Featuring more than 200+ historical and contemporary works from the NGV Collection, MOTHER is the most comprehensive thematic exhibition exploring motherhood ever mounted in an Australian art ...

An Aboriginal artist who pulled an ancient style of weaving back from the brink of extinction will be presented with a prestigious national arts award at a ceremony at the Sydney Opera House tonight.

It was the culmination of a big year for 71-year-old Ms Koomatrie whose career retrospective exhibition, also titled Riverland, is at the Art Gallery until January 10 and was the centrepiece of this ...

RIVERLAND weaver Yvonne Koolmatrie has won the national $50,000 Red Ochre award for lifetime achievement by an indigenous artist. “In 1982 there was an article that came out, claiming and stating that ...

It's an honour to receive something so big, and to be recognised as well, writes Yvonne Koolmatrie of her Red Ochre Award win as part of this year's Australia Council’s National Indigenous Arts Awards ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. An installation view of Yvonne Koolmatrie's signature eel traps from the Art Gallery of South Australia ...

Yvonne Koolmatrie, winner of the Red Ochre Award. Source: Australia Council’s National Indigenous Arts Awards The National indigenous Arts Awards celebrate the incredible artistry and contributions ...

She attended a workshop run by local elder Dorothy Kartinyeri, who taught her how to harvest sedge grass and work the material into a form suitable for stitching. Ever since, Koolmatrie says, her life ...

Curators have travelled to all corners of the continent to find work that proves there's far more to Aboriginal art than dot painting, writes John McDonald. "In the Kaurna language of the Adelaide ...

The Ngarrindjeri woman from South Australia has played a pivotal role in the revival of a near-lost art, infusing Dreaming narratives into distinctive work In 1982 Yvonne Koolmatrie read that ...

It was the culmination of a big year for 71-year-old Ms Koomatrie whose career retrospective exhibition, also titled Riverland, is at the Art Gallery until January 10 and was the centrepiece of this ...

RIVERLAND weaver Yvonne Koolmatrie has won the national $50,000 Red Ochre award for lifetime achievement by an indigenous artist. “In 1982 there was an article that came out, claiming and stating that ...