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New Free Under 30 OAS Subscription

15/04/2026
The Oceanic Art Society has launched a new and free subscription for everyone Under 30!
People under 30 years of age can register for free to gain full access to 30 years past editions of the OAS Journal in PDF or Flip format, access to digital only latest Journals on the website, receive invitations to OAS events including lectures, fairs and Forums, and attend the annual AGM (although they do not have voting rights reserved to Members.)

This is a wonderful way for anyone from anywhere in the world, to explore the Society and access its extensive trove of research and analysis of all aspects of Oceanic art produced over the last 30 years. Please help us to get the word out to young art lovers, artists and scholars.

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3 weeks ago

[Conférence] L'EXPÉRIENCE COLONIALE PHOTOGRAPHIÉE

JEUDI 11 JUIN 2026 À 18H15
Agence de Développement de la Culture Kanak - Centre culturel Tjibaou
Entrée libre et gratuite (dans la limite des places disponibles)

Conférence de Isabelle Merle, Historienne, Directrice de recherche, CNRS, Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie, Marie Durand , Anthropologue, Maîtresse de conférences, Université de Strasbourg, Institut d'Ethnologie et Christophe Dervieux , Responsable de la Photothèque du Service des Archives de la Nouvelle-Calédonie
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INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM | Oceanic Blazing Forms: Memory, Place-making and Imagination

Tying in with the exhibition Time for Papua, Wereldmuseum Leiden hosts the 14th International Symposium of the Pacific Arts Association on June 23-26.

The symposium is part of a series of gatherings aimed at rethinking global art histories through the expansive and intellectual space of the Wereldmuseum, which challenges the structures and assumptions of both art history and anthropology through new approaches to material culture.

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JUNE 23 | Like a Tifa Drum: The Harder You Beat, the Louder We Become by Ronny Kareni.

JUNE 24 | Toi Te Mana: Understanding Māori art by Deidre Brown.

JUNE 25 | Blazing Voices and the Capacity of Song and Dance: Expression and Social Action in Oceania by Brian Diettrich.

JUNE 26 | Carrying the Line: Memory, Land, and Women’s Cultural Practices in Bougainville by Sana Balai.

🎟️ For more information and tickets see: ow.ly/jyQg50Z67Ii
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The latest edition of the Journal of Oceanic Art Society contains important new scholarship.

With a focus on PNG art, Anna Edmundson writes about the projects undertaken by the National Archives of Australia to connect their collections with PNG communities both in Australia and overseas with a focus on the preservation and digitisation of the F.E. Williams photographic collection (www.oceanicartsociety.org.au/living-archives-the-f-e-williams-collection-and-pngs-50th-independen...). Living Art Papua New Guinea is also reviewed (www.oceanicartsociety.org.au/living-art-papua-new-guinea/).

Carved anthropomorphic figures of Pacific Oceania are known by the general term of tiki. Judy Robinson has provided a fascinating account of tiki in architecture. The introduction of Christianity in Oceania made links between tiki and architecture less evident in postcolonial era buildings as tiki carvings were intentionally erased from structures. However, in some places, notably Aotearoa New Zealand, the architectural presence of tiki has prevailed into the modern era (www.oceanicartsociety.org.au/tiki-in-architecture/).

Bill William George Rathmell has provided a review of the permanent Austronesian Hall in the Museum of Prehistory located in Taitung in the south of Taiwan focuses on Taiwan’s indigenous peoples’ own explorer settler history as the birthplace of the Oceanic culture that 4000 or more years ago began to spread over Island South East Asia and the Pacific (www.oceanicartsociety.org.au/where-taiwan-meets-the-world-contemporary-museology-of-oceania/).

Have you checked out back copies of the Journal yet?

While latest Journals are only available online to members, earlier Journals are available online (www.oceanicartsociety.org.au/category/journal-stories/).

We are a small group of volunteers who are supporting the appreciation of Oceanic Art both old and new. We are always looking for new members and new volunteers.

If you are not already a financial member of the Oceanic Art Society (OAS), please consider supporting the ongoing work of the OAS by joining today.

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