Australian Indigenous Arts

Bangarra is an Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander organisation and one of Australia’s leading performing arts companies, widely acclaimed nationally and around the world for its powerful dancing, distinctive theatrical voice and utterly unique soundscapes, music and design.

ILBIJERRI is Australia’s leading and longest running Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander theatre company.
ILBIJERRI creates, presents and tours powerful and engaging theatre, creatively controlled by Indigenous artists. Our stories are provocative and affecting and give voice to our unique and diverse cultures
ILBIJERRI is an advocate and leader for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community in Australia. In this role we deliver a broad program of Artist Development for new and emerging Indigenous writers, directors, actors and creatives.
Born from community ILBIJERRI has become a spearhead for Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in telling our stories of what it means to be Indigenous in Australia today.

Queensland’s leading Indigenous arts collective, proppaNOW, was set up in Brisbane in 2003 to give urban-based Aboriginal artists a voice. They present a unique and controversial perspective of black Australia which is sometimes confronting and always thought provoking.
Current members Vernon Ah Kee, Tony Albert, Richard Bell, Jennifer Herd, Gordon Hookey, Laurie Nilsen and Megan Cope are all established artists and well respected in their own right.

The Yijala Yala Project is a long-term, inter-generational cultural arts project based in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The project is created by Big hART for and with the community of Roebourne.
The Yijala Yala Project seeks to highlight cultural heritage as living, continually evolving and in the here and now, rather than of the past, and works with community members to create content and develop skills that assist in communicating their cultural heritage to a wide audience.

A diverse group of outstanding contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists reveal to pre-eminent curator Hetti Perkins how their art practice is driven by culture and heritage, political and personal preoccupations, dreams and imagination.

Next Wave Festival 2014’s keynote initiative, Blak Wave, involves the creation of a publication that showcases the work of the next generation of Indigenous artists. In this document, contributors are invited to explore the political, personal and aesthetic boundaries of contemporary art

This art series looks at new and developing communities and collectives that are producing contemporary work that reflects the up and coming artistic development within the creative indigenous community, that up until now has had little exposure to a wider society. Presenting the work of various artists from each state and territory, "Colour Theory" demonstrates the incredible range of indigenous artistic expression and practice. Featuring works in a variety of media, including painting on bark and canvas, sculpture, textiles, weaving, new media, photo media, printmaking installation, dance and music. Shot on location in the many beautiful and varied places around Australia, Each half hour episode will explore the Artist's affiliation with their Gallery or Art Centre, their connection to their country and how their culture inspires their modern form of art.

In a constructed landscape and soundscape, a middle aged Aboriginal woman nurses her dying white mother. It explores frustration, anger, loneliness, memories, dreams and finally loss.

Bangarra Dance Theatre redefined how the world thinks about Indigenous dance. The brothers behind it, director Stephen Page and music composer David Page have dedicated their lives to depicting the world's oldest living culture in new ways. In an intimate conversation with Living Black, the Page brothers reveal how they made their way from a housing commission in Brisbane to directing and composing the Indigenous performance for the Sydney Olympic Games. They tell Karla Grant about experiencing racism, breaking into the contemporary art world and the art of bringing Indigenous stories to the rest of the world.