The Cocoon Of Prayers Live Feed - Week 4
Live from the Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin Northern Territory, Australia.
Endurance Art at NCCA.
Aboriginal Art in the Northern Territory
Aboriginal Art in Australia's Northern Territory
The Top End of Australia's Northern Territory is home to a wealth of Aboriginal art that reflects the spirit of the people and the intense connection they have with the land. From ancient dot paintings derived from drawings in the desert sand through to more contemporary bark paintings, each piece offers a glimpse into the rich history of the Aboriginal people and the Dreamtime stories of the world's oldest living culture thought to be more than 50,000 years old.
Aboriginal artwork was traditionally used as a teaching tool to pass on knowledge regarding ownership, responsibilities, beliefs and practices. It revealed a range of ancestral stories that had been passed down through generations, explaining connections with the land, tribal customs and traditional law. Today Aboriginal art has firmly made its way onto the international indigenous art scene.
Referred as the Dreamtime, these stories are the gateway to understanding the rich history and beliefs of the Aboriginal people.
Exploring Aboriginal art in the Territorys Top End will take you across wetlands and billabongs, along spectacular sandstone escarpments to the woodland savannah country.
Take up the trail in Darwin and see the stunning collections at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory before browsing the numerous galleries.
Home to various Aboriginal language groups for more than 40,000 years, Kakadu National Park houses one of the world's largest collections of Aboriginal rock art. The art sites were integral to Kakadu achieving its World Heritage status. A visit is best started at the Bowali Cultural Centre near Jabiru or the Warradjan Aboriginal Cultural Centre near Cooinda.
Arnhem Land, one of the largest Aboriginal Reserves in Australia, is a region also rich with Aboriginal culture and art. This remote region features several world renowned Aboriginal art centre including Injalak Arts, Maningrida Arts and Buku Larrngay Mulka at Yirrkala. All offer opportunities to meet artists who create unique pandanus mats and baskets, bark paintings and distinctive carvings while experiencing their unique community lifestyle.
Whether visiting the world-class galleries of Darwin; the renowned rock art sites in the National Parks or seeing the remote Aboriginal communities of Arnhem Land and Tiwi Islands, each trip will represent a unique and exciting experience.
The Cocoon Of Prayers Live Feed - Week 4
Live from the Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin Northern Territory, Australia.
Endurance Art at NCCA.
The Cocoon Of Prayers Live Feed - Week 4
Live from the Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin Northern Territory, Australia.
Endurance Art at NCCA.
Building Icons: Episode 1, 5 Martin Place, Sydney
In the first edition of Building Icons, we visit the iconic 5 Martin Place in the centre of Sydney.
Many of the world's great cities are challenged by the future of their important heritage buildings.
The original sandstone structure at 5 Martin Place in Sydney has been fully reinvigorated to meet the needs of modern tenants, beautifully complimented with contemporary additions in a celebration of light that delivers complete synergy between old and new.
In this episode, Architect Richard Johnson of JPW, shares his passion for Martin Place as a precinct and the role this development has in its rejuvenation.
Westwind: Djalu's Legacy
WESTWIND: DJALU’S LEGACY is an enlightening and powerful film which profiles internationally revered musician, craftsman and spiritual leader Djalu Gurriwiwi. As an important custodian of aboriginal culture, Djalu and his community must find a new voice and leader to carry their songlines and traditions through future generations. The film follows Djalu and his son on an important journey which features musician Gotye and artist Ghostpatrol to keep this culture alive.
Indigenous Culture Exhibition 2018
Hermy Munnich aboriginal textile art Darwin Northern Territory
Travmatt.TV - Tourism NT Tiwi Art, 2008
One of four interstitial ad-sales shot for the Northern Territory tourism body (Tourism NT) by The Lifestyle Channel. Tiwi Art involved a day-trip to Bathurst Island in light aircraft from Darwin, NT. Featuring 'Inside Out' magazine Editorial Director Karen McCartney.
Shot on Digital Betacam with a producer, camera, sound team.
Darwin City Waterfront by Susan Dugdale & Associates
Aboriginal Culture in Tennant Creek, Northern Territory
Spend some time around Tennant Creek in Australia's Northern Territory for inimitable Aboriginal art experiences and Aboriginal culture tours.
Aboriginal people of the area believe that Devils Marbles are the eggs of the Rainbow Serpent of Dreamtime stories. Local indigenous guides take visitors on bushwalking tours, searching for Aboriginal food and medicines.
The Nyinkka Nyunyu Culture Centre in Tennant Creek showcases Aboriginal dot paintings by local Aboriginal artists.
Find out more about Aboriginal culture in Tennant Creek:
Gapuwiyak's women with clever hands
This video follows the story of a group of women from Gapuwiyak in remote NT who travel hundreds of kilometres to Wagga Wagga in NSW to launch an exhibition of their fibre work. The Gapuwiyak Culture and Arts Aboriginal Corporation is generating an economic enterprise as well as helping to continue strong cultural traditions that are passed through generations of women.
Study Performing Arts with Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music
Discover how CQUni’s Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music can nurture your talent with award-winning lecturers and renowned international guest artists, in a supportive and diverse regional arts community to launch your performing arts career at a local, national or international level.
Choose from a range of specialisations in music and theatre, and get the foundation you need to land the career of your dreams. Apply to start in 2019 by visiting cqu.edu.au/auditions
In Between Two - NT Tour diary 2017
In Between Two is a unique collaboration between Chinese-Australian MC, producer and spoken word artist Joelistics (TZU) and Filipino-Dutch-Australian producer/songwriter James Mangohig (Sietta).
In Between Two sees two cultures, two generations and two charismatic wordsmiths mix it up deftly weaving the stories and photographs of their diverse heritages with music. Joelistics and James Mangohig take centre stage, combining spirited, personal storytelling with a rich, original soundtrack of acoustic and electronic music, presented in an immersive set by award-winning Melbourne designer Eugyeene Teh, with visuals by video artist Jean Poole.
Directed by highly regarded theatre and opera director Suzanne Chaundy and developed with photographer and master storyteller William Yang and writer Annette Shun Wah, In Between Two is a vibrant, contemporary portrayal of the Asian-Australian experience.
In Between Two touring in 2017
Adelaide (OzAsia Fest) 5 Oct - 6 Oct @ Space Theatre
Melbourne (Melb Fest) 11 Oct - 15 Oct @ Arts Centre Melbourne
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The Keeping Place - Mosman : Michelle Lovegrove SBS
National Reconciliation Week - 27 May to 3 June
It is a time to celebrate and build on the relationships shared by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and other Australians.
The Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife is raising awareness of the week-long event and encouraging all Australians to join the reconciliation conversation and reflect on our shared histories, contributions and achievements.
On the 20th May, the Foundation hosted the opening of an Aboriginal Art Exhibition, How Ironic, at the Soldiers Institute Mosman, Sydney Harbour National Park. Artworks came from a range of famous Aboriginal artists including the owners of the collection -- Gordon and his wife Elaine Syron.
Reconciliation Week is about showing respect for cultural difference as a fundamental responsibility we owe each other. said Susanna Bradshaw, MC of the exhibition and CEO of the Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife.
The Hon Philip Ruddock officially opened the exhibition. Other special guest speakers included;
• John Morse AM, Indigenous Tourism Advisor and former CEO of Tourism Australia
• Dr Jeff McMullen, ABC 60 Minutes, Director Ian Thorpe Foundation and patron
• Adrian Newstead, Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery since 1982
• Magistrate Brian Lulham
• Millie Ingram, CEO of Wyanga Older Peoples Home, Redfern
• Adam Hill
• Michelle Lovegrove, SBS Aboriginal Unit
• Shane Mortimer,
• Steve Miller, Manager of Aboriginal sector development for Museums & Galleries NSW, past curator of Powerhouse Museum.
By bringing together an inspiring group of speakers to highlight the need for a National Aboriginal Art Centre (NAAC), it is hoped that the collections of Shane Mortimer, Val Lhuede and the Syrons can come together to form the basis of the NACC. she said.
Australia is home to a National Art Gallery, and there are Contemporary Art galleries in every state but Australia has never had an art gallery dedicated to Aboriginal art, Australia's original art form and true art history. said Ms Bradshaw.
Supporting projects like this that preserve, protect and share the unique stories of Australia's history is an important aspect of the Foundation's conservation work, said Ms Bradshaw.
The famous David Gulpilil portrait - an Archibald entry in 1988 and Judgement by his Peers were on exhibition as were a collection of traditional and urban artworks and sculptures.
A permanent home for displaying these artworks is yet to be found, but various sites around Sydney Harbour were suggested from Garden to Goat Island (MeMel). Member for Wagga Wagga -- Daryl Maguire, has been a keen supporter and advisor to the Syrons for many years and is spearheading the campaign to find this growing collection of Aboriginal history a home -- described by many including Adrian Newstead as the most important art collection in Australia.
Reverse [a pixels+fibre project]
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Pixels+fibre is a creative collaboration between Fiona Gavino and Myrto Angelouli.
Gavino is an Australian artist whose art practice thrives on the boundaries of existing paradigms; her artwork belongs neither to the world of textile art or basketry but more to the realm of sculpture. Gavino has had many studio residencies, solo and group exhibitions, prizes and grants, all over Australia and the world.
Myrto Angelouli is a multidisciplinary artist with backgrounds in interior architecture, production design for film, film production and with a creative curiosity for all things visual. With a new focus on video art and sculptural weaving, she is now given the opportunity to experiment through this project.
Together they were offered a collaborative artist studio residency from Fremantle Arts Centre (fac.org.au/) in order to explore the possibilities of combining the ancient craft of weaving with the contemporary arts of digital imagery. Thus, pixels+fibre was born.
Reverse is the first pixels+fibre collaborative project produced during the Moores Building Residency; it celebrates weaving as an ephemeral art form and explores the transformation of fibre through fire.
Sculpture: Fiona Gavino
Concept: Fiona Gavino, Myrto Angelouli
Filming + editing: Myrto Angelouli
Additional camera + original music: Elliot Welsford
Shot at Woods St Warehouses in Fremantle, Western Australia
Screenings:
Borderland: The Entropy of Identities International Video Art Festival at Meca Mediterraneo Centro Artistico, Museo de Almeria and Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Granada, Spain 2014
pixels+fibre Exhibition, Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin Australia, March 2014
'For Reza Berati' by Michael Mathieson-Sandars - The Human Detained
'For Reza Berati' by Michael Mathieson-Sandars forms part of 'The Human Detained' - a large-scale collaborative work by Kupka's Piano and MakeShift Dance Collective. Performed at the Judith Wright Centre for Contemporary Arts. Video by Tangible Media.
Performers:
Courtney Scheu // dance
Jodie Rottle // flute
Alethea Coombe // violin
Programme Note:
This collaborative work directly protests Australia's policy of arbitrary indefinite detention of asylum seekers. While the piece acknowledges the alienation faced by those in detention, as well as the alienation of us as individuals in Australia wishing to bring an end to this unjust punishment of refugees, I hope for it to be a little more optimistic: by coming together to protest much as we come together to play music, we can beat our own alienation and effect real, positive change.
- Note by the composer
Elastics / Borracha / Elástico: Darwin - Dili
Artists - Victor De Sousa, Narelle Jubelin, Fiona MacDonald, Maria Madeira
Joined by Veronica Pereira Maia
Curated by Jo Holder and the artists
Presented by Northern Centre for Contemporary Art and The Cross Art Projects
'Naha Biti' (Stretching of the Mat): Collaborative Painting, 2014,
betel nut, Timor-Leste and Larrakia natural earth pigments
Led by Maria Madeira, Veronica Pereira Maia, Duwun Lee, and Nadine Lee
Chan Contemporary Art Space, Darwin, Larrakia Country
20 September 2014
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'Naha Biti' participants led by Maria Madeira, Veronica Pereira Maia, Duwun Lee and Nadine Lee, Eric Bridgeman, José Casimiro, Simon Cooper, Michelle Culpitt, Gloria de Castro, Victor de Sousa Pereira, Vitorino dos Santos, Jo Holder, Winsome Jobling, Narelle Jubelin, Bartholomew Lockwood, Talitha Kennedy, Fiona MacDonald, Amina McConvell, Karen Mills, Dulcie Munn, Maurice O’Riordan, Sarah Pirrie, Skye Raabe, Koulla Roussos, Jonathan Saunders, Matty van Roden, AFFET activists Ilana Eldridge, Cindy Watson, Jessie Watson, Rob Wesley-Smith, Vaughan Williams and others.
Chan Contemporary Art Space Public Program Talks by Alistair Wyvill (Timor Gap), Louise Partos (Baucau music festival) and Angus Cameron (One Seed project in Baucau).
Opening Speakers: Francisco Jose Dos Remedios Ramos Filipe, Consulate-General of the Democratic Republic of East Timor, Darwin; Gary Haslett, acting Lord Mayor, Darwin; Gary Lee. Mamilima / didgeridoo: Duwun Lee.
Exhibition Catalogue dedicated to Jennifer Phipps.
Camera work by Victor de Sousa, Narelle Jubelin, Skye Raabe.
Video edit by Fiona MacDonald and Kim Scott - Moon Cube Design
Aboriginal Art in Australia's Northern Territory
courtesy Australian Trade Commission