FEATURED BARK ARTISTS FROM YIRRKALA From 15 July to 31 August 2021 FEATURED BARK ARTISTS FROM YIRRKALA From 15 July to 31 August 2021 FEATURED BARK ARTISTS FROM YIRRKALA From 15 July to 31 August 2021

Gathul’puy | Belonging to the Mangroves Art Leven - 17 Thurlow St, Redfern, Gadigal / Sydney 14th December 2024 - 11th January 2025 Viewing Room Gathul’puy | Belonging to the Mangroves Munhala Dhamarrandji & Muluymuluy Wirrpanda 14th December 2024 - 11th January 2025 Art Leven - 17 Thurlow St, Redfern, Gadigal / Sydney Gathul’puy [Belonging to the Mangroves] | Munhala Dhamarrandji and Muluymuluy Wirrpanda Gathul’puy showcases the works of two First Nations artists from the Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre, Munhala Dhamarrandji and Muluymuluy Wirrpanda. Drawing from their ancestral landscapes and daily connection to Country, the artists weave stories of Arnhem Land’s ecosystems, traditions, and identity into each intricate painting. “Muluymuluy and Manhala are two very different artists. But there is a synergy between their work. They are both inspired and informed by a lifetime of intimacy with the land. The fluidity and instinctive organic feel flows from this... Imagine if your day to day ‘job’ was not a commute to an office but a journey to the mangroves, jungle or beach to winkle your daily sustenance from the earth. This moulds you to a certain hyperawareness of the shapes and forms of nature. Because without this heightened sense you cannot unlock the necessary nutrition required by your family." Gathul'puy [Belonging to the Mangroves] offers a profound glimpse into Yolŋu culture through the works of Munhala Dhamarrandji and Muluymuluy Wirrpanda. Art Leven is proud to present this exhibition, a celebration of Yolŋu heritage and the enduring bond between land, knowledge, and creativity. Munhala Dhamarrandji Muluymuluy Wirrpanda View Catalogue MUNHALA DHAMARRANDJI - GOMU' Sold AU$0.00 MUNHALA DHAMARRANDJI - BATJIMURRUNU Sold AU$0.00 MUNHALA DHAMARRANDJI - GOMU' Sold AU$0.00 ExGathul

20|20 - 20 ARTISTS FROM OVER AUSTRALIA PAINTING 20|20 Cooee Art Paddington From 28 November to 19 December 2020 Viewing Room 20|20 - 20 ARTISTS FROM OVER AUSTRALIA PAINTING 20|20 Artists: Artist from All Over Australia From 28 November to 19 December 2020 Cooee Art Paddington As we approach the end of the year, a very odd year for everyone, Cooee Art will feature 20 artists from unique communities from all over Australia in their final exhibition for 2020. 20|20 will officially open on Saturday 28 November 2020, and will be on view at our Paddington Gallery until Saturday 19 December 2020. These selected works of art offer a rare opportunity to purchase affordable artworks from established and remote communities. These paintings are possibly one of the best Christmas gifts you will buy, knowing that whilst you receive a gift yourself (or someone else) you are giving a gift back to the art community and the artist themselves. Hindsight is 20|20. Following a year of adversity, hibernation and resilience we all aspire to re-prioritise in the hope of a more meaningful and purposeful future. Our challenge is to think and see more clearly. To search for life changing ideas and small treasures that bring joy and enlighten our lives. 20|20, our final exhibition of the year, features small treasures created by twenty artists from around the country created during this year of adversity. Included are paintings on canvas, paper, bark and sculptures. They hail from Non-for-profit art centres including Buku Larrnggay in Yirrkala, Warlukurlangu in Yuendumu, Warnayaka in Lajamanu, Papunya Tula in Kintore, Mangkaja in Fitzroy Crossing, Spinifex Hill in Port Headland, Warlayiti Artists in Balgo Hills, Ernabella Arts in South Australia as well as some of our repressed artist from South Australia, the Central Desert Victoria, and Darwin. When the first lockdown swept through Australia, scores of art centres were forced to suspend all activity in an effort to protect remote Indigenous communities from the virus. Weeks turned into months, during which artists could not practise their craft, severely throttling their main and sometimes only source of income. The art centres all around Australia are the lifeblood of our industry. Young artists emerge every year, developing new styles and interpreting the oldest oral history of the world in beautiful and innovative ways. Artists develop their talent and skill with each piece, with each brushstroke, honing their individual practice and furthering their vision, interpreting shared stories with ever new understanding. We need barely mention how incredibly important the work art centres and their artists do each day is to the economic prosperity of remote communities and the furthering of Indigenous culture in Australia. In September we put out our first callout, aware that art centres had begun reopening. Artists were producing new work for the first time in almost half a year. Beyond the virus’s economic repercussions, we are in this business because we love the art, and we are lucky enough to surround ourselves with it every day. Each arrival of paintings in the gallery is a moment of joy, when staff gather around and excitedly watch as each new work is unwrapped, something we have sorely missed for most of this year. As works started arriving in the gallery for this exhibition, it felt both like a return to normalcy, or at least the hope thereof, and the beginning of a new chapter. This is an end-of-year show looking back at everything this year showed us, from the widespread hardships to the incredible resilience. Like the first plants sprouting green in the fire-ravaged bush, these paintings mark the reawakening of contemporary Indigenous art after a devastating year of hibernation. VIEW CATALOGUE EX 205

Artist Profile for Tolbert Dharramanba < Back Tolbert Dharramanba Tolbert Dharramanba ARTIST PROFILE ARTIST CV MARKET ANALYSIS READ FULL ARTIST PROFILE top Anchor 1 PROFILE Tolbert Dharramanba ARTIST CV Market Analysis MARKET ANALYSIS Disclaimer: At Cooee Art Leven, we strive to maintain accurate and respectful artist profiles. Despite our efforts, there may be occasional inaccuracies. We welcome any corrections or suggested amendments. Please contact us with your feedback .

GILLIAN & WATSON MCALLISTER COLLECTION Cooee Art Bondi From 08 December to 25 February 2022 Viewing Room GILLIAN & WATSON MCALLISTER COLLECTION Private Collection of Artworks by Artists from all over Australia From 08 December to 25 February 2022 Cooee Art Bondi In November 1973, at the age of 25, Gillian and Watson McAllister emigrated to Sydney, Australia from Glasgow, Scotland. After a year in Sydney they bought a Kombi van and set off on their ‘adventure of a lifetime’ around Australia. They headed north, just before cyclone Tracey destroyed Darwin, and washed up in Perth where they lived for the next 15 years. In 1990, with Gillian’s long-service leave from the WA Education Dept, they resumed their journey round Australia and drove their old Land Rover to Kalgoorlie and Adelaide, before heading north to Alice Springs and back to Darwin. Before too long, with their skills and experience, they became the Heads of Girls Boarding and Boys Boarding respectively at ‘the jewel in the crown’ for Aboriginal education in those days, Kormilda College in Darwin. There were 360 boarders when the school was full – close to 300 were Aboriginal children from all over the Northern Territory, many from remote communities in Arnhem Land and around the Central Desert. Gillian and Watson were therefore responsible for approximately 120 students in each of their houses. This started their interest in Indigenous Australian culture – They loved the kids and met their families when they came “up to town”. They even hosted a few parents and artists in the available bedsits in the dorms. Mervin Rubuntja and his family became special friends. Mervin was an artist-in-residence for a short period of time. Through their work, the McAllisters went on to visit Oenpelli, Maningrida, Markolijban, the Tiwi Islands (Milikapiti and Pularumpi), Yuendumu, Nyirrpi, Willowra, Lajamanu, Alice Springs, Amoonguna, Ti-Tree, Kalkarindji, Bulman, Barunga, Minyerri, Numbulwar, Borroloola, Ngukurr, Katherine, Tennant Creek, Pepperminarti, Timber Creek, Pigeon Hole. They attended the Barunga Festival, local football matches on the Tiwi Islands, and sporting days at Yuendumu; and they arranged for Cathy Freeman and the members of Yothu Yindi to visit and inspire the children in their care. VIEW CATALOGUE VIEW ARTICLE VIEW VIDEO EX 225

INDIGENOUS FINE ART AUCTION 17 Thurlow Street Redfern NSW 2016 11 October 2022 | 7PM START Viewing Room INDIGENOUS FINE ART AUCTION 11 October 2022 | 7PM START 17 Thurlow Street Redfern NSW 2016 Once more, the enthusiastic and dedicated team of Cooee Art specialists have assembled a wonderful selection of regionally diverse and historically significant Indigenous paintings, sculptures, and artefacts. These artworks were sourced from collections around Australia, the Americas, and Europe, and will now be offered to our discriminating collectors. This wonderful collection proves, without doubt, that the allure, resilience, and appeal of Australian Aboriginal art is eternal. The sale, consisting of 103 lots with an estimate value of $1.8 - 2.5m, will be on view at Cooee Art showroom in Redfern from October 4th to October 11th. VIEW CATALOGUE VIEW AUCTION RESULTS

Secondary Market Carriageworks, Gadigal 5 - 8 September 2024 Viewing Room Secondary Market Sydney Contemporary | Booth I07 5 - 8 September 2024 Carriageworks, Gadigal DR CHRISTIAN THOMPSON AO - HUNTING GROUND 3, ED. 2/5 price AU$11,000.00 TRACEY MOFFATT - INVOCATIONS #2, ED.45/60 price AU$10,000.00 TRACEY MOFFATT - Up In The Sky # 5, ED.34/60 price AU$7,000.00 TRACEY MOFFATT - Up In The Sky #6, ED.34/60 price AU$7,000.00 TRACEY MOFFATT - Up In The Sky #19, ED.34/60 price AU$7,000.00 TRACEY MOFFATT - Up In The Sky #1, ED.34/60 price AU$7,000.00 TRACEY MOFFATT - Up In The Sky #7, ED.34/60 price AU$5,000.00 TRACEY MOFFATT - Up In The Sky #9, ED.34/60 price AU$5,000.00 EMILY KAM KNGWARRAY (KAME KNGWARREYE) - ALALGURA Sold AU$0.00 DR CHRISTIAN THOMPSON AO - HUNTING GROUND 2, ED. 2/5 price AU$11,000.00 TRACEY MOFFATT - INVOCATIONS #4, ED.45/60 price AU$8,000.00 TRACEY MOFFATT - Up In The Sky # 22, ED.34/60 price AU$7,000.00 TRACEY MOFFATT - Up In The Sky #20, ED.34/60 price AU$7,000.00 TRACEY MOFFATT - Up In The Sky #25, ED.34/60 price AU$7,000.00 TRACEY MOFFATT - Up In The Sky #4, ED.34/60 price AU$7,000.00 TRACEY MOFFATT - Up In The Sky #10, ED.34/60 price AU$5,000.00 TRACEY MOFFATT - Up In The Sky #17, ED.34/60 price AU$5,000.00 TRACEY MOFFATT - INVOCATIONS #1, ED.45/60 price AU$10,000.00 TRACEY MOFFATT - Up In The Sky # 2, ED.34/60 price AU$7,000.00 TRACEY MOFFATT - Up In The Sky # 23, ED.34/60 price AU$7,000.00 TRACEY MOFFATT - Up In The Sky #12, ED.34/60 price AU$7,000.00 TRACEY MOFFATT - Up In The Sky #24, ED.34/60 price AU$7,000.00 TRACEY MOFFATT - Up In The Sky #16, ED.34/60 price AU$7,000.00 TRACEY MOFFATT - Up In The Sky #18, ED.34/60 price AU$5,000.00 TRACEY MOFFATT - Up In The Sky #21, ED.34/60 price AU$5,000.00 EX 272-3

Artist Profile for Nyurapayia (Mrs Bennett) Nampitjinpa < Back Nyurapayia (Mrs Bennett) Nampitjinpa Nyurapayia (Mrs Bennett) Nampitjinpa ARTIST PROFILE ARTIST CV MARKET ANALYSIS READ FULL ARTIST PROFILE NYURAPAYIA (MRS BENNETT) NAMPITJINPA - WATERHOLES 1 TO 6 SOLD AU$15,000.00 NYURAPAYIA (MRS BENNETT) NAMPITJINPA - UNTITLED Sold AU$0.00 NYURAPAYIA (MRS BENNETT) NAMPITJINPA - KAPI TJUKURRPA (WATER DREAMING) Sold AU$0.00 NYURAPAYIA (MRS BENNETT) NAMPITJINPA - THE TRAVELS OF A GROUP OF WOMEN Sold AU$0.00 NYURAPAYIA (MRS BENNETT) NAMPITJINPA - UNTITLED SOLD AU$3,500.00 NYURAPAYIA (MRS BENNETT) NAMPITJINPA - UNTITLED Sold AU$0.00 NYURAPAYIA (MRS BENNETT) NAMPITJINPA - THE ROCKHOLE SITE OF YUMARRA Sold AU$0.00 NYURAPAYIA (MRS BENNETT) NAMPITJINPA - UNTITLED Sold AU$0.00 top Anchor 1 PROFILE Nyurapayia (Mrs Bennett) Nampitjinpa ARTIST CV Market Analysis MARKET ANALYSIS Disclaimer: At Cooee Art Leven, we strive to maintain accurate and respectful artist profiles. Despite our efforts, there may be occasional inaccuracies. We welcome any corrections or suggested amendments. Please contact us with your feedback .

This edition of our Collector’s series looks at 4 new and exciting collectors peices that should not be missed. < Back THE COLLECTORS EDITION #8 Mar 21, 2021 This edition of our Collector’s series looks at 4 new and exciting collectors peices that should not be missed. CHOSEN FOR COLLECTORS, BY COLLECTORS This edition of our Collector’s series looks at 4 new and exciting collectors peices that should not be missed. Wimmitji Tjapangati Untitled – Wimmitji Tjapangati 120.0 x 60.0 cm Tjawuwirpa 1991 Synthetic polymer on Belgian linen 120 x 60 cm $15,000Provenance: Warlayirti Artists, 1991 Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Sydney Private Collection, Paris FranceMarket Facts: Number of artworks sold at auction: 30 Number of artworks sold over $15,000: 20 Average Price at auction: $20,835 Born in Kutakurtal around 1924, Wimmitji Tjapangarti moved to the old Balgo mission in 1943 as a young initiated man. He began painting alongside his wife Eubena Nampitjin when in his 60s, and together they created a unique shared aesthetic ‘quite different from that of the other Balgo painters’ (Watson 1997: 49). Their early works were identifiably more detailed and refined than works by their contemporaries. As the Warlayirti Art Centre developed during the early 1990s, the two artists began to paint more individually and their works exhibited growing differentiation. Wimmitji’s paintings are visually complex and contain a vast amount of knowledge within each single composition. The intricacy and textural richness were achieved with spontaneous outpourings of dotting, and myriad surface treatments. The disciplining force is the spiritual dimension of the story, related by a cultural custodian of the highest degree. Wimmitji was a mapan (traditional healer) of unsurpassed knowledge and ceremonial importance amongst the members of the Wangkajunka society. His painting style and earthy palette gave the best of his works a look of great age and this, no doubt, added to perceptions of their authenticity, ‘though from his own perspective it would have been drawn from his deep involvement with the law’ (Johnson 1994: 209). excerpt from original certificate enquire here PRINCE OF WALES IMAGE REMOVED – cooee_13780 Body Marks 1999 synthetic polymer paint on canvas 66 x 48 cm $6,800 Provenance: Karen Brown Gallery, NT Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSWMarket Facts: Number of artworks sold at auction: 41 Number of artworks sold over $7,000: 27 Average Price at auction: $19,522 Midpul, more familiarly known as Prince of Wales, was orn c.1938 on the far side of Darwin Harbour. He was a custodian and leader of Larakia ceremonies and dances, a leading didgeridoo player, and practiced art as ceremonial body painting for much of his life. His father, Imabul, was also known as King George and this, perhaps as much as the fact that Midpul danced for Queen Elizabeth during a royal trip to Australia in the 1960s, resulted in his familiar ‘English’ name. ‘Prince’ grew up with his mother’s people, the Wadgigiyn, and spent much of his adult life at the beach camp at Cullen (Kahlin) Bay, now an expensive marina development.Despite suffering a stroke prior to gaining great recognition as an artist, he continued his lifelong practice and passion for painting and became recognized as the first contemporary Aboriginal artist from the Larakia region. His work is a unique rendering on to canvas of the traditional body designs used in Danggalaba ceremonies. enquire here MICK JAWALJI Gelenggedengbeny 2003 natural earth pigments and charcoal on wood 80 x 60cm $4,500 Provenance: Warmun Art Centre, Turkey Creek, WA Raft Artspace, Darwin, NT Private Collection, Adelaide, SA Coo-ee Art Gallery, NSW Like most old Aboriginal people in the Kimberley, Gija artist Mick Jawalji worked mustering and droving cattle. While working as a head stockman, and renowned horse breaker, he learned about all the places he later depicted in his art. He and his people held ceremonies and practiced law at these places each wet season.Jawalji started painting in 2001, at first on cardboard and later canvas by experimenting with both ochre and acrylic paints. An important law man, his boards were in high demand from the moment he joined other Gija artists at Warmun in 2002. Jawalji’s paintings feature places in his Bangurr country and Dreamtime stories from those places he visited during a lifetime working the cattle routes of the Kimberley. enquire here PAJI WAJINA HONEYCHILD Nurtu – Paji Honeychild Yankarr 102.0 x 91.0 cm Nurtu 2002 synthetic polymer paint on canvas 102 x 91 cm $7,500 Provenance: Mangkaja Arts, Fitzroy Crossing, WA Tjala Aboriginal Art, Sydney, NSW Private Collection, NSW Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW Born in the Great Sandy Desert (1914), Paji Honeychild lived with her family around a permanent, spring fed waterhole until the end of the 1950s when she joined her nephew, the late Jimmy Pike at Old Cherrabun Station. Her works were first seen publicly at Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Institute in 1991. She became the eldest and most revered member amongst a core group of Kimberley artists who gained notoriety during the 1990s with shows nationally and internationally. Her immediate family included Peter Skipper, Jimmy Pike, Jimmy Nerrimah and Cory Surprise. Together they worked on the two major collaborative Ngurrara canvases that documented their land claim. Paji ‘grew up’ seventeen children although none of them were her own biological offspring.Paji painted standing, depicting the places that she walked as a young woman with a broad sweep of the brush. The waterholes gradually took over the picture plane with the elliptical forms of the centre of the waterhole, bleeding over the edges. This was precisely the view that she would have recalled from the days when she drew water from the Jila. 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NungurrayiGabri Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi 1967 Nungarrayi Gabriella Possum learned the discipline of painting from an early age at the side of her famous father, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri. Born at Papunya in 1967, she first achieved recognition in 1983, for her entry in the Alice Art Prize, while a 16-year-old student at Yirara College. From the mid 1980’s Clifford Possum had largely abandoned Papunya Tula, preferring to create works and sell them independently. While living in Alice Springs and maintaining close contact with his Anmatjerre countrymen at Mount Allan and Napperby he sold works through Aboriginal Arts Australia’s Centre for Aboriginal Art in Todd Street as well as to a range of independent dealers. Gabriella, along with her younger sister Michelle, meticulously filled in areas of dotting on many of her father’s emblematic canvasses from this period and onward to the following decade. These ‘assisted’ canvasses brought Clifford Possum increasing worldwide recognition until this practice became increasingly controversial in the light of media generated around the praxis of a number of famous desert artists including Possum, Turkey Tolson and Kathleen Petyarre, to name but a few. Clifford Possum’s influence could be detected in Gabriella’s earliest paintings produced in her early 20’s. It was apparent in her ability to weave together a coherent and compelling narrative from the different iconic elements, symbols and stories of her tradition. Yet, Gabriella also forged her own style, appealingly decorative as well as evocative of her desert life and heritage. By the early 1990’s Gabriella, now in her mid 20’s had given birth to the first of her children with husband Selwyn Burns, a member of the Aboriginal rock group Coloured Stone. She designed the record cover following their award as the best Indigenous album in the 1986 ARIA Awards and during the same period became the recipient of a Professional Development Grant, from the Aboriginal Arts Unit of the Australia Council for the Arts. Throughout the late 1980’s Gabriella traveled with her father and sister, visiting galleries and painting publicly during exhibitions organized by Alice Springs entrepreneur Joy Aitken, who euphemistically called her traveling group ‘the Possum Shop’. At this time Gabriella’s works could be distinguished by her use of strong colours, inspired by the dramatic contrasts of the desert landscape. Her engaging Bush Tucker paintings were principally Women’s Dreamings from the Mt. Allen area, the traditional country of her Anmatyerre parents. The landscape, depicted in a way that strongly resonated with her father’s vision, featured exploding seed pods, the black seed traditionally ground for damper, as well as a proliferation of bush foods including bush banana, coconut, plum, and berries. Tracks were shown as women collected food in oval coolamons and gathered to sit with their legs spread, seen from the artist’s omnipotent perspective as U shapes, as they prepared the food for eating. The people who inhabit these paintings are unseen aside from their occasional footprints. They camped near sacred waterholes, indicated by roundels, where they engaged in ceremonies to give thanks for the abundance of food. They painted their bodies with ochre, plaited ceremonial belts and adorned their digging sticks with feathers. They represent both ancestral women who inhabited their country at the moment of creation and Gabriella’s countrywomen, who continue to collect bush foods and accept their custodial responsibility for the land today. Their children are told traditional stories in order to pass on the skills of finding food and water in the desert and how to continue to care for the sacred sites. The figurative elements and identifiable symbols in Gabriella’s paintings allow the narrative content to be easily deciphered during story telling. By 1992 Gabriella Possum had settled with her growing family in Broadmeadow, on the outskirts of Melbourne. She and her father exhibited in Sydney at Coo-ee Gallery that year, before creating works that were exhibited in the U.S.A and throughout Europe in a number of exhibitions including Modern Art-Ancient Icon 1992 and Down Under 1993 while completing commissions for posters, clothing designs and licensed merchandise. It was during this period that she developed the imagery for which she has become best known, the Seven Sisters Dreaming, that traces the movement of the Pleiades and the Morning Star as they journey amongst the constellations of the Milky Way. The songlines of the Milky Way travel from the far northern reaches of Arnhem Land, down across the continent through Central Australia and beyond, into the Australian psyche. For the Aborigines it is the sacred residence of totemic beings, corresponding to an inner microcosm that guides vital aspects of their existence. In the version painted by Gabriella Possum the Seven Sisters traveled over a vast expanse of country, until they realised that they were being followed by a man called Wati-Nyiru who was a man belonging to the Tjakamarra skin group. He was an evil person who wanted to seduce and ‘own’ them. They tried to hide from him in caves, however the man disguised himself appearing in many different forms to deceive them. With little hope of relief, the Seven Sisters escaped through a fire at Kurlunyalimpa to the Milky Way where they became the stars of the Pleiades in the Constellation Taurus. There they remain safe, forever watching out over all women on earth. Wati-Nyiru followed them to the heavens and became the Morning Star in the constellation Orion and is unable to get near them as they move across the night sky. In her renditions of the story, Gabriella recreates the desert night sky with its luminous heavenly characters suspended in the deep blue of space. The Milky Way is depicted as clouds of softly glowing stars, with the major characters in the narrative appearing as singular stellar ‘landmarks’ that emerge from dark empty spaces. In the finest of these works Gabriella demonstrates her own singular style by employing all of the skill and technique she learnt sitting at her father’s side watching him vary his palette and variegate the margins of his dotting in each complimentary colour. Foremost amongst the many important collections in which her works are held are the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of South Australia, Flinders University Art Museum, the Holmes a Court Collection and the Kelton Foundation in Los Angeles, USA. Gabriella's works are included in these collections even though she has always worked for independent dealers. Since the mid 1990’s these have principally been located in Melbourne and include Peter Los, Des Rogers and Adam Knight, owner of Aranda Art Gallery. In 1999 she painted in the foyer of the United Nations, accompanying an exhibition of Western Desert paintings and since that time has painted in Melbourne exclusively for private dealers who have arranged for her participation in a number of events in Australia and overseas. In 2008 Adam Knight of Aranda Aboriginal Art Gallery commissioned a 20-metre art installation depicting Gabriella’s custodial Grandmother's Country for Jamie Durie’s display at the 2008 RHS Chelsea Flower Show in London. When the display was awarded the gold prize by HRH Queen Elizabeth, Durie presented the Queen with an original work by the artist, a unique achievement. The work now hangs in the royal collection along side that of her famous father. Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi, the daughter of one of Aboriginal art's most successful artists of all time, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, has been propelled from 114th to 59th rank during the past 7 years, due almost entirely to her European sales. Amongst these, six of her top ten, including her record, were recorded by Parisian house ArtCurial. These auctions, and er inclusion in the exhibition of major works at the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, confirm the continued interest of European collectors in her work. The ongoing importance of the Aboriginal components of the Musée du quai Branly and significant representation at galleries coinciding with major art events such as Art Basel cannot be overstated. In July 2008 Melbourne dealer Peter Los organised a sale of Australian Aboriginal art at the Hôtel Dassault in Paris through the French auction house, ArtCurial. In a sale that had mixed results, Gabriella Possum’s Bush Tucker Dreaming: My Father's Country was one of the star lots when sold for 22,980 € (then equivalent to $37,496). It is incredible that until that time, every one of her eight highest results had been achieved by Elder Fine Art in Adelaide, with not a single sale recorded to any of the major players with stand alone Aboriginal art auctions. Elder transcended the $7,050 mark set by Christie's in November 2003 no less than three times on one steamy November night in 2005. Works sold for $7,659, $7,770 and $8,436 with the highest being for an Untitled work measuring 208 x 122 cm (Lot 93). This in turn was exceeded in June 2007 by Seven Sisters Dreaming (Lot 158) and later, in December 2007, by the two paintings that hold the artist’s highest records here in Australia. The complex Bush Tucker Dreaming that sold for $11,000 against a presale estimate of $8,000-12,000 (Lot 152) and the equally detailed and whimsical Women's Love Story & Hunting Food, which reached $17,050 (Lot 33). Interestingly, none of these works are recorded with a date of creation. It would be interesting to speculate why it is that no Tier I auction house has sold more than three works and Sotheby’s have sold only one – especially interesting as Gabriella Possum’s results at auction are impressive and her lineage ‘royal'. Between 2005 and 2007 no less than 37 works were offered of which 31 sold for a clearance rate of 84%. Given a career success rate of a still relatively healthy 65% it is clear that the appreciation of, and demand for, her work has increased rapidly since the beginning of the new millennium. Her results would be all the more impressive were it not for the appearance at sale of prints and graphics of which only nine have sold of 26 offered for an average price of just $353. The sale in Paris, that set her career high of $37,496, corresponded to a period of serious ill health. However, she now continues to create works of great beauty, albeit not as fine as those created during the previous decade. Foremost amongst a number of absolute bargains sold at auction were the exceptional 122 x 241 cm rendition of Seven Sisters Dreaming estimated at a giveaway $2,500-3,500 and sold for $4,810 at Leonard Joel Melbourne in October 2005 (Lot 220) and the very unusual combined work featuring both Seven Sisters Dreaming and Bush Tucker Dreaming that sold for just $3,421 when estimated at a throw away $1,200-1,500 in the same sale (Lot 9). Re-sales are hard to detect given the number of works with similar titles, however there have been some notable failures, generally recorded due to over ambitious estimates. Lawson~Menzies obviously felt they had a very special and most unusual Seven Sisters image that seemed to have been rendered in an experimental technique using a palette knife. Estimated at $18,000-20,000, the highest ever sought for a work by this artist, Lawson~Menzies failed to attract a buyer at their May 2007 sale (Lot 14). They had no better luck with the magnificent 94 x 186 cm Seven Sister’s Dreaming 2000, which they estimated at $10,000-12,000 in their November 2007 sale (Lot 258). In 2016 there were 15 works offered for sale of which 8 sold. The highest price recorded that year was just $4,600. Of the 8 offered in 2017 only 3 sold, for an average price of $3,372. With the narrow range of provenance currently accepted by Sotheby’s, Deutcher and Hackett, and Mossgreen it is unlikely that an artist, even of Gabriella Possum’s lineage and talent who has worked independently and eschewed exclusive contracts with any one gallery, will get a guernsey in spite of the fact that her images are much loved, as evidenced by the fact that they have appeared on the side of trams in Melbourne and several other public commissions. As a result, collectors keen on her works should be able to pick up bargains for the foreseeable future. She is a seriously talented painter, even if her Bush Tucker works seem slightly kitsch or generic to those in thrall of the optical and minimal. Her cosmic paintings are worth far far more than the market currently demands, but buyers should be quick. They are unlikely to remain so inexpensive once her production slows. Explore our artworks See some of our featured artworks below ANGELINA PWERLE NGAL - UNTITLED ( BUSH RAISIN MAN) Price AU$3,000.00 ALISON (JOJO) PURUNTATAMERI - WINGA (TIDAL MOVEMENT/WAVES) Out of stock LILY YIRDINGALI JURRAH HARGRAVES NUNGARRAYI - KURLURRNGALINYPA JUKURRPA Price From AU$13,500.00 BRONWYN BANCROFT - UNTITLED Out of stock JOSHUA BONSON - SKIN: A CELEBRATION OF CULTURE Price AU$8,500.00 BOOK - KONSTANTINA - GADIGAL NGURA Price From AU$99.00 FREDDIE TIMMS - MOONLIGHT VALLEY Price AU$35,000.00 NEIL ERNEST TOMKINS - BURN THERE, DON'T BURN THERE Price AU$7,000.00 SHOP NOW

COUNTRY X COUNTRY 17 Thurlow Street Redfern 27 July - 26 August 2023 Viewing Room COUNTRY X COUNTRY Kitty Napanangka Simon x Neil Ernest Tomkins Curated by Gadigal Artist Konstantina 27 July - 26 August 2023 17 Thurlow Street Redfern A new era of Cooee Art represents an exciting development for the gallery and for the wider art community in Australia. Although the gallery will remain focused on First Nations art, going forward as Art Leven, the gallery will exhibit non-Indigenous alongside First Nations artists, through specially curated individual projects. The new gallery vision will focus 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. The collaborations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists offer a chance for new and innovative artistic expressions to emerge, and for meaningful conversations to take place. The program offers an opportunity to build not just a closed commercial relationship between artist and gallery, but an environment of openness and comfort in understanding the commercial gallery system through exchanges with other free-agent artists. country x Country is the first iteration of the new annual program, launching as the inaugural exhibition in the new chapter of the gallery on July 27th 2023. The specific focus of this project and the resulting exhibition was mark-making and painting craft, especially when it comes to landscape painting and ways of seeing country. The workshop was based not around specific imagery, but around approach, how the tangible landscape is portrayed through the artists’ unique brushstrokes. The painting project leading up to this exhibition was graciously hosted by the Warlpiri owners of Warnayaka Arts in Lajamanu over five days of painting at the art centre studio. The ‘workshop’ was not led or guided, open to anyone in the community who wanted to partake. As early as the first day of painting in the centre, the joyful trio of Kitty Napanangka Simon, Annie Napanangka Simon and Biddy Napanangka Timms bestowed Tomkins with his Warlpiri skin name. For the rest of the workshop, the ladies addressed Neil only as Tjapanangka. After first setting up on the ground outside in the all-but-unused men’s painting area, Neil soon found his spot in the studio – crouched, as he often does in his Sydney studio space, on a paint-splattered mat, close by Kitty’s favoured painting table. Within the buzz of Kitty’s return to painting the were many peaceful moments, the soundscape consisting only of the ladies chatting and laughing in Warlpiri, often humming along to their songlines playing through speakers, and the ever active scratching of brush bristles on linen. Some, between sessions, Kitty would turn to watch Tomkins work. She would smile and point to a corner of his painting, recognising the depicted place in or around town. She’d call out his name, Tjapanangka! , and confirm with him, teach him the Warlpiri term, or tell an anecdote about the spot. Each time, his smile beamed with pride at Napanangka Simon’s recognition. Artist Profile Kitty Simon Napangakga Artist Profile Neil Ernest Tomkins VIEW CATALOGUE MORE ABOUT THE PROJECT VIEW VIDEO NEIL ERNEST TOMKINS - WEST HOOKER CREEK AGAIN price AU$5,500.00 NEIL ERNEST TOMKINS - COLLECTORS EDITION COLLAGE price AU$40.00 KITTY NAPANANGKA SIMON - MINA MINA JUKURRPA (MINA MINA DREAMING) Sold AU$0.00 NEIL ERNEST TOMKINS - EMU ROCKHOLE AGAIN Sold AU$0.00 NEIL ERNEST TOMKINS - SLOW DOWN (KITTY'S HOUSE AGAIN) Sold AU$0.00 KITTY NAPANANGKA SIMON - MINA MINA JUKURRPA (MINA MINA DREAMING) Sold AU$0.00 NEIL ERNEST TOMKINS - BY OLD STATION Sold AU$5,500.00 KITTY NAPANANGKA SIMON - MINA MINA JUKURRPA (MINA MINA DREAMING) Sold AU$0.00 KITTY NAPANANGKA SIMON - MINA MINA JUKURRPA (MINA MINA DREAMING) Sold AU$0.00 NEIL ERNEST TOMKINS - WATER TOWER IN TOWN Sold AU$0.00 NEIL ERNEST TOMKINS - CORNER OF WAMPANA ROAD Sold AU$0.00 NEIL ERNEST TOMKINS - (BUSH BANANA THERE) Sold AU$0.00 NEIL ERNEST TOMKINS - KITTY'S HOUSE price AU$3,000.00 KITTY NAPANANGKA SIMON - MINA MINA JUKURRPA (MINA MINA DREAMING) Sold AU$0.00 KITTY NAPANANGKA SIMON - JANMARDA JUKURRPA (BUSH ONION DREAMING) Sold AU$0.00 KITTY NAPANANGKA SIMON - MINA MINA JUKURRPA (MINA MINA DREAMING) Sold AU$0.00 KITTY NAPANANGKA SIMON - MINA MINA JUKURRPA (MINA MINA DREAMING) Sold AU$0.00 NEIL ERNEST TOMKINS - LOOKING AT RARRI STREET Sold AU$0.00 EX 255

Reclaimed | Art from Barkly Art Leven - 17 Thurlow St, Redfern, Gadigal, NSW 2016 November 23 - December 14 2024 Viewing Room Reclaimed | Art from Barkly Barkly Regional Artists | Opening Saturday November 23 | 3 - 5pm November 23 - December 14 2024 Art Leven - 17 Thurlow St, Redfern, Gadigal, NSW 2016 Reclaimed' features a selection of works from artists of the Barkly Tablelands, a vast expanse of 320,000 square kilometres in the Northern Territory, surrounding the cultural centre of Tennant Creek. From Wutunugurra (Epenarra) to Owairtilla (Canteen Creek), and Kulumindini (Elliott) to Tennant Creek, each artist brings their own distinctive style, yet all are unified by their own profound connections to Country, capturing the vivid blue skies, red earth, and vibrant flora of the region. 'Reclaimed' centres around an installation of paintings on discarded metal objects, remnants of the area’s mining industry. The artists transformed these items – previously only associated with the violation of their lands – into soft representations of Country, symbolic of survival and regeneration. “Originally it was just buckets, but given Tennant Creek’s history as a mining town, there are plenty of abandoned mine sites that are full of materials. That’s where we source our stuff.” Emerson Radisich, Visual Arts Director | Barkly Regional Arts The Barkly collective, representing over fifty artists from remote communities, celebrates cultural heritage and fosters unity within and across their communities. Through 'Reclaimed', we are honoured to showcase the diverse voices and talent of sixteen artists who invite us to share in the enduring beauty and significance of the Barkly Tableland Region, revealing how culture and land remain indivisible. VIEW CATALOGUE RSVP | MEET THE ARTISTS ANGES PULA RUBUNTJA - BUSH MEDICINE, SWEET POTATO price AU$4,300.00 ADA PULA BEASLEY - MY COUNTRY price AU$2,800.00 JESSIE KEMARR BEASLEY - LANDSCAPE AFTER RAIN price AU$2,600.00 ANGES PULA RUBUNTJA - ALL THE BUSH TUCKER price AU$2,400.00 DALERY PULA BREDD - BUSH MEDICINE SEEDS price AU$2,000.00 KAYE BEASLEY - BENDY FLOWERS price AU$1,800.00 KAYE BEASLEY - AFTER RAIN Sold AU$1,300.00 KAYE BEASLEY - BENDY FLOWERS price AU$950.00 JESSIE KEMARR BEASLEY - BUSH FLOWERS price AU$490.00 PAMMY KEMARR FOSTER - BUSH MEDICINE AND BUSH FLOWERS Sold AU$0.00 ADA PULA BEASLEY - MY COUNTRY Sold AU$0.00 ADA PULA BEASLEY - MY COUNTRY Sold AU$0.00 AILEEN NAPALJARRI LONG - NUNJAWARRI (BUSH POTATO) Sold AU$0.00 LORNA PWERL CORBETT - GRASSES Sold AU$0.00 RITA KEMARR BEASLEY - WUTUNUGURRA LANDSCAPE Sold AU$0.00 PAMMY KEMARR FOSTER - BUSH MEDICINE AND BUSH FLOWERS Sold AU$0.00 RITA NAPALJARRI BEASLEY - EPENERRA Sold AU$0.00 SUSIE NGWARREY PETERSON - BUSH FLOWERS Sold AU$0.00 JESSIE BEASLEY - BUSH FLOWERS Sold AU$0.00 ADA PULA BEASLEY - MY COUNTRY price AU$3,200.00 SUSIE NGWARREY PETERSON - LANDSCAPE AFTER RAIN price AU$2,800.00 JESSIE KEMARR BEASLEY - BUSH FLOWERS price AU$2,600.00 ADA PULA BEASLEY - MY COUNTRY price AU$2,200.00 DALERY PULA BREDD - BUSH MEDICINE SEEDS price AU$2,000.00 JULIE PWERL BEASLEY - BUSH MEDICINE SEEDS price AU$1,750.00 LORNA PWERL CORBETT - GRASSES price AU$1,200.00 PENNY NAPALJARRI KELLY - WUDILLA (BUSH BEAN) price AU$500.00 RITA KEMARR BEASLEY - WUTUNUGURRA LANDSCAPE price AU$440.00 PAMMY KEMARR FOSTER - BUSH FLOWERS Sold AU$0.00 GLADYS LEWIS - BUSH FLOWER Sold AU$0.00 AILEEN NAPALJARRI LONG - BUSH TOMATOES Sold AU$0.00 AILEEN NAPALJARRI LONG - NUNJAWARRI (BUSH POTATO) Sold AU$0.00 LORNA PWERL CORBETT - GRASSES Sold AU$0.00 SUSIE NGWARREY PETERSON - WUTUNUGURRA LANDSCAPE - BUSH FLOWERS Sold AU$0.00 GLADYS LEWIS - BUSH FLOWER Sold AU$0.00 LORNA PWERL CORBETT - BUSH TUCKER Sold AU$0.00 AILEEN NAPALJARRI LONG - WANAKIJI (BUSH TOMATO) Sold AU$0.00 PAMMY KEMARR FOSTER - WILDFLOWERS Sold AU$0.00 ADA PULA BEASLEY - MY COUNTRY price AU$2,800.00 JULIE PWERL BEASLEY - BUSH MEDICINE SEEDS price AU$2,800.00 ADA PULA BEASLEY - MY COUNTRY price AU$2,550.00 ANNETTE NUNGALA PETERSON - ROYAL FLYING DOCTORS SERVICE price AU$2,150.00 DALERY PULA BREDD - BUSH MEDICINE SEEDS price AU$1,800.00 AILEEN NAPALJARRI LONG - WANAKIJI (BUSH TOMATO) price AU$1,500.00 TOPSY STEPPA BEASLEY - UNTITLED price AU$1,000.00 JESSIE KEMARR BEASLEY - BUSH FLOWERS Sold AU$490.00 ANNETTE NUNGALA PETERSON - BUSH MEDICINE Sold AU$0.00 SUSIE NGWARREY PETERSON - ROCKHOLE Sold AU$0.00 ANNETTE NUNGALA PETERSON - BUSH MEDICINE IN SPRING Sold AU$0.00 AILEEN NAPALJARRI LONG - BUSH TOMATO Sold AU$0.00 AILEEN NAPALJARRI LONG - WANAKIJI (BUSH TOMATO) Sold AU$0.00 RITA KEMARR BEASLEY - WUTUNUGURRA LANDSCAPE Sold AU$0.00 TOPSY STEPPA BEASLEY - FROG HOLES Sold AU$0.00 JESSIE KEMARR BEASLEY - BUSH FLOWERS Sold AU$0.00 JOYLENE EPENARRA - BUSH MEDICINE Sold AU$0.00 JULIE PWERL BEASLEY - BUSH MEDICINE SEEDS Sold AU$0.00 PAMMY KEMARR FOSTER - WILDFLOWERS Sold AU$0.00 ExRECLAIMED