Indigenous arts

Its a given: Tracking the importance of private giving and sponsorship to key organisations

08 November 2011

This report tracks and analyses private sector income of Australia Council funded key organisations for the years 2008 to 2010.


Song Cycles

26 May 2010

Research report showing that attitudes, physical distance, training and education are among the significant barriers that prevent Indigenous artists from reaching wider audiences.


art at the heart: conference report

01 November 2008

Around 950 people met in Alice Springs from 3-5 October 2008 for Regional Arts Australia's sixth biennial conference, art at the heart. The central focus of the conference was artistic and cultural exchange and cross-cultural collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists and cultural workers in regional and remote contexts.


International visitors and Indigenous cultural activities

30 July 2008

Between January and March 2006, about 200,000 international visitors experienced one or more Indigenous cultural activities while in Australia, according to Tourism Research Australia.


International visitors and Indigenous art sales

30 July 2008

According to The Arts Economy, in 1990, 30 per cent of international visitors to Australia purchased Indigenous art or souvenirs. Between 1990 and 1996, sales of Aboriginal art and souvenirs increased at a rate of about 11.5 per cent per year.


Indigenous Australian auction sales

30 July 2008

According to The Arts Economy, there was a major decline in all Australian artworks sold at auction in the early 1990s, attributed to an economic recession during this period.


Indigenous commercial art galleries

30 July 2008

According to The Arts Economy, in 1996–97, commercial art galleries sold $14.6 million worth of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artworks.


Indigenous attendance at cultural venues

30 July 2008

In non-remote areas, 45 per cent of Indigenous people aged 15 years or over attended a movie, theatre, or concert, and 32 per cent visited a library, museum or art gallery in the three months before interview.


Indigenous creative participation

30 July 2008

About 27 per cent of Indigenous Australians aged 15 years and over participated in at least one of three Indigenous creative arts activities in the 12 months before interview.


Indigenous employment in the arts

30 July 2008

The five-yearly Census of Population and Housing collects information relating to the occupation and industry of each person’s main job, meaning the job in which a person usually works the most hours.


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