THE OCEANIC ART SOCIETY INVITES YOU TO ATTEND A LECTURE BY DAVID PAYNEpreceded by a tribute toHarry Beran from JOHN GREENSHIELDS Wednesday 19 May 2021National Art School,Forbes Street, Darlinghurst,Cell Block Theatre 6:30pm: Registration 7.00pm: Lecture Purchase TicketsMembers $15 | Non members $20 | Students $10(Capacity limited to 70 people)Refreshments will be served.The canoes of the Milne Bay Province and the Massim communities of Papua New […]
Aboriginalities – Royal Museums of Fine Art of Belgium
ART EXHIBITIONS 01-04-2021> 01-08-2021 Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. “Aboriginalities” immerses you into the fascinating universe of Aboriginal painting – an art form that is both ancestral and contemporary, always rooted in spirituality. Far more than a simple physical and sensory experience, Aboriginal art invites us to rethink our connection to the earth and the universe. […]
Cooee Art is Opening a New Flagship Art Gallery and Auction Space in Redfern.
Australia’s oldest exhibiting Aboriginal fine art gallery is expanding to a new Sydney location. By Ben Hansen – Concrete Playground.MARCH 23, 202170Shares . Australia’s oldest exhibiting Aboriginal fine art gallery is expanding, with Cooee Art opening a new flagship gallery and auction space in Redfern. The organisation has been operating out of its Bondi Beach location since […]
PAA – Europe Conference Programme. Online Zoom Meeting.
Pacific Arts Association – Europe Conference Programme Hosted by the National Museum of Museum of World Cultures, Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden, the Netherlands Wednesday 24 March – Friday 26 March 2021 Online Zoom meeting – registration links to follow Remaking and renewing practices and skills This year’s meeting entitled Remaking and Renewing Practices and Skills centres […]
In Memoriam : Harry Beran
To Members and Friends of the Oceanic Art Society It is with heavy hearts that we have learned of the death of Harry Beran, founder member and first President of the Society, in Cambridge, England, last Thursday, as he approached the age of 85. Harry’s contribution to the Oceanic Art Society and to the understanding […]
Chris Boylan – Catalogue for San Francisco Tribal Art Fair 2021
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VIDEO PRESENTATION | Dr Barry Craig: New Guinea – what I did and what I saw.
Oceanic Art Society Lecture Meeting 19 September 2018. “I went to New Guinea in 1962 as an Education Officer (‘chalkie’) and asked to be posted to Telefomin where I remained until 1965. I returned to Telefomin to do field research for short periods in 1967, 1968, 1969 and for a year in 1972-73. Then as […]
A New Year Message from the Oceanic Art Society Committee.
Despite the many trials and tribulations of the year 2020, the OAS has continued to make plans for the future, and we even managed to hold a couple of exciting “live” meetings and talks in Sydney – most recently our 25th Annual General Meeting and end-of-year event, which was a great success. The Committee has worked […]
TIWI : Aboriginal Art Exhibition in Melbourne
This exhibition of 153 works from the National Gallery of Victoria’s collection , supplemented by 130 loans of rare historical objects and contemporary works drawn from Australian public and private collections, will run from 13 November 2020 to 8 March 2021. TIWI also premiers YOYI (Dance), an exciting multi-channel projection video work, which comprises sound […]
Casoar : Blog on Oceanic Art
Students of Oceanic Art – future curators and academics – from the Ecole du Louvre in Paris banded together in 2019 and launched an association with a fantastic blog which is named CASOAR (cassowary in French). You can access it in French/English on https://casoar.org/