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P R E V I E W 💥 Excited to be sharing first im

P R E V I E W 💥

Excited to be sharing first images from the upcoming @martumiliartists exhibition - WARRALONG.

The exhibition celebrates the women of WARRALONG Community.

Show opens Saturday July 10th.

Previews available this week. Please DM with email address if you would like to receive preview doc.

Thank you to the Artists and Martumili for the opportunity. It will be a knock out show ⭐️

Images (l-r):

Doreen Chapman
Nancy Nyanjilpayi Chapman
May Mayiwalku (Wokka) Chapman

#warralong
#martumili
#newshow
#aboriginalart
#contemporary
#yaamaganu

✔️✔️ M O R E C U R L E Y The joy of @ka

✔️✔️

M O R E C U R L E Y

The joy of @kaltjitiarts Imitjala Curley strikes a special chord with collectors and friends of the gallery. The APY Artist definitely established as one of the most enduring, best selling Aboriginal Artists that we’ve had the privilege to exhibit.

We believe this massive 200 x 150cm, 2020 offering is one of her best 💯

Currently hanging in our APY Stockroom Show. Contact the gallery for details.

#imitjalacurley
#kaltjitiarts
#apylands
#aboriginalart
#australianart
#contemporaryart
#yaamaganu

🦊 An early morning visit from Mr Fox. No doub

🦊

An early morning visit from Mr Fox.

No doubt a fan of @kaltjitiarts Mrs Curley as well.

Thanks for capturing him @mystoremoree

#artlover
#imitjalacurley
#aboriginalart
#moree
#yaamaganu

B O B ⭐️ Tjarlirli Artist Bob Gibson all smil

B O B ⭐️

Tjarlirli Artist Bob Gibson all smiles at the Tjukula studio.

To view an extensive catalogue of the Senior Western Desert Artist’s work please contact the gallery.

#bobgibson
#tjarlirliart
#tjukurla
#aboriginalart
#contemporaryart
#yaamaganu

💫 We were deeply saddened to hear of the passi

💫

We were deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Margaret Adams over the weekend. Auntie Marg was a wonderful friend and great supporter of the gallery in the early days. A valuable reference of Kamilaroi culture, ready with a story and always with a twinkle in her eye. Margie was loved by many and will be greatly missed.

‘Margaret Adams was born on the banks of the Mehi River at Top Camp in Moree. She was one of the Stolen Generation; children who grew up on a mission after being forcibly removed from their families.

Taught to paint in a western tradition, Adams incorporates traditional motifs into her Dreaming stories using a naïve figurative style and vivid colours made accessible by using acrylic paint.

The artist, after cutting her teeth teaching the Kamilaroi Culture Classes in the 1980s and at the Yurundialli Art co-operative, began to focus on painting to keep the culture of her people alive in the early ’90s.

Adams has vivid and evocative memories of a time when tribal life provided for families and living off the land had direct meaning to one’s survival. It is from these memories and stories told around campfires from which Adams draws her inspiration.

“The Mehi, as all rivers, gives sustenance to living things. The banks of the Mehi, once teeming with wildlife, was the place where many Kamilaroi settled and where people’s lives and spirits were nourished”, says Adams.

Her works directly reflect this hub of activity–fishing, hunting and dancing are depicted and spread across the canvas, interspersed with white man’s wagons and their own colonial goings-on. They are beguiling works; engaging viewer with compositions that are simultaneously complex and simple. Each activity is both segregated and unified by meandering river or by other compositional elements, such as lines of trees, groups of birds with wings outstretched or the use of the goanna (Yurundialli), her own totem.

Adams is an important artist and community elder. She has been represented in the Parliament of NSW Indigenous Art Awards and several works have featured in national and international exhibitions.’

Our thoughts are with her family and community x

#margaretadams