It is not only the largest source of income for Aboriginal people but also, arguably, the most prestigious Australian contemporary art. Featuring bold geometric designs in earth tones, with ...

Aboriginal Rock Art on the Barnett River, Mount Elizabeth Station (photo by Graeme Churchard, CC BY-SA 2.0) Because Aboriginal Australians are traditionally nomadic people – having relied on songlines ...

By Arthur Lubow The Aboriginal art of northeast Arnhem Land in Australia is both ancient and recent. For thousands of years, the Yolngu people of this remote, culturally rich region have been ...

Besides the aforementioned artists, Francesca Cavazzini, Aboriginal art specialist at Bonhams Sydney ... in Australia that are owned by Indigenous people and that have non-Indigenous managers, ...

"When tourists started showing an interest in Aboriginal art, people from those areas were given books of paintings from the Central Desert, or books of bark paintings from Arnhem Land. They were ...

“Madayin” is the first major show devoted to them outside Australia, and is rightly proclaimed by Dartmouth’s Hood Museum of Art as the “most important exhibition of Aboriginal Australian ...

Archaeologists say a federal government decision to extend the life of Woodside's North West Shelf project will threaten the ...

She is a descendant of the Darling River people of northwestern New South Wales. There, she has served since 2008 as the inaugural curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at the Art ...

The hope, shared by champions of Aboriginal art in Australia, is that people will come to see these paintings on par with other modern and contemporary work, rather than cordoning them off as ...

Hundreds of years ago, in a cramped cave, Indigenous people in Australia painted a pair of watercraft whose origins have puzzled archaeologists since the artworks' discovery about 50 years ago.