MARK COLVIN: In Western Australia Aboriginal artists are meeting to discuss how to share their skills with members of their remote communities. The artists have travelled for the course from some of ...

Vanessa Russ is a former Associate Director of the Berndt Museum of Anthropology and is currently an Adjunct Research Fellow at UWA. Jason M. Gibson has received research funding from the Australian ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In 1971, at a remote government settlement in Australia’s Northern Territory called Papunya, a group of elderly Aboriginal men painted designs from ancestral creation stories onto a ...

In May, scientists and archaeologists from the Australian Museum uncovered a 4,000-year-old Aboriginal rock art site at Eagles Reach, literally on Sydney’s doorstep. Despite the abundance of many ...

Knight’s rescue mission salvaged over 100 works, but more than 300 were destroyed. His determination reflects Aboriginal art’s newfound status both in Australia and in the larger art world. Ignored as ...

The first thing that strikes visitors at the latest exhibition at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) is the purple; it blankets the walls, ceiling and even the windows. This is the ...

Marlene Rubjunta’s love affair with soft sculpture – the art of shaping soft materials like cloth and rubber – was slow to ignite. When the Australian Indigenous artist first walked into a community ...