Current Exhibition

Desert Rains - Wangkatjungka Artists - Gallery1 May 15, 2009 - Jun 24, 2009 Early season rains began falling as the artists set out to paint for their exhibition, and everyone's minds began to wander to their ancestral country. Is the rain reaching deep into their country, filling the waterholes? Is their country healthy or ailing? Most of the Wangkatjungka artists have been living away from their country for nearly sixty years. As exiles from their Great Sandy Desert homelands, the old people revisit it in their thoughts and in their paintings. Will their country to be soaked in water and bursting forth in green? A sense of rejuvenation and great exuberance emerged from this intense interaction between artist and memory resulting in a number of vividly coloured collaborative and individual artworks.

Yinjaa-Barni Artists - Gallery2 May 15, 2009 - Jun 24, 2009 The Yinjaa-Barni Artists group from Roebourne in Western Australia's Pilbara district have been exhibiting together for several years. Their paintings emerge with a clear regional voice as they depict the stories and landscapes that are particular to their own area of the north west coast of the continent.

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Upcoming Exhibition

Spinifex Artists 2009 - Gallery1 Jul 25, 2009 - Aug 26, 2009 In conjunction with Spinifex Arts Project, Japingka Gallery is pleased to present new works from the artists of Tjuntjuntjara community. This is one of Western Australia's most remote townships, located in the Great Victorian Desert, and accessed via 660 kilometres of dirt roads to the east of Kalgoorlie. The community has traditional links to lands affected by the Maralinga atomic testing programme, and has settled back on their country in recent decades. Native title rights were granted in 2001 to an area of 55,000 square kilometres. The community closely manages the country under its stewardship, with regular trips into locations lead by custodians and elders. The paintings reflect with great strength and colour the custodial and kinship ties that bind the people and the land.

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