Coo-ee gallery is delighted to present Rosella Namok’s second solo show since joining the gallery in 2011. Namok returns to Coo-ee fresh from her latest project, a collaboration with the Houston Ballet designing and painting the dramatic backdrops for their production of The Rite of Spring. Her latest works are a meditative exploration of …

Revenue generated by indigenous corporations from art sales has halved in the past five years, forcing them to look for other sources of income. Anthony Beven, the registrar of indigenous corporations, said there had been a 52 per cent fall in art sales since 2007 to about $10 million and it was one of several …

It is with great sadness that I write of the death Torres Strait Islander artist Billy Missi at just 42 years of age. He died just before Christmas of a heart attack following complications from a leg infection. Billy was a great bloke and a fine ambassador for his people. We first met in 2000 …

Who do you call when someone disparages your Degas, pooh-poohs your Picasso or disses your Dali? Until recently, authenticating an artwork was pretty straightforward. But in the wake of a series of high profile and very costly court cases in Australia and overseas, experts are going to ground, with ramifications not only for artists and …

IT is arcs and flowing dot-mark lines and angles, it portrays the world in patterns and in rhythms, in every bark, every carved ironwood pole and canvas it asserts itself. The sun’s glare, the moon’s glow, the black of night, all these shown in ochre, the land’s own pigment. Such is the art of the …

FOUR leading Warmun artists from Western Australia are in Melbourne for the opening of their respective exhibitions at three prestigious inner-city galleries, and some of the works include their impressions of the region’s floods last year. Warmun Art Centre’s manager, Jonathan Kimberley, says the Melbourne shows are ”a turning point for the 80 artists across …

IN the early days of the Papunya Tula painting movement, which gave rise to much of modern Aboriginal art as we know it, spirituality, law and culture flowed forth. Artists painted with abandon, not imagining their work would be widely shown. Images of dreamings, sacred objects and secret ceremonies made their way from the natural, …

Until December 22 Pick up a gift of Indigenous art at this exhibition at Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Bondi. Betty Mufflers’ Inma Dancing is pictured. Details: cooeeart.com.au -Wentworth Courier, Wednesday November 28. 2012

THE most comprehensive collection of art highlighting indigenous life in Australia is seeking a permanent home and James Packer’s proposed Barangaroo casino is the prime site. Assembled by artists Gordon and Elaine Syron, the priceless collection documents the Aboriginal struggle over the past half century. The collection, which has been moving from home to home, …

SILENTLY, on gloved hands, a painting is carried through crisply expectant air. Necks crane to catch the first glimpse of its earthy colours, a sacred object long concealed but not forgotten. “When a painting comes out of the drawer, it comes back to us,” says Sid Anderson, a senior cultural figure from the central Australian …