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“The language of art historical criticism automatically prejudices the perception of non-Western art in any consideration of what is, or isn’t, or might be called contemporary art. In championing the contemporary nature of Aboriginal art as a practice, most commentators resort to comparisons with Western Modernism. This paradigm is ultimately unhelpful as it ensures Aboriginal art is kept at the margins.” (2013)

ARTICLES

2023-2019

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'Emily Kame Kngwarreye: Earth Creation 1995-96', Important Australian and International Art, Menzies Art Brands, auction 29 Nov 2023 Click for pdf

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'Emily Kame Kngwarreye: My Anooralya Story 1992', Important Australian and International Art, Menzies Art Brands, auction 29 Nov 2023 Click for pdf

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'Emily Kame Kngwarreye: Desert Wildness, 1996', Important Australian and International Art, Menzies Art Brands, auction 23 Nov 2022 Click for pdf

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‘Rover Thomas: Lally Creek, 1991', Important Australian and International Art, Menzies Art Brands, auction 23 Nov 2022 Click for pdf

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Christmas Comes early for Menzies with a Visit from Saint (just-in-the) Nick (of-time) ... in the guise of Denis Savill (published in conjunction with Menzies Art Brands, auction 2 Apr 2022)

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'Emily Kame Kngwarreye:

Of My Country, Alalgura I 1992', catalogue essay, Important Australian and International Art, Menzies Art Brands, auction 1 Dec 2021

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‘Lin Onus: Moonlight (from the suite 'Twenty Four Hours at Numerili') 1993’, Australian and International Fine Art and Sculpture, Menzies Art Brands auction, 30 June 2021

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‘Lin Onus: Moonlight at Numerili 2, 1993’, Australian and International Fine Art and Sculpture, Menzies Art Brands auction, 31 March 2021

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‘Lin Onus: Mandiginingi, 1992’, Australian and International Fine Art and Sculpture, Menzies Art Brands auction, 20 Jul 2020

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‘The world is finally woke to Aboriginal art: Sotheby’s move its sales from London to the Big Apple amid increasing contemporary art world buzz', Australian Art Sales Digest, 28 May 2019

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‘Uta Uta Tjangala: Untitled, 1975’, catalogue essay, Australian and International Fine Art and Sculpture, Menzies Art Brands auction 28 Mar 2019

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‘Lin Onus: Fish and Storm Clouds (Guyi Na Ngawalngawal) 1994’, catalogue essay, Australian and International Fine Art and Sculpture, Menzies Art Brands auction 28 Mar 2019

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2018-2015

‘Emily Kame Kngwarreye: Desert Winter, 1994’, catalogue essay, Australian and International Fine Art and Sculpture, Menzies Art Brands, auction 26 Apr 2018

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‘Danie Mellor: A Point of Order (New Worlds from Old Power), 2010’, catalogue essay, Australian and International Fine Art and Sculpture, Menzies Art Brands, auction 10 Aug 2017

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'Demimonde Liaisons’, Portrait: Magazine of Australian and International Portraiture, National Portrait Gallery of Australia, No 57 Winter 2017

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‘Rover Thomas: Dingo Holes at Bilaluna (Nyaama Dingo Holes), 1995’, catalogue essay, Australian and International Fine Art and Sculpture, Menzies Art Brands, auction 10 Aug 2017

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‘Emily Kame Kngwarreye:

Untitled (Wildflower Dreaming)

1992’, catalogue essay, Australian and International Fine Art and Sculpture, Menzies Art Brands, auction 10 Aug 2017

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‘Ginger Riley Munduwalawala: The Four Archers’, catalogue essay, Australian and International Fine Art and Sculpture, Menzies Art Brands, auction 11 May 2017

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‘Emily Kame Kngwarreye:

Merne Alhalkere, 1993’, catalogue essay, Australian and International Fine Art and Sculpture, Menzies Art Brands, auction 9 Feb 2017

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'The Patrick Corrigan Collection', Artlife, magazine of the Association of Australian and Decorative Fine Arts (ADFAS), Spring 2016, pp 28-32

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‘Emily Kame Kngwarreye: Untitled, 1992’, catalogue essay, Australian and International Fine Art and Sculpture, Menzies Art Brands, auction 21 Sep 2016

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'Money for Myth: Australian Character on the Market’, Portrait: Magazine of Australian and International Portraiture, National Portrait Gallery of Australia, No 50 Spring 2015

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‘The Savage Sea’, Ellarose Savage profile, Art Collector, Issue 73, Jul-Sep 2015, pp. 150-155

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‘Undiscovered 2015: Jakayu Biljabu', Art Collector, Issue 72, Apr–Jun 2015, pp. 112-113

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‘Echoing Across the Pond: Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, 1987–2014’, Art Monthly Australia, No 277 Mar 2015, pp. 22–25

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‘50 Things Collectors Need to Know: Cool Hunter Predictions – Carlene West', Art Collector, Issue 71, Jan–Mar 2015, pp. 68-69

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‘50 Things Collectors Need to Know: Curator’s Radar - James Tylor', Art Collector, Issue 71, Jan–Mar 2015, pp. 126-129

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2014 & Older

‘Ellarose Savage’, NATSIAA’s Pick of the Crop, Art Collector, Issue 70, Oct–Dec 2014, pp. 124-125

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‘NATSIAA’s Pick of the Crop: Sandra Hill", Art Collector, Issue 70, Oct-Dec 2014, pp. 126

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‘NATSIAA’s Pick of the Crop: Iyawi Wikilyiri’, Art Collector, Issue 70, Oct–Dec 2014, pp. 127

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‘Pen Power: Politics and Personae in the Portraiture

of TextaQueen’, Portrait: Magazine of Australian and International Portraiture

National Portrait Gallery

of Australia, No 47 Spring/Summer 2014

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‘Celestial Bodies, The Kate Challis RAKA Award’, Art Monthly Australia, Number 267, Mar 2014, pp. 42-45

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'Aboriginal Contemporary Art in America: Crossing Cultures and Bridging Divides with an Ancestral Modern Aesthetic', CANVASS, ACAA, Issue 1, Spring 2013, pp. 12-25
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'Deciphering the Code', Indigenous Art Code overview, Art Collector, Issue 66, Oct–Dec 2013, pp. 60-61

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The 'I' in Indigenous Art', Portrait: Magazine of Australian and International Portraiture, National Portrait Gallery of Australia, No 46 Spring 2013
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'All Dressed Up', Portrait: Magazine of Australian and International Portraiture
National Portrait Gallery of Australia
, No 45 Autumn/Winter 2013

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'What Price Self?', Portrait: Magazine of Australian and International Portraiture, National Portrait Gallery of Australia, No 44 Summer 2012/2013
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'Colours express indigenous law and connection to country in contemporary Aboriginal works', Sydney Morning Herald (syndicated), 17 Dec 2012
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'Power + Colour: Law and Country', The Melbourne Review, Issue 14 Dec 2012, p. 37

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'Burning Issues: Value and Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art', Art Monthly Australia, No 254 Oct 2012

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'Ancestral Modern: An American Dream of Aboriginal Art', LOOK Magazine, Art Gallery of NSW Society, Sep 2012

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‘How Indigenous art is changing Australian law’, Arts Hub, 12 Dec 2012 (subscribers only)

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'Director Profile: Barry Keldoulis, GBK', Art Market Report, Issue 42, 2nd quarter 2012

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'Director Profile: Paul Sumner, Mossgreen'
Art Market Report, Issue 42, 2nd quarter 2012
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'Director Profile: Turner Galleries, Perth'
Art Market Report, Issue 41, 1st quarter 2012
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An American Love Affair: Interview with John Wilkerson', Art Market Report, Issue 41, 1st quarter 2012

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'Professor Margaret Levi: 
Political Scientist and Cross Cultural Ambassador'
Sydney University Alumni Magazine, Nov 2011,

pp. 25–27

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'Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award 1984-2008: Celebrating 25 Years'
Art Monthly Australia, No 245 Nov 2011, pp. 48–49

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'Darwin in the Dry, a Cultural Oasis', Qantas The Australian Way Magazine, Aug 2011, pp. 120–122

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'Connection, Dislocation, Reclamation and Innovation: The 2010 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards', Art Monthly Australia, No 234 Oct 2010, pp. 11–14
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'Moral Lip Service: Government's Hard Hit at the Art Market is a Soft form of Redress', Sydney University Alumni Magazine, Autumn 2010, pp. 25–27

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'The Crux of the Matter: Manipulating Cultural Property in Aboriginal Rights Debates', Art Monthly Australia, No 232 Aug 2010, pp. 51–55

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‘Chic City: Edinburgh’, Luxury Travel Magazine, Issue 44, Spring 2010

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‘Warakurna Artists’ Art Centre Profile, Australian Art Collector, Issue 50, Oct–Dec 2009, p. 227

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‘Museum Piece to Minimalist Cool: Contemporary Aboriginal Art and Modernist Expression’, World of Antiques & Art, Issue 63, Jul–Dec 2002, pp. 112-116

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‘Australia’s 50 Most Collectable Artists: Dorothy Napangardi', Australian Art Collector, Issue 19, Jan–Mar 2002, p. 89

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‘Petyarre at Market’, Australian Art Collector,
Issue 16, Apr–Jun 2001, p. 86.

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‘Australia’s 50 Most Collectable Artists: Paddy Bedford', Australian Art Collector, Issue 15, Jan–Mar 2001, p. 62

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‘Elaine Pelot Kitchener – Black and/or White Photography?’, Active: Reactive, Literary Arts Review, Vol 1. No 2, Mar 1993, pp. 59-62

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Pre-ArtiFacts

‘Works on Paper - collecting with confidence’, Art and Antiques in New South Wales, December 1996–April 1997, pp. 12-13
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‘Joy Hester's Frightened’, exhibition label for Review: Works by Women from the Art Gallery of New South Wales Collection, AGNSW, 1995
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‘Collection Management at The Art Gallery of New South Wales’, ARC, Newsletter of the Australian Registrars Committee, No 12, Summer, December 1994, pp. 5-6

‘Interior/Mieszkanie’, catalogue essay on photographic installation by Basia Sokolowska. Martin Browne Fine Art, Paddington. Exhibition reviewed by Elwyn Lynn, "Exposure to Contrast", The Weekend Review, The Australian, July 31 1993, p.10
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