To celebrate Blue Art Journal’s first Volume, we focus our inaugural commissions on charting the rise of the Global Indigenous. To us, this is the international art world’s focused interest on Indigenous art, particularly evident in the model of biennials and triennials worldwide, along with the globalisation of Aboriginal art abroad.
Volume 01:
Rise of the Global Indigenous
Editors Note
D Harding, Places iii (detail), 2025
Image courtesy Milani Gallery, photo Jeremy Weihrauch
Welcome to Volume 01
It is an almost surreal feeling to write this editorial for Volume 1 of Blue Art Journal. When we started leading Art Monthly Australasia in late 2023, we were primarily concerned with retiring it and shepherding in a new Indigenous art journal grounded in genuine and honest criticism.
Editors Letter
Note to reader
Members of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities are advised that a number of people mentioned in writing or depicted in photographs may have passed away. Blue Art Journal acknowledges the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people as the custodians of the land on which we are located. We pay our respects to the Elders past, present and future.
Bilas in the White Cube
The National Gallery of Australia’s ‘Bilong Papua New Guinea’
Words: Jocelyn Flynn
You Can Ask That!
Arts industry mob give insight on some of the big questions
Blue Art Journal creates space for First Nations writers, artists and critics to lead, critique, challenge, experiment and to tell stories on their own terms.
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