Promoting the understanding and appreciation of Oceanic art.
Paula Latos-Valier is the Art Director for the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation and chairs the Gallery Advisory Committee for the SH Ervin Gallery. She serves as Vice President of the Art Gallery Society of NSW, and is a consultant for the Biennale of Sydney’s Archive Project. Her former positions include VP of the OAS, […]
By John Greenshields of Adelaide, South Australia I took this photo of Joseph Ayodila at the Milne Bay Canoe and Drum Festival on Alotau, Papua New Guinea, in 2014. I told Joseph of my interest in traditional canoes. I said I would like to return to Papua New Guinea one day to study them. Joseph […]
by Leif Birger Holmstedt At the end of the Second World War the Danish travel ban ceased and the door had opened to the wider world. Jens Bjerre, a budding young adventurer could finally realize his great childhood dream of becoming a globetrotter. He left his regular job as political editor on Aftenbladet, sold all […]
James (Jim) Sinclair CSM OBE D.Litt, passed away in Queensland’s Sunshine Coast on 9 October 2017. Jim Sinclair was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1992, an honorary doctorate from the Australian National University in 1999 and a Companion in the Order of the Star of Melanesia in 2008. Born 1928, Jim […]
Saturday 11 November 2017 – OAS Lecture as part of our AGM. 10:00am registration, AGM 10:30am, 11:00am lecture in The Australian Museum. Michael A. Mel will be presenting an illustrated talk on Navigating for a ples namel: Between the Museum, Collections, and Communities This paper focuses discussion on museums with cultural objects that were obtained […]
Vale Dr Hugh Gallagher OAS is sad to announce the passing of another of its founding members who remained with us until the last, Dr Hugh Gallagher, 29.09.1929 – 12.09.2017. Hugh was OAS Member Number 153. Hugh was an avid collector of Oceanic Art with a fine eye for excellence. He donated generously to the […]
Vale David Tribe OAS mourns the loss of one of its founding and staunchest members, David Tribe, OAS Member number 66, who passed away in Sydney 30 May 2017 aged 85. In 1960s London, he enjoyed a varied career, creatively, as an intellectual, and as a secular activist. David returned to Sydney in the 1970s. […]
By Jim Elmslie Dr. Ross Bowden gave an overview of the Savage Club collection, noting that very little documentation exists concerning the origins of the works but that most are from the nineteenth century, with some works of great quality and rarity. Two sources that were recorded were the famous anthropologist and Director of the […]
By Noëlle Rathmell-Stiels In its sixteenth year, the Parisian Tribal Art fair has taken visitors on a voyage of discovery to new horizons, sailing from Polynesia to the borders of contemporary art. From 12 to 17 September 2017 a total of sixty-six exhibitors, predominantly from France, Belgium and the USA, opened their treasure chests in […]
By Crispin Howarth, Curator, Pacific Arts, National Gallery of Australia Since the mid-1920s, this masterpiece of Oceanic sculpture with its gently twisting elongated torso, oversized hands and stout powerful legs was displayed in a small museum at the Lutheran Wartburg Theological Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa. The museum is a celebration of missionary work by Americans in […]
