, in this new chapter as Art Leven, the gallery will exhibit non-Indigenous alongside First Nations artists on transparent dialogue, offering an opportunity beyond the ordinary commercial relationship between artist and gallery, fostering an environment of openness and direct exchanges between artists. Art Leven will work directly with First Nations curators, art centres, and represented artists. Curated by Gadigal artist Kate Constantine (Konstantina), the exhibition features work created in the

Mitjili grew up in Papunya and later married the artist, Long Tom Tjapanangka. The couple returned to Haast’s Bluff as part of the 1980’s outstation movement and both artists, often grew up watching artists paint. Her mother became one of the foundation group of female artists that formed after the Kintore/Haasts Interestingly, not one single work in the artist’s top ten results has been achieved by market leader

HERMANNSBURG SALON 17 Thurlow St, Redern, NSW 2016 04 July to 30 July 2022 Viewing Room HERMANNSBURG SALON Artists But these hills have meaning and we have stories too, the landscape artists. founder of the Hermannsburg watercolour painting school, introduced painting to number of Arrernte artists majority of images of this desert country are painted from a slightly elevated point of view, as if the artist The watercolours highlight the intense connection of these artists to their country and spurs in observers

and, while he worked in the government store and for the council, he observed the work of the older artists Nelson’s interest and early artistic efforts, made under the guidance of the older artists, was rewarded when in 1983 he was asked to join Papunya Artists as a full-time member. Other Papunya artists had begun developing less iconographically dependent, more abstracted imagery that in spite of the fact that his career standing was 70th amongst all Australian Aboriginal artists at

EDITION 01 April - 29 April 2023 17 Thurlow St, Redern, NSW 2016 Few areas in Australia, if any, have an artistic Here, the artistic tradition stems from rock painting, mostly of the deeply important Wandjina Deity, The artists still use the very marrow of their land – natural earth pigments (ochres) – dug from the In the East Kimberley however, the artistic practice finds its roots more recently, formed around the Queenie McKenzie, under the urging of Rover Thomas, was the first female Kimberley artist to paint and

EDITION 01 April - 29 April 2023 17 Thurlow St, Redern, NSW 2016 Few areas in Australia, if any, have an artistic Here, the artistic tradition stems from rock painting, mostly of the deeply important Wandjina Deity, The artists still use the very marrow of their land – natural earth pigments (ochres) – dug from the In the East Kimberley however, the artistic practice finds its roots more recently, formed around the Queenie McKenzie, under the urging of Rover Thomas, was the first female Kimberley artist to paint and

to a Luritja mother and a Warlpiri father, Pansy Napangardi was for a long time the leading female artist As soon as she was married and about a decade before Papunya started supplying women artists with their She became the most prominent female artist at Papunya Tula from the late 1980s to the mid 1990s, but later reverted to practising as an independent artist for a range of private dealers. For this reason Sotheby’s, have offered only 6 works by this artist since 1990.

, William Mora Gallery, Melbourne; Bidyadanga Artists, Art House Gallery, Sydney. 2003 - Manjyiljara, Xavier Dhalluin, 'Contemporary Artist Keeps With Tradition', Broome Happenings, Issue 77, 2006. The AIAM100 index for any artist is discounted until that artist has reached 20 secondary market offerings Not bad for an artist whose work first appeared at auction as late as 2010. Collectors take note. Here is an artist moving up the charts with a bullet.

He does not, however, appear as a profiled artist amongst those discussed in the ‘lives of the artist He was connected, in a rather intricate web to a number of other Papunya artists, including his older Tommy Lowry began his artistic career carving wooden implements and traditional weapons. Nevertheless, the appearance of works by this artist at auction are extremely rare. Tommy Lowry was an artist capable of greatness who painted a relatively small number of spare, iconic

AndrewBrook Brook Andrew Brook Andrew 1970 Born in Sydney and university educated, Brook Andrew is an artist To Brook Andrew the political is inseparable from the artistic – Art is Polemic, His most recognisable image, and the work that shot the artist to political and artistic prominence, is titled Sexy and Dangerous describe Andrews as a contemporary Aboriginal artist should be done with some hesitation. in 1997 entered the artists top ten recording a sale of $21,600.

2021 Viewing Room A COOEE CHRISTMAS | NEXT GEN 21 From 27 November to 31 December 2021 Our selected artists and powerful gestural brushstrokes by some of Australia’s most interesting contemporary Aboriginal artists

THE THREE C’S – CONTENT, COMPOSITION, CONDITION In common with others the world over, Aboriginal artists In retrospect, we are able to look at an artist’s output (their oeuvre) and determine those periods and These bark painters largely escaped the critical contempt leveled unfairly at those Queensland artists A solo show is the single most important tool in promoting an artist’s career. That said, not all artists produce big works and many smaller pieces have great quality.