20 Art Centres in 14 days – a life changing experience!

We have returned from our art buying mission in Australia. The trade tour was organized by the Australian government with the mission of promoting Aboriginal art to the US market. As one of nine delegates, Manuel discovered new art communities, met numerous artists, forged new relationships with art centre managers, prominent art dealers and museum curators and enjoyed the spectacular backdrop of the Australian Central and Western Desert landscape.

The trade mission started in Uluru (Ayers Rock) on May 25 and 40 charter flights later ended in Darwin on June 6. Manuel also had the privilege of personalized tours of the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory and the esteemed Darwin Supreme Court Art Collection. It was an unparalleled education of the Aboriginal art market, Aboriginal culture and the challenges faced by industry participants.

We now have some wonderful new additions to our collection, broadening the media of works we offer to include paintings on bark from the Top End, ochre paintings from the Kimberly and Mimi spirit carvings.

Click here to see images from the tour.

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aboriginal art collection aims to promote and support Australian Indigenous artists to enable non-Indigenous people to embrace this rich culture and to engender increased knowledge of and respect for Australia’s unique heritage.

aboriginal art collection offers works from both emerging and established Aboriginal artists, illustrating the diverse range of indigenous art in Australia.

Each Aboriginal painting depicts an individual interpretation of events from the artist's Dreaming (tjukurrpa or jukurrpa). Paintings from the Central and Western Desert communities represent stories from one of many cycles that concern travelling, mythical ancestral beings and the country that is laced by their path. The value of the Dreaming emanates from the conception that the world as it now exists is a result of these beings. Persons, customs, geographical features are all believed to have originated in the Dreaming. For more information about a particular painting's story, please contact us.