FEATURED LOTS | BARK PAINTINGS - FIRST NATIONS FINE ART AUCTION NOVEMBER 2025

We are delighted to welcome you to Art Leven’s First Nations Fine Art Auction, held in our Redfern gallery on 18 November 2025. This marks an important step forward for Australian auctions, introducing two pioneering models, Priority Bidding and the Hybrid Auction model designed to make collecting fairer, more flexible, and more connected than ever before. Priority Bidding rewards early engagement, offering collectors a reduced buyer’s premium of 15% (normally 25%) when leavi

For Aboriginal artist Carol Puruntatameri, painting is not only a form of creative expression, but a continuation of ceremony—a way to sing to Country, call the Ancestors close, and reaffirm cultural responsibilities. Her bark paintings emerge from a living tradition that connects her directly with land, kinship, and ancestral law.

TIMO HOGAN (1973 - ) Lake Baker (diptych) , 2023 acrylic on linen 290 x 400 cm (overall); 290 x 200 cm (each panel) POA Region:...

Important Works by First Nations Artists Welcome to our June 17 First Nations Fine Art Auction, featuring a thoughtfully curated...

FIRST NATIONS FINE ART AUCTION | 17 JUNE 2025 @Greg Weight EMILY KAME KNGWARREYE (1910 - 1996) Also known as: Kngarreye, Ngwaria, Emily...

FIRST NATIONS FINE ART AUCTION II JUNE 2025 This curated selection of exemplary boards from the seminal stages of the Papunya movement....

Stephen Brameld and Jay Staples have mastered the practice of collaborative painting. Though extensively exhibited on the West Coast,...

Bonnie Connelly  Nakara was born in 1936, at Illurpa, a place near Blackstone in the Ngaanyatjarra lands, Western Australia.  Her family...

For Art Leven, this year was marked by an exciting transformation. Rebranding from Cooee Art to Art Leven, we embraced a forward-thinking...

"My Bush Plum paintings represent the whole thing: all of Country.”   Born sometime between 1939 and 1947 (records are uncertain),...

Against a backdrop of economic uncertainty, Art Leven [formerly Cooee Art], the continent’s oldest exhibiting Indigenous-focused art...

EMILY KAME KNGWARREYE (1910 - 1996) Also known as: Kngarreye, Ngwaria, Emily Kame Kngwarraye Community: Utopia, Soakage Bore Outstation:...

FEATURED LOT - FIRST NATIONS FINE ART AUCTION NOVEMBER 2024 ATTRIBUTED TO TIMMY PAYUNGKA TJAPANGATI (1940 -2000) Untitled, c. 1972

Unwrapping and discovering new artworks as they come in is one of our favourite parts of what we do here at Art Leven [formerly Cooee Art].

WHO x WHO – a collaborative exhibition  between Art Leven and their Thurlow Street neighbours  ANIBOU.  and Strutt Studios , continues...

Specialists on Tour - Darwin 8-12 August 2024

Final Submissions for our First Nations Fine Art Auction | November 2024

Our heartfelt condolences to the family and the artists and staff at Warnayaka art centre, with the passing of Yampinyi Napanangka Simon.

Tax Break on art before EOFY. Government scheme to assist in acquiring artwork for your business As we approach the end of the financial ye