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SUMMARY:Voir Tahiti\, premières photographies\, 1859–1870
DESCRIPTION:29 September 2026–31 January 2027Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac\, Paris \nThis rare photographic collection explores French Polynesia’s earliest decade of photography and features works by naval officers Gustave Viaud and Paul Émile Miot. \nIn 2023\, the museum acquired an exceptional collection containing some of the first photographs made in French Polynesia between 1859 and 1870. The complementary approaches of Viaud and Miot offer rare testimony to a territory that was still very little photographed at the time. \nThe exhibition brings together two viewpoints produced a decade apart: images by an unknown naval surgeon and by a photographer who was already recognised in his lifetime. Together\, they offer an unprecedented photographic rediscovery. \nView exhibition information
URL:https://www.oceanicartsociety.org.au/event/voir-tahiti-premieres-photographies-1859-1870/
LOCATION:Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac\, Paris\, France
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SUMMARY:Robyn Kahukiwa: My Ancestors Are Always With Me
DESCRIPTION:14 October 2026–7 February 2027Museum of Contemporary Art Australia\, Sydney \nThis is the first Australian exhibition dedicated to Sydney-born Māori painter Robyn Kahukiwa (1938–2025; Ngāti Porou\, Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti\, Ngāti Konohi\, Te Whānau-a-Ruataupare)\, presented only a short time after her passing. \nKahukiwa was one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s pre-eminent painters. Her vibrant works consider Māori life\, culture and politics\, with a particular focus on the status of Māori women. They also examine the continuing impacts of colonisation for Māori. \nRobyn Kahukiwa: My Ancestors Are Always With Me speaks to the experiences of Indigenous people globally and the struggle for identity and belonging in the face of land and language loss\, migration and urbanisation. \nThe exhibition was developed in partnership by Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. \nView exhibition information
URL:https://www.oceanicartsociety.org.au/event/robyn-kahukiwa-my-ancestors-are-always-with-me/
LOCATION:Museum of Contemporary Art\, 140 Georges St\, The Rocks\, Sydney\, NSW\, 2000\, Australia
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SUMMARY:Oceanic Art Society Forum XIV
DESCRIPTION:The Oceanic Art Society will hold its Fourteenth Forum on Saturday 14 November 2026\, in conjunction with the opening of Billy Missi’n Wakain Thamai. This national touring exhibition is presented by NorthSite Contemporary Arts in partnership with the Torres Strait Regional Authority’s Gab Titui Cultural Centre (TSRA)\, and toured by Museums & Galleries Queensland. \nForum at a glance\n\nTheme: Art and Material Culture of the Torres Strait Islands\nDate: Saturday 14 November 2026\nVenue: Burrinja Cultural Centre\, 351 Glenfern Road\, Upwey\, Victoria\n\nBook your Forum ticket \n\nForum dinner\nSaturday 14 November 2026\, 7:00–10:00 pmHoliday Inn Bistro\, Dandenong\, Victoria \nContinue the conversation after the Forum and share stories from the day over a two-course meal (entrée and main)\, with a complimentary drink and nibbles on arrival. The dinner will also feature an auction of Oceanic art objects. \nBook your Forum dinner ticket \n\nForum raffle\nRaffle tickets are on sale now. This important fundraiser helps cover the cost of providing speakers and amenities at the OAS Forum\, highlighting Torres Strait Islands arts and culture. \n\nFirst prize: Ramu River mask\, personal spirit name Rikirmung Rempagian\, Sepik Region\, Papua New Guinea. Ancient patina with bite stick showing multiple signs of use; old collection number CH256 and spirit names written in pencil on the reverse. 50 × 17 cm. Ex Richard Aldridge; collected at Nimnim Village\, November 2004.\nSecond prize: A $2\,000 gift voucher for Mark Blackburn Art.\nThird prize: War Art and Ritual: Shields From the Pacific\, two volumes by William Nathaniel Evans.\n\nBuy Forum raffle tickets \n\nAccommodation discounts\nTwo Dandenong hotels have offered discounts to OAS Forum attendees. \nHoliday Inn Dandenong\nBook the 20% partner rate. \nWhen booking through the link\, choose room only. Breakfast normally costs about $34; guests who add breakfast at check-in will receive the special group rate of $20. \nQuest Dandenong Central\nBook at Quest Dandenong Central and enter promo code QDCNOV15BB under “Have a promo or corporate code?” \n\nSelect dates between 11 and 17 November 2026.\nSelect your preferred room. The rate should default to “Aarons Group NOV”.\nBreakfast is included and is served in the restaurant next door on the ground floor.\nFor a longer stay or an earlier arrival\, email Aaron Rooke at arooke@questapartments.com.au to have the discount extended.\n\n\nKeynote speakers\nDr Leah Lui-Chivizhe\nDr Leah Lui-Chivizhe is a cultural historian of the Torres Strait Islands and a Scientia Senior Lecturer and researcher at UNSW. Her current research explores how nineteenth-century collections from the region can revitalise and reconnect Islanders with pre-colonial histories of human and more-than-human relations\, and contribute to decolonising practices in collecting institutions. Her book\, Masked Histories: Turtle Shell Masks and Torres Strait Islander People (2022)\, was highly commended for Australian History in the 2023 NSW Premier’s History Awards. \nMeriam koskir: objects\, stories and knowledge\nLeah will reflect on her collaborative work with Aunty Elsa Day on “Meriam koskir: turdi a pe uridli” for Fault Lines: Imagining Indigenous Futures for Colonial Collections\, held in 2024–2025 at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology\, University of Cambridge. \nProfessor Ian McNiven\nProfessor Ian McNiven is Research Professor of Indigenous Archaeology at the Monash Indigenous Studies Centre and a Chief Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures. He has undertaken anthropologically informed archaeological research in collaboration with numerous Torres Strait Islander communities for 30 years. He is passionate about Aboriginal and Melanesian material culture and how ethnographic objects can help us understand the deep past. \nFraming the history of Torres Strait art\nThe historical development of European artistic traditions is well understood and critical to the appreciation of associated artworks. But what do we know about the long-term historical development of Indigenous artistic traditions? How do we frame such histories in the absence of textual records? This presentation explores how museum ethnographic objects and archaeological evidence can help us understand the development of Torres Strait artistic traditions over the past 1\,000 years. \nDr Jude Philp\nDr Jude Philp is Senior Curator of the Macleay Collections at the Chau Chak Wing Museum\, University of Sydney. Her education from people in Zenadth Kes formed part of her PhD in social anthropology. With Anita Herle\, she edited Recording Kastom (Sydney University Press\, 2020)\, a publication of Haddon’s field diaries. \nArt/History/Life: the collections of A. C. Haddon in Torres Strait\nHaddon worked with the peoples of Zenadth Kes between 1888 and the 1930s. During his major fieldwork in 1888 and 1898\, he collected thousands of Islanders’ belongings\, commissioned objects he could not purchase and took hundreds of photographs. Stored mainly within the British Museum and the University of Cambridge’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology\, these belongings hold stories old and new\, some personal and some public. This talk focuses on the public side of the collection and the Islanders who worked closely with Haddon. \nDaniel Dow\nDaniel Dow is from the Komet and Peibre Tribes of Mer\, Murray Island group (Kemer Kemer Meriam)\, and is Project Officer for the Repatriation Project at the Queensland Museum. \nWhat’s so Secret about the Sacred?\nIn story and song\, Daniel sheds light on some of the more mysterious aspects of working with First Nations cultural material. Gain an understanding of the spiritual challenges First Nations teams face in their work and how you can support them. \nTheo Tremblay\nTheo Tremblay is a master printmaker from Cairns and a pioneer of collaborative printmaking and publishing. He has mentored Aboriginal and Zenadth Kes artists in a range of print techniques over many years. After studying at the Boston Museum School\, he continued his printmaking studies at the Ruskin School at Oxford University\, Prahran CAE in Melbourne and the College of Fine Arts at UNSW. In 1977 he co-founded the Australian Print Workshop in Melbourne. From 1981 to 1991 he taught drawing and lithography at the Institute of the Arts in Canberra\, and established No Fixed Press\, printing collaboratively with artists since that time. \nGoing South\, Looking North: Tracking Contemporary Zenadth Kes Printmaking\nTheo will provide a historical overview of the evolution of contemporary printmaking as a major movement in northern Queensland from the mid-1970s to the present\, examining its current scale and complexity as well as its successes\, weaknesses\, opportunities and threats. \nAdrian Newstead\nAdrian Newstead is one of Australia’s most respected authorities on Aboriginal art. He is President of the Aboriginal Art Association of Australia and has been a leading advocate for Indigenous artists and culture for more than four decades. He is a former President of the Art Consulting Association of Australia\, a former Director of Aboriginal Tourism Australia and a founding member of Austrade’s Visual Art Export Panel. The author of The Dealer is the Devil: An Insider’s History of the Aboriginal Art Trade\, he has written extensively on the Aboriginal art market and Indigenous cultural affairs. \nThe Genesis of the Contemporary Torres Strait Island Printmaking Movement\nDrawing on his first involvement with regional art programs in Cairns in the mid-1980s\, Adrian will discuss the initial funding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander printmaking and the empowerment of pioneers including Dennis Nona\, Alick Tipoti\, Billy Missi\, David Bosun and Victor Motlop. He will consider how artists preserve culture through the ancient tradition of incised mark-making in turtle shell\, wood\, pumice and stone\, carried into contemporary printmaking. Adrian purchased the first printing press in the Torres Strait\, used by Billy Missi and others in the Kubin community on Moa Island. He also initiated the Australian Art Print Network and helped art centres including Moa Arts develop business plans. In 2009 he helped revive the careers of Ken Thaiday Snr and other Far North Queensland and Torres Strait Islander artists by initiating and funding Canopy Arts\, the multidisciplinary art and printmaking studios in Cairns. \n\nFilm\, exhibition opening and cultural program\nWaku – Minaral A Minalay\nA 10-minute screening of David Bridie’s film about Christine Anu and the production of her 2024–2026 project\, Waku – Minaral A Minalay\, her first original album in 20 years. The project follows their collaboration on her iconic 1995 debut\, Stylin’ Up. \nBilly Missi’n Wakain Thamai — official exhibition opening\nThe exhibition honours the late Torres Strait Islander artist Billy Missi (1970–2012)\, born on Mabuiag Island and deeply influenced by the storytelling\, song and dance traditions of his Wagadagam Tribe. Beginning in earnest in the 1990s\, his artistic journey combined traditional carving techniques with modern linocut methods\, creating a distinctive aesthetic that earned international recognition. \nBilly Missi’n Wakain Thamai is a national touring exhibition presented by NorthSite Contemporary Arts in partnership with the Torres Strait Regional Authority’s Gab Titui Cultural Centre (TSRA)\, and toured by Museums & Galleries Queensland. \n\nWelcome to Country and Smoking Ceremony\nSong and dance performance by Peggy Missi and the Maluilgal Dance Troupe\, comprising relatives of Billy Missi\n\n\nInstallation view\, Billy Missi’n Wakain Thamai\, NorthSite Contemporary Arts\, Bulmba-ja\, Cairns\, Queensland\, 2020. Photograph by Michael Marzik; courtesy of NorthSite Contemporary Arts.\nBook your Forum ticket \n\nOptional Sunday activities\nBurrinja Cultural Centre\n\nBilly Missi’n Wakain Thamai curator’s floor talk with Russell Milledge\, NorthSite Contemporary Arts.\nIntroduction to intaglio print — a printmaking workshop with master printmaker Theo Tremblay.\n\nTime: 10:00 am–3:45 pm \nExternal collection visits\n\nMalcom Davidson collection\, private residence\, Brighton — booking required.\nNeil McLeod collection exhibition\, private residence\, Tecoma — no booking required.\n\nOther venues\n\nKoorie Heritage Trust: Weaving the Everywhen: Connecting with Deep Country in the Present and Journey Among Men. Birrarung Building\, Fed Square; open daily\, 10:00 am–5:00 pm.\nNational Gallery of Victoria: Bark Salon and Wurrdha Marra (“Many Mobs” in the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung language). The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia\, Fed Square; Ground Level; free entry; open daily\, 10:00 am–5:00 pm.\nThe Potter Museum of Art: Ngarn Wa’ngal: Art of the Gum Tree. Corner of Swanston Street and Masson Road\, Parkville; open Tuesday–Saturday\, 11:00 am–5:00 pm.
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LOCATION:Burrinja Cultural Centre\, Upwey\, Victoria\, Upwey (Melbourne)\, Victoria\, Australia
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