Oceanic Art experiences
Image Caption: Speakers at the 2023 OAS Forum in Melbourne. Image: Margaret Cassidy. Australian members have experienced a rich range of Oceanic Art experiences in recent months. A major highlight was …
V28 Issue 4
Representation and misrepresentation in ethnographic film: the case of Cannibal Tours — Part II
by Ross Bowden The documentary Cannibal Tours, by the self-described ‘existential anarchist’ Australian film maker Dennis O’Rourke, has had a significant impact on the anthropological world since it was released almost …
Museums Victoria Storage Facility
by Margaret Cassidy Thirty attendees of the Oceanic Art Society Forum 2023 had the good fortune to join one of three small group tours of the stored Oceanic collections housed …
Joost Daalder (1939 – 2023)
by Kajetan Fiedorowicz, Melbourne Joost Daalder was born in the Netherlands and studied at Amsterdam, Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities before moving to New Zealand with his wife Truus in 1966 …
Tidal Kin: Stories from the Pacific, Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney
What this fascinating and informative exhibition shows is that Pacific Islanders have been visiting the Sydney area since the days of the Endeavour, sharing their rich cultures and artistic practices.
Vincent Namatjira: Australia in Colour
Adelaide lays claim to being at the heart of Australian Aboriginal art with its annual Tarnanthi (come forth and appear) Fair including exhibitions at the Art Gallery of South Australia, other galleries across Adelaide and art fair, featuring the work from over 40 art centres across Australia.
Maḏayin: Eight Decades of Australian Bark Paintings from Yirrkala – Waltjaṉ ga Waltjaṉbuy Yolŋuwu Miny’tji Yirrkalawuy
2022, 352 pages, edited by Wukuṉ Waṉambi, Henry Skerritt and Kade McDonald, published by Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA and Delmonico Books, New York, …
Art and Creativity in a Guinea Society:The Kwoma in Cross-Cultural Perspective
This book really is a “must read” for those of us whose interest in Oceanic or any other kind of Indigenous art is primarily aesthetic and not underpinned by much, if any, anthropological or art-history expertise.
Sydney Oceanic Art Fair – 29 October
The Sydney Oceanic Art Fair 2023 at the Cooee Art Leven Gallery was very successful with access to some wonderful art and traders.