Nick Garrett

Category: Australian Aboriginal art

Indigenous Australian art (also known as Aboriginal art) is art made by Indigenous Australians, covering works that pre-date European colonization as well as contemporary art by Aboriginal Australians based on traditional culture. These have been studied in recent decades and gained increased international recognition.[1] Aboriginal art involves a wide range of media including painting on leaves, wood carving, rock carving, sculpture, ceremonial clothing and sandpainting.

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Aboriginal Art Directory Ethics
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The Aboriginal Art Directory stems from creative vision and ideas as public property, a public space for everyone to have a shared experience. The Aboriginal Art Directory will grow from collective and shared efforts. The Aboriginal Art Directory operates under… » READ MORE

Aboriginal Art Authenticity
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Authenticity concerns have been a major issue in the Australian Aboriginal art industry over several years, and many vendors now go out of their way to ensure authenticity. When purchasing Aboriginal art, it is prudent to ask the following questions:… » READ MORE

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Aboriginal Art Directory is proud to have the following sponsors this month: Central Art Aboriginal Art Store Central Art is located in the heartland of the Central Australian Desert and represents one of the largest online Aboriginal Art galleries in… » READ MORE

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Vision The vision for the Aboriginal Art Directory is to: increase exposure for Aboriginal artists, Aboriginal art galleries and Aboriginal art centrespromote Australian Aboriginal art nationally and internationallypromote consumer education about ethics and authenticity considerations and educate buyers to make… » READ MORE

  • Nalda Searles – Western Australian artist

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    Nalda Searles is a living icon of Western Australian art. For nearly thirty years she has been an innovator in the use of native plant fibres and found objects from the environment for the production of fibre-textiles, sculpture and installation artworks.

    Her exhibition ‘Nalda Searles – Drifting in My Own Land’ is an expression of identity in relation to physical and social landscape. Searles has drawn on her own life, memories of her parents and the experiences of numerous regional women she has known in the gradual development of the twenty one exhibition works on view. They make some of the most haunting poetic statements to emerge from Western Australia’s fibre textile sculpture movement and include a grass skull, stately kangaroo headed figures, a vessel woven from the artists own hair and a salvaged pram watched over by a flock of grass birds.

    The exhibition is accompanied by a major publication presenting Searles’ works within the context of her remarkable three decade career and is complimented by an evocative DVD, ‘Nalda Searles – A Stitching of Words. Interpretations of Making and Making Do’, that introduces the artist, her thinking processes and working habits – in her own voice. ‘Nalda Searles – Drifting in My Own Land’ provides insight into the vision of one of Western Australia’s unique and evocative practitioners.

    ‘Nalda Searles – Drifting in My Own Land’ presents new works created by Searles in an intensive period of creativity made possible through funding from the Western Australian Government. Thanks to ART ON THE MOVE and Visions of Australia, this memorable exhibition will tour throughout regional Western Australia and nationally between 2009 and 2013.

    The national tour of this exhibition is managed by ART ON THE MOVE. This exhibition is supported by Visions of Australia, an Australian Government program supporting touring exhibitions by providing funding assistance for the development and touring of Australian cultural material across Australia.

    Nalda Searles, ‘Siphon’ 2007, common fodder, red wool blanket, cotton thread, 310 x 310 x 380mm.

    Photograph: Eva Fernandez, Acknowledgment: Fodder sourced from Peter and Daphne Tye in Dardanup, WA, 2007/2008

  • Mountain: after the first snow fall

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    The subject for new paintings just fell into place. Click images to enlarge..