It took nearly 40 years, but an exhibition of groundbreaking Balgo paintings, which helped give birth to the contemporary Aboriginal Australian art movement, is finally on view. Lost for decades, the ...

The Australian High Commission this week presented "Balgo: Contemporary Australian Art from the Balgo Hills", an exhibition of Indigenous Aboriginal art from the district of Balgo in Colombo’s JDA ...

The normally empty red gravel apron of the Balgo Hills airstrip is crowded with small planes and abuzz with laughter. It's a hot early morning on Easter Saturday, and 70 of Australia's most ...

Miracles have a catalyst. It isn't hyperbole to talk of a miraculous rebirth of Aboriginal painting in the last quarter of the 20th century, and something set it off. The efflorescence of art in ...

DRIVING to Balgo, deep in the heart of Western Australia's Great Sandy Desert, is not for the faint-hearted. From Alice Springs, it's a 830 kilometre bone-rattling ride up the Tanami Track, unsealed ...

Cold desert nights, wide starry skies and a billycan hissing on the campfire in the lee of a red dune. Internationally renowned art is produced in Balgo The community, also known as Wirrimanu, is on ...