Nici Cumpston will succeed founding director Margo Smith, who plans to retire in May after 27 years at the helm.

Aboriginal elders, afraid that their culture would be lost, chose to permanently record these ceremonial stories, first on small Masonite boards and later on canvas. Art that had been produced for ...

designed to dehumanize and delegitimize Aboriginal cultural sophistication. Message sticks and other forms of Aboriginal ...

His fusion of culture and art is reflected in pieces such as ‘ABC’, or Aboriginal Born Chinese, which blends traditional Chinese art forms with the legacy of his Aboriginal heritage.

The Art Gallery of South Australia’s Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art and Artistic Director of Tarnanthi, Nici Cumpston OAM has announced that after seventeen years at AGSA, she ...

In Aboriginal art, all the symbols and imagery have a meaning ... This is the creation period in Aboriginal culture when the primordial ancestors of birds and animals walked the earth in human ...

This grant supports the creative development, production and presentation of new work. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

And these communities entrusted him with their culture.” For the next four decades he spent long periods with Aboriginal communities in Cape York and Arnhem Land. He collected art and day-to-day ...

and Bronwyn David, a First Nations artist and educator, revealed how their collaboration seamlessly merged authentic Aboriginal art with stylish ... creating a fusion of culture and contemporary ...

This grant supports professional development opportunities for individual Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and ...