The West Papua Women’s Office in Docklands is asking Visual, Sculpture, Jewellery and Craft Artists to consider entering work in the 2017 SAMPARI ART EXHIBITION FOR WEST PAPUA, including the special category of Melanesian Art. The exhibition is showing in…
My highland warrior is seen through the telescopic sights of a rifle, his head surrounded by the leaves of his homeland, which also reference organisations that ignore the atrocities committed against these owners of the land [EMMA THURLOW, CATALOGUE] PNG…
THE 2016 SAMPARI ART EXHIBITION AND SALE FOR WEST PAPUA in the Australian Catholic University’s Art Gallery in Fitzroy in December 2016, hosted by the Federal Republic of West Papua’s office in Docklands, included a special WALL OF MELANESIAN PRINTS. …
SAMPARI 2016 ART EXHIBITION AND PUBLIC PROGRAMS ACU Art Gallery, 26 Brunswick St, Fitzroy OPENS Friday 2 December 2016 : 6pm CLOSES Sunday 11 December 2016 : 5pm GALLERY HOURS: Monday-Wednesday 11-6pm Thursday-Friday 11-8pm Saturday-Sunday 10-4pm SAMPARI, the name of the…
IN RECOGNITION OF the Melanesian nations success in winning a bitterly contested battle over West Papua’s inclusion in the Melanesian Spearhead Group and Pacific Islands Forum, Sampari 2016 has created a MELANESIAN WALL OF ART for the work of artists…
The West Papua Women’s Office in Docklands is asking Visual, Media, Sculpture, Jewellery and Craft Artists to consider entering work in the 2017 SAMPARI ART EXHIBITION FOR WEST PAPUA. This third exhibition is also in the Australian Catholic University Art…
PETER WOODS won the People’s Choice Award at the Sampari Art Exhibition for West Papua. His Papuana Nymphaea is a gouache on watercolour paper that brings to light the suffering of the West Papuans in the setting of Monet’s famous…
