Australian Aboriginal Art Centre

Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair

noreply@blogger.com (Australian Aboriginal Art Centre) — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 03:53:00 +0000

Kate and Severine travelled to Darwin to attend the fabulous Aboriginal Art Fair to source new art for the gallery to share with you.

We are hoping we will be able to discover some exciting new artists for the gallery.
Opening ceremony:

"Johnny Warangkula Tjupurulla" 1925-2001

noreply@blogger.com (Australian Aboriginal Art Centre) — Thu, 06 May 2010 06:04:00 +0000

"Johnny Warangkula Tjupurulla"

short biography

DOB: C.1925 .... DECEASED 2001
SKIN NAME: LURITJA/PINTUPI ... REGION: PAPUNYA

Johnny Warangkula was born in 1925 at Minjilpirri, an area north west of Illipili and south of Lake Mackay. Close by is his major dreaming site Tjilkari. The son of mixed parents, his mother was of Luritja/ Warlpiri/Pintupi descent and his father Luritja/Warlpiri. Johnny was raised in a traditional manner, living an orthodox life style in the desert and never attending European schools. He is of the Luritja language group and was initiated into manhood and during which process, he learned his dreamings.

Johnny can recollect his first contact with Europeans, remembering his fearful response when witnessing an aircraft fly over his land as a young boy. His people believed the airplane to be a 'marnu' or devil. At a later date, his people came into contact with camels for the first time and again hid in fright as they recognised the beasts as being evil.

All of that is a far cry from the sophisticated auction rooms of Sotheby's in Melbourne where, in July 1997, his painting 'Water Dreaming at Kalipinypa' changed hands for a record $206,000. When he sold the painting at Papunya 25 years previously he received just $150 and remembers this only in terms of the food which it bought at the time.

Interviewed in 1997 Johnny claimed, 'I come from the bush. We don't know money'. From partial obscurity, 'Johnny W', as he is affectionately known, became a figure to be reckoned with in the history of Australian art. Well before that time, however, the National Gallery of Australia had recognised his position in the history of Aboriginal art. In 1984, James Mollison, Director of the gallery claimed that their painting by Johnny W (the gallery's first purchase of a western desert painting) was 'the finest abstract art ever produced in this country'. .
Johnny Warrungula Tjuppurulla's painting career began after a long turn at labouring, his efforts contributing to the development of roads, airstrips and settlements in areas such as Haasts Bluff, Mt Leibig, Yuendumu and Mt Wedge. In return for his work building roads, shoveling dirt and felling trees he was remunerated in the form of consumable goods, 'tucker' (as he calls it) - flour, tea, sugar, fresh vegetables and tobacco.

Before the bulk of the Haasts Bluff population was moved to Papunya in 1960, Johnny was selected along with Nosepeg Tjupurullaas Aboriginal representative to meet the Queen. After settling in Papunya Johnny served on the Papunya Council with Mick Namarari (qv), Limpi Tjapangati and Kingsley Tjungarrayi.

Geoffrey Bardon's arrival at Papunya inspired the community to begin using western art materials. Johnny rapidly developed a distinctive style of his own which came to be known as 'overdotting'. He uses several layers of dots to depict his dreamings, which consist of Water, Fire, Yam and Egret stories. There are also stories from Nyilppi and Nyalpilala which are his father's Dreamings. Geoffrey Bardon labelled this stylistic layering effect as 'tremulous illusion' and in his book, Papunya Tula Art of the Western Desert, Bardon fondly recollects images of Johnny painting with an "intense level of intuitive concentration".

From the very beginning at Papunya, Johnny has always adhered to the idea that his paintings are stories - Aboriginal stories. He has never allowed any infiltration of European influence and rarely uses literal depictions of objects. Geoff Bardon advised the 'painting mob', of which Johnny was an important member, to paint in an Aboriginal way using Aboriginal signs and symbols that one might have found in body paint, tjuringa or sand paintings. Because of this 'purity' his works retain an integrity which places them amongst the most significant productions from the seminal art site that was Papunya.

Bardon pointed out that Johnny's paintings, 'can be measured on a scale of modern aesthetic'. And as if to qualify that remark, Bardon further offered the idea that the artist used, 'calligraphic line with almost Baroque excitement'. A very insightful observation which holds true in 1999, particularly in regards to the very 'late' and hugely energetic works of this period. One of the great characteristics of the Baroque style, dominant in the seventeenth century, was the energy, rhythm and theatricality with which stories (usually Christian stories) were told. Johnny's style was described this way: Tight organization of bands and lines, hatching and dot embellishment give his work a powerful, energetic visual strength. He uses convoluted spiral symbols for people, and animal tracks and distorted figures as illustrations of ceremony not in a formal way but intuitively.

In early 1997, Michael Hollow commissioned Johnny to do a series of small works. From this series Johnny began a new phase in his distinguished painting career and developed this new direction with other galleries and dealers over the next few years. This series, perhaps his final one due to failing health, includes a range of small to very large dynamic, powerful paintings in pure red, blacks with white, yellow and ochre highlights. Each of the works features the established imagery of Johnny's Dreamings overpainted to hide the secret and sacred elements. These works have evolved slowly over an eighteen month period during which time the artist has displayed once more his mastery of this unique form of art and storytelling. These important late works are made despite failing eyesight and poor health.

It may seem ludicrous to draw parallels between this Aboriginal painting master and Monet in their corresponding last years. However one cannot help noticing those similarities. Further, Johnny's technique and brushwork bear an eerie resemblance to the techniques invented and employed by Monet in his late waterlilly paintings at Giverny. This may only prove that the mark-making we call art is a basic expression of the human spirit as one mind strives to communicate with another in visual terms. The Frenchman Monet was inspired by his Japanese watergarden - Warrungula by his birthright - his ancient dreamings.

From 1999 Johnny painted with a new-found freedom, both in expression and in painting technique. Where he was once known for his delicate and soft white dotting, he attacked the canvas to tell the story with great gusto. He jabbed large dots on to the surface and produced roundels and symbols for weapons with great sweeps of his arm and the brush. Red, black, white.

Had he painted in France during the 1950s he would have been labeled a 'Taschist'. The audience who saw his paintings at the United Nations Building seemed generally to agree that Johnny was indeed a significant artist who in some sense retained an authenticity and timeless importance in his work that some of the younger painters were yet to achieve. All great painters, past and present, seem to have an additional dimension in their work which may defy description. This evasive quality is sometimes born of the synthesis achieved between colour, form, texture and meaning. When viewing paintings by Johnny Warrungula Tjupurulla we find ourselves in a position where the recognition of another elemental level is tantalisingly close and for a lucky few the spirit is moved beyond words. In the presence of great visual art, the employment of everyday language can become a futile and unproductive gesture.

COLLECTIONS:
Holmes a Court Queensland Art Gallery,
National Gallery of Victoria,
Art Gallery of Western Australia,
Art Gallery of South Australia,
National Museum of Australia Canberra,
National Gallery of Australia Canberra,
Orange Regional Gallery,
Alice Springs Law Courts,
Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Darwin,
Flinders University Art Museum,
South Australian Museum,
Art Gallery of NSW

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Opening this evening: Johnny Warangkula Tjupurulla 1925 - 2001

noreply@blogger.com (Australian Aboriginal Art Centre) — Thu, 06 May 2010 04:29:00 +0000

I am delighted to invite you to a rare exhibition of paintings by one of the founding masters of the Aboriginal art movement, Johnny Warangkula Tjupurulla (or Johnnny W, as he is affectionately known). The show opens from:

6 to 8pm Thursday 6th May, in our top floor gallery at 680 Darling Street, Rozelle

and continues until Sunday May 30.

We are very fortunate to have obtained this outstanding collection of works from the latter part of Johnny's career. Some of the works have not been exhibited before, and as a group, they demonstrate the unbridled power and profound sense of story of this man's work - all in a confronting but exciting palette of black, white, red and yellow ochres.

Please click here to see a tantalising few of the works from the exhibition. The remainder of the paintings in the exhibition will be uploaded on 5th May, but if you live in Sydney, there is no substitute for seeing them in the flesh.

This show is one for the discerning collector and the passionate (but relatively wealthy) enthusiast alike. There is genius here - and an important part of Australian Art history.

But please don't be put off by that - all are welcome to visit the gallery and enjoy the raw power of these exciting works.

I hope to see you at the opening, or in the subsequent weeks of the exhibition,

kind regards,

Kate

Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art 35-2010 - BMBG0080 - Awelye and Bush Melon by Betty Mbitjana

noreply@blogger.com (Australian Aboriginal Art Centre) — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 05:35:00 +0000

"Awelye and Bush Melon"

Betty Mbitjana

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Betty Mbitjana is the daughter of renowned artist Minne Pwerle and the sister of artist Barbara Weir. She is married to Paddy Club. She paints the awelye, bush berry and bush plum dreaming. Betty's mother and other women used to collect these fruits, cut them up into pieces and skewer them on a piece of wood and dry them to be eaten in times when bush tucker was scarce.

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Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art 34-2010 - BPI003 - Untitled by Bessie Petyarre (Pitjara)

noreply@blogger.com (Australian Aboriginal Art Centre) — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 05:08:00 +0000

"Untitled"

Bessy Petyarre (Pitjara)

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Bessie Pitjara was born circa 1960 in Alhalkere country. She currently lives in Utopia with her mother, who is the renowned artist Polly Ngale. Bessie is also the niece of Kathleen Ngale and Angeline Pwerle Ngale, both of whom are established and highly collectible artists.

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Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art 33-2010 - PPU22163 - Untitled by Peggy Purvis

noreply@blogger.com (Australian Aboriginal Art Centre) — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 04:53:00 +0000

"Untitled"

Peggy Purvis

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Peggy Purvis Petyarre was born around 1948 and is the sister of Annie, Angela and Susan Pununga. She is related to the renowned Central Australian artist Gloria Petyarre.

Peggy paints her mother's dreaming which include Kangaroo and Engedkina (pumpkin dreaming) as well as other general dreaming from the Utopia region.

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Johnny Warangkula Tjupurulla 1925 - 2001

noreply@blogger.com (Australian Aboriginal Art Centre) — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:52:00 +0000

6 to 8pm Thursday 6th May, in our top floor gallery at 680 Darling Street, Rozelle

and continues until Sunday May 30.

This show is one for the discerning collector and the passionate (but relatively wealthy) enthusiast alike. There is genius here - and an important part of Australian Art history.

But please don't be put off by that - all are welcome to visit the gallery and enjoy the raw power of these exciting works.

I hope to see you at the opening, or in the subsequent weeks of the exhibition,

kind regards,

Kate

Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art 32-2010 - NRAJA2329 - Kiriwirri by Nada Rawlins

noreply@blogger.com (Australian Aboriginal Art Centre) — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 05:10:00 +0000

"Kiriwirri"

Nada Rawlins

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Nada tells the stories of this site she has painted: "This is Kirriwirri Jila. This is where I was born. My father passed away in this country. The water never dries up in this jila - this is living water. Near Kirriwirri there are lots of warla (salt lakes or claypans) where water collects after rain, and which are mostly salty. You can see the lines of salt which are left when the water dries up in the warla. There are lots of yellow bush flowers we call kawily kawily."

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Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art 31-2010 - HMCG0044 - Wangi (The Start of the Wet) by Helen McCarthy Tyalmuty

noreply@blogger.com (Australian Aboriginal Art Centre) — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 07:08:00 +0000

"Wangi (The Start of the Wet)"

Helen McCarthy Tyalmuty

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Helen McCarthy Tyalmuty was born at Tennant Creek in 1972. For 10 years she successfully combined a job as a teacher in remote communities with her painting activities. Helen had her first solo exhibition in 2006 in Sydney and further exhibitions there, in Melbourne and Singapore have quickly followed. In August 2007, Helen was honoured to receive the People's Choice Award at the 24th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award (2007) for her painting Tyemeny Liman's Wutinggi (Grandpa Harry's Canoe).

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New Exhibition of artworks by BIDDEE BAADJO and NADA RAWLINS April 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Australian Aboriginal Art Centre) — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 03:46:00 +0000

"Kirriwirri, Linjalangu and Murtikujarra - NRAJA2363"

NADA RAWLINS

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I am excited to invite you to what is arguably our most beautiful exhibition ever! It is a two woman show from the remote Aboriginal community of Wangkatjungka, near the Kimberley, and features two senior aboriginal artists: BIDDEE BAADJO and NADA RAWLINS

Opening 6 - 8pm thursday 8th april in our upstairs gallery

I have never heard as many "oooh's" and "aaah's" from my staff as we unpacked these paintings. They are all simply beautiful and truly an interior designer's dream! The other good news is that the prices in this exhibition are very affordable - so it's a good chance to pick up a special piece without breaking the budget.

Please click here to see a preview of works and some background information on the show - the full exhibition will be on our website the next day - but if you can, come to the opening to see them in the flesh. They look even better!

I do hope you can come to this opening - it's our first major show for 2010, and it would be great to see you,

Wishing you the very best,
Kate

New Exhibition of artworks by BIDDEE BAADJO and NADA RAWLINS April 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Australian Aboriginal Art Centre) — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 03:30:00 +0000

"Kurrunjunku - BIDJA0600"

BIDDEE BAADJO

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Opening 6 - 8pm thursday 8th april in our upstairs gallery

Precious research rediscovered, 'a breakthrough for Indigenous studies'

noreply@blogger.com (Australian Aboriginal Art Centre) — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 03:46:00 +0000

Precious research rediscovered, 'a breakthrough for Indigenous studies':
A long-lost collection of work by one of Australia's early anthropologists has been recovered by Queensland researchers in what has been heralded a breakthrough for Aboriginal studies.
From ABC News, March 30, 2010
By Kim Lyell

Caroline Tennant-Kelly worked in the south-east Queensland Aboriginal settlement at Cherbourg in 1934 and at other settlements in New South Wales in the late 1930s. Her work was thought to have been lost.

New museum catalogue published in April

noreply@blogger.com (Australian Aboriginal Art Centre) — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 03:16:00 +0000

From the Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art in Utrecht, The Netherlands

New museum catalogue published in April: "Simultanously with the opening of Aboriginal art today! our new museum catalogue will be released. The richly illustrated book entitled 'Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Dutch collections at AAMU' provides an extensive overview of Aboriginal art, based on Dutch collections only, from 1970 until now."

Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art 30-2010 - JPEM15283 - Bush Yam by Jeannie Petyarre (Pitjara)

noreply@blogger.com (Australian Aboriginal Art Centre) — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:41:00 +0000

"Bush Yam"

Jeannie Petyarre (Pitjara)

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Jeannie Petyarre (Pitjara) was born in c.1957 on the Boundary Bore Outstation of Utopia in Central Australia. All of Jeannie's Dreamtime stories come from the Alhalkere Country and are passed down to her from her father's side. Jeannie paints the Yam Seed, Yam Leaf, Yam Flower Dreamings, body paint, Mountain Devil Lizard and My Country Dreamings Jeannie's tribal name is "Angiltha" which means little lizard.

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Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art 29/2010: GPNL281209 - My Mother's Country by Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi

noreply@blogger.com (Australian Aboriginal Art Centre) — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:16:00 +0000

"My Mother's Country"

Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi

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Born in 1967 in Mt. Allan, Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi is the eldest daughter of renowned artist Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri. She was taught to paint by her father at a very young age, and since her father passing away, the value of her works has increased dramatically. His influences are apparent in her work, yet she has formed a style of her own.

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Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art 28/2010: KUDV22166 - My Country by Kudditji Kngwarreye

noreply@blogger.com (Australian Aboriginal Art Centre) — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:26:00 +0000

"My Country"
Kudditji Kngwarreye

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Born around 1928, Kudditji Kngwarreye, the younger half-brother of the late Emily Kame Kngwarreye, had a traditional bush upbringing in the Utopia region before starting a long career as a stockman and mine worker. An Anmatyerre elder
and custodian of many important Dreamings, Kudditji was inspired by the work coming out of Papunya to paint his own Dreamings, telling of the travels and law of the Emu ancestors.

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WE SPECIALISE IN PAINTINGS BY KUDDITJI KNGWARREYE. PLEASE CONTACT US FOR FURTHER INFORMATION OR TO MAKE AN APPOINTMENT TO VIEW THE WORKS.

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Aboriginal artist goes to Oxford University

noreply@blogger.com (Australian Aboriginal Art Centre) — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 23:50:00 +0000

PRESS RELEASE

"The 32 year old Bidjara artist from SW Queensland, Christian Bumbarra Thompson has been announced as one of the first two Aborigines to go to study at Oxford University.

Working mainly in Melbourne in recent years, and operating mostly in photography and multi-media, Thompson is particularly interested in engaging with the world-famous Pitt-Rivers Anthropological Museum in Oxford with the aim of 'referencing and disrupting' conventional images of Aborigines in museums and art galleries.

Christian Thompson, 'Hunting Ground-1' 2007, c-type print,a self-portrait. Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi.

Many of his own images - like 'Hunting Ground' (illus) - tackle such disruption wittily, paying tribute to the American artist Cindy Sherman. An image of himself as Andy Warhol, for instance, 'forms a key to Thompson's desire for himself and other Aboriginal artists to be part of global discourse in art making', according to Marianne Riphagen in the NGA's 'Culture Warriors' catalogue - for which Thompson was selected in 2007.

He himself has entered the global discourse through residencies in Bangkok, Singapore and Arizona, and he's currently studying for his second Masters degree in The Netherlands - a Masters in Theatre at the Amsterdam School of Fine Arts. As an academic, he's also taught art at RMIT.

The 2 three year Oxford scholarships are the consequence of dreams and fund-raising by the Charlie Perkins Trust - chaired by Hetti Perkins, NSW Art Gallery's Senior Curator of Indigenous Art. Father Charlie was playing professional soccer in the UK against Oxford University in the 60s when he convinced himself that he should get a degree too. He returned to become the first indigenous graduate form Sydney University. The second of these inaugural awards has gone to the Wiradjuri psychologist, Paul Gray.

Both the Australian and British governments have contributed to the scholarship fund, as have Rio Tinto and Qantas. But the Trust wants to set up an $11m. fund from which future Aboriginal scholars can have all their fees, travel and accommodation paid.

The Trust argues that the more indigenous academics and mentors there are in Australian universities, the more indigenous students will feel comfortable in studying at them."

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Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art 27/2010

noreply@blogger.com (Australian Aboriginal Art Centre) — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 02:22:00 +0000

"Bush Plum Dreaming"

Gracie Pwerle Morton

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Gracie was born in Utopia, Northern Territory around 1956. There is a rich artistic tradition that runs in Gracie's family and she is related to a string of well respected artists. Her mother is sister to Gloria, Kathleen, Violet, Mrytle and Ada Bird Petyarre, all well established artists.

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Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art 26/2010

noreply@blogger.com (Australian Aboriginal Art Centre) — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 01:38:00 +0000

"My Fathers Country"

Gracie Ward Napaltjarri

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Gracie Ward is the daughter of George Ward Tjungurrayi and was born at Papunya in 1973 just after the western desert indigenous art movement started.

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Kudditji Kngwarreye: Contemporary Aboriginal Artwork 25/2010

noreply@blogger.com (Australian Aboriginal Art Centre) — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:12:00 +0000

"My Country" by Kudditji Kngwarreye

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Notes: Acrylic on linen, 90x90cm, AUD$3,427 (Code: KUD238) framed

Born around 1928, Kudditji Kngwarreye, the younger half-brother of the late Emily Kame Kngwarreye, had a traditional bush upbringing in the Utopia region of the Northern Territory before starting a long career as a stockman and mine worker. An Anmatyerre elder and custodian of many important Dreamings, Kudditji was inspired by the work coming out of Papunya to paint his own Dreamings, telling of the travels and law of the Emu ancestors.

Starting in 1986, his precisely dotted Emu Dreaming paintings, featuring ranks of coloured roundels and other 'hieroglyphs' on a chequered or dotted background, became sought after by major galleries in the Northern Territory. Breaking out of this style after some years, Kudditji's work became far looser and more 'abstract', and some commentators have seen a strong similarity with his sister Emily's work - but it is not clear who was the first to set out on this path. The demand for his earlier, detailed style, however, moved Kudditji to return to it, and it was only in 2003 that he began to exhibit the extraordinary, saturated colour paintings that have seen his reputation grow nationally and internationally.

Kudditji is represented in major international collections. His two dimensional spatial constructions seem to refer to Rothko and modernists of the twentieth century. The paintings are documents of an intuitive interplay between artist and the space of a canvas.

The new paintings, in fact, have several styles, and Kudditji has explored size of canvas as well as form in these intense, beautiful works. A sense of immense space can be felt in the the paintings, where massive blocks of stippled colour are laid alongside each other, sometimes using only two colours, while in other paintings a quilt of juxtaposed colours produces a landscape effect.

Perhaps most astounding of all, Kudditji's works capture light in a unique way - this may have led to his work being compared with that of the French Impressionists. In certain of his paintings, the brushwork is such that colours change significantly with the light. The work in fact, changes throughout the day and by night under different lighting conditions. A subtle change in the light outside will cause different colours to light up while others recede. Specks of brilliant orange, violet, blue, yellow, all seem to take their turns to dance in front of the canvas as conditions change.

Put together, these aspects of Kudditji's work make him indeed a masterly painter. His compositions and their meaning, his painterliness and most of all, his extraordinary use of colour, make him an artist to revere. Getting to know one of his works is indeed a journey, as each day it yields up greater depth, meaning, and nuance of astonishing colour.

WE SPECIALISE IN PAINTINGS BY KUDDITJI KNGWARREYE.

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AAMU Utrecht: Museum for contemporary aboriginal Art

noreply@blogger.com (Australian Aboriginal Art Centre) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:13:00 +0000

For those of you who have the opportunity to travel to the Netherlands

AAMU, the only museum in Europe that is entirely dedicated to contemporary Aboriginal art from Australia.

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Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art for modern interiors

Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia

noreply@blogger.com (Australian Aboriginal Art Centre) — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:34:00 +0000

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia (1988)
Michael Riley, director. Explores the symbolism of aboriginal art, from acrylic dot paintings of the Central Desert to bark paintings and burial poles from the Northern Territory (30 min.). This film is shown in conjunction with the exhibition “Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia.”
Free with Museum admission
March 11, 2010. 2:00 p.m., Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall, Uris Center for Education

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Australian Indigenous artist wins Glover Prize

noreply@blogger.com (Australian Aboriginal Art Centre) — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:09:00 +0000

"A Queensland Indigenous artist has won this year's $35,000 Glover Prize for landscape painting in Tasmania."

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The Blues: Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art

noreply@blogger.com (Australian Aboriginal Art Centre) — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:49:00 +0000

Dear art lover,

Summer's over and we've got THE BLUES.......

Well not really - but it seemed like a good time to exhibit our fantastic range of, yes, BLUE indigenous artworks. We have filled our third floor gallery with a fascinating collection of works in which our Aboriginal artists, make the most of the range of colours now available to them. The artworks are still imbued with the ancient dreamings that characterise indigenous works, but are clearly inspired by the vistas of sky, water and wild bush flowers common to us all.

So ... bring your friends and enjoy an Aboriginal Art Exhibition with a difference.

Best regards,
Kate

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Gems from the Desert: An exhibition of Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art

noreply@blogger.com (Australian Aboriginal Art Centre) — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:57:00 +0000

Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art in the heart of Sydney

Gems from the Desert

Situated in the foyer of the iconic Australia Square building, the exhibition runs until March 19

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View over 700 original Australian Aboriginal artworks

Australian Aboriginal Art Centre

Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair

"Johnny Warangkula Tjupurulla" 1925-2001

"Johnny Warangkula Tjupurulla"

short biography

Opening this evening: Johnny Warangkula Tjupurulla 1925 - 2001

Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art 35-2010 - BMBG0080 - Awelye and Bush Melon by Betty Mbitjana

"Awelye and Bush Melon"

Betty Mbitjana

Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art 34-2010 - BPI003 - Untitled by Bessie Petyarre (Pitjara)

"Untitled"

Bessy Petyarre (Pitjara)

Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art 33-2010 - PPU22163 - Untitled by Peggy Purvis

"Untitled"

Peggy Purvis

Johnny Warangkula Tjupurulla 1925 - 2001

Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art 32-2010 - NRAJA2329 - Kiriwirri by Nada Rawlins

"Kiriwirri"

Nada Rawlins

Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art 31-2010 - HMCG0044 - Wangi (The Start of the Wet) by Helen McCarthy Tyalmuty

"Wangi (The Start of the Wet)"

Helen McCarthy Tyalmuty

New Exhibition of artworks by BIDDEE BAADJO and NADA RAWLINS April 2010

"Kirriwirri, Linjalangu and Murtikujarra - NRAJA2363"

NADA RAWLINS

New Exhibition of artworks by BIDDEE BAADJO and NADA RAWLINS April 2010

"Kurrunjunku - BIDJA0600"

BIDDEE BAADJO

Precious research rediscovered, 'a breakthrough for Indigenous studies'

New museum catalogue published in April

Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art 30-2010 - JPEM15283 - Bush Yam by Jeannie Petyarre (Pitjara)

"Bush Yam"

Jeannie Petyarre (Pitjara)

Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art 29/2010: GPNL281209 - My Mother's Country by Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi

"My Mother's Country"

Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi

Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art 28/2010: KUDV22166 - My Country by Kudditji Kngwarreye

"My Country"Kudditji Kngwarreye

Aboriginal artist goes to Oxford University

Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art 27/2010

"Bush Plum Dreaming" Gracie Pwerle Morton

Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art 26/2010

"My Fathers Country"Gracie Ward Napaltjarri

Kudditji Kngwarreye: Contemporary Aboriginal Artwork 25/2010

AAMU Utrecht: Museum for contemporary aboriginal Art

Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia

Australian Indigenous artist wins Glover Prize

The Blues: Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art

Gems from the Desert: An exhibition of Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art

"My Country"
Kudditji Kngwarreye

"Bush Plum Dreaming"

Gracie Pwerle Morton

"My Fathers Country"

Gracie Ward Napaltjarri