WHO WHO
in collaboration with 6 - 28 September 2024
PATJU PRESLEY STANLEY X EILEEN GRAY
PATJU PRESLEY STANLEY
Ngirpanta, 2021 acrylic on canvas 85 x 110 cm
ELIEEN GRAY by ClassiCon
Tube light, 1927
25 x 25 x 104 cm
Art Leven [formerly Cooee Art] is teaming up with our neighbours, ANIBOU., celebrated destination for designer furniture and interior architects Strutt Studios, to celebrate our hyper-local node within the cultural precinct that is Redfern.
LYDIA BALBAL X MARCEL BREUER
EXHIBITION OPENING ‘BLOCK PARTY’
Sydney Contemporary external event program
ART LEVEN 17 Thurlow Street Redfern Gadigal
Friday 6 September, 4-6pm
The role of art is to reflect, grow, and shape culture. Artists and designers challenge norms and shape the cultural zeitgeist. Art and design is formed against the backdrop of their time and place.
The exhibition, WHO x WHO focuses on the convergence of Art, Design, and Living. The Art Leven galleries will be transformed into seven individual spaces, each juxtaposing important First Nations artworks and carefully selected pieces of design furniture, supplied by ANIBOU, and paired by Strutt Studios.
100 x 90 cm
S 32 V, 1929
60 x 46 x 82
LYDIA BALBAL
Martakulu, 2022
acrylic on board
Marcel Breuer By THONET GmbH
EMILY KAM KNGWARRAY X ALVAR AALTO
Widely regarded as Australia’s most important and successful First Nation’s artist, Emily Kam Kngwarray’s (Kame Kngwarreye) remarkable career lasted just 7 years until her passing at 86 years of age. The stylistic originality of her works changed almost monthly throughout this period and she extended her
influence far beyond the reach of other artists working at the time, attracting an international audience. Since her death in 1996, her renown has continued to grow through retrospective exhibitions in Australia, Japan, the United States and Europe.
EMILY KAM KNGWARRAY (KAME KNGWARREYE) Awelye (Body Paint), 1995 Acrylic on paper 77 x 52 cm
ALVAR AALTO by ARTEK Armchair 406, 1939 60 x 72 x 87 cm
DR CHRISTIAN THOMPSON AO X ALVAR AALTO
Dr. Christian Thompson’s “Untitled 7 (Pink Kangaroo Paw)” belongs to the artist’s celebrated Australian graffiti series. Prior to his departure from Australia to Europe, Thompson created this series to reflect fond memories of growing up in the outback with its desert flowers, which he perceives as delicate yet powerful. In this artwork, Thompson
combines the native flora with flamboyant clothes that were popular during his youth, highlighting the contrast between his Bidjara masculinity and the vibrant elements. By donning the garlands of native flowers, Thompson represents not only himself but also the landscape, invoking an Indigenous perspective of the land as a living and corporeal ancestral being.
DR CHRISTIAN THOMPSON AO
Untiled 7 ( Pink Kangaroo Paw) 6/10, 2008
c-type print on paper
105 x 105 cm (Framed)
ALVAR AALTO by ARTEK
Floor Light A805 “Angel Wing”, 1954
52 x 52 x 174 cm
POLY NGAL
Anwekety (Conkerberry), 2021 acrylic on linen
102 x 100 cm
Fritz Haller & Ulrich Schärer
By USM
75 x 109 x 35 cm
POLY NGAL X FRITZ HALLER & ULRICH SC ÄRER
BLAK DOUGLAS X TILLA GOLDBERG
Blak Douglas iconic imagery is seen not only on the walls of our most important institutions but those painted around our local streets. No Block Party hosted in Redfern would be complete without the presence of Blak Douglas. This work makes us confront our view of ‘Australia’ and christianity.
The Pegasus Home Desk brings order to the chaos of digital everyday life, juxtaposing high-tech aesthetics with the material qualities, feel and workmanship of the artisanal world of the leatherworker and saddle-maker. www.classicon.com
BLAK DOUGLAS Hills Wrong, 2018 acrylic on canvas 45 x 100 cm
IF GROUP/ TILLA GOLDBERG by ClassiCon Pegasus, 2014 121 x 51 x 75 cm
Who X Who
ART LEVEN X ANIBOU. X STRUTT STUDIOS
Fri 6 Sep 2024 to Sat 28 Sep 2024
17 Thurlow Street Redfern
ROOM 1
Emily Kam Kngwarray (Kame Kngwarreye) Awelye(BodyPaint), 1995 acrylic on paper #20931 77 x 52 cm
$35000
PROVENANCE
Painted in December 1995 for Rodney Gooch, Cat Nu. 31-1197 Aboriginal Dreamings Gallery, Canberra ACT Cat No. 1568 Private Collection, Canberra ACT
The National Centre of Indigenous Excellence, Redfern NSW Art Leven, Redfern Gadigal NSW
bears inscription verso: Emily Kngwarreye, painted Dec '95 Utopia N.T. Australia, signed R Gooch
The National Centre of Indigenous Excellence Art Auction, 30 June 2024, Redfern NSW
This work is representative of her later vigorous works which she executed in a rapid confident motion. Vertical stripes sear the canvas and map the body-painting used in Awelye — women’s public song ceremonies.
Despite the stylistic variations, all of Kngwarreye’s work is about one story — Alhalkere — her country, her people, her dreamings. The panels are among her boldest expressions — raw, gutsy and tough — and evoke the confidence and unique vision that characterise Kngwarreye’s short career as a contemporary Aboriginal artist.
Who X Who
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Fri 6 Sep 2024 to Sat 28 Sep 2024
17 Thurlow Street Redfern
ROOM 1
Christian Thompson
Untitled7(PinkKangarooPaw), 2008 c-type print on paper #20660
100 x 100 cm; 105 x 105 cm (framed) 6/10 $11000
PROVENANCE
Chalkhouse Gallery, NSW, Cat No. chct0800 6/10 Private Collection, Vic Art Leven, Redfern Gadigal NSW
Dr. Christian Thompson's "Untitled 7 (Pink Kangaroo Paw)" belongs to his celebrated Australian graffiti series. Prior to his departure from Australia to Europe, Thompson created this series to reflect fond memories of growing up in the outback with its desert flowers, which he perceives as delicate yet powerful. In this artwork, Thompson combines the native flora with flamboyant clothes that were popular during his youth, highlighting the contrast between his Bidjara masculinity and the vibrant elements. By donning the garlands of native flowers, Thompson represents not only himself but also the landscape, invoking an Indigenous perspective of the land as a living and corporeal ancestral being.
Who X Who
ART
LEVEN X ANIBOU. X STRUTT STUDIOS
Fri 6 Sep 2024 to Sat 28 Sep 2024
17 Thurlow Street Redfern
ROOM 2
Sally Scales
282–24AS, 2024
acrylic on corflute 'Vote YES' 2023 Referendum sign #20930
90 x 60 cm; 93 x 63 cm framed $5000
PROVENANCE
APY Studio Adelaide, SA Cat No. 282–24AS N. Smith Gallery, Sydney NSW
The National Centre of Indigenous Excellence, Redfern NSW Art Leven, Redfern Gadigal NSW
Sally Scales: Ngayuku Manta Ngayuku Wangka, N. Smith Gallery, Sydney, May 2024
The National Centre of Indigenous Excellence Art Auction, 30 June 2024, Redfern NSW
A proud Pitjantjatjara woman from far west of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in South Australia, Sally Scales creates energetic landscapes that represent her ancestral home and tjukurpa. She plays an active leadership role in the Uluru Dialogue and is a member of the National Gallery of Australia Council and Chair of its First Nations Advisory Group. She won the People's Choice Award at the 2021 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA).
Artist Statement from 'Ngayuku Manta Ngayuku Wangka', N. Smith Gallery, Sydney, May 2024: These works on the VOTE YES corflutes are a love letter to everyone that stood with us last year. So thank you all.
It’s full of works filled with emotions dealing with the hurt, sadness that First Nations people were feeling after October 14. The more I painted and dealt with what happened. I painted the love and hope that 6.2 millions Australia that voted yes with us.
I painted the love and hope and drive I saw and felt with Aunty Pat Anderson and Megan Davis, during the last 7 years of getting
Who X Who
ART
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Fri 6 Sep 2024 to Sat 28 Sep 2024
17 Thurlow Street Redfern
the Uluṟu statement to the referendum. Turning the maybes into yes, sitting in tough conversations and stepping it through and all the time staying true to the Uluṟu Statement.
I painted the love, strength and ambition of my elders and leaders, whom after all the negativity of the last year are still ambition and courageous to strive for more for our remote and regional communities. Because everyone deserves a safe space to work especially woman.'
ART LEVEN X ANIBOU. X STRUTT STUDIOS
Fri 6 Sep 2024 to Sat 28 Sep 2024
17 Thurlow Street Redfern
ROOM 2
Attributed to Yuwun Yuwun Marruwarr Untitled(Djarrka-Goanna), c.1965 ochre on bark #20197 84 x 34 cm $1500
PROVENANCE
Injalak Arts, Gunbalanya NT Cat No. OE02/MR11 Private Collection, NSW Art Leven, Redfern Gadigal NSW
Djarrka is a freshwater goanna that can be found in small inland creeks and it feeds on small crabs and yabbies. People hunt this goanna for food and they can be very delicious to eat, like other meats you can find around and in the creek.
Djarrka is a Dhuwa water goanna and it plays a big part in some ceremonies. In nearly all Liyagawumirr Dhuwa ceremony like Djungguwan, Ngulmarrk, and Liyagalawumirr Ngarra, Djarrka is represented. In this work, Gudthaykudthay has used a strong rarrk design in the background and on the goanna bodies to show how goannas camouflage themselves against the native landscape.
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Fri 6 Sep 2024 to Sat 28 Sep 2024
17 Thurlow Street Redfern
Shirley Banalanydju Pandanas Mat, 2023 Gunga (Pandanus Spiralis) and natural dyes #20275 55 cm dia (interior woven section) $980
PROVENANCE
Bula'Bula Arts, NT Cat No: 138-23 Art Leven, Redfern Gadigal NSW
Traditionally, Nganiyal (conical mats) were used as an insect screen when erected, and as a sitting mat when folded. They are used in Ceremony as well as a functional item. Nowadays, artists weave many different shapes including flat, round and oblong.
ROOM 2
Who X Who
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Fri 6 Sep 2024 to Sat 28 Sep 2024
17 Thurlow Street Redfern
ROOM 3
Patju Presley Ngirpanta, 2021 acrylic on linen #20928 85 x 110 cm
$12000
PROVENANCE
Spinifex Arts Project, WA Cat No. SAPPP21-265 Aboriginal & Pacific Art, Sydney NSW
The National Centre of Indigenous Excellence, Redfern NSW Art Leven, Redfern Gadigal NSW
The National Centre of Indigenous Excellence Art Auction, 30 June 2024, Redfern NSW
Patju Presley is a senior Pitjantjatjara law man within the Tjuntjuntjara community. Since he began painting for Spinifex Arts Project in 2014, critical acclaim for his work has grown, and he is now included in the collections of all major Australian institutions. As curator Henry F. Skerritt notes: “We have seen an artist pushing the picture plane and using delicate undulations of colour and form to merge and weave the sections of his paintings. As these sliding tectonic plates of colour nudge, they shimmer and slide beneath each other in such unexpected and paradoxical ways that one is often left wondering if it was some kind of magic trick.”
Patju Presley paints with such a spiritual confidence, as someone who knows their place in the Creation, often singing the associated songs of particular sites whilst rhythmically placing his myriad of dots.” — Spinifex Arts Project
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Fri 6 Sep 2024 to Sat 28 Sep 2024
17 Thurlow Street Redfern
ROOM 3
Danie Mellor
Trunk Shield, 2003 steel and varnish #20825 102 x 45 cm
$5000
PROVENANCE
Fireworks Gallery, Qld Cat No. 7354 Lawson~Menzies, Sydney, NSW, May 2007, Lot No. 98 Menzies Estate Collection, Vic Art Leven, Redfern Gadigal NSW
Accompanied by the certificate of authenticity from Fireworks gallery
"What have you done lately...? Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane, Qld, 2004 Entry Points, Fireworks gallery, Brisbane, Qld, 2004
Born in Mackay, Queensland, Danie Mellor is a versatile artist whose creative repertoire encompasses sculpture, photography, printmaking, and drawing.
In this Trunk Shield, Mellor utilises reclaimed metal sourced from the base of a vintage travelling trunk as a potent metaphor to convey the displacement experienced by his great-grandmother, a member of the Mamu/Ngadjonji people. The gradual deterioration of the shield's metal surface serves as a poignant allusion to the erosion of traditional Indigenous culture over time, a consequence of the influence and intervention of Christian missionaries.
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Who X Who
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Fri 6 Sep 2024 to Sat 28 Sep 2024
17 Thurlow Street Redfern
ROOM 3
Blak Douglas Hill'sWrong, 2018 acrylic on canvas #16848 45 x 100 cm
$5000
PROVENANCE
Direct from the artist, Gadigal NSW Art Leven, Redfern Gadigal NSW
"An elder once informed me - 'Son, there are three types of people in this world... those who can count, and those who can't'. Now I failed in mathematics dismally but I knew there was something deceitful when it comes to economics. Let me rephrase that... anyone who dons a grey suit, is on a Government payroll and deals with figures.
'How fast are you going now' is classically exemplary of that first solo exhibition. A stylised 'speed sign' but with the numeral 230 reflecting the years of the establishment of the colony. And that fact that, after such a period of time, we're STILL busting our arses to cap the inherent xenophobic monoculture that is persistently fertilised by wannabe Lebanese cowboys like Bob Katter. 'The Katter Grid' & 'Screamsland' may not immediately find a home on his walls but surely at least one Four X swishing, ute mustering, 'RM Williams' equipped QLD bogan would see the parody in these pieces. 'When in drought, ship out' is a pun / play on words re. a prevalent golfing adage - 'when in doubt, chip out'. In other words, don't try to be the hero and perform a miracle shot when behind a tree. In this painting, we see isolated Spoon Billed birds stranded from their wetlands whilst there be a 'no drinking' sign aside the road." Artist Statement Blak Douglas, 2018
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Fri 6 Sep 2024 to Sat 28 Sep 2024
17 Thurlow Street Redfern
ROOM 4
Lydia Balbal
Martakulu, 2022
acrylic on board #20929
100 x 90 cm
$5000
PROVENANCE
Short St Gallery, Broome WA Cat No. 841374
The National Centre of Indigenous Excellence, Redfern NSW Art Leven, Redfern Gadigal NSW
The National Centre of Indigenous Excellence Art Auction, 30 June 2024, Redfern NSW
Lydia Balbal's country is near Punmu in the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia. When threatened by severe drought in the early 1970s her people had little choice but to leave their traditional country in the desert and move further toward the coast. They settled at the Old La Grange Mission on the coast which is now called Bidyadanga. The community is located two hours south of Broome. Balbal first began painting in 2007 when Daniel Walbidi and Emily Rohr initiated the Yulpara artists group, and as time passed and many of the older artists passed away, her skill as a painter and her consequent reputation grew, gaining her significant attention amongst collectors. Her work has been exhibited widely, including in solo exhibitions at IDAIA in Paris, Short St Gallery in Broome, Outstation Gallery in Darwin and William Mora Galleries in Melbourne. Her works are included in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Australia and the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection at the University of Virginia.
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Fri 6 Sep 2024 to Sat 28 Sep 2024
17 Thurlow Street Redfern
ROOM 4
Joshua Bonson
SKIN: My Totem, 2023
Synthetic Polymer Paint on Canvas #20685 126 x 96 cm $5500
PROVENANCE
Direct from the artist, Darwin, NT Art Leven, Redfern Gadigal NSW
Ancestors Footsteps, December 2023, Cooee Art Leven
Skin – Koedal, alludes to my people and totem, The Saltwater Crocodile and Saltwater People. Camouflage, Culture and Texture intertwin creating a patterned network of interconnecting scales. Bold directional and expressive markings, build the richly textured painting, playing with a precision of curves and sophistication recreating the armoured skin of the reptile.
Built-up serrations of paint applied by hand work on different levels; it can be read as a close up of the reptile’s skin, as a landscape both seen from a distance and close-up details of rocks and sand.
Painting allows me the freedom to explore an idea, an impulse, providing a constant source of wonder, each with its own unique pattern inspired through passion and emotion emerging from my Heritage.
I become part of these vigorous abstractions on my personal journey of discovery, motivated to create great art with visual appeal and aesthetic power and its capacity to communicate, share and create a response in the viewer.
Skin Koedal, a work that is Contemporary in appearance yet embodies age-old Indigenous traditions. I am a man of the Saltwater; a Crocodile; Proud of my Heritage. Joshua Bonson
Who X Who
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Fri 6 Sep 2024 to Sat 28 Sep 2024
17 Thurlow Street Redfern
ROOM 5
Dorothy Napangardi Mina Mina, 2003
Synthetic Polymer Paint on Belgian Linen #20770 122 x 198 cm $45000
PROVENANCE
signed and inscribed verso: Dorothy/ DOROTHY NAPANGARDI/ 7544DN
Gallery Gondwana, NT Cat No. 7544DN Vivien Anderson Gallery, Vic Private Collection, Vic Lawson-Menzies, Sydney, NSW, May 2007, Lot No. 77 Menzies Estate Collection, Vic Art Leven, Redfern Gadigal NSW
Accompanied by the certificate of authenticity from Gallery Gondwana
Dorothy Napangardi's paintings trace the travels of her female ancestors, the Karnta Kulangu, toward the east as they danced their way through the Mina Mina salt pans, Spinifex, and sand hills.
The lines of white dots represent the salt encrustations which form patterns on the mud flats mimicking the ebb and flow of their movement through this shimmering landscape.
Dorothy Napangardi was the winner of the 18th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award in 2001 and in 2002 her solo exhibition Dancing Up Country was held at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art.
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Fri 6 Sep 2024 to Sat 28 Sep 2024
17 Thurlow Street Redfern
ROOM 5
Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Gabori Sally Dibirdibi-Topway, 2007 acrylic on canvas #20244 135 x 91 cm $20000
PROVENANCE
Mornington Island Arts, Qld Cat. No 7/6/C/SG/0107 Private Collection, ACT Art Leven, Redfern Gadigal NSW
"This is my father's country on Bentinck Island"
Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori first picked up a paint brush in 2005 at 81 years of age. The Lardil people in the Kaiadilt community had little exposure to fine art, or any comparable form of mark-making, prior to that time. Traditional tools, objects, or bodies were scarcely painted, and the only recorded art that relates these stories was a group of drawings made at the request of ethnologist Norman B Tindale during his expedition to Bentinck Island in 1960, now housed in the South Australian Museum. Her paintings are essentially concerned with meaningful sites, known through the artist's intimate association during a lifetime spent on Bentinck Island. These sites are associated with tidal movement, seasonal change, major climatic events such as drought, and flood, and the presence of plants, sea birds, animals, and aquatic life. Gabori was mindful of the ebb and flow of life over all the seasons that made up her long life. As Djon Mundine eloquently put it. 'Her works can be thought of as a memory walk, and a mapping of her physical and social memory of Bentinck Island'.*
* Djon Mundine, The Road to Bentinck Island: Sally Gabori, in The Corrigan Collection of Paintings by Sally Gabori, Macmillan Art Publishing, Melbourne, 2015
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Fri 6 Sep 2024 to Sat 28 Sep 2024
17 Thurlow Street Redfern
ROOM 6
Djirrirra Wunungmurra Yukuwa(BushYam), 2020 Natural Earth Pigments on Bark #18735 162 x 55 cm $5400
PROVENANCE
Buku Larrngay Arts, NT Art Leven, Redfern Gadigal NSW
Yukuwa is one of the personal names of the artist and Yukuwa is the topic of this work. Almost a self-portrait.
This piece is a reference to Yirritja renewal ceremony which is by definition a shared communion of Yirritja moiety clans which does not relate to circumcision or mortuary rites.
Spirits of deceased people are on a cyclical journey from their point of death to the reservoir of souls particular to their clan identity. But at these irregular ceremonies they all congregate for one last dance together before heading their separate ways.
There are relationships between Yirritja moiety clans that are renewed through Yukuwa ceremony at particular sites which relate to the ritual exchange of sacred objects, song and dance. Yukuwa is a yam whose annual reappearance is a metaphor for the increase and renewal of the people and their land.
Traditionally the invitation to such a ceremony is presented as an object in the form of a yam with strings emanating from it with feathered flowers at the end. This is a suggestion of the kinship lines which tie groups together.
The site referred to in this piece is in the area between Gangan and the sea known as Balambala described as the next river from
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Fri 6 Sep 2024 to Sat 28 Sep 2024
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Gangan.
This is a cleared area which is an ancient ceremonial site at which special men’s ceremony involving both larrakitj (or Dhan’parrbark coffin) and special yidaki occurred. An ancient hero known as Burruluburrulu danced here. It is described as a meeting place for Dhalwangu, top Madarrpa (Dholpuyngu) and Munyuku.
These ‘renewal’ ceremonies in Yolngu law occur irregularly when the time is right. They are independent of the funeral, circumcision and age grading ceremonies that occur all the time.
They are held at specific natural clearings within the general Stringybark forest that covers most of Arnhem land. The documentation of a different work detailing the Garma site at Gulkula (which is another of these sites) says as follows;
“This piece and the Festival and site itself flag reference to a class of Yirritja renewal ceremony which is by definition a shared communion of Yirritja moiety clans which does not relate to circumcision or mortuary rites.
There are relationships between Yirritja moiety clans that are renewed through Yukuwa ceremony at particular sites which relate to the ritual exchange of sacred objects, song and dance. Yukuwa is a yam whose annual reappearance is a metaphor for the increase and renewal of the people and their land.
ART LEVEN X ANIBOU. X STRUTT STUDIOS
Fri 6 Sep 2024 to Sat 28 Sep 2024
17 Thurlow Street Redfern
ROOM 6
Wawiriya Burton
Ngayukungura-MyCountry, 2020 synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen #20873 200 x 120 cm $18000
PROVENANCE
Tjala Arts, Amata, SA, cat no. 194-20 Olsen Gallery, NSW Private Collection, SA Art Leven, Redfern Gadigal NSW
Kunmanara (Wawiriya) Burton, PALUMPA NGURA MUNU TJUKURPA: HER COUNTRY AND STORIES, 6 - 23 October 2021, OLSEN SYDNEY
Waririya is telling the story of her country near Piplatjatjara, west of Amata. It depicts minyma mingkiri tjuta meaning many small female desert mice. The mingkiri are pregnant and give birth to many babies. They then journey to the surrounding rockholes in search of food and water to feed their young. The dotted lines are mingkiri tracks. This work depicts a Women’s site near an important rockhole, near Tjukurla. The soft roundels represent the rockholes as well as a ceremonial site. The lines represent sandhills.
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Fri 6 Sep 2024 to Sat 28 Sep 2024
17 Thurlow Street Redfern
ROOM 7
Adrian Jangala Robertson Yalpirakinu, 2021 acrylic on canvas #19226
50 x 101 cm
$3300
PROVENANCE
Bindi Mwerre Anthurre Artists, NT Cat No. 102-21 Art Leven, Redfern Gadigal NSW
Beautiful Art Made Proper Way, January 2022, Cooee Art Redfern
Jangala was born at Papunya in 1962. He went to school in Papunya and remembers Geoff Bardon as a school teacher and working alongside the early Western Desert painters.
His father, Jampitjinpas’ country travels from west of Walungurru through Karku at Nyirrpi, and on to Warlurkurlangu at Yuendumu. Jangala’s mother is Eunice Napangardi, a well known painter herself. It is her country, Yalpirakinu, that Jangala paints.
Jangala joined Mwerre Anthurre Artists in 2002. He is a landscape painter and uses predominantly a restricted palette. His paintings consistently refer to the desert mountains, ridges and trees which are part of Yalpirakinu. His brushwork is loaded with energy, drama and memories. He is a deliberate and thoughtful painter; reworking, pushing and pulling the image to completion. ART
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Fri 6 Sep 2024 to Sat 28 Sep 2024
17 Thurlow Street Redfern
ROOM 7
Poly Ngal
Anwekety(Conkerberry), 2021 acrylic on linen #19954 102 x 100 cm
$6600
PROVENANCE
Utopia Art Centre, NT Cat No. 167-21 Art Leven, Redfern Gadigal NSW
Poly Ngal was one of the most senior custodians of her country, Aparra, in the heart of Utopia Northern Territory. Her artistic career began in the late 1970s when she, like many of the women in Utopia, began working with silk batik before venturing into works on canvas. She shared her country and the Arnwetky (Bush Plum) Dreaming with her sisters Kathleen and Angeline. Ngal created her paintings through extensive overdotting in which she built up layers of colour in vibrant depiction's of her country.
The anwekety is a sweet black berry accessible only a few weeks in the year. The berries are collect and stored until dried, then they are soaked in water before consumed. The plant on which the berry grows is a tangled, spiny shrub that can grow up to two meters high. After rain fragrant white flowers bloom. The orange inner bark from the roots can be soaked in water and the resultant solutions can be used as a medicinal wash, favoured for skin and eye conditions.
In this work, Poly paints the fragrant flower in white and uses orange to depict the inner bark from the roots used medicinally. Gradually and deliberately she piles dots upon each other to create a rich, thick field with a glowing palette of colour.
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