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Djambu Barra Barra
Djambu Barra Barra (also known as Sambo Barra Barra) (1946–2005) was an Indigenous Australian artist based in Ngukurr, in the Northern Territory of Australia. Ngukurr is considered an artistically significant community with many diverse styles and artists, including Barra Barra. He is known for his brightly colored acrylic paintings depicting mainly Yirritja ancestral stories, including the Burdal Plains Kangaroo, the Guyal Sand Goanna, crocodiles, and the Devil Devil (Nagaran).Bowdler, Cath. "Big corroboree stories: The paintings of Sambo Burra Burra." In "Peintpeintbat : four artists from Roper Way." PhD thesis, Australian National University, 2008. https://doi.org/10.25911/5d5e73a38fd09. Early Life Djambu Barra Barra (Dhuwa) was born around 1946 in Wagilak country near Nilipidgi on the Walker River. He was raised in the Wagilak community without communication or contact with Europeans, a unique upbringing compared to other artists from Ngukurr, a Northern Territory in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award
The National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA) is Australia's longest running Indigenous art award. Established in 1984 as the National Aboriginal Art Award by the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in Darwin, and also referred to as the Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, the Telstra Award, or Telstra Prize, it is open to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists working in all media. the top prize was worth , and the total prize pool , making it as of August 2022 the richest art prize in the country. History The awards were established in 1984 as the National Aboriginal Art Award. Telstra has sponsored the awards since 1992. The Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair began as a complement to NATSIAA, but is now a separate event under the umbrella of the Darwin Festival. In 2000, the prize money for the main award was doubled from to . It was increased to in 2014, making it the largest prize for any Indigenou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flinders University Museum Of Art
Flinders University Museum of Art (FUMA), sometimes referred to as Flinders Art Museum, is an art museum in Adelaide, South Australia, that preserves and develops Flinders University's historical and contemporary art collections. History The art museum was formally established in 1978 by resolution of the Flinders University Council to house the university's growing collection of art. Since the first year of undergraduate teaching at the university in 1966, art had been actively acquired to complement courses in fine arts. The collection was established in 1997 in Grote Street, Adelaide, Grote Street in Adelaide city centre. It relocated to the State Library of South Australia on North Terrace, Adelaide, North Terrace in 2003 until its closure in June 2018. In that year, FUMA's Online Collections Catalogue was launched. From 2019 a dedicated gallery, co-located with the Art Museum at the university's Bedford Park, South Australia, Bedford Park campus, "presents diverse and inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wagga Wagga
Wagga Wagga (; informally called Wagga) is a major regional city in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. Straddling the Murrumbidgee River, with an urban population of more than 57,003 as of 2021, it is an important agricultural, military, and transport hub of Australia. The ninth largest inland city in Australia, Wagga Wagga is located midway between the two largest cities in Australia—Sydney and Melbourne—and is the major regional centre for the Riverina and South Western Slopes, South West Slopes regions. The central business district is focused around the commercial and recreational grid bounded by Best and Tarcutta Streets and the Murrumbidgee River and the Sturt Highway. The main shopping street of Wagga is Baylis Street which becomes Fitzmaurice Street at the northern end. Wagga is accessible from Sydney via the Sturt Highway, Sturt and Hume Highways, Adelaide via the Sturt Highway and Albury and Melbourne via the Olympic Highway and Hume Highway. Wagga i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
The Wagga Wagga Art Gallery is an art gallery in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia. It includes the National Art Glass Gallery, which houses the National Art Glass Collection, and also houses the Margaret Carnegie Print Collection, a general collection of art, as well as the art collection of the Wagga Wagga Art Society. History The Australia Council for the Arts started supporting the establishment of regional galleries in the 1970s, with the aim of creating specialist collections in each to avoid competition and repetition. The focus in Wagga Wagga became studio glass. One of the earliest hot glass teaching studios in Australia was established at the Riverina College of Advanced Education (now part of Charles Sturt University) by John Elsegood in 1978. Judy Le Lievre was appointed as director of the gallery, then named Wagga Wagga City Gallery, in June 1979. She had an interest in glass art, and been involved with Riverina College. She developed an acquisition policy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darwin, Northern Territory
Darwin ( Larrakia: ') is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. The city has nearly 53% of the Northern Territory's population, with 139,902 at the 2021 census. It is the smallest, wettest, and most northerly of the Australian capital cities and serves as the Top End's regional centre. Darwin's proximity to Southeast Asia makes it a key link between Australia and countries such as Indonesia and Timor-Leste. The Stuart Highway begins in Darwin and extends southerly across central Australia through Tennant Creek and Alice Springs, concluding in Port Augusta, South Australia. The city is built upon a low bluff overlooking Darwin Harbour. Darwin's suburbs extend to Lee Point in the north and to Berrimah in the east. The Stuart Highway extends to Darwin's eastern satellite city of Palmerston and its suburbs. The Darwin region, like much of the Top End, has a tropical climate, with a wet and dry season. A period known locally as "the build up" leading up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Art Award
The National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA) is Australia's longest running Indigenous art award. Established in 1984 as the National Aboriginal Art Award by the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in Darwin, and also referred to as the Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, the Telstra Award, or Telstra Prize, it is open to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists working in all media. the top prize was worth , and the total prize pool , making it as of August 2022 the richest art prize in the country. History The awards were established in 1984 as the National Aboriginal Art Award. Telstra has sponsored the awards since 1992. The Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair began as a complement to NATSIAA, but is now a separate event under the umbrella of the Darwin Festival. In 2000, the prize money for the main award was doubled from to . It was increased to in 2014, making it the largest prize for any Indigenous ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection
The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia houses one of the finest Indigenous Australian art collections in the world, rivaling many of the collections held in Australia. It is the only museum outside Australia dedicated solely to Indigenous Australian art. The museum houses many important breakthrough paintings of the Papunya Tula movement and Arnhem Land artists. The collection comprises more than 2000 objects in a variety of media, including bark and acrylic paintings, sculpture, photography, prints and artifacts. The director of the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection is anthropologist Margo Smith . The museum is located at Pantops Farm, a university-owned property once owned by Thomas Jefferson in the Pantops neighborhood of Charlottesville, Virginia. History History of the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection The Kluge-Ruhe Collection receives its namesake from the two American men who collected the majority of the artwork, media mogul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Wollongong
The University of Wollongong (UOW) is an Australian public university, public research university located in the coastal city of Wollongong, New South Wales, approximately south of Sydney. , the university had an enrolment of more than 33,000 students (including over 12,300 international students), an alumni base of more than 176,000 [LC1] and over 2,400 staff members including 16 Distinguished professors. In 1951, a division of the New South Wales University of Technology (known as the University of New South Wales from 1958) was established in Wollongong for the conduct of diploma courses. In 1961, the Wollongong University College of the University of New South Wales was constituted and the college was officially opened in 1962. In 1975 the University of Wollongong was established as an independent institution. Since its establishment, the university has conferred more than 120,000 degrees, diplomas and certificates. Its students, originally predominantly from the local Illaw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Gallery Of Victoria
The National Gallery of Victoria, popularly known as the NGV, is an art museum in Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is Australia's oldest and list of most visited art museums in the world, most visited art museum. The NGV houses its collection across two sites: NGV International, located on St Kilda Road in the Melbourne Arts Precinct of Southbank, Victoria, Southbank, and the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, located nearby at Federation Square. The NGV International building, designed by Sir Roy Grounds, opened in 1968, and was redeveloped by Mario Bellini before reopening in 2003. It houses the gallery's international art collection and is on the Victorian Heritage Register. The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, designed by Lab Architecture Studio, opened in 2002 and houses the gallery's Australian art collection. A third site, The Fox: NGV Contemporary, is planned to open in the Melbourne Arts Precinct in 2028, and will be Australia's lar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Gallery Of Australia
The National Gallery of Australia (NGA), formerly the Australian National Gallery, is the national art museum of Australia as well as one of the largest art museums in Australia, holding more than 166,000 works of art. Located in Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory, it was established in 1967 by the Australian Government as a national public art museum. it is under the directorship of Nick Mitzevich. Establishment Prominent Australian artist Tom Roberts had lobbied various Australian prime ministers, starting with the first, Edmund Barton. Prime Minister Andrew Fisher accepted the idea in 1910, and the following year Parliament established a bipartisan committee of six political leaders—the ''Historic Memorials Committee''. The Committee decided that the government should collect portraits of Australian governors-general, parliamentary leaders and the principal "fathers" of federation to be painted by Australian artists. This led to the establishment of what b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Art Awards
The National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA) is Australia's longest running Indigenous art award. Established in 1984 as the National Aboriginal Art Award by the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in Darwin, and also referred to as the Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, the Telstra Award, or Telstra Prize, it is open to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists working in all media. the top prize was worth , and the total prize pool , making it as of August 2022 the richest art prize in the country. History The awards were established in 1984 as the National Aboriginal Art Award. Telstra has sponsored the awards since 1992. The Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair began as a complement to NATSIAA, but is now a separate event under the umbrella of the Darwin Festival. In 2000, the prize money for the main award was doubled from to . It was increased to in 2014, making it the largest prize for any Indigenous a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
