NGV and AGNSW directors demand urgent support as Australian artists struggle to survive

The NGV director earns $760,000 a year – but the average Australian creative takes home as little as $23,000. The country’s ...

Margaret Preston helped define Australian modern art but took from First Nations artists to do it

After World War I, Margaret Preston embarked on a quest to create a unique, national art identity — but she took from First ...
Artnet

Australian Indigenous Art Is Having a Moment. Here’s How It Happened

While Indigenous Australian art is an incredibly broad and diverse term, encompassing a range of First Nations cultures and creators, one intriguing facet is the role art centers in Indigenous ...
Observer

The Largest-Ever Survey of Indigenous Australian Art Is Coming to the U.S.

Amid growing recognition of Indigenous art in the contemporary art world, a new partnership is set to elevate the global presence of Indigenous works. The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., ...
Hyperallergic

Indigenous Watercolor Artists Render the Australian Landscape Anew

Lenie Namatjira, "Mt Gillen, near Alice Springs" (2016), watercolor and fiber-tipped pen over pencil, 7.87 x 11 inches (© Lenie Namatjira/Licensed by Copyright ...
The Digital Universe

BYU’s Museum of Art welcomes Aboriginal Australian artists

Marlene Nampitjina speaks about her art with MOA visitors. Nampitjina shared stories about her family and their connections to her art. (Emmeline Blythe) BYU’s Museum of Art hosted an artist panel to ...
The Conversation

These Australian women modernist painters were overlooked, and forgotten. A century later, they are in the spotlight

Grace Crowley, Les baigneuses (The bathers), 1928, oil on canvas on hardboard, 45.2 × 64.2 cm. National Gallery of Australia, gift of the artist 1979 © Reproduced ...
VICE

Australia’s Giving Almost $300 Million to The Arts — Do Artists Think It’ll Help?

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese revealed the Federal Government’s new National Cultural Policy, Revive, on Monday. It’s the first federal arts policy Australia has had since 2013 and will commit $286 ...
The Conversation

Friday essay: The Australian art market has flatlined. What can be done to revive it?

In the market parlance of boom and bust cycles, the Australian art market has long been leaning towards the latter. Over the past decade, it has performed very poorly. According to Australian Art ...
Hyperallergic

Is Australian Aboriginal Art Part of the African Diaspora?

Fiona Foley, "HHH" (2004). Courtesy of artist/Niagara Galleries. (via MoCADA.org) I just started reading Toure’s Post Blackness: What It means to be Black Now, which features a number of black artists ...