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Aubrey Tjangala Chantelle Nampijinpa Rober tson Charlie Tjapangati Dhuwarrarr Marika Dulcie Nanala Genevieve Kemarr Loy Helen S. Tiernan Jacob Karumapuli Stengle Jorna Newberry Joshua Bonson Junjun Jill Jack Kitty Napanangka Simon Langaliki Lewis Mabel Wiringgoon Juli Ngoia Pollard Napaljarri Rosie Tarku King Tommy May Ngarralja Ursula Napangardi Marks Yalti Napangati Yimula Munungurr

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20|20 20 artists from all over Australia painting in 2020 28 November - 19 December 2020 Opening | 28 November 2020 2-4pm Cooee Art Paddington 326 Oxford Street Paddington NSW 2021 Aubrey Tjangala Chantelle Nampijinpa Rober tson Charlie Tjapangati Dhuwarrarr Marika Dulcie Nanala Genevieve Kemarr Loy Helen S. Tiernan Jacob Karumapuli Stengle Jorna Newberry Joshua Bonson Junjun Jill Jack Kitty Napanangka Simon Langaliki Lewis Mabel Wiringgoon Juli Ngoia Pollard Napaljarri Rosie Tarku King Tommy May Ngarralja Ursula Napangardi Marks Yalti Napangati Yimula Munungurr

Inside Front Cover Image Jorna Newberry | Women’s Ceremony (detail) | 2020 synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen | 66 x 71 cm | #18475 Inside Back Cover Image Rosie Tarku King | My Country (detail) | 2020 synthetic polymer paint on paper | 56 x 75 cm | #18712

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Cover (Back) Image Jorna Newberry | Women’s Ceremony (detail) | 2020 synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen | 66 x 71 cm | #18477

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20|20 ARTISTS Aubrey Tjangala Chantelle Nampijinpa Rober tson Charlie Tjapangati Dhuwarrarr Marika Dulcie Nanala Genevieve Kemarr Loy Helen S. Tiernan Jacob Karumapuli Stengle Jorna Newberry Joshua Bonson Junjun Jill Jack Kitty Napanangka Simon Langaliki Lewis Mabel Wiringgoon Juli Ngoia Pollard Napaljarri Rosie Tarku King Tommy May Ngarralja Ursula Napangardi Marks Yalti Napangati Yimula Munungurr

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Dulcie Nanala in studio credit | Balgo Art

20|20 Sam Ramsden

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 notfor-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, Warmun Art Centre in Warmun as well as some of our represented artists 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

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Hindsight is 20|20. Following a year of adversity, hibernation and resilience we all aspire to reprioritise in the hope of a more meaningful and purposeful future.

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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.

PROVENANCE Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs NT

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Aubrey Tjangala Tingari | 2020 synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen | 91 x 91 cm #18757

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PROVENANCE Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs NT

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Yalti Napangati Marrapint - Womens Site | 2020 synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen | 122 x 122 cm #18753

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Charlie Tjapangati Tingari | 2020 synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen | 91 x 61 cm #18755 PROVENANCE Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs NT

PROVENANCE Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs NT

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Ngoia Pollard Napaljarri Father’s Country | 2020 synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen | 122 x 61 cm #18754

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Chantelle Nampijinpa Robertson Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming) - Puyurru | 2020 synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen | 122 x 46 cm #18784 PROVENANCE Warlukurlangu Artists, Yuendumu NT

PROVENANCE Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills WA

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Dulcie Nanala Karlyapilyira | 2020 acrylic on canvas | 91.5 x 61 cm #18765

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Joshua Bonson Ocean Shades | 2020 synthetic polymer paint on canvas | 160 x 120 cm #18653 PROVENANCE Direct from Artist, Darwin NT

PROVENANCE Laurraine Diggins Fine Art, Vic via Utopia

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Genevieve Kemarr Loy Akwerlkerrmwerlkerr - Bush Turkey Dreaming | 2020 synthetic polymer paint on linen | 120 x 120 cm #18850

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Helen S. Tiernan As Above So Below 2 | 2020 oil on canvas | 150 x 90 cm #18732 PROVENANCE Direct from Artist, Canberra ACT

PROVENANCE Direct from Artist, Adelaide SA

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Jacob Karumapuli Stengle Untitled | 2020 oil on Belgian linen | 76 x 76 cm #18676

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Jorna Newberry Ngintaka - Perentie | 2020 synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen | 66 x 71 cm #18476 PROVENANCE Yanda Art, Alice Springs NT

PROVENANCE Ernabella Arts, Pukatja SA

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Langaliki Lewis Ngayuku Ngura | 2020 synthetic polymer paint on canvas | 91 x 150 cm #18771

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Junjun Jill Jack Untitled | 2020 synthetic polymer paint on canvas | 60 x 60 cm #18763

Junjun Jill Jack Untitled | 2020 synthetic polymer paint on canvas | 90 x 90 cm #18764

PROVENANCE Mangkaja Arts, Fitzroy Crossing WA

PROVENANCE Mangkaja Arts, Fitzroy Crossing WA

Tommy May Ngarralja Jilji and Bila | 2020 synthetic polymer paint on canvas | 60 x 60 cm #18710

PROVENANCE Mangkaja Arts, Fitzroy Crossing WA

PROVENANCE Mangkaja Arts, Fitzroy Crossing WA

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Rosie Tarku King My Country | 2020 synthetic polymer paint on canvas | 77 x 101 cm #18759

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Kitty Napanangka Simon Mina Mina Dreaming | 2020 synthetic polymer paint on canvas | 120 x 90 cm #18845 PROVENANCE Warnayaka Art Centre, Lajamanu NT

PROVENANCE Warnayaka Art Centre, Lajamanu NT

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Ursula Napangardi Marks Bush Potato Dreaming Yarla Jurkurrpa | 2020 synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen | 40 x 30 cm #18846

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PROVENANCE Warmun Art Centre, Warmun WA

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Mabel Wiringgoon Juli Darrajayin | 2020 natural earth pigments on canvas | 100 x 120 cm #18847

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Dhuwarrwarr Marika Yalanbara | 2020 natural earth pigments on bark 152 x 66 cm | #18839

Dhuwarrwarr Marika Yalanbara | 2020 natural earth pigments on bark 136 x 70 cm | #18838

PROVENANCE Buku Larrngay Arts, Yirrkala NT

PROVENANCE Buku Larrngay Arts, Yirrkala NT

Yimula Munungurr Djapu - Larraktji (hollow log) | 2020 natural earth pigments on holow log 164 x 13 cm | #18842

PROVENANCE Buku Larrngay Arts, Yirrkala NT

PROVENANCE Buku Larrngay Arts, Yirrkala NT

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Yimula Munungurr Djapu | 2020 natural earth pigments on bark 105 x 27 cm | #18841

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