In 2003, Brisbane artist Richard Bell lambasted the white anthropologists, art historians, dealers and curators who presumed to judge Aboriginal art. Here he discusses Bell’s Theorem (Aboriginal Art: It’s A White Thing), racism and his rise fro

Ep5: More of the Matrix

Dec 13th, 2018 40m 24s

When Judi Muller retired with a good pension, she decided to sell low budget Indigenous art as a personal act of reconciliation. Mark Chapman tailored his art supplies business to suit the desert conditions in which Indigenous artists work. Syd

Ep 4: Meet the Matrix

Oct 12th, 2018 36m 38s

The world of Aboriginal art is like a giant hive that attracts all kinds of people, who interact in diverse ways with the artists. In ‘Meet the Matrix’, we meet three committed collaborators: Dallas Gold, who runs RAFT gallery; Joseph Brady, mu

Ep 3: Art As Title Deeds

Sep 4th, 2018 47m 17s

Since the 1960s, the Yolngu artists of Australia’s tropical north have wielded art and culture to win legal and political rights. They’ve been abetted in this quest by white people embedded in the community. Anthropologist Howard Morphy and art

Ep 2: Art With Heart, A Two Ways World

Sep 4th, 2018 41m 14s

Three Yolngu artists take us to the site of a massacre of their people in North East Arnhem Land in 1911 and beyond, to the powerful art and heart of Yolngu culture today. The thriving Buku-Larrnggay Mulka art centre is run by a former criminal

Ep3: Art As Title Deeds

Sep 3rd, 2018 47m 17s

Ep 2: Art With Heart, A Two Ways World.

Aug 31st, 2018 41m 3s

Three Yolgnu artists take us to the site of a massacre of their people in North East Arnhem Land in 1911 and beyond, to the powerful art and heart of Yolgnu culture today. The thriving Buku-Larrnggay Mulka art centre is run by a former criminal

Episode 3 : Art As Title Deeds

Aug 5th, 2018 47m 30s

Episode 2: Heart of Art, A Two Ways World

Jul 15th, 2018 41m 17s

Three Yolngu artists take us to the site of a massacre of their people in North East Arnhem Land in 1911, and beyond, to the powerful art and heart of Yolngu culture today. The thriving Buku-Larrnggay Mulka art centre is run by a former crimina

Heart of Art, A Two Ways World

Jul 12th, 2018 41m 17s

Three Yolngu artists take us to the site of a massacre of their people in NE Arnhem Land in 1911, and beyond, to the powerful art and heart of Yolngu culture today. The thriving Buku-Larrnggay Mulka art centre is run by a former criminal lawyer

Trailer

Jul 12th, 2018 4m

Contemporary Aboriginal art is a powerful part of Aboriginal life and culture. But behind the artists lies a network of Western managers, dealers, critics, curators and collaborators. Heart of Artness features the voices of Aboriginal artists f