Marquesan Festival Matavaa O Te Fenua Enata

31/08/2022 All Journal Articles, Members Only, V27 Issue 3

July 2022. By Chris Boylan and Sophy Dennett The Marquesas with six main islands in the north-eastern section of French Polynesia has long been a place of imaginings, beyond the …

Uli: Powerful Ancestors from the Pacific

31/08/2022 Book Reviews, Members Only, V27 Issue 3

2021, 392 pages, Jean-Philippe Beaulieu, Primedia, Bornival, Belgium. Review by Noelle Rathmell-Stiels  This superb book has been six years in the making, but it is well worth the wait. In …

Touchstones of Culture

07/06/2022 Cover Story, V27 Issue 2

Some cultural artefacts or events become touchstones of a culture. The elaborate masks prepared for participation in the Fire Dance Ceremonies of the Central Baining in East New Britain, Papua …

The Baining – A Night to Remember Part 2

07/06/2022 Cultures, Members Only, V27 Issue 2

Baining collection with field notes and photographs from East New Britain, continued from last issue. By Harold Gallasch Years of witnessing the Engini fire dance ceremonies of the Central Baining have made …

Murlapaka – A Kaurna Touchstone for the Art Gallery of South Australia

07/06/2022 Members Only, Objects, V27 Issue 2

by Jim Elmslie At times, the landing page of the website of the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA) features an extremely rare and culturally significant shield which also now …

Dr Dolly Guise PhD (1942 – 2022)

06/06/2022 In Memoriam, Members Only, V27 Issue 2

by Chris Boylan with the input of Dolly Guise’s family Dolly Guise, who graduated as Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) first female PhD in anthropology, lived an extraordinary life. Just as …

Adrienne Kaeppler (1935 – 2022)

06/06/2022 In Memoriam, Members Only, V27 Issue 2

Adrienne L. Kaeppler – an inspiring journey of discovery into Tongan culture, art, society By Mary Lyn Fonau Eminent scholar and great friend of Tonga, Adrienne L. Kaeppler died in …

Eric Coote (1941 – 2022)

06/06/2022 In Memoriam, Members Only, V27 Issue 2

Personal reflections from Crispin Howarth Eric and I first met when he visited Melbourne around 2001 or 2002. We met on Chapel Street and over lunch we spoke of nothing …

Bark Ladies: Eleven Artists from Yirrkala

06/06/2022 Exhibitions, Members Only, Reviews, V27 Issue 2

by Margaret Cassidy This recent exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria shows the works of eleven Yolŋu women artists. The works combine traditional fine lined detail on bark with …

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