Current Exhibition

Grandkids - Gallery2 Jun 20, 2008 - Jul 30, 2008 They share high profile artistic grandparents - Paddy Bedford and Jack Dale- and they share the joy of painting the cultural and personal attributes of their Kimberley home. Petrina and Kylie Bedford live with their family at Iminji community on the Gibb River Road in the west Kimberley. Now, under the watchful eye of grandfather Jack Dale, they have prepared their second exhibition of ochre paintings to be shown at Japingka Gallery.

Nyuju Stumpy Brown - Gallery2 Jun 20, 2008 - Jul 30, 2008 Stumpy Browns boldly coloured renditions of her ceremonial country of Ngupawarlu sing out with an intensity that highlights the spiritual significance of this country to her identity as a painter and as cultural custodian. A senior Wangkatjungka law woman, Nyuju was born c1924 at Kukapanju, by Well 39 on the Canning Stock Route. When young she travelled north on the stock route to Balgo Mission and later to the Fitzroy valley. Stumpy began painting in the 1980s. Stumpys full brother was Rover Thomas. For both these distinguished artists their art is particular to Kimberley culture but with deep roots into desert culture.

Eileen Napaltjarri - Gallery1 Jun 20, 2008 - Jul 30, 2008 Pintupi artist Eileen Napaltjarri is an esteemed second generation artist of the Papunya Western Desert movement. Born in the Haasts Bluff community in 1956, Eileen moved to the new community at Kintore in the early 1980s. Eileen began painting in 1999 after her mothers death. The main subject for Eileens paintings is her father's traditional country at Tjiturrulpa, a rockhole site west of Kintore. She represents this country with rhythmical parallel and arching lines of sandhills, occasionally disrupted with openings and waterholes. Her palette of rich and vibrant colours reverberates with tonal intensity.

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Upcoming Exhibition

Watiyawanu Artists - Gallery1 Aug 8, 2008 - Sep 24, 2008 The Watiyawanu Artists and the community at Mt Liebig have historically held close ties with the Pintupi artists of the Western Desert. Shorty Lungkata, Uta Uta Tjangala, Yala Yala Gibbs, Johnny Warangkula, Mick Namarari, Billy Stockman and Long Tom Tjapanangka have all at various times lived at Mt Liebig. The community is now confirming its reputation as a major art producing centre. Its senior artists include Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri, Wentja 2 Napaltjarri, Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri and Lilly Kelly Napangardi. Younger and emerging artists also exhibit work that reflects the strong familial ties to the Western Desert art movement. This exhibition is presented in association with the Watiyawanu Artists of Amunturrngu.

Utopia Collection 2 - Gallery2 Aug 8, 2008 - Sep 24, 2008 The second part of Japingka Gallerys 2008 coverage of Utopia artists-includes work by Emily Pwerle, Galya Pwerle, Kathleen Petyarre, Gloria Petyarre, Abie Loy Kemarre and June Bird. The Utopia artists are recognised for their subtle colour and sophisticated constructs that reflect the natural world of their desert homelands. Ceremonial designs, bush foods and traditional medicine, seasonal changes to plants and country are all represented in the complex elements that underlie the best of Utopia paintings.

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