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• WooooooHooooooo! " CANADA BEAVER TEE " on home page !
  by Madeline M. Allen

  Thank You Redbubble for having my CANADA BEAVER TEE* / FEAT…

  Thank You Redbubble for having my CANADA BEAVER TEE* / FEATURED on HOME PAGE !!!!!!!! REDBUBBLE ROCKS !!!!!! /

• Update And Thanks!
  by Mark Tisdale

  Sorry for not being a more involved community member of late. Between work and trying to get some house maintenance attended to, I’ve …

  Sorry for not being a more involved community member of late. Between work and trying to get some house maintenance attended to, I’ve had little time. I’ve also been preparing for a small event back home. In 1994, my home town of Montezuma, Georgia, suffered a massive flood. After having already had a wet few weeks, a tropical storm rolled through and just paused over us for over a day. We got a foot of rain an hour for around 26 hours. The levee broke and the downtown area was flooded. Most of us were lucky enough that we lived above the flooding, but the heart of our community was under water and there was a lot of doubt whether or not it would bounce back. That following autumn, to raise money, the town resurrected the concept, but not the name, of our old festival. The Beaver Creek festival continues still and will be held the last weekend of this month. This year I’ve submitted two prints to the art show held by our Historical Society (which will be in the very depot I’ve submitted photos of here). And I’m paying the nominal fee for a booth and have printed and matted some local prints in addition to the matted and bagged prints I already had for an Atlanta show. Works I’ve entered in the show: In addition to my apology for not being here to comment and look at everyone’s work, I wanted to thank everyone for all the nice comments and favoriting. I really cannot express how happy it makes me when people connect to my photos. It’s a singular sense of satisfaction and happiness. I want to thank you all so much!

• Traditional source, modern take
  by ArchieMoore

  VISUAL ARTS: Louise Martin-Chew | July 31, 2008 The Australian Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award 2008 Queensland Ar…

  VISUAL ARTS: Louise Martin-Chew | July 31, 2008 The Australian Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award 2008 Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane. Until October 12. / THE third year of the Queensland Art Gallery’s emerging indigenous art award again has a focused selection of innovative contemporary art, showing several works from 10 artists. And emerging doesn’t necessarily mean young: work from 98-year-old Loongkoonan hangs alongside that of 20-year-old Beaver Lennon. The two previous award winners worked in non-traditional media: Jonathan Jones with a sculptural installation using light bulbs; and Genevieve Grieves with a moving video installation, Picturing the Old People. Following these two, the 2008 winner, Gunybi Ganambarr, would appear at first glance to be a more traditional choice. Closer inspection reveals that, with his winning work, innovation continues to dominate this award. Ganambarr is from the Ngaymil people of Arnhem Land. His Burrut’tji at Baraltja tells of the lightning serpent Mandukul, an important Yolngu story. He uses the local bark painting tradition but there is significant innovation in the way the bark is carved and incised and filled with pigment, lifting the visual dynamics. The work is large (2.19mx91cm) and its sinuous and undulating line makes for compelling viewing. Ganambarr’s other work, which includes memorial poles (also subtly coloured and incised), suggests he has a strong future. Books feature in Archie Moore’s entries: the Bible in his Maltheism series and an art book showing a reproduction of Albert Namatjira’s work in Sacred Sights (The First Intervention). In most of these works, a church is constructed from the pages of the open book: small, delicately made and seemingly humble, their conceptual strength is drawn from the pairing of text and paper sculpture. The reference to Namatjira is intriguing alongside Lennon’s super-real landscapes, which share something of Namatjira’s palette and the picturesque tradition. The range is extensive: Glenn Pilkington’s digital abstractions from the city; married couple Josie Kunoth Petyarre and Dinni Kunoth Kemarre’s roughly carved and painted depictions of football players, the local police Toyota and a horse and cowboy; and more traditional paintings from Daniel Walbidi, Patsy Marfura and Milly Kelly. This is the final year of the Xstrata award and the QAG Gallery of Modern Art, perhaps continuing the theme of innovation, is looking at a different approach to presenting contemporary indigenous art.