AIAM100.com The Australian Indigenous Art Market Top 100 Exhibition Launch Opening Night: 6pm Thursday 26th of August 2010



Featuring artworks by the Top 100 Indigenous Artists; Including top ten stars; Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Rover Thomas, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Johnny Warangkula, Lin Onus, Dorothy Napangardi



At Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery - 31 Lamrock Ave, Bondi The Australian Indigenous Art Market Top 100, www.aiam100.com is a comprehensive state-of-the-art website covering the careers of more than 100 of the most important artists of the Indigenous art movement. The launch will see the culmination of 5 years preparation: writing more than 400,000 words and designing a resource that is intended to play a major role in underpinning the value and collectability of Aboriginal art in Australia and Internationally. The Australian Indigenous Art Market Top 100 provides professional advice on the Indigenous art market in line with other investment categories. It will become an invaluable resource for art consultants, valuers, and industry professionals and in doing so it will serve the interests of artists, galleries and collectors.The site includes; information about the artists, each ranked with an annual AIAM100 Index calculated on secondary market activity; who they worked with and how their art found its way into the market; detailed sales results presented graphically with analysis of the market’s preference for different styles and periods; and the ten highest results for each artist presented visually with details of the sales, dates and prices achieved. In what is a unique innovation for the Australian art market, the AIAM100 Index rates individual artist’s careers, and the entire Indigenous art market, on a yearly and cumulative basis since 2000. In doing so it will provide the Indigenous art market with an equivalent to the All Ordinaries Index, the Dow Jones, or the NASDAQ.



The site itself is easily and inexpensively accessible to galleries, art consultants, auction houses, libraries, collection managers and individual collectors. It is user friendly, with free registration, interactivity, and content that can be purchased in a downloadable format on a one by one basis or a yearly subscription. Subscribers can also follow the latest Indigenous art market news through regular articles that follow important market events. Regular updates will be announced via facebook, twitter, and youtube. These will enable viewers to hear immediately of art prize results, important art events, institutional exhibitions, artist’s solo shows, emerging art styles, and much much more.



To register on line at no cost log on to www.aiam100.com



To download the full exhibition price list, follow this link: www.cooeeart.com.au/lists/uploadimages/aiam100_launch_exhibition_price_list.pdf