McCulloch & McCulloch News
McCulloch & McCulloch have a stand at the upcoming Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair .
The third Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair is taking place from the 13 to 15th of August 2009 in Darwin. The Fair coincides with the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAAs) and the Darwin Festival, a time when the city of Darwin becomes the focal point of the nation for visitors with an interest in Aboriginal arts.
The Fair is like no other in Australia. Under one roof buyers of Indigenous art will find around 30 different art centres, including some from very remote and inaccessible communities across Australia including Arnhem Land, the Kimberley Region, Central Australia and the Torres Strait Islands.
The Art Fair provides a unique opportunity for arts industry buyers and the public to purchase art directly from the Indigenous owned and incorporated art centres, to see the work of emerging as well as established artists, to meet the artists and to find out about the variety of different cultural groups producing art, as well as the range of styles, mediums and products available. There will be paintings on canvas, bark paintings, works on paper, timber and metal sculptures, limited edition prints, didjeridus, fibre art and jewelry.
The diversity of Indigenous art at the Fair is remarkable. We look forward to seeing you there!
13-15 August 2009
Chan Building, Bennett Park
Darwin City
www.darwinaboriginalartfair.com.au
Visual art publishing in Australia: its triumphs and tribulations
with Susan McCulloch & Emily McCulloch Childs, book publishers and art writers
Monday 27 July 2009 10.30am for talk 11am–12 noon
M $5 G $7 (includes door prize) Venue: MPRG
No bookings required
Gain insight into the history of visual arts publishing in Australia, as Susan & Emily share their challenges and successes from the perspective of having managed McCulloch’s Encyclopedia of Australian Art for twenty years. They will discuss their formative years learning from Alan McCulloch, the well-known critic, author and founding Director of MPRG, in the fields of writing, curating and other art projects.
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
Civic Reserve
Dunns Road
Mornington
Victoria 3931
Telephone: 03 5975 4395
Fax: 03 5977 0377
Email: mprg@mornpen.vic.gov.au
Website: http://mprg.mornpen.vic.gov.au
Paintings from the Central and Western Deserts by:
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa, Kathleen Ngale, Emily Pwerle, Barbara Weir,
Thomas Tjapaltjarri, Molly Pwerle, Pantjiti Mary McLean, Walala Tjapaltjarri & Melbourne artist Trevor Turbo Brown.
As well as new and emerging artists, sculptures from Maningrida, textiles from Better World Arts.
Opening Night: Wednesday 22 July 2009 @ 6pm
Dates: Wed 22 July - 2 August 2009
Opening House: Mon-Fri 10am-5pm
Sat & Sun 1pm - 5pm
Glen Eira City Council Gallery
cnr Glen Eira and Hawthorn Roads
Caulfield 3162
General Enquiries: 03 9524 3402
Enquiries Jennifer Dudley 9882 7696 or 0418 353 945
www.outback-aboriginal-art.com
From the Alice Springs News:
"An exhibition of Kaltjiti artists at Gallery Gondwana marked the Alice Springs launch of a book that traces the modern history of arts and crafts in the PY (Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara) lands of northern South Australia.
The book, Painting the Song, is by Diana James who has worked with the Pitjantjatjara people since 1975 as a student of their language and culture and as an advisor in their arts and cultural tourism enterprises.
James was Kaltjiti’s first advisor and began recording the history of the art centre in 2006 on a series of extensive trips to the artists’ traditional countries.
She also delved deep in archival material: the book brings to light never before published material including rare 1940s photographs of the artists’ forebears by anthropologist Charles Mountford.
Painting the Song is the fourth Aboriginal art title to be published in the last 12 months by McCulloch & McCulloch, known especially for their McCulloch’s Encyclopedia of Australian Art and, more recently, for Contemporary Aboriginal Art: the complete guide.
Launching Painting the Song, historian Dick Kimber commended the exquisite design of the book, saying that it had set a standard that other publishers “will have to beat”.
See more on Painting the Song here.
McCulloch & McCulloch is proud to present two new stunning art diaries for 2010.
Our popular McCulloch's Australian Art Diary is back for next year and looking more stunning than ever. Our cover for 2010 features a stunning work by Rosalie Gascoigne with details of 52 images by a wide range of Australian artists from our books - McCulloch’s Encyclopedia of Australian Art; McCulloch’s Contemporary Aboriginal Art: the complete guide; The Heart of Everything; the art and artists of Mornington & Bentinck Islands; New Beginnings: Classic Paintings of the Corrigan Collection of 21st Century Aboriginal Art and Painting the Song: Kaltjiti Artists of the Sand Dune Country.
And we are pleased to be the publishers of the inaugural Queensland Indigenous Art Diary 2010, a beautifully illustrated, small format, high quality diary that celebrates the work of more than 60 Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander painters, weavers, carvers, printmakers, photographers and new media artists with more than 70 images of their dynamic artwork.
This diary will be launched by QIAMEA at the inaugural Cairns Indigenous Art Fair August 21-23 2009.
Check these exciting new diaries out on our upcoming books page.
To be launched by Dick Kimber, anthropologist & author
Saturday June 27 2009
3 pm
Gallery Gondwana
43 Todd Mall, Alice Springs
Book launch in conjunction with the exhibition Contemporary Art of Kaltjiti
RSVP: June 23
Susan McCulloch
McCulloch & McCulloch
Phone: + 61 3 59 898 282
Fax: + 61 3 59 898 276
Email: info@mccullochandmcculloch.com.au
Susan McCulloch will be speaking on a panel hosted by Geraldine Dogue alongside National Museum of Australia's Margo Neale, Queensland Art Gallery's Bruce McLean and collector Phillip Harding at this coming Noosa Long Weekend.
The Rise and Rise of Aboriginal Art: Understanding Indigenous Art
Australian Indigenous art has taken the art world by storm. Why? For insider information, broadcaster Geraldine Doogue questions those at the ‘rock-face’.
Susan McCulloch - art book publisher, consultant and leading media art writer. Co-author of McCulloch’s Encyclopaedia of Australian Art and McCulloch’s Contemporary Aboriginal Art, her clout in this field is born out of passion and vast research into Australia’s remote art producing regions.
Margo Neale is a Senior Research Fellow, Senior Curator and Principal Advisor to the Director on Indigenous matters at the National Museum of Australia, also Adjunct Professor at ANU’s Centre for Indigenous History. Widely published on topics including social history, art in the Asia-Pacific region and Indigenous art, Dr Neale is currently curating a major international exhibition on Emily Kame Kngwarreye.
Phillip Harding is an avid fan of Australian art, with a particular passion for Indigenous works. Not just a collector, Phillip gets to know the artists themselves and is committed to promotion of their talent. Selections from the diverse Harding Family Collection have been shown in both local exhibitions and interstate galleries.
Bruce McLean is Associate Curator, Indigenous Australian Art at the Queensland Art gallery and prolific contributor to many Gallery and art industry publications. He was 2002’s National Aboriginal Youth of the Year and selected to participate in Australia Council’s 2007 Indigenous curator’s program.
Sunday 21st June 4.00pm $55
Noosa Blue
Duration: Approximately 2 hours.
Inclusions: Canapes - glass of Australian bottled wine, beer, or soft drink.
Please visit site for program and tickets.
Date of Event:
Saturday 20th June 2009
Event Details
Exhibition featuring Wildflowers plus the Kaltjiti Arts book launch 'Painting the Song'.
A dynamic exhibition of Kaltjiti Artists paintings - inspired by their sand dune country, the country of their spirit.
Artists will be in attendance at the opening
Evening 6-8pm Saturday 20 June.
Beverley Peacock, Art Centre Manager & Dr. Diana James, Author of 'Painting the Song' will also be attendance.
The exhibition will run until 5 July 2009.
Putipula Gallery
Upstairs @ 27 Sunshine Beach Road
Noosa Heads 4567 Queensland, Australia
Phone: (07) 5449 2511
E-Mail: gilli@putipula.com
Opening Hours Monday - Friday 11-5pm & Saturday 11-4pm
