By the 1980s Australian museums began to take Aboriginal art seriously, and in the last five years it has achieved worldwide recognition, gallery exhibitions consistently sell out, and an auction ...

There are doubts that a controversial plan to construct an Aboriginal art gallery will go ahead after the Northern Territory ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login The rock art of Australia is among the oldest, most complex, and most fascinating manifestations of human creativity and imagination in the ...

Dating rock art is really hard. Aboriginal artists use iron oxide ... likely hosted some of the very first modern humans to reach Australia The paintings he and his team have been working on ...

"To be the first Aboriginal artist to win is really special," Namatjira said after the announcement. "I feel like this is a very important moment in Australian art." His entry, titled Stand Strong ...

By around the 2000s, Dr Kean estimates almost all Aboriginal people across Australia would have seen the success of desert art, with many taking it up themselves. "The men's painting shed at ...

Watch all your favourite ABC programs on ABC iview. More from ABC We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we ...