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Coconut Studios was founded by Stephanie Martin in 2020 on Larrakia land in the suburb known as Coconut Grove, NT. Opening hours 10-5pm Fri-Sun.

Coconut Studios presents important work by contemporary artists in a bid to reveal ways of seeing and relating in present times. Call 0475 381 170.

22/01/2025

Dear patrons and supporters,

Coconut Studios gallery in Coconut Grove - new year update.

With love and appreciation,

🧡 Steph

17/01/2025

On this beautiful wet season day in January, the latest edition of drops in Garramilla, Larrakia Country. 🧡

Written by Darren Jorgensen, a double-page spread (p.130-131) features artworks by Rita Kemarr Beasley and Julie Beasley (respectively) and highlights the last 3 exhibitions at Coconut Studios:

✬ Rita & Julie (Rita Kemarr Beasley and Julie Beasley)

✬ MY STORY WITH THEM, Joseph Jungarayi Williams

✬ LOOKIN’ AT COUNTRYSIDE, LOOKIN’ AT THAT PLANE (group exhibition featuring Adrian Jangala Robertson, Billy Kenda, Charles Inkamala, Conway Ginger and Lance James) .mwerre.anthurre.artists

The Karrabing Film Collective’s 2022 exhibition MERMAIDS: MIRROR WORLDS is also referenced as well as the legacy of founded by Dallas Gold which has since evolved into - an article about this story features further along (p.230-231).

Thanks to all involved. 🧡

02/12/2024

As the end of 2024 inches closer, a heartfelt thank you to the artists, arts workers and organisations involved in this year’s exhibitions, and big thank you to patrons of the gallery, friends and family whose continued support sustains it all.

Wishing you all a peaceful break.

💛 Steph

.nyunyu .mwerre.anthurre.artists .design 💛

29/10/2024

All my Country is the first substantive book on the little-known Batchelor Institute (BIITE) Art Collection, a unique cultural and artistic resource which has developed over the decades-long life of the Institute.

RRP $75, contact [email protected] for sales and enquiries. 💛

ISBN: 9781741311051, Page Count: 220

Author: Dr Ngatkali Wendy Ludwig, Gary Lee, Chips Mackinolty, Dr Joanna Barrkman, Maurice O’Riordan, Desktop Publisher: Therese Ritchie, Editors: Dr Ngatkali Wendy Ludwig (Editor-in-chief), Maurice O’Riordan, Photographer: Maurice O’Riordan, Therese Ritchie, David Hancock, George Fragopolous, Graphic Designer: Therese Ritchie, Colour Format: Full Colour, Binding Type: Perfect Bound, Dimensions: 23 cm × 2 cm × 28 cm, Weight: 950 g

14/10/2024

This powerful work by Georgie Mattingley that recently featured in the NT Art Award is now available through the Coconut Studios website. Visit the link in the bio.

‘Once Upon a Time’ 2024
Oil on silver gelatin print, hand-poured resin frame
60 x 90cm, edition 1 of 3

Once upon a time a centre called Don Dale housed youth in detention. The children were moved to a neighbouring facility and the old site was left unoccupied after a Royal Commission recommended its closure in 2018. The jungle began to take over.

I captured this photograph of the old Don Dale site using 35mm black and white film and developed the print in a photographic dark room. I then rubbed a thin layer of transparent oil colours over its surface to evoke a surreal blurring between the real and the imagined. I made the frame by casting an old classical frame and pouring in resin with translucent inks. ‘Once Upon a Time’ illicits the language of fairy tales, dreams and child-like longing. But in this case, ‘Once Upon a Time’ represents a true place that existed/exists to incarcerate our young people.

12/10/2024

This incredible work by Mary Alice Barton now features in the Coconut Studios gallery stockroom online. 💞

‘A ripple effect’ ~ an emotional and physical response to the tones and rhythms of daily life in Mpartnwe.

Mary Barton, ‘A ripple effect’ 2024, acrylic and oil on canvas, 127 x 98 cm / $4,000

Visit the website via the link in the bio to view the gallery stockroom.

02/10/2024

Highlights from the Coconut Studios stockroom are now online. 💙

Visit the gallery website via the link in the bio.

ARTISTS FEATURED:
Adrian Jangala Robertson
Billy Kenda
Clifford Thompson Japaljarri
Conway Ginger
Gaye Coyne
Joseph Williams Jungarayi
Julie Beasley
Liss Fenwick
Rita Beasley
Rupert Betheras
Simon Wilson Pitjara
Wesley Tyson Maselli

ART BOOKS FEATURED:
All my Country / The first substantive book on the little-known Batchelor Institute (BIITE) Art Collection, a unique cultural and artistic resource which has developed over the decades-long life of the Institute.

Heat, Gary Lee: selected texts, art & anthropology /
A voluminous anthology traversing five decades of a unique and diverse practice in art (photography, illustration, design, fashion design), anthropology, writing and curating.

Slide 1: Rita Beasley, ‘Kwaty’ 2023, acrylic on canvas, 61 x 61 cm / $1,900
Slide 2: Liss Fenwick, ‘NT ashtray’ 2021, pigment print on platine fibre rag, 38 x 52 cm (framed), edition 3/5 / $950
Slide 3: Gaye Coyne, ‘Sea Landscape’ 2022, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 40 cm / $450

For more information about the artists featured or their works, email [email protected]

With thanks to the artist and project partners .nyunyu

25/09/2024

Jospeh Williams, Wurmulalki pulkka (Old man from the past), 2024, currently showing as part of ‘Tennant Creek Brio: Juparnta Ngattu Minjinypa Iconocrisis’ ❤️‍🔥

19/09/2024

This Friday the 20th at 6pm, previous Coconut Studios artists the Tennant Creek Brio open ‘Juparnta Ngattu Minjinypa Iconocrisis’

In 2017, I happened upon an exhibition of the TCB and it rocked me. Fabian Brown and Rupert Betheras’s work on Masonite board and old TVs felt like a tear in the order of things that I now realise was the rumblings of a movement. The exhibition opening tomorrow night is a survey of the collective’s work that includes pieces that have shown at Coconut Studios. I’m wrapped about this; honoured to have worked with these brilliant artists and in anticipation of what will no doubt be an incredible experience, seeing them shown on such a scale and in one of the country’s leading contemporary art galleries (as they should be). Do what you can to get there. You won’t leave unchanged.

X Steph

Image: Tennant Creek Brio, installation view of SHOCK & ORE (2022), Coconut Studios

29/08/2024

Rita Beasley

(Left-right)

‘Wutunugurra Landscape’
2023
Acrylic on linen
91 x 91 cm
(Sold)

‘Wutunugurra Landscape’
2023
Acrylic on linen
91 x 91 cm
$3,200

‘Wutunugurra Landscape’
2023
Acrylic on linen
91 x 91 cm
$3,200

Rita & Julie runs until 7 Sept.

Contact Steph on 0475 381 170 or [email protected] for sales and enquiries.

Address

8/18 Caryota Court
Coconut Grove, NT
0810

Telephone

+61475381170

Website

http://www.coconutstudios.com.au/

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