Short St Gallery is thrilled to present a collection of works celebrating spring in full glorious bloom, featuring stunning works from artists throughout the Desert country. These delightful and inspired artists capture the nuanced changes of a parched landscape in full flower. Please view these remarkable works online over the next two months and immerse yourself in the joy of Spring in the desert. Featuring works from the late Jimmy Nerrimah Mawukura, Janangoo Butcher Cherel and Yata Gypsy Yadda.
This exhibition features a group of artists from Wangkatjungka, a remote community situated on the edge of the Great Sandy Desert, 130 km from Fitzroy Crossing in the central Kimberley region of Western Australia. They are people from the Wangkajungka language group and several of them walked out of the desert as children, during the devastating draughts of the 1950s, to encounter Europeans and European culture for the first time. For many years they worked on the cattle stations of the area in exchange for food and clothing.
Born c1952, Sonia Kurarra is an intuitive colourist who repeatedly over-paints her figurative motifs in rich chords of colour to create gestural evocations of the Sandy Billabong country along the stretch of the Fitzroy River that runs directly behind the community. This gorgeous palette is mixed directly onto every inch of the canvas and gives every painting its unique and dominant colour.
ReDot Fine Art Gallery is honoured and excited to be able to release the last works by the highly esteemed Paji Wajina Honeychild Yankarr some nine years after her passing in what will fittingly be her first ever solo exhibition.
Mangkaja Arts on behalf of his family and in conjunction with Seva Frangos Art are humbled to bring you an exhibtion of works by the recently passed, Mawukura Jimmy Nerrimah.
The exhibition is a tribute to this esteemed artist, born 1929 Wili, Great Sandy Desert, who sadly passed away on 18 February 2013.
Mangkaja Arts in conjunction with Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi are excited to announce the third Solo Exhibition of our beautiful and exciting artist, Lisa Uhl.
Daisy Japulja paints images of both Martuwarra (river country) and her parent's Jilji (sand hill) country. In these works Daisy relives the stories told of her mothers and fathers country, and retells those of her own river country. Daisy uses lively colours and a thick brush to cover the canvas with a confident hand. The beautiful simplicity of her desert images are matched by her bold colour pallet as she portrays important Jila (waterholes) and Jumu (soak waters) from the Great Sandy Desert.
Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute Inc., Kaurna Country
Opening:
Fri, 05/25/2012
'Wirrinyiya ngaragngarag birra ngamoo ngamoo'
In this shelter, everybody has been making artefacts and paintings for a long time. An Exhibition marking the Twenty First Anniversary of Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency Aboriginal Corporation, Fitzroy Crossing
