Over the next couple of weeks Bob Gosford is focusing on a poorly recognised phenomenon: the collective claiming of rights to and possession of country by Aboriginal people through art.
Indigenous art
Alice Springs: still dumb and racist?
A month ago Bob Gosford wrote about how the Alice Springs town council banned street artists, all of whom are indigenous. Do we need a bill of rights to protect individuals against laws like these? asks Gosford.
Director of National Gallery of Australia surrenders his job — sort of
Ron Radford, Director of the National Gallery of Australia, made a bold announcement — if any of the graduates of the new Indigenous Arts Fellowship at the NGA wanted his job, they could have it.
Art dealers slam ‘meaningless bureaucratic bullshit’ for indigenous industry
From the managers of the remote art centres to the big-city galleries that deal in the fine-art end of the Aboriginal art market, all are still saying that the Resale Royalty scheme will prove to be a financial disaster.
Aboriginal art reaches a crossroads under the stars in Darwin
There is nothing in the world quite like the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA), with an uneasy coexistence between the commercial art world and Indigenous cultural imperatives, writes Henry F. Skerritt.
The most eye-opening show of Aboriginal art ever
Graphic designer and culture mulcher W. H. Chong looks at ‘Ancestral power and the aesthetic’, an exhibition displaying the first shoots of the now enormous forest of the Aboriginal art industry.
Experts say Garrett’s art resale royalty proposal is a dud
Garrett’s model for the resale royalty scheme has been the subject of bitter opposition from the big end of town – the large auction houses and art dealers. But what about the indigenous artists at the centre of Garrett’s scheme? Bob Gosford reports.
