Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative is celebrating its 25th year. To mark this very special occasion\u00a0 members and volunteers, led by Bronwyn Bancroft, have organised a survey show including works by\u00a0 founding members Euphemia Bostock, Fiona Foley, Brenda Croft, Jeffrey Samuels, Michael Riley, Avril Quail,\u00a0 Tracey Moffat and Bronwyn Bancroft. This show is a wonderful tribute to the determination and creative inspiration of this group of Aboriginals artists who fought hard to get this gallery off the ground in 1987 in the spirit of “black power” and “self-determination”, and to keep it going as a commercial enterprise.<\/p>\n
The word “boomalli”,\u00a0 derived from three NSW Aboriginal language groups,\u00a0 means “to strike” or “to make a mark”. One of the primary aims of Boomalli has been to re-address some of the social inequities experienced historically by indigenous artists and provide an authentic and strong cultural voice within a contemporary Australian context. This has been achieved by allowing artists to take direct curatorial control of their individual exhibitions as well as devising their own marketing and sales strategies, thereby reclaiming processes which have been traditionally controlled by non- indigenous stakeholders.<\/p>\n
This innovative gallery\u00a0 model has nourished and encouraged a broad variety of creative work and today provides continuous support for Aboriginal artists of NSW, especially younger members. Boomalli is it one of the longest running Aboriginal owned and operated art galleries in Australia.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Catherine Hickson,\u00a0Assistant Curator<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n More info:<\/span><\/p>\n November 23 – January 20 – Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative<\/span><\/p>\n 55-59 Flood Street,\u00a0Leichhardt<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ripple Effect: Boomalli Founding Members Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative is celebrating its 25th year. To mark this very special occasion\u00a0 members and volunteers, led by Bronwyn Bancroft, have organised a survey show including works by\u00a0 founding members Euphemia Bostock, Fiona Foley, Brenda Croft, Jeffrey Samuels, Michael Riley, Avril Quail,\u00a0 Tracey Moffat and Bronwyn Bancroft. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[51,832,128,55,53,58,54,828],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chroniques-curatoriales","tag-51","tag-aboriginal-art","tag-boomalli","tag-chronicle","tag-chronique","tag-curatorial","tag-curatoriale","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2744,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions\/2744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}