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21/09/2018

While your at the Turning Heads Exhibition why not enter the Guess Competition "Three Famous Australian's" by Martin Shaw with the opportunity to win Artwork to the value of $500 if you Guess the most common responses click on below image to Enter Competition

WHO ARE THE ‘THREE AUSTRALIANS’ IN THE PAINTING? – The clues are in the painting. Just click on the QR code attached and populate the entry form. The ‘Three Australians’ has a bigger field to choose from than any Melbourne Cup Race. What can be revealed though, is ‘Pea’, the black and ...

20/09/2018

While your at the Turning Heads Exhibition why not enter the Guess Competition "Three Famous Australian's" by Martin Shaw with the opportunity to win Artwork to the value of $500 if you Guess the most common responses

Three Famous Australian's Guessing Competition Email Forms

08/09/2017

MOUNTAIN DEVIL LIZARD By Gloria Petyarre The painting depicts the curling pattern of the Mountain Devil Lizard's skin. In the Dreamtime Stories it is believed the lizard collected then deposited these ochre colours throughout the Utopian area. Aboriginal people use these colours for body painting in their ceremonies. Some members of the Petyarre family bear markings on their skin, similar to that found on the Mountain Devil Lizard.

07/09/2017

While Tolson painted continuously throughout the 1970s and into the late 1990s exploring many themes throughout his career as an artist, none of these works have achieved the success of his most emblematic image, that of the Spear Straightening associated with the site Illingaungau. Like the painting below https://ultimateart.com.au/product/spear-straighting-turkey-tolson-tjupurrula/

06/09/2017

Nellie Marks Nakamarra has been surrounded by some of the great names in Aboriginal art. Her stepfather Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula, and other significant Aboriginal artists from that era including Old Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri and Uta Uta Tjangala. Her images of both the country and the Tingari ceremonial components attached to that country are impressive, and her paintings are developing a spaciousness that distinguishes her work amongst the traditional paintings from her country.

05/09/2017

The Dreamings that Michelle Possum paints come from Yuelamu on her home country at Mt Allan. These include the stories of Seven Sisters Dreaming, Bush Tucker stories including Seed Dreaming, Bush Coconut, Fire Dreaming, Goanna Dreaming, and Grandmother’s Country, many of which she combines together in complex interwoven designs.
Mainly depicting the overview of maps of traditional Country from her family lands, Michelle describes the many important cultural sites she knows well

04/09/2017

Gabriella Possums interpretation of Clifford Worm Dreaming Style and Colours follows Clifford's traditional Blue's and Pink's unlike Grandmothers Country below find out more https://ultimateart.com.au/product/worm-dreaming-blue-gabriella-possum-nungurrayi/

03/09/2017

Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi Seven Sisters Dreaming. This dream depicts the story of the seven ancestral Napaljarri sisters. An ancestral Jakamarra man was in love with the seven Napaljarri sisters and chased them. In a final attempt to escape from the Jakamarra, the sisters

02/09/2017

Gabriella is a gifted and highly celebrated contemporary female Aboriginal artist. She is the eldest daughter of the late Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, one of the original painters of the Papunya art movement. Gabriella painted alongside her father from an early age, although she is an individual artist in her own right, her paintings, praised as “culturally significant” reflect her father’s distinctive style. Gabriella was commissioned to complete a twenty metre art installation depicting her custodial Grandmother's Country for the 2008 RHS Chelsea Flower Show which was awarded the Gold Metal this is a larger scale to the below painting.

01/09/2017

Pantjiya is the widow of George Tjangala a well known artist and early member of the Papunya Tula Artists. Pantjiya Nungurrayi only began painting in the mid nineties painting a very distinctive style using the three traditional colours of black, white and yellow ochre

31/08/2017

Brenda Maxwell Napaltjarri is the grand daughter of two highly acclaimed & founding Papunya Tula artists, George Tjangala and Pantjiya Nungurrayi. George Tjangala was a keeper or custodian of the lands surrounding what is today known as Kintore. George and Pantjiya walked into Papunya in 1961.

29/08/2017

Yala Yala Gibbs one of the inventors of the “Tingari” painting style : grids of meticulously dotted concentric circles and connecting lines of travel he was an authority amongst the senior Pintupi men on ceremonial matters in this region. His influence can be seen in the works of his wives Ningura and Yinarupa and his brothers W***y and George Wards and this ten Children