RICH PILBARA COLOURS AND WHIMSICAL SCULPTURES FROM CENTRAL AUSTRALIA

Japingka Gallery invites you to two new exhibitions.

Gallery1: Yinjaa-Barni Artists

Since their first exhibition with Japingka in 2009, the Yinjaa-Barni artists from the Pilbara region have gone from strength to strength, marking their place as one of the country's new and exciting art communities.

The artists are Yindjibarndi people from around the Millstream Tablelands. Their country spreads beyond the Fortescue River in an otherwise arid zone which features breakaway hills and stratified rock formations. The paintings touch on the great Creation stories of the Marrga, and refer to the Thalu, or Increase Sites, where the spirits of all the elements of the living world can be reinvigorated.

Gallery2: Tapatjatjaka Artists

Marie Shilling from the Titjikala community in Central Australia returns to Japingka with her brightly coloured and engagingly naïve paintings, Happy Days, depicting life as she remembers it as a child. Camel trains and donkeys, children swimming and family camps, cockatoos and kangaroos animate the colourful landscape against a backdrop of distant hills. Marie is joined by fellow painters Christabella Briscoe, Helen Katatuna and Cora Merlintju.

Johnny Young and David Wallace work in a three dimensional medium, creating whimsical sculptures of bush animals, horses and riders fashioned out of recycled materials.


The exhibitions will be opened by Dr Stefano Carboni, Director, Art Gallery of Western Australia on Friday 23rd April 2010 at 6.30pm and will remain open daily until 30th May 2010.

For further information, please contact Ian Plunkett (Gallery Director)
on (08) 9335 8265 or via email on japingka@iinet.net.au.

The exhibitions can be previewed online via the following links:
Yinjaa-Barni Artists.

Tapatjatjaka Artists.

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