Erica Izett: "Success, especially too much success, always conceals within it dangers. In the case of Desert Mob, for example, its very success hails it as a prime event for the commercial sector to identify the cream of the crop...[which] has made it easier for unscrupulous dealers to profit without due recompense from the enormous work of the arts centres to nurture artists."
This camouflage serves as both a protection from predators – and there is no shortage of hungry Kites, Goshawks and Falcons around that would grab a juicy Dragon for a snack – and also as a deceptive strategy for any small creatures that the Dragon would want to eat that might wander past within range.
I love Amy Winehouse. You hear her records and just go "Oh, wow!" And her songwriting! "What kind of fuckery is this?". She is inventing words. I remember when I first heard Macy Gray, I was listening to Triple J I think and that stopped the car. I thought "Wow!". That is a voice, not an over-produced, octave-separated product, great soul and an interesting voice.
Mr Richard Teo, A/President of the CLP: "There was no violence whatsoever. There are a lot of people out there who would like to sink the man. He [Abbott] is one of the best indigenous persons that have come out into the open to openly look for a position in government which we need more people like that for. There are a lot of jealous people out there who would like to sink the man. And we are a fair-go party, we give everyone a chance to prove themselves."
Give me about a half a teacup of bass (bass riff) Now I need a pound of fatback drums (drum riff) Now give me 4 tablespoons of boiling Memphis guitars This goin' taste alright (guitar riff) Now just a little pinch of organ (organ riff) Now give me a half a pint of horn (sax riff) Place on the burner and bring to a boil. That's it, that's it, that's it right there. Now beat, well
Djalkiri is an exhibition of works by Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists created during a cross-cultural collaborative printmaking workshop at Yilpara, Blue Mud Bay, Arnhem Land in 2009. Djalkiri literally means ‘footprint’, but when applied to Yolgnu law it takes on a more profound meaning, forming the ‘spiritual foundation of the world’.
As I noted here yesterday, you would have had to kill me if I'd released the name of the winner of the $40,000 Telstra Art Award, the big bucks prize in the annual National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA).
In the Territory the stories are all too common...backpackers in vans swerving to avoid a wallaby of a basking lizard or a stubborn eagle feasting on roadkill, losing control in the dirt, over-correcting, rolling over and over 'til they come to permanent rest in the the scrub...
Many years ago I had a T-shirt produced by local Darwin artists Chips Mackinolty and Therese Ritchie. On the front of the shirt was a woman talking to her husband about a request from their child, who was standing before them resplendent in one of those cheap cowboy outfits we all had as children. From the foggy mists of memory she was saying something along the lines of "Johnny wanted a Cowboy Outfit for Christmas. So I got him the Northern Territory Government." Colin Holt's show, "30 Years of Chief Ministers - the official portraits we should have had" runs from 8 July to 4 August at the Alice Springs Public Library.
The scholarship is the result of collaboration between Shalom College, a residential college at the University of NSW, and the Muru Marri Indigenous Health Unit, School of Public Health and Community Medicine at University of NSW. From one scholarship holder in 2005, we have 14 scholarship holders in 2010.
