Elizabeth Fortescue
Correspondent at The Art Newspaper
Arts Journalist and Writer at Freelance
Saleroom writer at Australian Financial Review
Australian art writer and arts journalist. My Saleroom column on the art market is in every Thursday's Australian Financial Review. Posting personal views only.
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2 days ago |
afr.com | Elizabeth Fortescue
A roomful of attractive offerings failed to translate into high prices at Art Leven’s Indigenous art auction in Sydney on Tuesday night, with this week’s G7 meeting potentially to blame. Lining the walls of Art Leven’s Redfern room were delightful barks and a plethora of colourful paintings by well-known artists. Loading...
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1 week ago |
afr.com | Elizabeth Fortescue
Australian artist Lisa Roet is rightly celebrated for the apes and monkeys she has sculpted over the past 35 years, often working in bronze or marble. Her work is achingly beautiful and alive with human connection. Roet’s Chimpanzee Finger, 2007, a bronze sculpture measuring 145 x 140 x 50 centimetres in an edition of six, just sold for $90,000 through Menzies auction house. Loading...
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2 weeks ago |
afr.com | Elizabeth Fortescue
Jun 4, 2025 – 12.42pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Industry players in Australia are holding their breath to see whether Indigenous art auctions here will react to the lacklustre results achieved by Sotheby’s Aboriginal Art auction in New York last month. At the Sotheby’s auction on May 21 (New York time), just 37 per cent of 65 lots were sold under the hammer.
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3 weeks ago |
theartnewspaper.com | Elizabeth Fortescue
A leading archaeologist has warned of destruction faced by a 50,000-year-old rock art site on the remote Western Australian coast after a controversial Australian government decision this week to extend the life of an adjacent gas mega-project. Environment Minister Murray Watt approved Woodside Energy’s bid to extend its liquified natural gas operations on the Burrup Peninsula (also called Murujuga) by 40 years until 2070.
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3 weeks ago |
theartnewspaper.com | Elizabeth Fortescue
Indigenous Australian artists were leading innovators at key stages in the postcolonial development of what is now a celebrated art movement. Now, in an exhibition opening at Melbourne University’s Potter Museum of Art on 30 May, their contributions will be celebrated.
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