NEWS ARCHIVE

WHAT MAKES ABORIGINAL ART SO SPECIAL?

Interest in the visual arts all around the world has exploded over the past 20 years.

This edition of our Collector’s series looks at 4 new and exciting collectors peices that should not be missed.

Bonhams sold the Laverty collection for $5.05 million in March; on June 21 it is selling the Reg Grundy collection, estimated at $21 million.

Cooee Gallery founding director Adrian Newstead has this morning been awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the General Division.

You are moving into a new apartment and may want a work of art to match your new space. You know the size and colours that will work for you and have an idea of the genre you are attracted to (modern, abstract, landscape, still life, expressionist, avant-garde).

BRANDING YOUR COLLECTION
Giving your collection a name is one of the best mechanisms for building its value available to any clever collector.

It is arcs and flowing dot-mark lines and angles, it portrays the world in patterns and in rhythms, in every bark, every carved ironwood pole and canvas it asserts itself.

The importance of an indigenous artist can be related to both their cultural role and their creative output. Most of the determining factors that work in the contemporary and international art markets hold true for indigenous art as well.

A collection is a curious thing. The best can be far greater than the sum of its individual parts. If it is put together with care, love, and scholarship, it can be enlightening and provide a genuine service to those that seek to understand the subject that it covers.

PROVENANCE
Provenance is one of the most universally misunderstood concepts in art, most particularly in Aboriginal art.