Content tagged with Art
Ocean Guardian – Malu Yawa Garka
“Stingrays … glide over the Reef without touching the coral, just as humankind should not touch the Reef.” Brian Robinson, 2017...
Blog post - 17 Mar 2020
The difference identity makes: Indigenous Cultural Capital in Australian Cultural Fields
Through the struggles of Indigenous Australians for recognition and self-determination it has become common sense to understand Australia as made up...
Publication or resource - 23 May 2019
A Rare Pine Needle & Raffia Mat by Marilyne Nicholls
In 2016, AIATSIS acquired a tiny woven object only 16cm in diameter for our Art and Object Collection. Its small size belies the complex story...
Blog post - 7 Nov 2018
Australian Aboriginal Studies: Issue 1, 2017
Abstracts Photoyarn: Aboriginal and Mãori girls’ researching contemporary boarding school experiences — Jessa Rogers Abstract: Few studies...
Publication or resource - 9 Jul 2018
Jimmy Pike
Jimmy AIATSIS Collection [ATS 1036_176] Jimmy Pike (approximately 1940-2002) was a Walmajarri man of the Great Sandy Desert and prolific...
Explore article - 29 Jun 2018
Reading Room Display: The Kerry Reed-Gilbert collection
Man & Women (vases) The Kerry Reed-Gilbert Collection AIATSIS (R02181 - ATS 1078_064_065) Kerry Reed-Gilbert is a Wiradjuri elder,...
Blog post - 27 Jun 2018
Inauthentic Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander 'style' art and craft products inquiry
AIATSIS submission to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Indigenous Affairs’ inquiry into the growing presence of inauthentic...
Publication or resource - 20 Jun 2018
Photographing large paintings in the Stanner Room
On an evening in early March 2018 members of the AIATSIS Photographic Digitisation team started to clear furniture out from the Stanner Room, the...
Blog post - 19 Jun 2018
Australia: the Vatican Museums Indigenous collection
Australia: The Vatican Museum’s Indigenous Collection The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)...
News - 13 Dec 2017
Australia: The Vatican Museums Indigenous Collection
From the ancient Etruscans and Romans, to the Renaissance masters of Michelangelo and Raphael, the Vatican Museums represent an aspect of the...
Publication or resource - 18 Oct 2017
Koolark koort koorliny: reconciliation, art and storytelling in an Australian Aboriginal community
In Nyungar Country, in the south-west corner of Western Australia, reconciliation has taken a significant step forward as the whole community expe...
News - 20 Jun 2017
Warlpiri Drawings included on Memory of the World Register
(L-R) David Jeffery, AIATSIS, Gerald Watson from Warnayaka Art Centre, Lajamanu and Professor Melinda Hinkson, Deakin University. The...
News - 9 Feb 2017
Capturing the AIATSIS Possum Skin Cloak
A few hundred years ago, a newborn Aboriginal baby in southeast Australia would have likely been protected from the extreme cold and wet weather by a...
Blog post - 6 Feb 2017
Aboriginal Art Market success!
On a recent hot and humid December weekend, we hosted our fifth Aboriginal art market in Canberra. Despite the heat, the events reputation for...
Blog post - 14 Dec 2016
Possum skin cloak for AIATSIS
Possum skin cloak designer Lee Darroch with AIATSIS Curator Alana Garwood-Houng. On a cold and wet winter morning in Canberra, staff from the...
News - 14 Oct 2016
Baskets Hold a History
The presentation Baskets Hold a History based on the Masters thesis of artist, Art and Artefacts Curator and Step Up participant Alana Garwood-Houng...
News - 17 Aug 2015
Baskets Hold a History
[[nid:24362]] Baskets held in museums may seem as though they are empty, but held within them are histories. It is not always visible but with...
Presentation - 14 Aug 2015
Baskets Hold a History
I acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land that we are meeting on today and the elders past and present. I acknowledge the elders in the...
Video - 14 Aug 2015
Linoprint works by Kevin Gilbert
Kevin Gilbert was noted as the first Aboriginal person to create linoprint works. Read more about the man and his artworks.
Gallery - 28 Jul 2015
My Father’s Studio
Wiradjuri artist, poet and writer, Kevin Gilbert. Photo: Courtesy of Gilbert family Written by Wiradjuri woman and AIATSIS Step Up participant...
Explore article - 27 Jul 2015