The Importance of Cultural Interference in Aboriginal Art

Aboriginal art is not made in a vacuum. Art advisors must tread uncertain ground between facilitation and influence. The NGA Review Panel set to decide how and where the process is exposed at Jala Arts have crossed some unspoken line. It stands to be seen if more difficult cross-cultural aspects of the movement can be accepted too. Is it simply an outmoded colonial myth at risk of being struck down or something even deeper and harder to let go? These issues cut to the troubled centre of our national identity, to the massive relations that define Aboriginal and settler Australian interactions.