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Contact: Aboriginal Arts

Richard Aldridge

5 Monota Avenue Shelley

Western Australia

ph: 0459360606

Email mald2683@bigpond.net.au

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G’Day       My Name is Richard Aldridge and I am a collector and dealer of both early Aboriginal Art and New Guinea Tribal Art. I have been collecting indigenous art for over 23 years and specialize in high-end Artworks.
 
Over the last 23 years, I have gained a lot of experience in gauging the authenticity and age of artworks. I have a large database of sale prices.
 
I have sold thousands of objects, from small adornments to masterpieces of aboriginal art.
 
I have exhibited tribal art in America and New Zealand. I have contributed to several publications on tribal art.
 
I have been lucky enough to buy some masterpieces. Many of these are now in museum and Art galleries around Australia.
 
It is important that certain significant pieces of Aboriginal Art make their way back to Australia. Many of these pieces were collected from Australia in the colonial era. They are an important part of Australia’s history and should end up in public institutions.
 
I am now in a fortunate position where I have some very good clients. Good clients allow me to buy pieces for good prices and still make a profit.
 
I have a passion for early Oenpelli barks and wandjina paintings.
 
I live and work from my home in Perth, Western Australia with my wife and three children.

Aboriginal Paintings, Bark Paintings and Artifacts at an exhibition, including pieces on a commission basis

Richard Aldridge TRIBAL TRUST AUSTRALIA

Mission Statement:  Richard Aldridge

Tribal Trust Australia endeavours to return important early Aboriginal Art back to Australia. The ultimate aim is to place important pieces into Public Collections. We believe Museums and Art Galleries are the ideal places for Aboriginal Art to be understood and appreciated.

Tribal Trust Australia will dedicate itself to sharing information and knowledge about Non-European Arts.  Knowledge and information will spread to a wider audience through free articles on the Internet.

We believe that images of tribal art should be easily accessible to everyone, especially the cultures that created them.

Websites

Richard Aldridge runs two websites

Aboriginal: This website provides information about early aboriginal artists and Aboriginal art forms. It contains large quantities of images of works by Early Aboriginal artists.

Contains over 100 articles on Aboriginal Art

Author Richard Aldridge

New Guinea and Pacific Islands: This blog provides information on different object types from Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands.

Contains over 100 articles on Oceanic Art.

Author Richard Aldridge

Documentaries

Tribal Trust of Australia has financed and produced two short documentaries on tribal art forms to date.

Tutuna

Tutuna documents the making of the largest form of Shell Money in the Pacific. It includes a Kinavai Ceremony in East New Britain in Papua New Guinea.

The aim of Tribal Trust Australia was to collect and document an individual museum quality Pacific Art object. The documentary and the Tutuna are side by side in an art gallery environment.

It is through the medium of video that gallery patrons will be able to see hear and feel the human cultural context of an Artwork. We believe greater engagement with a Pacific Art is possible through a stronger understanding of a culture.

The Tutuna is at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lU0mG-LQDc

Malangan

Documents a creation by one of the Pacific Islands greatest sculpture Artists. Mathew Salle from Tatau Island In New Ireland explains the process of making a malangan. Interviews with elders at a malangan ceremony helps explain these fascinating objects.

If you have an art object that you think might be of interest to the Tribal trust Australia, please contact us

If you have an art object that you think might be of interest to Richard Aldridge of Tribal Trust Australia, please contact us

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