After more than a decade of planning, the recently formed APY Art Centre Collective, a group of 10 Aboriginal enterprises from central Australia, will open a new art gallery in Adelaide.and the NPY Women's Council, the gallery is designed to ensure that Aboriginal people travelling to Adelaide for health reasons can continue to connect with culture and community along the way.
Situated in the former Night Train theatre restaurant in the city's west end, builders are hard at work to strip the site of its former life and get the space ready in time for its opening next month. The gallery is pitched at emerging artists and will provide a new point of sale for art — both traditional and contemporary — crafted more than 1,000 kilometres away in South Australia's remote APY Lands.
The collective's manager Skye O'Meara says the new gallery will help to move emerging artists beyond having to sell stacked canvases at markets. "This is what has been thrilling about this project — elders created these opportunities for the young and emerging artists and, with it, it's creating more and more jobs on the APY Lands because young artists are turning up to the art centres knowing that there's opportunities that exist today that didn't exist three years ago," she said.
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Get SteveMartinToGo involved. He has a big interest in Indigenous art and artists.
Do we need a FAIRTRADE type arrangement to protect indigenous artists? After all it was agricultural exploitation in the developing world that fairtrade was designed to protect against. It could be broadened?
There is an organisation in Australia that helps Indigenous artists in their relationships with galleries. It's called Viscopy, part of Copyright Agency Ltd. (