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 is being 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?
The filming of Bush plum, the contemporary art of ANGELINA PWERLE, our latest project in outback Australia, is complete and the DVD was released in late March. 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 relating to this film, 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 April 2012 we began work with artist ALICK TIPOTI on a new film project in the Torres Strait. ALICK has been selected for the 2012 Biennale of Sydney with a masterwork called Girelal, an 8 metre long linocut which illustrates the connection between physical and spiritual worlds in Torres Strait Islander culture. His work has also been selected for the exhibition unDisclosed (2nd Indigenous Art Triennial) at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra in mid 2012.
We would like to thank the community on Badu Island and our friends at Badu Art Centre Badhulgaw Kuthinaw Mudh for their hospitality and kindness during our recent visit. Creative cowboy films are documenting the culture of the Torres Strait and there are plans for further projects in the region. The plan this time is to launch ALICK’S film at CIAF (Cairns Indigenous Art Fair) in August this year, so everyone will be working hard to meet this deadline.
A portrait in Barcelona, a documentary in which figurative painter PETER CHURCHER describes the art of portraiture, is now available on DVD and can be purchased online from the Creative cowboy shop.
In the Cowboy Blog section, a new blog about Animals and culture, includes a video clip of Dr HUGH WIRTH and PETER HYLANDS talking about this important topic and in the blog Silent country PETER HYLANDS reflects on the loss of Australian languages. There will be a number of new blogs posted in coming weeks including a discussion with Ghost Nets Australia’s SUE RYAN, a series of blogs called Straits talking as we hear from significant artists from the Torres Strait including ALICK TIPOTI, BILLY MISSI and GLEN MACKIE and we join master printer THEO TREMBLAY at Editions Tremblay NFP in North Queensland. On Moa Island we talk to art centre manager ANTHONY MURPHY and Moa artist MERSANE LOBAN about developments at the Ngalmun Lagau Minaral Art Centre.
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 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. A new edition of the magazine will be released in the second half of 2012.
In May the Creative cowboy crew visit Corfu in the Ionian Sea and in June we visit an old friend in London, CHRISTOPHER GREEN, the British Library artist in residence for 2012.
