8 Hele Gallery

8 Hele Gallery 8 Hele is a commercial gallery in Mparntwe / Alice Springs.

As part of Chapman & Bailey's art services hub, we present monthly exhibitions of contemporary First Nation Australian Art for our broad community.

Pastor Roy’s solo show also opening this Saturday. We can’t wait!
28/05/2026

Pastor Roy’s solo show also opening this Saturday. We can’t wait!

Cindy Dixon’s first solo show ‘Arnwekety’ opening this weekend!
27/05/2026

Cindy Dixon’s first solo show ‘Arnwekety’ opening this weekend!

Cindy Mpetyan Dixon’s first solo show opens this Saturday at 10:30am ✨
27/05/2026

Cindy Mpetyan Dixon’s first solo show opens this Saturday at 10:30am ✨

Cindy Mpetyan Dixon’s first solo show opening this Saturday at 10:30am ✨
27/05/2026

Cindy Mpetyan Dixon’s first solo show opening this Saturday at 10:30am ✨

“I was born in 1954 at Utopia Homestead must be or maybe in the bush. We lived half-way bush and half-way station. Worki...
21/05/2026

“I was born in 1954 at Utopia Homestead must be or maybe in the bush. We lived half-way bush and half-way station. Working for station life and living bush. When I was 15 or 16, I was working at Waite River Station. Using axes and making yards for nanny goats. Everywhere I was working. Up the north along the soakage’s. Across the stations. Branding and mustering cattle. I’ve always worked this way. Using hands and doing my life…

Old people must have bought a TV in town. Before that we just had bush football. Then I saw those players later, like Adam Goodes, an Aboriginal man playing on T.V in new times. I was sitting here, about 2000, and my partner was doing painting. I was watching her and I thought about an idea. I was sitting there, no carving, then about 2004, I made one football man.”

Dinny has been making carvings and paintings since 2005. His process is informed by nature. He sources his materials from the land that surrounds his Homeland and, as much as the forms in the trees can influence his sculptures, he seeks out shapes in nature to fit his ideas. The two always work together. He is careful to work sustainably, always leaving enough behind to carve in ‘a couple of years’ time.’ Dinny’s process is local, as are his subjects. His practice reflects his life, interests and memories as a stockman, footballer, father, and community leader. His work shows a modern experience steeped in an enduring artistic tradition.

Sam Jampijnpa Mpetyan Dixon is a senior Anmatyerr artist from Utopia. Sam is the nephew of renowned Artist Angelina Ngal...
14/05/2026

Sam Jampijnpa Mpetyan Dixon is a senior Anmatyerr artist from Utopia. Sam is the nephew of renowned Artist Angelina Ngale P**a, Brother of Artists Harry Mpetyan Dixon, Henry Petyarre Dixon and Cindy Mpetyan Dixon. Sam was one of 8 children; they all lived together in a bush camp and worked at Utopia Station. “Hard work, station hand, stockmen.” Despite the hard work, Sam has fond memories of working on the station. Sam tells stories of working with Kumanjayi Paddy, hanging on tight on the back of Paddy’s old chopper with the huge handlebars, while they were rounding up Brumby’s. “I mix up earth and glue to make paint”. Sam began making paintings and carving in the early 2000’s, Sam’s Artworks tell stories of Arlparra country and wild possum dreaming, the imagery depicts his history and his surroundings, creating figures of stockmen, birds, bush tucker and self-portraits of him as Ngangker, the bush doctor. “My Uncle teach me. I am the bush doctor and this is me, painted and dancing… Put him in your house, make you healthy”.

Freddy Ken worked fencing and competed in rodeo, and today reflects this heroism in paintings spears that stand as tall ...
13/05/2026

Freddy Ken worked fencing and competed in rodeo, and today reflects this heroism in paintings spears that stand as tall as any station post.

“When I was a young bloke I was working with cattle doing fencing, cattle pens, sometimes building houses, pipelines, working on the roads building the highway. I used to ride horses and sometimes bulls at the bronco rides. I started painting in Amata. Then I went out working in land management, looking after the country. Now I’ve come back to Ernabella to be with family and I’m painting again. I paint a lot of stories, lots of dancing. My father and my grandfather told me lots of stories, for a long time we have no TV. My country is sandhill country, it’s good country, little bit rough. My feeling is when the picture comes I have to paint it. These are stories from my memory, and from memory come pictures.”

Rupert Jack was a senior Pitjantjatjara artist at Ernabella Arts working between the painting and ceramics studios. He i...
08/05/2026

Rupert Jack was a senior Pitjantjatjara artist at Ernabella Arts working between the painting and ceramics studios. He is also the community pastor. He lives between his homeland, a place named Racecourse, and Ernabella (Pukatja) community.
“In his paintings, Rupert Jack puts horses and cattle amidst dots, laying their naïvely painted shapes into luminous fields, synthesising the ancestral and pastoral…. The experience of Country for those living on stations was not only in the breaking of horses, fixing windmills and singing the cattle at night. It was also seeing and performing in ceremonies on station camps, visiting ancestral waterholes and traversing stock routes that had been created atop ancient Songlines.”

Get to know Wendy Hubert…Wendy Hubert is a respected Yindjibarndi Elder, cultural custodian, artist and linguist. Born a...
07/05/2026

Get to know Wendy Hubert…
Wendy Hubert is a respected Yindjibarndi Elder, cultural custodian, artist and linguist. Born at Red Hill Station on Guruma Country, Wendy lived at Red Hill Station, Minderoo Station and Onslow before settling in Roebourne. Wendy began painting with Juluwarlu Art Group in 2019 and has become a dedicated artist known for her landscape paintings recounting scenes from her childhood and featuring important places on Yindjibarndi and Guruma Country. Wendy was selected for the 2023 Telstra NATSIAA and the 26th Sydney Biennale. In December 2024, with support from Creative Australia and Juluwarlu Arts, Wendy launched her Autobiography, to tell her incredible life story alongside a comprehensive retrospective of her paintings and notations. The great response to her book has inspired Wendy to continue creating and embark on new projects for 2025 and 2026. Diving deeper into her stories and developing new ideas with her art practice. Wendy will be reaching an international audience with a commission completed for the 2025 Japanese Triennial and designing a Pilbara garden project for the 2026 Sydney Biennale.

Saturday’s opening of the ‘Stockmen’ group show. Thank you to Dinny Kunoth for speaking and his family for coming all th...
06/05/2026

Saturday’s opening of the ‘Stockmen’ group show. Thank you to Dinny Kunoth for speaking and his family for coming all the way from Utopia.
The show continues until 23rd May! ✨

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8 Hele Crescent
Alice Springs, NT
0870

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Tuesday 10am - 5pm
Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 5pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 2pm

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