Personal experiences and personal passions are a common theme in this edition. Everyone who attended his fascinating lecture for the Oceanic Art Society in October 2021, would be aware of […]
The APT10 Experience
Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) until 25 April 2022 Reviewed by Krisztina Turza APT10 Objective The highly anticipated 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT10) is a major milestone in the flagship exhibition series of the Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA). This behemoth effort of the curators […]
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The Baining – A Night to Remember
by Harold Gallasch It was to be a night like no other. It all started with a late afternoon drive from Kerevat, and the Lowlands Agriculture Experiment Station where I had been working for some years since 1968 as a coconut agronomist or didiman (agriculturalist or farmer). In my small VW “beetle”, I had driven up to […]
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Tattooed History: The Story of Mokomokai
2021, 180 pages, Robert K. Paterson, 5 continents www.fivecontinents.com Reviewed by Crispin Howarth Every once in a while, a publication comes along which deep dives into a specific Pacific subject. This is one of those rare publications and it is likely to be the sole reference for these cultural objects for some time to come. […]
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Pacific Views
Photography gallery, Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney. Until 24 July 2022. Reviewed by Bill Rathmell and Margaret Cassidy Time flies and passes, and only our death manages to catch up with it. Photography is a cleaver that grabs a stunning moment in eternityHenri Cartier-Bresson This exhibition is jointly curated by Jude Philp of […]
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Balgo: The Creative Country
2021, 396 pages, John Carty, UWA Publishing Crawley WA Review by Margaret Cassidy While in my final term break of my undergraduate degree in Art History in 1986 I visited the Adult Education Centre at Balgo (Wirrimanu), a remote Aboriginal community on the edge of the Great Sandy Desert at its intersection with the Kimberley […]
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