A creative eye on a creative world

Creative cowboy is an award winning film company, presenting an international tapestry of ideas, creativity and news about culture and art making. Creative cowboy makes films for an audience who care about ideas and creativity.

Creative cowboy also produces educational materials for school and college containing films and electronic books.

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EDUCATION

Aboriginal art and culture

Aboriginal art and culture

Aboriginal art & culture

Creative cowboy honours the world's indigenous peoples. In Australia, a series of films about Aboriginal art and culture provide students with the opportunity to learn about the world's oldest continual art practice. The art and culture of the Torres Strait and Kenya's Rift Valley are also explored in a series of exciting new films. Our education resource packs include films and books on indigenous art and culture.

ART & CULTURE

Alex Schweder LA

Alex Schweder LA

Join ALEX SCHWEDER LA and PETER HYLANDS in California at SFMOMA during the installation of the work A Sac of Rooms All Day Long. In a five hour cycle, the work, made of clear vinyl, rises from a puddle of plastic on the floor in a writhing performance, in which a 900 square foot house rises within the skin of a 500 square foot Californian bungalow.The resulting film, Space Time Performance, was launched in Berlin. As the sunshine warmed the streets, Berlin's very international and creative community joined us at the launch. In East Berlin a new studio is born as ALEX plans his new workspace.

LATEST PROJECTS

Ken Thaiday Snr

Western Arnhem Land, Torres Strait, the Rift Valley, Central Australia, Spain and more

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The sea, the feather and the dance machine is now available on DVD and can be ordered from Creative cowboy films. In this film we join artist Ken Thaiday Snr in the Torres Strait and we make a remarkable journey to Erub. Ken’s film will be broadcast in Australia by National Indigenous Television (NITV) FOXTEL during 2012.

Join the Creative cowboy crew and UNESCO Observatory on Multi-Disciplinary Research in the Arts in Africa in a series of films about Maasai culture now available on DVD. The six documentaries in the series Films essays of Maasai life explore Maasai culture and how changes are impacting traditional practices. The extraordinary beauty of Kenya’s Rift Valley and its wildlife are the backdrop to a deeply moving and personal account of Maasai life and culture today. View clips from these films by visiting the Documentary section of this website. All six films in the series will be broadcast in Australia by NITV FOXTEL during 2012.

What’s new?

A portrait in Barcelona was filmed in PETER CHURCHER’s studio apartment and in the surrounding streets of Barcelona. Our painting nearing completion we visit the National Portrait Gallery in London to find out more about the art of portraiture. This new film was released on DVD in October 2011.

The Creative cowboy magazine creative-i is now available in the blog section of this website. The latest issue reviews the Creative cowboy year and describes some of the ways in which we impact the lives of indigenous people.

New in the Art & Culture section of this website, in Oxford ANDREW McLELLAN and PETER HYLANDS talk about the way in which objects are displayed by the University of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum. In Kenya IRENE NJERI and PETER HYLANDS discuss some of the development issues facing Maasai society today.

The filming of Bush plum, the contemporary art of ANGELINA PWERLE, our latest project in outback Australia, is complete and the project is now at editing stage. Here contemporary art and the beauty of Central Australia come together in a remarkable documentary. This and other new films will once again bring us closer to the great artistry and ideas of Aboriginal Australia. Three new blogs, Talking Utopia, Bush plum and An Ancient Abstraction include images of the three journeys to our location in Central Australia made during the filming of Bush plum. In the blog Silent country PETER HYLANDS reflects on the loss of Australian languages.

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WARNING

This website may contain the names and images of Aboriginal and Islander people now deceased

creative-i magazine creative-i includes articles that relate in some way to Creative cowboy film projects, articles about art and culture, about places, people and nature. This issue's theme: vanishing worlds.
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COWBOY'S BLOG

Meet the Maasai

Rift Valley, Kenya 2010 © kb

Living in the Rift Valley, being with the Maasai each day was a very happy experience. Creativity and generosity were all around us. Life in Maasailand has not been easy. A long period of drought, a mirror of the experience in South Eastern Australia, has meant that the cattle and goats, so central to Maasai life, have struggled to find food. During this period of drought the journeys for the Maasai men grew Read more …