Japingka Gallery is committed to sourcing the best Indigenous Fine Art works using its vast experience and extensive industry-wide contacts. Japingka Gallery is committed to maintaining a full exhibition program that showcases to a wide audience not only established and highly recognised Indigenous Artists, but also new and emerging talent. This extensive program is conducted fully within the framework of the ART.TRADE Code of Ethics (see below). As such, all works are fully documented and guaranteed with:

• Story associated with the painting
• Artist Biography
• Signed Certificate of Authenticity

With 25 years experience in Aboriginal Arts, Japingka Gallery’s  directors have curated and presented over one hundred exhibitions of Aboriginal painting, prints and sculpture, both in Australia and internationally. Japingka Gallery opened at its present location in 1995, as an adjunct to the Aboriginal art and design company Desert Designs which began in Fremantle in 1984. The gallery site had previously been the home of Aboriginal Art centre Birukmarri Gallery which established there in 1985. Japingka Gallery is based in an historic two-storey warehouse building in the heart of the port city of Fremantle. With four hundred square metres of exhibition space and stockrooms dedicated to contemporary Aboriginal Art, Japingka Gallery provides a broad view of the artworks of indigenous communities and regions and a selected exhibition program in its first floor galleries.

Japingka Gallery  (ABN : 61 122 183 215 )
Address : 47 High Street, Fremantle, Western Australia. 6160
Tel : International (618) 9335 8265 - Australia (08) 9335 8265
Fax : International (618) 9335 8275 - Australia (08) 9335 8275
Email : japingka@iinet.net.au
Hours : Open 7 days : Mon- Sat  10am- 5:30pm, Sun 12pm to 5pm
Contact : Ian Plunkett (Sales & Marketing), David Wroth (Exhibitions)
Directors:  Ian Plunkett  and  David Wroth

I A N    P L U N K E T T

Ian Plunkett helped establish the Aboriginal design based company, Desert Designs, in Europe, and was involved in marketing Aboriginal art in London and Europe from 1989. Ian has been co-director of Japingka Gallery since 1995. He has been a founding member of the national body for Indigenous art, The Australian Indigenous Art Trade Association (ART.TRADE), and was first elected President of that organization in 2002 and re-elected in 2005/6.

Ian has an ongoing commitment to promoting not only the unique Indigenous fine art of Australian Aboriginal artists, but also the exceptional culture that is an integral part of the art.





D A V I D   W R O T H

David Wroth began working with Aboriginal artists in Western Australia in 1982. With a Bachelors Degree in Fine Art and a background in painting and printmaking, David’s early career was involved with the founding of the Indigenous Art and Design company Desert Designs in the 1980s. With the opening of Japingka Gallery in 1995 at its current location in Fremantle, David took up the role of co-director and curator of exhibitions. Being closely involved with the presentation and development of the work of many of the artists who exhibit at the gallery, David maintains a close interest in the progress of their artistic careers.