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National Indigenous Art Fair

Locality: Sydney, Australia

Phone: +61 499 252 599

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03.02.2022 Dont forget to shop online at the Southeast Aboriginal Arts Market -so much beautiful work online from NSW, Victoria and Tasmania.

25.01.2022 Were currently taking registrations from remote art centres to attend this years Art Fair. Yeah NIAF 2020 is on its way

24.01.2022 You will see the most beautiful artwork fro, across Australia at our National Indigenous Art Fair. Check out the facebook event https://www.facebook.com/events/498149527602188/

23.01.2022 Have you checked out Babbarra Womens Centre and also Ikuntji Artists for the most beautiful fabrics and art.

23.01.2022 Another wonderful art centre attending our Art Fair that needs your support during Covid. Check out their beautiful artwork on their website #aboriginalart

23.01.2022 For over 30 years Maruku Arts has operated as a not-for-profit art and craft corporation, owned and operated by Anangu... Approximately 900 Aboriginal artists belonging to over 20 remote communities across the Central and Western Deserts, make up the collective that is Maruku... Their purpose is to keep culture strong and alive, through art, craft and organic experiences.... Event details : https://www.facebook.com/events/498149527602188/?active_tab=about #nationalindigenousartfair #artfair #aboriginalartair #torresstraitislanderartfair #firstnationsartfair #buyblak #supportremotecommunities #supportblakartists #supportsmallbuisness #oldestlivingculture #buydirect #aboriginalart #overseaspassangerterminal #gadigalland #aboriginalart #ilovesydney #NAIDOC #naidocweek2021 #naidoc2021

22.01.2022 Great art centre this would be fantastic if youre looking to contribute your skills to a truly great art centre

22.01.2022 Lovely Sydney Harbour Bridge weaving installation made at the Art Fair now greeting visitors to the Overseas Passenger Terminal. What will our weavers weave this year? Weve done the Opera House as well. Can anyone think of any other Sydney icons fir this years weave? Check out our event https://facebook.com/events/s/national-indigenous-art-fair/498149527602188/?ti=icl #aboriginalart #community

22.01.2022 Congratulations to Vincent Namatjira on winning this year’s Archibald Prize with his portrait of Adam Goodes, 'Stand strong for who you are'! ‘We share some similar stories and experiences of disconnection from culture, language and Country, and the constant pressures of being an Aboriginal man in this country. When I was younger and growing up in the foster system in Perth, Indigenous footballers were like heroes to me. Goodesy is much more than a great footballer though, he took a strong stand against racism and said, enough is enough. I stand strong with you too, brother.’ - Vincent Namatjira The portrait is on display in the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prize exhibition, opening tomorrow.

21.01.2022 Very exciting to have the Federal Minister for Arts and Communication, the Hon Paul Fletcher visit today. Stay tuned !

20.01.2022 Not long now till we open the doors of the 2021 National Indigenous Art Fair! 3-4 July at the Overeseas Passenger Terminal in the Rocks. Events details: https://www.facebook.com/events/498149527602188 Sydney.com ... #sydney_sider #ilovesydney #niaf2021 #nationalindigenousartfair #artfair #aboriginalartair #torresstraitislanderartfair #firstnationsartfair #buyblak #supportremotecommunities #supportblakartists #supportsmallbuisness #oldestlivingculture #buydirect #aboriginalart #overseaspassangerterminal ##gadigalland#aboriginalartfair #NAIDOC #naidocweek2021 #naidoc2021 #firstnations See more

20.01.2022 We're currently taking registrations from remote art centres to attend this year's Art Fair. Yeah NIAF 2020 is on its way

19.01.2022 Registrations are beginning to come in from remote Aboriginal art centres attending this year's Art Fair. Stay tuned!

19.01.2022 In one month today we will be running our National indigenous Art Fair with this as the backdrop.

18.01.2022 Remember the Cooleys and their beautiful burnings at the Art Fair last year. Were getting excited about this years event at the end of June. https://facebook.com/events/s/national-indigenous-art-fair/498149527602188/?ti=icl

18.01.2022 In acknowledgement of the NAIDOC Week 2021 theme of Heal Country, Heal our Nation, this year’s National Indigenous Art Fair will shine the light on the art form of ghost net sculptures, developed in response to an urgent environmental crisis... Around the world’s oceans, thousands of lost, broken and abandoned fishing nets are causing devastating damage, entrapping and killing vast quantities of marine life...... Aboriginal communities around Australia, predominantly in the Gulf of Carpentaria, are responding by collecting these drifting ghost nets from the ocean and weaving them into beautiful sculptures, both large and small scale, often in acknowledgement of the sea creatures that have lost their lives... Throughout the National Indigenous Art Fair 2021, these award-winning eco-artworks will be showcased; and visitors will be invited to join with guest weavers from around the country, to experience working with recycled ocean plastics to create a ghost net sculpture of their own... Art/Artist: Pormpuraaw Art and Culture Centre Events details: https://www.facebook.com/events/498149527602188 @sydney.com @NIAF2021 #sydney_sider #ilovesydney #niaf2021 #nationalindigenousartfair #artfair #aboriginalartair #torresstraitislanderartfair #firstnationsartfair #buyblak #supportremotecommunities #supportblakartists #supportsmallbuisness #oldestlivingculture #buydirect #aboriginalart #overseaspassangerterminal ##gadigalland#aboriginalartfair #NAIDOC #naidocweek2021 #naidoc2021

17.01.2022 Congratulation to @richardbell and curator @wardandi_yok for the amazing new exhibition at @mca_australia. If you get the chance make sure you book into the panel discussion to hear about the history of the Tent Embassy which celebrates its fiftieth birthday next year. You can also watch them online. @blakmarkets @niaf2021 @naidocweek

15.01.2022 We have decided to postpone this years Art Fair to 2-3 July 2021 following a review of the most up to date advice regarding ways to minimise the spread of the Coronavirus, and the New South Wales Public Health (COVID-19 Public Events) order banning events of 500 people. In this rapidly evolving and unknown environment, we know this is the only responsible decision albeit a devastating one. However, the health and safety of our community is our first concern. Well be up and operating our Blak Markets as soon as we can!

15.01.2022 Juluwarlu Art Group's purpose is to collect, sustain and promote knowledge of Yindjibarndi culture our ngurra, wanda, and animals, our language, genealogy, mythology, social history, and biography to sustain our Yindjibarndi identity, self esteem, respect and other values we consider vital to our lives, our well-being and our culture future... We do this for our children and our future generations so that they too, are inspired to contribute to our Australian national commu...nity Events details: https://www.facebook.com/events/498149527602188 @sydney.com @National Indigenous Art Fair #sydney_sider #ilovesydney #niaf2021 #nationalindigenousartfair #artfair #aboriginalartair #torresstraitislanderartfair #firstnationsartfair #buyblak #supportremotecommunities #supportblakartists #supportsmallbuisness #oldestlivingculture #buydirect #aboriginalart #overseaspassangerterminal ##gadigalland#aboriginalartfair #NAIDOC #naidocweek2021 #naidoc2021

15.01.2022 Check out this great online market!

15.01.2022 Please share we know this is an art page but the prices many of our friends in remote communities have to put up with is outrageous! http://chng.it/8wWMMK4jjn

13.01.2022 Desart on now with a great online marketplace check it out - https://desart.com.au/desert-mob/marketplace/

13.01.2022 Aunty Dale from My Dilly Bag will be hosting a bush food cooking demonstration at this years National Indigenous Art Fair as well as being part of a panel discussion Our plants our business. My Dilly Bag works sustainably with Aboriginal communities that grow and harvest bush food ingredients, as well as Aboriginal artisan creators Events details: https://www.facebook.com/events/498149527602188... @sydney.com National Indigenous Art Fair #sydney_sider #ilovesydney #niaf2021 #nationalindigenousartfair #artfair #aboriginalartair #torresstraitislanderartfair #firstnationsartfair #buyblak #supportremotecommunities #supportblakartists #supportsmallbuisness #oldestlivingculture #buydirect #aboriginalart #overseaspassangerterminal ##gadigalland#aboriginalartfair #NAIDOC #naidocweek2021 #naidoc2021

13.01.2022 Amazing story on Maralinga and the British nuclear testing featuring @oak valley -one of our art centres -being featured.. https://iview.abc.net.au/show/maralinga-tjarutja

11.01.2022 Our friends at Iltja Ntjarra Art Centre are holding a great exhibtion tonight in Sydney. Check out the details this will be fantastic!

11.01.2022 Joining us at the 2021 National Indigenous Art Fair on Saturday 3 July is Jannawi Dance Clan... Jannawi is an Indigenous dance company encompassing modern urban and traditional Aboriginal dance styles with traditional music by song man Matthew Doyle singing in the Sydney languages... The name Jannawi means ‘with me, with you’ in the Darug language...... Jannawi practices, performs and teaches to inspire other indigenous people to practice cultural values and identities... To be proud and show their commitment to honour and share knowledge, encourage awareness and understanding of the world’s oldest living indigenous culture... Events details: https://www.facebook.com/events/498149527602188 @sydney.com @National Indigenous Art Fair #sydney_sider #ilovesydney #niaf2021 #nationalindigenousartfair #artfair #aboriginalartair #torresstraitislanderartfair #firstnationsartfair #buyblak #supportremotecommunities #supportblakartists #supportsmallbuisness #oldestlivingculture #buydirect #aboriginalart #overseaspassangerterminal ##gadigalland#aboriginalartfair #NAIDOC #naidocweek2021 #naidoc2021

11.01.2022 Today and yesterday are the days we are supposed to be running our National Indigenous Art Fair which we had to postpone till next year because of Covid. However we are currently working on ways to increase retail opportunities through Aboriginal supply chains and are launching our Blak Markets website soon so you will be able to buy online from our stallholders and remote art centres who would have attended our Art Fair from right across Australia. But tonight we are thinking of all those wonderful stallholders and Aboriginal artists and art centres that travelled from the remotest parts of Australia, to tell their stories through the art they sold and the cultural performances and weaving circle we put on at our Art Fair. See you next year but were working on better ways of working with you all in the interim.

11.01.2022 Iltja Ntjarra Many Hands Art Centre is a not-for-profit Art Centre, proudly Aboriginal owned and directed... It is home of the Namatjira watercolour artists... The Art Centre was established by Ngurratjuta/Pmara Ntjarra Aboriginal Corporation in 2004 and incorporated as a separate entity in 2016... The Centre is strongly committed to improving economic participation of Aboriginal people and maintaining cultural heritage... ... It was established for Western Aranda artists to come together to paint, share and learn new techniques and ideas. Event details : https://www.facebook.com/events/498149527602188/?active_tab=about #nationalindigenousartfair #artfair #aboriginalartair #torresstraitislanderartfair #firstnationsartfair #buyblak #supportremotecommunities #supportblakartists #supportsmallbuisness #oldestlivingculture #buydirect #aboriginalart #overseaspassangerterminal #gadigalland #aboriginalart #ilovesydney #NAIDOC #naidocweek2021 #naidoc2021

10.01.2022 Thinking of all the wonderful artists from across Australia who would have been at our Art Fair this weekend. We miss you! Warmun Art Centre Warlukurlangu Artists Babbarra Womens Centre Warnayaka Art & Cultural Aboriginal Corporation Munupi Art Tjanpi Desert

10.01.2022 Our friends at Ikuntji Artists are opening up again after Covid and now is the time to get online and order !

09.01.2022 Have you checked out Babbarra Women's Centre and also Ikuntji Artists for the most beautiful fabrics and art.

09.01.2022 Its great to finally join the IVAIS network who have a focus on providing opportunities for the remote art centres that play such a vital role in so many First Nation communities. As you know we started the Blak Markets six years ago with the aim of providing a marketplace to La Perouse based Aboriginal small business and three years ago we expanded the idea of a National Indigenous Art Fair to provide the opportunity to remote art centres. lhttps://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1713412362147261&extid=KrWs2t3ClzAM6bUs

08.01.2022 Warlukurlangu Artists is one of the longest running and most successful Aboriginal-owned art centres in Central Australia. It has a national and international profile and its art has been featured in hundreds of exhibitions and publications in Australia and around the world. Warlukurlangu means ‘belonging to fire’ in the local language, Warlpiri, and is named after a fire dreaming site west of Yuendumu.... Event details : https://www.facebook.com/events/498149527602188/?active_tab=about #nationalindigenousartfair #artfair #aboriginalartair #torresstraitislanderartfair #firstnationsartfair #buyblak #supportremotecommunities #supportblakartists #supportsmallbuisness #oldestlivingculture #buydirect #aboriginalart #overseaspassangerterminal #gadigalland #aboriginalart #ilovesydney #NAIDOC #naidocweek2021 #naidoc2021

08.01.2022 Muggera Cultural Enterprise will be performing at this years National Indigenous Art Fair.. Founded by Darren and Jax Compton in 2015, Muggera is a family group who prides itself on its cultural knowledge and professionalism... The members for Muggera come from a long line of cultural leaders, world-class performers, with a formidable respect for culture.. All members of Muggera have been performing and sharing their culture for many years and have been guided by their Elder...s over many decades... Muggera has ongoing support from Elders and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and communities to share culture, establish Muggera Cultural Enterprise, and set a new standard for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural performance and engagement in Australia... Events details: https://www.facebook.com/events/498149527602188 @sydney.com @National Indigenous Art Fair #sydney_sider #ilovesydney #niaf2021 #nationalindigenousartfair #artfair #aboriginalartair #torresstraitislanderartfair #firstnationsartfair #buyblak #supportremotecommunities #supportblakartists #supportsmallbuisness #oldestlivingculture #buydirect #aboriginalart #overseaspassangerterminal ##gadigalland#aboriginalartfair #NAIDOC #naidocweek2021 #naidoc2021

08.01.2022 Bula'bula Arts Aboriginal Corporation will be showcasing Djerrk/Gay'wu (Bush String Bags) at the 2021 NIAF.. Hand spun bush string is made from the inner bark of various young trees in the top end... The bark is beaten or chewed whilst still fresh... It is then pounded with a stone to separate the fibres which are then rolled and spun on the thigh.. The string is then knitted or knotted to create a bag... These were used for ceremony as well as everyday life collecting bush ...foods... Click through the photos to see the process.. Events details: https://www.facebook.com/events/498149527602188 @sydney.com @National Indigenous Art Fair #sydney_sider #ilovesydney #niaf2021 #nationalindigenousartfair #artfair #aboriginalartair #torresstraitislanderartfair #firstnationsartfair #buyblak #supportremotecommunities #supportblakartists #supportsmallbuisness #oldestlivingculture #buydirect #aboriginalart #overseaspassangerterminal ##gadigalland#aboriginalartfair #NAIDOC #naidocweek2021 #naidoc2021

07.01.2022 @Ngwarle Untye Art are a collective of Artists from the Mpweringe-Arnapipe outstation communities. a cluster of tini remote indigenous communities located 180 north or Alice Springs, Central Australia. Theirr artists do a range of of artworks from canvas fine traditional aboiriginal art, emu eggs, hangcrafted jewellery, boomerangs, clap sticks. Artist Cora is the daughter of well-known artist Norbett Kngwarreye Lynch (dec) and granddaughter of the famous artist Wenten Rubunj...a (dec). A proud Arrernte and Yankunytjatjara woman from Alice Springs, Central Australia, Cora is now based in Perth, Western Australia... Her iconic Traditional works depict how Aboriginal people connected and still connect to their lands and country spiritually, emotionally and physically, and is inspired by Dream-time stories, the lore, her culture and her people. Privileged to have these stories handed down to her from her elders, she is proud to continue her family's legacy.. Events details: https://www.facebook.com/events/498149527602188 @sydney.com @NIAF2021 #sydney_sider #ilovesydney #niaf2021 #nationalindigenousartfair #artfair #aboriginalartair #torresstraitislanderartfair #firstnationsartfair #buyblak #supportremotecommunities #supportblakartists #supportsmallbuisness #oldestlivingculture #buydirect #aboriginalart #overseaspassangerterminal ##gadigalland#aboriginalartfair #NAIDOC #naidocweek2021 #naidoc2021

07.01.2022 Remember Billy Cooley and Lulu Cooley from the Art Fair last year? Well they and other artists work is for sake online so check out their new online shop ! https://maruku.com.au/

07.01.2022 Great news for our friends at @cedunaarts who spoke of their fight at last years Art Fair

06.01.2022 Tony Albert welcoming us to @biennalesydney by @brook_andrew_artist. @ National Art School

06.01.2022 Another amazing online marketplace of remote Indigenous art centres

06.01.2022 @manyhandsart @biennalesydney

05.01.2022 The APY Art Centre Collective is a group of 11 Indigenous owned and governed enterprises. Located in the APY Lands, they work with a united vision and voice on strategic business initiatives and collaborative artistic projects. The APY Galleries are a platform for emerging Indigenous artists from the APY Art Centre Collective to connect with a wide audience outside of their remote communities, gain professional development opportunities and build a network within the art indu...stry supporting them to pursue successful careers in the arts. The APY Gallery showcases artists working across a wide range of mediums from painting, traditional punu (wood) carving, weaving, textiles, new media and digital photography. These emerging young artists have watched, listened and learned from their grandparents, the senior men and women of the APY Lands. It is now the young people’s turn to find new ways of sharing these traditions and stories. Event details : https://www.facebook.com/events/498149527602188/?active_tab=about #nationalindigenousartfair #artfair #aboriginalartair #torresstraitislanderartfair #firstnationsartfair #buyblak #supportremotecommunities #supportblakartists #supportsmallbuisness #oldestlivingculture #buydirect #aboriginalart #overseaspassangerterminal #gadigalland #aboriginalart #ilovesydney #NAIDOC #naidocweek2021 #naidoc2021

05.01.2022 More great Blak fashion businesses.

05.01.2022 @Lockhart River Arts Indigenous Corporation is a prominent Indigenous Australian art centre located on the eastern side of the Cape York Peninsula in Queensland... Lockhart River Arts Centre was established in 1995... The establishment of the Art Centre was influenced in part by a group of young artists just out of school who together became known as The Art Gang... The artists of Lockhart River Art Centre have been recognised for many years both nationally and internation...ally as The Art Gang... Events details: https://www.facebook.com/events/498149527602188 @sydney.com @National Indigenous Art Fair #sydney_sider #ilovesydney #niaf2021 #nationalindigenousartfair #artfair #aboriginalartair #torresstraitislanderartfair #firstnationsartfair #buyblak #supportremotecommunities #supportblakartists #supportsmallbuisness #oldestlivingculture #buydirect #aboriginalart #overseaspassangerterminal ##gadigalland#aboriginalartfair #NAIDOC #naidocweek2021 #naidoc2021

05.01.2022 @Babbarra designs have travelled to Paris since we last saw them. Its amazing where our artists who have attended our Art Fair are now showing their work. No surprise as their work is spectacular! Check out our Facebook event for updates https://facebook.com/events/s/national-indigenous-art-fair/498149527602188/?ti=icl #aboriginalart #sydney

04.01.2022 We will miss Artists of Ampilatwatja at this years Art Fair but check out their stunning new work online

04.01.2022 Merrepen Arts fabrics are stunning

04.01.2022 Check out the great artwork for sale online as part of The Revealed exhibition including many of our participating art centres

02.01.2022 Check out the wonderful work on Martumili Artists online. We are going to miss them at this years Art Fair which we had to postpone till next year

02.01.2022 Read up about some great First Nations womens businesses

02.01.2022 Registrations are beginning to come in from remote Aboriginal art centres attending this years Art Fair. Stay tuned!

01.01.2022 Celebrity chefs, dancing and wonderful Blak Markets stallholders alongside our remote artists. Register at our event for this years great line-up https://facebook.com/events/s/national-indigenous-art-fair/498149527602188/?ti=icl

01.01.2022 As we prepare for NIAF 2020 we look back at the best of 2019 and how much fun was had in our weaving circle. Check out our Facebook event as we start posting the line up up for this year! https://www.facebook.com/events/498149527602188/

01.01.2022 Exciting for our Art Fair to be part of the IVAIS network! https://www.facebook.com/watch/

01.01.2022 Warnayaka Art - Lajamanu Art Gallery is located in Australia, in Lajamanu, NT... They specialise in Indigenous Aboriginal Art... The Lajamanu Community is 580kms south west of Katherine, Northern Territory... Lajamanu is half way between Alice Springs and Darwin... Lajamanu has a population of around 900 Warlpiri people and their stories are part of their art...... Artists in Lajamanu have been finalists in the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Awards Event details : https://www.facebook.com/events/498149527602188/?active_tab=about #nationalindigenousartfair #artfair #aboriginalartair #torresstraitislanderartfair #firstnationsartfair #buyblak #supportremotecommunities #supportblakartists #supportsmallbuisness #oldestlivingculture #buydirect #aboriginalart #overseaspassangerterminal #gadigalland #aboriginalart #ilovesydney #NAIDOC #naidocweek2021 #naidoc2021

01.01.2022 The art of remote art centres is proudly displayed alongside @blakmarkets stallholders at our National Indigenous Art Fair coming up in June this year. Follow the facebook event to hear exciting updates https://www.facebook.com/events/498149527602188/ #aboriginalart

19.12.2021 An extraordinary story charting the history of the rise of Indigenous fashion i Australia.. and the world.