2023 Revealed Exhibition Catalogue: New & Emerging WA Aboriginal Artists

Fremantle Arts Centre is situated at Walyalup on Whadjuk Nyoongar Boodjar.

We acknowledge the Whadjuk people as the Traditional Owners and custodians of these lands and waterways and extend our respect to their Elders, past and present.

We offer our heartfelt gratitude to the Whadjuk community and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who continue to care for Country and share their knowledge – this generosity and wisdom helps us to understand and navigate Country safely and respectfully.

Cover image: Stephanie Yukenbarrie, Winpurpurla 2023, acrylic on linen, 61x45.7, Image courtesy the artist and Warlayirti Artists

Fremantle Arts Centre

1 Finnerty Street, Fremantle, WA 9432 9555 | fac.org.au

All details are correct at the time of printing.

6 may—23 july 2023 fremantle arts centre

new and emerging wa aboriginal artists

is presented by FAC with the support of the WA State Government through the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries; and the Australian Government through the Indigenous Visual Arts Industry Support Program.

INTRODUCTION

Presented by Fremantle Arts Centre, Revealed 2023 showcases the creative works of emerging Aboriginal artists from across Western Australia at varying stages of their lives. The Revealed program provides a unique glimpse into Western Australian Aboriginal arts practice from young people exploring photography and film to older people who have recently started painting their Country. In 2023, the program includes an exhibition, an arts market, public programs and professional development for Aboriginal artists and arts workers.

The 2023 Revealed Exhibition showcases the works of over 100 emerging Aboriginal artists from Western Australian remote and regional art centres, as well as independent Aboriginal artists from across WA, including Boorloo | Perth and the South West.

Open to all Aboriginal artists living in WA, artists are selected by a panel of industry experts. This year’s selection panel comprised of Ron Bradfield (Bardi Peoples), Sharyn Egan (Whadjuk Nyoongar Peoples), Jessyca Hutchens (Palyku Peoples) and Glenn Iseger-Pilkington (Nhanda & Nyoongar Peoples).

Exhibiting artists have created exciting new works that span a breadth of styles and mediums including painting, textiles, lens-based practices, carving and sculpture.

All works of art in the exhibition are for sale to the public, with sales supporting the continuation of dynamic creative practices across our vast state.

Revealed is a celebration of First Peoples – of Country, culture and community, and importantly, it is an invitation to learn more about the recent, ancient and enduring stories of the places we call home.

Revealed is an initiative of the WA State Government through the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries; and the Australian Government through the Indigenous Visual Arts Industry Support program.

EXHIBITING ARTISTS 2023

1 BIDYADANGA ARTISTS

Bidyadanga Community

Bibianna Tumbler

Edward Badal

Venetta Yanawana

2 CHEEDITHA ART GROUP

leramagadu | Roebourne

Kaye Warrie

Maisie Indji

Wendy Warrie

Sharon Warrie

3 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Whadjuk Nyoongar Boodjar

4 JULUWARLU ART GROUP

Ngurrawaana | Ieramagadu

Ava Christopher

Judith Coppin

June (Moonie) Djiagween

Margaret Read

5 KIRA KIRO ARTISTS

Kalumburu

Claude Waanamal

Mowaljarlai

Cynthia Yurawalla Clement

Joshua Unghango

6 KU’ARLU MANGGA (GOOD NEST)

Mooniemia | Northampton

Colleen Drage

Jaylise Drage

Kane Clifton

Leanne Peck

Marika Gilla

7 LANGFORD ABORIGINAL ASSOCIATION

Whadjuk Noongar Boodjar

Moorditj Yoka Women’s Group

8 MARTUMILI ARTISTS

Newman servicing

Martu Country

Corina Jadai

Jenny Butt

Marlene Anderson

Mary Larry

Wilson Mandijalu

Terrence Headland

9 MARUKU ARTS

Warakurna Community Ngaanyatjarra Lands

Cynthia Burke

Lena Dawson

10 MINYMA KUTJARA

ARTS PROJECT

Irrunytju | Wingellina Community, Ngaanyatjarra Lands

Elaine Jones

Noelene Anyapa Peterman

11 MOWANJUM ARTS & CULTURAL CENTRE

Mowanjum Community

Kallum Mungulu

Leah Umbagai

Cecilia Umbagai

12 NAGULA JARNDU DESIGNS

Rubibi | Broome

Cecilia Tigan

Dena Gower

Connie Clinch

Sherena Bin Hitam

13 NINUKU ARTS

Kalka & Pipalyatjara

Communities

Angela Watson

Angkaliya Nelson

Margaret Donegan

Renae Fox

Rowena Nelson

14 NOONGAR ARTS PROGRAM

Goomburrup | Bunbury

Dawn Alone

Janine Wallam

Maya Hume

15 PAPULANKUTJA ARTISTS

Aboriginal Corporation Papulankutja Community

Anawari Mitchell

Jennifer Nginyaka Mitchell

Marcia Mitchell

Sharon Doolan

16 SPINIFEX ARTS PROJECT

Tjuntjuntjara Community

Michael Hogan

Milpa – Mara Wangkapai

Project

Women’s Collaborative

Project – Nancy Donegan, Pamela Hogan, Kendrea

Hogan, Kunmanara Walker and Donna Brown

17 SPINIFEX HILL STUDIO

Marapikurrinya |

South Hedland

Maisie Ward Nungurrayi

Donovan Jungala Brown

18 TJANPI DESERT WEAVERS

Warakurna, Mantamaru, Papulankutja Communities

across Ngaanyatjarra Lands

Anawari Mitchell

Cessara Butler

Janet Forbes

Lalla West

Madeline Jackson

Maimie Butler

Marcia Mitchell

Ningbell Lyons

Olive Yalpinyka Lawson

Paula Sarkaway Lyons

Phillipa Smyth

Sunnette Lyons

19 TJARLIRLI ART

Tjukurla Community

Ngaanyatjarra Lands

Adam Butler

Carol Giles

Elaine James

Jade Butler

Kennedy Edimintja

Nola Bennett

20 TJUKURBA ART GALLERY

Wiluna

Patricia Corlett

21 WARINGARRI ARTS

Goonoonoorrang | Kununurra

Cathy Marawuk Binbirridj

Ward

22 WARLAYIRTI ARTISTS

Wirrimanu Community | Balgo

Clinton Samson Scobie

Jane Gimme

Leah Nanala

Renita Brown

Stephanie Yukenbarrie

23 WARMUN ART CENTRE

Warmun Community

Eileen Joomena Bray

Evelyn Malgil

Patrick Mung Mung

Shailyn Mosquito Peris

Tatum Rivers-Purdie

24 WIRNDA BARNA

ART CENTRE

Warramboo | Mt Magnet

Darren Ryder

25 YAMAJI ART

Jambinu | Geraldton

Raharna Peterson

Ciara Mourambine

26 INDEPENDENT ARTISTS

Nyoongar Boodjar

Darryl Dempster

Emily Rose

Enid Kickett

J.D Penangke

Kayley Emery

Mandy White

Michael Banks

Peter Farmer Jnr

Valerie Woods

Wendy Jean Hayden

Whitton Park

Zali Morgan

27 INDEPENDENT ARTIST

Undalup | Busselton

Shannon Clohessy

28 INDEPENDENT ARTIST

Southwest Boojarah

Candy Riley

29 INDEPENDENT ARTIST

Dumbleyung

Diahan Riley

30 INDEPENDENT ARTIST

Wyndham

Bianca Long

31 INDEPENDENT ARTIST

Irrunytju | Wingellina

Community, Ngaanyatjarra

Lands

Diane Dawson

32 INDEPENDENT ARTIST

Tom Price

Gail Cox

This map shows where artists live and work. For cultural information please refer to the artwork information in this catalogue.

We acknowledge that the spelling and interpretation of Indigenous language can vary greatly from community to community.

Image courtesy: Bidyadanga Artists

BIDYADANGA ARTISTS

Bidyadanga Artists are based in Bidyadanga Aboriginal Community (La Grange) on the Kimberley coast of Western Australia, 1590 km from the capital city of Perth and 180 km from Broome. The recognised traditional owners of the land are the Karajarri people.

ARTISTS

Bibianna Tumbler

Edward Badal

Venetta Yanawana

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Bidyadanga is the largest remote Aboriginal community in Western Australia with a population of approximately 850 residents and is home to the Karajarri, Juwalinny, Mangala, Nyungamarta and Yulpartja language groups.

Rich in history, art and culture and with a developing economy, Bidyadanga has many community facilities and infrastructure to support community's people. Bidyadanga Artists is a place where all five tribes can paint their stories. The word Bidyadanga comes from a word for "emu watering hole" (pijarta or bidyada)

ARTISTS

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BIBIANNA TUMBLER

BORN La Grange

LIVES AND

WORKS

Bidyadanga

LANGUAGE GROUP / PEOPLE Juwaliny

SKIN GROUP Panaka

“What inspired me the most is the way the old people used to tell me stories about their Country and their family background. When they used to paint, they used the colours to represent the land, seas, flowers, animals and other things.”

Bibianna Tumbler Canning Stock Route Area, 2023 acrylic on canvas $1600 REV23-2

Bibianna Tumbler

Wildflowers in Wili, 2022 acrylic on canvas

$820

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EDWARD BADAL

LIVES & WORKS Bidyadanga

LANGUAGE GROUP Nyangamarta

SKIN GROUP Milangka

“I like painting, it’s about culture, land and people. Sometimes I go out with the rangers to look after Country and sometimes it heals all of us being out on Country. The painting I do is sand dunes and claypans and I use colours that represent the desert. My mother’s mother is Nyangumarta and my father’s side is Mangala. My grandmother from Mangala side, she was born in the Desert Country. She grew me up in the old camp here in Bidyadanga.”

Nyangumarta Warran, 2023

acrylic on canvas

$1480

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Nyangumarta Warran, 2023

acrylic on canvas

$1480

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Clapping Sticks, 2023

carved Mulga wood (Acacia aneura)

$250

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Clapping Sticks, 2023

carved Mulga wood (Acacia aneura)

$250

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Digging Stick, 2023

carved Mulga wood (Acacia aneura)

$300

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Clapping Sticks, 2023

carved Mulga wood (Acacia aneura)

$250

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VENETTA YANAWANA

BORN 1988

LIVES & WORKS Bidyadanga

LANGUAGE GROUP Nyangamarta, Mangala

SKIN GROUP Purungu

“I feel that painting is a way I can express myself. I like painting because it is interesting to try new colours. I first started to paint after I left school. It’s something that I like doing.”

Nyagumrata Country, 2023 acrylic on canvas $1480 REV23-9

Warlayarta, 2023 acrylic on canvas

$2400 REV23-10

Sharon Warrie, Melting Pot (detail)

CHEEDITHA ART GROUP

Art making in leramagadu | Roebourne originated with members of the Cheeditha Community.

In 2002, the Bujee nhoor-pu project was set up in the historic Galbraith Store at Cossack for production and sales of artworks. The success of the Bujee nhoor-pu project spread to the broader community of Roebourne and artists went on to form other art groups and although Bujee nhoor-pu faded, the art legacy remains.

The revitalised Cheeditha Art Group carries on the commitment of those early artists and many of those practicing are relatives of the founders. Over half of each sale goes directly to the artist with the balance going to Cheeditha Art Group to support new projects and build the livelihoods of residents.

ARTISTS

Kaye Warrie

Maisie Indji

Wendy Warrie

Sharon Warrie

KAYE WARRIE

BORN 1970, Roebourne LIVES & WORKS Cheeditha Community LANGUAGE GROUP Yindjibarndi

Kaye has been painting for 15 years and is now embarking on an independent art career. While continuing to paint, Kaye is exploring other mediums to keep her stories and culture alive. Her artworks feature the Dreamtime story of the Seven Sisters and the land, the colours she sees in the Country. Her mother used to take them out on Country, showing and telling the stories of the marks on the land. The Thurlawirdingbirding (Sturt Pea) features often in her work, drawing on the strong childhood memory of her mother giving the children the flowers to suck out the sweetness.

Melting Pot, 2023 glass $280 REV23-11

MAISIE INDJI

Maisie’s works are about the ocean and rivers because she loves the colours. She paints the colours of the Country out near Millstream where there are many sacred waterholes. She includes the bush plants that are important to health and healing. “You can get a lot of fruit from the plants.”

BORN 1964, Roebourne LIVES & WORKS Cheeditha Community LANGUAGE GROUP Yindjibarndi

Melting Pot, 2023 glass $280 REV23-13

Melting Pot, 2023 glass $1200 REV23-12

WENDY WARRIE

BORN 1970, Roebourne LIVES & WORKS Cheeditha Community LANGUAGE GROUP Yindjibarndi, Kariyarra

Wendy has been painting since 2001 and is now forging an independent art career. While continuing to paint, Wendy is exploring other mediums to keep her stories and culture alive. Her artwork focuses on the creation story of the Yindjibarndi people. The Barrimirndi (Rainbow Serpent), from the time when the land was soft, his journey inland formed the Fortescue River and made the country hard. The flooding rivers feature in Wendy’s artwork, the rough water where the tide comes in and meets the flooded rivers.

Melting Pot, 2023 glass $1200 REV23-14

Melting Pot, 2023 glass $280 REV23-15

SHARON WARRIE

BORN 1974, Roebourne

LIVES & WORKS Cheeditha Community

LANGUAGE GROUP Yindjibarndi, Kariyarra

Sharon has been painting since the Bujee Nhoorr-Pu Art Group were painting at Cossack. She paints the dreamtime stories about the land and the Country. She focuses on Millstream and the waterholes along the Fortescue River. The Barrimirndi story, which explains how the Rainbow Serpent created the Fortescue River, is an important story for the Yindjibarndi people and it often appears in Sharon’s artworks. Her work also features the Yindjibarndi brand symbol and her strong ochre colours reflect those colours used in body painting for ceremony.

Melting Pot, 2023 glass $1200

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Melting Pot, 2023 glass

$280

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

A selection of works that feature in the year’s Revealed Exhibition come from artists who are also prisoners, undertaking tertiary courses in contemporary art, facilitated through the Department of Justice and other tertiary education providers.

Creative practices within the prison system offer many positive benefits, from purely educational and recreational benefits, to expressing their identities, hopes, dreams and concerns. Art making is an important mode of cultural and creative expression, but also has benefits in the rehabilitation of incarcerated artists.

Participation in the creative process offers prisoners more than simple education and recreation. The production of artworks can be an important component in their rehabilitation as it allows them space for creativity and personal development. This can help prisoners to reframe their identity in positive ways.

Through participation in art programs, from informal activities, units in Certificate II Visual Arts and Tertiary studies prisoners can gain skills and positively express themselves and their culture. This contributes to structured and productive days for offenders in custody, and enhances opportunities for employment, progress, and a law-abiding lifestyle on release. Art classes are often a gateway for prisoners who have low literacy levels or limited educational engagement. Many prisoners are initially drawn to the art room and from there progress to other more formal learning. Participation in arts activities is the greatest opportunity for cultural participation in a prison context. It provides a link with culture, family, and country, as well as positive opportunities to express emotions, a sense of autonomy, belonging and creativity.

NYUNGAR ARTIST

BORN Ballardong Wyalkatchem LIVES & WORKS Whadjuk/Perth LANGUAGE GROUP Nyungar

"I like to create my art as it provides an escape from the stresses of life. When I paint, I am totally in the zone and focused only on the work I am creating. I often paint late into the night when things are quiet, there are few disturbances, and I can totally concentrate. I like to paint from the natural world of my people the Nyungar People of Western Australia. My goal is to have my own studio and to be able to make a living as an artist. I would also like to someday be able to teach others the techniques I have learned."

Always Was Always Will Be

Nyungar Boodjar, 2023

acrylic on canvas

$650

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Old man emu, 2022 acrylic on canvas $1500 REV23-22

MINANG/ALBANY ARTIST

BORN Wilman / Tambellup (Grandfather’s Country)

LIVES & WORKS Minang/Albany

LANGUAGE GROUP Noongar

SKIN GROUP Minang/Albany

"I’m painting in memory of my son. Painting gives me some peace, some calm. I believe I’m reconnecting and honouring my ancestors in my country with my painting. I came to painting later in life, only a few years ago when I lost my son. I discovered skills I never imagined. Now I’m getting confident, wanting to show the world through my eyes – how I’m feeling through the expression of paint. I like using bright colours, blending and watching the images form. When I’m not painting, I’m thinking about painting."

Noongar Country

Great Southern, 2022

acrylic on canvas

$450

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Wagyl Dreaming II, 2022 acrylic on canvas $850 REV23-19

Wagyl Dreaming II, 2022 acrylic on canvas $850 REV23-20

Image courtesy: Juluwarlu Art Group

JULUWARLU ART GROUP

Juluwarlu Art Group was established in 2016 in response to requests from members of the Yindjibarndi community who saw the potential of art as a way of further sharing and protecting Yindjibarndi stories, culture and language.

Juluwarlu Art Group now provides significant support and services to 15 artists, offering opportunities for skills development and enabling them to share their artworks and stories with a wider audience, thereby earning an income while expressing, maintaining, and celebrating Yindjibarndi culture. While predominantly working within the practice of acrylic painting on canvas, Juluwarlu artists have become known for their diverse art practices,

which also include carved yarranga marni boards and scratchboards, wooden artefacts, fibre works, jewellery, and works on paper.

Juluwarlu is an Aboriginal owned and operated organisation that works from the ancestral homeland of the artists, Yindjibarndi Country, surrounded by the nearby Millstream Tablelands and Fortescue River area.

Juluwarlu also have a permanent studio space at Goolugatup Heathcote, so artists can travel to and work on Whadjuk Country, and where Juluwarlu products inspired by artworks, are designed and developed for sale.

ARTISTS

Ava Christopher

Judith Coppin

June (Moonie)

Djiagween

Margaret Read

AVA CHRISTOPHER

BORN 2004

LIVES & WORKS Ngurrawaana/Ieramagadu

LANGUAGE GROUP Yindjibarndi

Ava is a young 18 year old Yabuara/Yindjibarndi women who lives and works in Boorloo, Western Australia. Ava is the granddaughter of Juluwarlu artist Margaret Read and is a self-taught artist.

Dreamtime Dancing, 2023

acrylic on board

$300 REV23-23

Dreamtime Dancing, 2023

acrylic on board

$300 REV23-24

JUDITH COPPIN

BORN 1957

LIVES & WORKS Ngurrawaana/Ieramagadu

LANGUAGE GROUP Yindjibarndi

SKIN GROUP Burungu

Judith is a Yindjibarndi Elder and cultural custodian, highly respected artist and community worker. Since 2010, Judith has been creating acrylic paintings on canvas. In the past three years she has extended her art practice to her beautiful yarranga marni (carved boards). Judith’s artworks are intricately constructed, bold and deeply cultural, evolving from her passionate love of her Ngurra (Country) and creation stories from Ngurra Nyujunggamu (when the world was soft).

Yinjibarndi Munda, 2023

acrylic on canvas

$1900

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JUNE (MOONIE) DJIAGWEEN

BORN 1973

LIVES & WORKS Ngurrawaana/Ieramagadu

LANGUAGE GROUP Yindjibarndi

June expresses her love for Country and ancestral Dream stories through painting acrylic and ochres on canvas. She draws her strength and inspirations from all four ancestor tribes deep in her blood with historical stories. From earth, sky, rivers, trees, plants, oceans, islands, animals, spirits, seasons, creation time to connection to Country bound by Aboriginal sacred laws and culture.

$2600

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Jellyfish Dreaming, 2022 acrylic on canvas

MARGARET READ

BORN 1955–2023

LIVED & WORKED Ngurrawaana/Ieramagadu

LANGUAGE GROUP Yindjibarndi

SKIN GROUP Burungu

Margaret was a Yindjibarndi Elder and cultural custodian and community worker who began painting in 2017. She said her Ngurra (Country) and culture are essential to Yindjibarndi wellbeing.

“When I paint, I think of my Ngurra (Yindjibarndi Country) and how it is so deep in me. Everything that is important comes from the Ngurra Nyujunggamu – the creation times that we call the time when the world was soft. There are so many spiritual connections between all living things and the world of Yindjibarndi people. This is what I put in my paintings.”

Wild

$180

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Native

$800

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Wild

$1100

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Flower series, 2022 acrylic on canvas

Flower series, 2022 acrylic on canvas

Wildflowers and Fruit, 2021 acrylic on canvas

KIRA KIRO ARTISTS

Kira Kiro Artists is the community recognised art centre on the land of the Kwini people in Kalumburu, the northernmost community in Western Australia.

Art practice is grounded in the rock art tradition, particularly the Wandjina and Kira Kiro or Gwion Gwion figures. Artists paint with natural ochre pigments on canvas, papers and bark and are also skilled boab nut engravers. The art centre places an emphasis on supporting traditional skills such as bark harvesting and painting, the collection of local olmal (white ochre), the production of cultural artefacts and storytelling through contemporary works.

Kira Kiro Artists was established in 2009 with ongoing assistance and co-management by Waringarri Aboriginal Arts.

ARTISTS

Claude Waanamal Mowaljarlai

Cynthia Yurawalla Clement

Joshua Unghango

CLAUDE WAANAMAL MOWALJARLAI

BORN 1983, Derby LIVES & WORKS Kalumburu

LANGUAGE GROUP Malgana

Born in Derby, Claude learned to paint by watching his father David Mowaljarlai, a senior traditional lawman of the Ngarinyin people in the West Kimberley. Claude follows a long line of artists who are keeping their culture alive through art. Claude attended art college in Perth and has painted for most of his life. His paintings display cultural beliefs, incorporating various incarnations of Wandjina, a powerful Rain Maker spirit associated with the north-west region of the Kimberley. His paintings feature Rimijmurra, a powerful Wandjina whose exploits as a thief are part of his identity: he used to take from the other Wandjina when they were hunting or fishing.

Wandjina Wallungunder, 2023 natural ochre and pigment on canvas

$450

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Wandjina Wallungunder, 2023 natural ochre and pigment on canvas

$220

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Wandjina Wallungunder, 2023 natural ochre and pigment on canvas $220 REV23-32

CYNTHIA YURAWALLA CLEMENT

BORN 1973, Wyndam

LIVES & WORKS Nyul Nyul Country, Kalumburu

LANGUAGE GROUP Kwini

Cindy was born in Wyndham and grew up in Kalumburu. Her mother, Mary Punchi Clement, encouraged Cindy to paint and she has been producing work on a regular basis since 2010. She has worked at the Kalumburu Mission, the Uraro store and the Kalumburu school. Cindy is a mother and grandmother, caring for her five children and two grandchildren. The artist enjoys painting the flora of the region as passed onto her by her mother.

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Warrgali, 2023 natural ochre and pigments on canvas $180

pigments

Saltwater Paperbark, 2023 natural ochre and pigments on canvas

$180 REV23-34

Bloodwood Tree, 2023 natural ochre and pigments on canvas

$750 REV23-35

JOSHUA UNGHANGO

BORN 1986, Kalumburu

LIVES & WORKS Kalumburu

LANGUAGE GROUP Kwini, Balangarri

Joshua is a Kwini Balangarri man and has lived in Kalumburu all of his life. Joshua has started painting later in life, but when he was young would watch the old people paint and learn from them.

Joshua paints Wandjina (rain maker spirit ancestors) and Kira Kiro (Kwini spiritual figures). The stories he paints brings back memories from when he was small and he would visit the rock art from around Kalumburu.

Joshua says “painting brings luck in life.”

Kira Kiro Elders Teaching, 2022

natural ochre and pigments on canvas

$350

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$350

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Wandjina – Kira Kiro asking for help with hunting, 2022 natural ochre and pigments on canvas

Image courtesy: Ku'arlu Mangga

KU’ARLU MANGGA (GOOD NEST)

A small and innovative art centre on Yamatji country (Mooniemia | NorthamptonKalbarri), Ku’arlu Mangga is best known for intergenerational, community art projects, sharing Nhanda culture, such as Message Sticks and Kaju Yatka (Skywalk) public art installations. It has also launched a range of textiles, opened a gallery and invested in printmaking skills with a range of techniques.

Ku’arlu Mangga is Nhanda for “Good Nest”. Its projects reach beyond the Art Centre.

ARTISTS

Colleen Drage

Jaylise Drage

Kane Clifton

Leanne Peck

Marrika Gilla

COLLEEN DRAGE

BORN 1958, Mooniemia/Northampton

LIVES & WORKS Mooniemia/Northampton

LANGUAGE GROUP Nhanda & Naaguja

Colleen Drage lives and works in Northampton, on Yamatji Country. She is a senior Nhanda woman and cultural leader in the community. She has a strong cultural background from her early life on Murchison House Station, with many memories and stories from aunties and uncles and particularly her father. Her artwork celebrates these memories and connection to Country.

Colleen says of this artwork, “As a child I used to collect quandongs on Nhanda Country for my Mum. As we collected quandongs, goanna used to be at the base of the tree, scratching around for quandong as well. We ate goanna and quandong.”

Where the River Meets the Ocean, 2022 oil based ink on 250gsm rag paper

Edition: 1/5 (framed)

$650

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Editions: 2–5/5 (unframed)

$400

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Coolcoolya Quandong Goannas, 2022 oil based ink on 250gsm rag paper

Edition: 1/5 (framed)

$600

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Editions: 2–5/5 (unframed)

$350

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JAYLISE DRAGE

BORN 2000, Geraldton

LIVES & WORKS Mooniemia/Northampton

LANGUAGE GROUP Nhanda/Wadjarri

“This print is about how I connected with the elders, my Nana and Pops. Nana showed her water holes and springs. At first I wasn’t sure about it. Nana went to the first spring and drank straight from her hand, the beautiful fresh water. I wouldn’t drink it til the elders filled a plastic water bottle up. Then I tasted it, and after that all us kids had a taste from our hands. Now I’m learning a lot about the bush and the rocks and everything. When I make my prints, it helps me remember what I’m learning.”

Rock Holes and Springs, 2023 oil based ink on 250gsm rag paper

Edition: 1/5 (framed)

$345

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Editions: 2–5/5 (unframed)

$150

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KANE CLIFTON

BORN 2003, Broome

LIVES & WORKS Mooniemia/Northampton

LANGUAGE GROUP Nhanda/Wadjarri/NyulNyul

“All the years we’ve come back from Broome for Mum to work in the School Holiday program at Ku’arlu Mangga, we make these amazing journeys from Broome, and then finally into Nhanda and Wadjarri Country. The goannas are almost a landmark. When we go out on Country, they are there watching us. Sometimes we see each other.”

Kurrajong Seed Pod, 2023 oil based ink on 250gsm rag paper

Edition: 1/5 (framed)

$300

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Editions: 2–5/5 (unframed)

$150

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Banksia, 2023 oil based ink on 250gsm rag paper

Edition: 1/5 (framed)

$300

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Editions: 2–5/5 (unframed)

$150

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Edition: 1/5 (framed)

$370

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Editions: 2–5/5 (unframed)

$150

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Goanna on Rock, 2022 oil based ink on 250gsm rag paper

LEANNE PECK

BORN 1974, Carnarvon LIVES & WORKS Mooniemia/Northampton LANGUAGE

GROUP Nhanda

Leanne Peck is a foundation artist of the Ku’arlu Mangga Aboriginal Art Centre. Peck grew up in Wiluna and she often uses recycled and found objects in her works. Since 2015, she has been developing her painting and printmaking practice with Ku’arlu Mangga.

Goanna, 2022 oil based ink on 250gsm rag paper

Edition: 1/5 (framed)

$715

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Editions: 2–5/5 (unframed)

$350

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Collecting Honey Ants, 2023 oil based ink on 250gsm rag paper

Edition: 1/5 (framed)

$525

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Editions: 2–5/5 (unframed)

$250

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Gallery 1st State, 2023

transparency ink on 250gsm paper

Edition: 1/5 (framed)

$240

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Editions: 2–5/5 (unframed)

$90

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Gallery 2nd State, 2023

transparency ink on 250gsm paper

Edition: 1/5 (framed)

$280

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Editions: 2–5/5 (unframed)

$120

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Gallery 3rd State, 2023 transparency ink on 250gsm paper

Edition: 1/5 (framed)

$280

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Editions: 2–5/5 (unframed)

$120

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MARRIKA GILLA

BORN 1998, Geraldton LIVES & WORKS Perth/Northampton LANGUAGE GROUP Nhanda/Wadjarri

Marrika is a proud Nhanda/Wadjarri woman developing her own multimedia art practice, celebrating family stories and cultural heritage. Marrika has been a long term youth participant in the Ku’arlu Mangga program that connects youth with elders on Country, and encourages creative expression in the art studios with Colleen and Mauretta Drage.

“My work explores emotions, and identity, living urban life like any modern young woman and also learning culture and wanting cultural futures. My art work helps me express what I experience and find my balance with it. I like to share whimsical work as well, inspired by the world around us; raindrops, rainbows, stars and flowers find their way into my work.”

$345

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Goannas and Seven Sisters, 2022 watercolour monotype on 250gsm paper

Image courtesy: Langford Aboriginal Association –Moorditj Yorga Group

LANGFORD ABORIGINAL ASSOCIATION

Langford Aboriginal Association Inc (LAA) is a not for profit, Aboriginal community-controlled organisation.

The establishment of LAA in 2000 was the vision of several local Noongar families. These families saw a gap in the services being provided to Aboriginal community members in Langford and the surrounding suburbs. It was identified that there was a need for a place to call their own, a meeting place and a welcoming environment to carry out activities identified by the community.

Currently, LAA delivers programs such as the Art and Yarning Group, Noongar Language (Beginners and Advanced), MyTime for Mums and Bubs, Moorditj Moort, Moorditj Yorga Womens Group, Moorditj Koorlungka Kaadadjiny program for school students, youth and parents, Indigenous Youth Connecting to Country program and a Men's Shed.

ARTISTS

Moorditj Yorga

Women’s Group

MOORDITJ YORGA WOMEN’S GROUP

wardakadak, yoka, maaman, yeyinang moort wer koorlangka, wambadiny-ak

“The idea for the canvas art books was to remember our past, our family and our stories. Our journey with pictures, storytelling and art — an individual journey for each person but done together, bringing past to present presentation.

Created by painting on canvas, printing photos, printing art, creating photo collages via iron on prints and written legacy on each profile. Each booklet evolved into its own work of art.”

Bringing Past to Present, 2023

mixed media on canvas paper

Not for sale

Image courtesy: Martumili Artists

MARTUMILI ARTISTS

Martumili Artists was established by Martu people living in the communities of Parnpajinya (Newman), Jigalong, Parnngurr, Punmu, Kunawarritji, Irrungadji and Warralong. The artists and their families are the traditional custodians of vast stretches of the Great Sandy, Little Sandy and Gibson Deserts as well as the Karlamilyi (Rudall River) area. Martumili draws on the strong influence of Aboriginal art history and practice across a range of styles and mediums.

ARTISTS

Corina Jadai

Jenny Butt

Marlene Anderson

Mary Larry

Wilson Mandijalu

Terrence Headland

CORINA JADAI

BORN 1983, Broome

LIVES & WORKS Bidyadanga

LANGUAGE GROUP Mangala

SKIN GROUP Karimarra

“I am learning about painting from Martu Elders. I am learning about my grandmother’s story, about living in the desert and going to the sea. Mostly I am learning about Kulyakartu. My main colours are ocean colours and desert colours. I grew up in Bidyadanga but I travel up and down, Hedland out to Parnngurr. Back to Country trips with KJ (local ranger group, Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa). I hope my paintings teach me new things and help the young ones learn.”

Untitled, 2022 acrylic on arches paper $350 REV23-98

JENNY BUTT

BORN 1981, Bidyadanga

LIVES & WORKS Bidyadanga

LANGUAGE GROUP Martu Wangka

SKIN GROUP Karimarra

“I grew up in Bidgy (Bidyadanga Community) with old people that came from the desert. We lived in old camp, that’s the area which now they call Udilla street in Bidgy, with my dad and my aunties. They never spoke English or couldn’t understand any English. But they taught me a lot about bush life and told me a lot of stories about themselves and also they took good care of me. I started doing painting in Bidgy at Tafe. I started painting patterns about the colour of the ocean and the sand and the land, growing up near the beach.”

Water meets the land, 2022 acrylic on canvas

$265

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Water meets the land, 2022 acrylic on canvas

$450

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MARLENE ANDERSON

BORN 1974, near Wiluna LIVES & WORKS Jigalong

LANGUAGE GROUP Manyjilyjarra

SKIN GROUP Purungu

“I paint all the different colours I see out in Country. I like to paint about all the bush foods and wildflowers. We go out getting honey ants and bush potatoes from the ground and bush bananas on a tree, hunting for goanna. I work with KJ (local ranger group, Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa), take the kids out Country, out in the bush. ‘Kids on Country’ we call it. When they go out and see the countryside and the bush, makes them feel a bit happy and like they want to go out more and more. I help take them out to track a goanna, take them right up to the hole and they dig it out.

It’s important for them to learn the traditions from their old people so they can be proud of themselves.”

$1325

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Mungili Rock Holes, 2022 acrylic on linen

MARY LARRY

BORN 1988, Alice Springs

LIVES & WORKS Kiwirrkurra

LANGUAGE GROUP Luritja

SKIN GROUP Napaljarri

“My grandpa was the one to tell me all the stories of the land, he’s from the other side, Kiwirrkurra. Right near the border of NT there’s a rock hole right west of the border. I like painting doing the rock holes and the big swamp near my grandfather’s Country. Lots of bush tuckers there: goanna, blue tongue and bush banana, bush coconut, too much.”

$200 REV23-102

$335

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Bush Tucker, 2022 acrylic on canvas

Bush Tucker, 2022 acrylic on canvas

WILSON MANDIJALU

BORN 1985, Broome

LIVES & WORKS Bidyadanga

LANGUAGE GROUP Manyjilyjarra

SKIN GROUP Karimarra

“All the grandparents, old people were painting. I would sit down and watch them paint. I was thinking that I could do painting like them. I paint mainly Country-desert area, Kulyakartu.”

Kulyakartu, 2022

acrylic on canvas

$1110

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Untitled, 2022

acrylic on canvas

$560 REV23-105

TERRENCE HEADLAND

BORN 1982, Boorloo | Perth

LIVES & WORKS Newman

LANGUAGE GROUP Yamatji, Noongar

“I was born in Boorloo | Perth to a Yamatji mother and a Noongar father. I’ve come to Newman to meet family up here, to learn my history and about my family history. I’ve felt peace of mind since moving here. I like painting birds, I see birds in different places and paint them when I like them.”

$230

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$395

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Zebra finch at waterhole, 2022 acrylic on canvas

Night Parrot, 2022 acrylic on canvas

Image courtesy: Maruku Artists

MARUKU ARTS

Maruku Arts meaning ‘belonging to black’ is owned and operated by Anangu people from the Western and Central Deserts of Australia. As one of the largest art centres, approximately 500 Anangu artists are part of the collective. Artists at Maruku are particularly well known for their punu (living wood) – expertly carved wooden objects. Maruku aims to share knowledge with future generations of artists and make culture accessible in an authentic way for those that seek a more in-depth understanding. Traditional punu- making has been passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years. Punu are not made only as artefacts, but as living expressions of Country.

For the Revealed Exhibition, two Minyma Yarnangu women from the Ngaanyatjarra speaking Western Desert area handcrafted sleek and contemporary wooden sculptures. They carry the story of Minyma Kutjara and of Cynthia Burke’s Kapi Tjukurla. These works showcase simple and sophisticated use of materials, textures, and burned etching.

ARTISTS

Cynthia Burke

Lena Dawson

CYNTHIA BURKE

BORN c.1973 LIVES & WORKS Warakurna LANGUAGE GROUP Ngaanyatjarra

Cynthia Burke was born in Alice Springs and grew up in the central desert of Western Australia. She carries on the traditions of the Tjukurpa, the Law and way of life governing her Country.

In this work, Cynthia employs the technique of Walka, traditional desert design which is inextricably linked with Tjukurpa: the law and way of life of Yarnangu (Western Desert Aboriginal people). The symbols were traditonally used in cave, ground, and body paintings, in storytelling, teaching and signalling inheritance.

“I learned burning by watching my mother and other family members. I enjoy the burning process and how my designs grow on the wood.

The sculpture represents the story of water. After the rain, the water flows in the creeks and fills the waterholes. In the old days, Yarnangu walked around from waterhole to waterhole to survive and by doing so, followed the ancestral tracks.

I like to represent and remember this on my sculptures. My work represents the trees that lead us the way to find the water and the water is within them and around them, even if we can’t see it, their roots will still touch it.”

Kapi Punungka | Water in the Wood, 2023 Muur-muurpa | Desert Bloodwood

$850

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Kapi Punungka | Water in the Wood, 2023

Muur-muurpa | Desert

Bloodwood

$2800

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LENA DAWSON

BORN 1965

LIVES & WORKS Warakurna

LANGUAGE GROUP Ngaanyatjarra

Lena carves alongside her good friend Cynthia Burke and has been passed down the knowledge of Country and Tjukurpa from the old people.

In this work, Lena has used the form of the piti, a traditional woman’s carrying vessel, to create a sculpture that also relates to the Minyama Kutjara. The work features walka, patterns burnt into the wood with wire heated on a wood fire, relating to Tjukurpa, stories about the creation ancestors and the activities which shaped the land.

$3200

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Minyma Kutjara | The Two Women, 2023 Muur-muurpa | Desert Bloodwood

In Minyma Kutjara | The Two Women, Lena depicts the two women who travelled the artist’s lands during the creation period, hunting and adventuring along the way and forming many aspects of the landscape. They also left behind information still used today about the important rituals and work of women. Lena has etched what is like a map that only she and other people of this Country can read, with information necessary to hunt and survive coded into the landscape.

$1600

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Minyma Kutjara | The Two Women, 2023 Muur-muurpa | Desert Bloodwood

Image courtesy: Minyma Kutjara Arts Project

MINYMA KUTJARA ARTS PROJECT IRRUNYTJU |

Minyma Kutjara Arts Project was initiated by the people and artists of Irrunytu. Irrunytju, or Wingellina Community is a small, very remote community located 10 kilometres from the tristate border of Western Australia, Northern Territory and South Australia. Established in 1975, Irrunytju is part of the Ngaanyatjarra Lands and is home to over 150 Anangu (people) who primarily speak Pitjantjatjara language. The Minyma Kutjara Arts Project is a centre for dynamic and culturally important artwork which brings together contemporary painting techniques and media with ancient visual language and Tjukurpa (Dreaming).

ARTISTS

Elaine Jones

Noelene Anyapa Peterman

ELAINE JONES

BORN 1974, Wiluna

LANGUAGE GROUP Marntilajarra

Minyma Kutjara (two women) is one of the most important women’s creation stories of the Western and Southern deserts and a special story for Irrunytju. It tells the story of the difficult journey of two sisters who travelled throughout these vast lands. The story is one that has been told many times through dance and painting. The places where the sisters travelled and rested can be traced through the desert, their actions often created landmarks, rock-holes and mountain ranges. Near Irrunytju the sisters sat on two hills and made hair belts in preparation for important women’s business. They threw their wana (digging stick) creating the rockhole here.

acrylic on canvas

$550

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acrylic on canvas

$550

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Bush Medicine, 2023

Minyma Kutjara, 2023

LIVES & WORKS Irrunytju Community

NOELENE ANYAPA PETERMAN

BORN 1987, Alice Springs

LIVES & WORKS Irrunytju Community

LANGUAGE GROUP Pitjantjatjara

Noelene is one of the youngest artists in the Minyma Kutjara Arts Project. Her paintings explore abstract ideas through colour and shape.

Minyma Kutjara, 2023 acrylic on canvas $550 REV23-112

Minyma Kutjara, 2023 acrylic on canvas $400 REV23-110

Minyma Kutjara, 2022 acrylic on canvas $180 REV23-111

Image courtesy: Mowanjum Arts & Cultural Centre

MOWANJUM ARTS & CULTURAL CENTRE

Mowanjum Aboriginal Art and Culture Centre represents the Wandjina-Unguud people of the Woddordda, Ngarinyin and Wunumbal language groups. They are united by their belief in the Wandjina as a sacred spiritual force and creators of their traditional lands. The centre hosts exhibitions and workshops, incorporates a commercial gallery and state of the art museum and holds the annual Mowanjum Festival celebrating Junba (traditional song and dance).

From December 2022 to January 2023, floodwaters from Ex-Tropical Cyclone Ellie caused significant impacts on the lives of people living and working across the Kimberley Region of Western Australia.

These floods impacted Aboriginal artists and art centres across the region. Given these circumstances, Fremantle Arts Centre has worked with art centres to ensure visibility in this year’s Revealed Exhibition, through the occasional inclusion of works by established and senior artists.

ARTISTS

Kallum Mungulu

Leah Umbagai

Cecilia Umbagai

KALLUM MUNGULU

BORN 1996, Derby

LIVES & WORKS Mowanjum community

LANGUAGE GROUP Nyikina, Worrorra, Ngarinyin

(identifies with all of the Mowanjum tribes)

At the age of 16, Kallum moved to Freshwater Cove where he became interested in painting. He began life there working as a tour guide through the sacred sites. Here, his grandfather Donny Woolagoodja taught him everything about the Wandjina, his people, his culture and art. The cultural and artistic knowledge that Kallum gained over time helped him develop his own unique style that encompassed painting the three Wandjina along with Dumbi the owl. Not only is Kallum a talented artist, he is also a singer songwriter for The Krui3ers. And is a master totem maker for the Junba at Mowanjum Festival. He often paints while travelling up the coast and writes lyrics and music that explore his culture, history and Country.

$500

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Wandjina Rainmaker, 2023 acrylic on canvas

LEAH UMBAGAI

BORN 1974, Derby

LIVES & WORKS Mowanjum community LANGUAGE GROUP Woddorddaa

Leah’s paintings reflect her relationships, clan, Country and her dreaming. “I dream when I am in my Country,” she says. “In my dreams, my grandfather and grandmother give me a song or dance, but I say “no I want to paint.” I believe the spirits show you things through dreams. I often dream what I paint.” Leah’s totem is the freshwater barramundi. Leah explains, “It belongs to the story about Ungud (the snake). In traditional storytelling, ungud is given to the father or grandfather through dreams or as a living animal to the parent. When the child dies the spirit returns to the animal. What is taken by the earth is given back.” Leah combines her two cultures through an amalgamation of techniques, including painting with ochre on canvas, slate or bark.

Dambeena, 2023 linocut – ink on paper $800 REV23-114

CECILIA UMBAGAI

BORN Derby

LIVES & WORKS Mowanjum community

Cecilia has been painting for as long as she can remember. She loves to draw the yam due to its unique shape and look. Her bold and dynamic mark-making demonstrates her unique style and ability to bring new life to ancient stories.

Yams 1 and 2, 2023 linocut – ink on paper $950 REV23-115

LANGUAGE GROUP Worrorra

Image courtesy: Ngula Jarndu Designs

NAGULA JARNDU DESIGNS

Nagula Jarndu (Saltwater Woman) began over 25 years ago as a place for first nations women to come together to preserve cultural knowledge. It has evolved to become a women’s art centre with a focus on contemporary hand printed textiles. The women artists come from all over WA and each bring their own cultural knowledge that they record and share through their art.

ARTISTS

Cecilia Tigan

Dena Gower

Connie Clinch

Sherena Bin Hitam

CECILIA TIGAN

BORN 1978, Noongar Country-Perth

LIVES & WORKS Yawuru Country-Broome

LANGUAGE GROUP Bardi Jawi

Cecilia is a Bardi woman who grew up in Djarindin | Lombadina Community, 220 kilometres north of Broome. She learnt local knowledge of land and sea, capturing stories of the past and present through her elders and family. Cecilia, her husband and family now live permanently on Yawuru Country, Broome. Cecilia loves to capture imagery from her Bardi Jawi Country in her art. She draws on her cultural knowledge of important sea and ocean life. Cecilia has painted acrylic on canvas and is now discovering the technique of block printing.

Aambarn (stingray) surfaces from jiindidibaalgoon (whirlpool), 2023 linoprint on paper

$480

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Aambarn (stingray) surfaces from jiindidibaalgoon (whirlpool), 2023 block printed fabric

$480

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DENA GOWER

BORN 1966, Whadjuk Country-Subiaco

LIVES & WORKS Yawuru Country-Broome

LANGUAGE GROUP Noongar

Dena was born on Whadjuk Country (Subiaco) and grew up on Wilman Country in Narrogin. An integral part of her upbringing was to respect elders, live, love and care for Country, all of which she practices today. Her family continue to live through Noongar Boodja and remain strong and resilient. Dena’s artworks depict the land, plants, trees, animals and spirit women.

Mullets feasting, 2023 block printed fabric

$480

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$480

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Joolgie (freshwater crayfish), 2023 block printed fabric

CONNIE CLINCH

BORN Whadjuk Country-Subiaco

LIVES & WORKS Yawuru Country-Broome

LANGUAGE GROUP Noongar-Yamatji

Connie grew up in Perth, on Whadjuk Noongar Boodjar. She loved the river life and Noongar Country. She moved to Broome on Yawuru Country with her husband and young family of four early in 2023, joining her mother’s family. Connie practiced digital art design and acrylic on canvas and wall murals whilst living in Perth. Since moving to Broome, Connie has expressed an interest in printmaking. She is new to this medium and is enjoying learning more about it and expressing her ideas in a different form.

Sea paths, 2023

linoprint on paper

$380

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Land paths, 2023 linoprint on paper

SHERENA BIN HITAM

BORN 1967, Yawuru Country-Broome

LIVES & WORKS Yawuru Country-Broome

LANGUAGE GROUP Yawuru, Bardi Jawi

My heritage is the strongest when I have close connections to Country and culture. Everything I see or do, I record it in my ‘art’ memory; to draw, replicate and interpret it through art and at the same time, tell my story. It is always bringing happy, sad and memorable feelings to the surface. Wherever I go, I see the rich Country, color, character, history and a feeling of the old people in their special places. As a mature Aboriginal woman living in both ‘worlds’, I have so much lived-experience, but I’m always trying to understand more about myself, the stories told, family, history, seasons, hunting and gathering. I still have more to learn about how we can keep this balance.

$480

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Biinkar (moonlight turtle), 2023 block printed fabric

Elders Knowledge, 2023 block printed fabric

$450

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Jiidid (whirlpool), 2023

block printed fabric

$480 REV23-124

NINUKU ARTS

Ninuku Arts is the most remote of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY Lands) art centres, located on the tri-state border of Western Australia, South Australia and Northern Territory, but its artists share ties that go across and beyond these modern borders. Ninuku Arts has grown in strength over the decades through the tenacious work of several families who remain living and working between Kalka and Pipalyatjara, the sister communities that share Ninuku Arts. This makes it a very closeknit community, full of energy, humour, and distinctive artists who each have their own way of telling the Tjukurpa (Dreaming) of their lands in paint.

ARTISTS

Angela Watson

Angkaliya Nelson

Margaret Donegan

Renae Fox

Rowena Nelson

MARGARET DONEGAN

BORN 1971, Alice Springs

LIVES & WORKS Kalka, SA

LANGUAGE GROUP Pitjantjatjara

Margaret Donegan was born in Alice Springs in 1971 to renowned artist Jimmy Donegan. As a very young girl, she lived at the Adelaide Children’s Hospital, before moving to Amata where her father worked as a stockman. During the late 1970s and the homeland movement, she and her family moved to Pipalyatjara to be closer to traditional homelands. As an adult, she moved to Blackstone, a remote community in Western Australia. It was in Blackstone where she began her career as a painter and arts worker. Today Margaret lives with her family in Kalka where she continues to build her art practice in painting, punu (wood carving), and tjanpi (grass weaving). Her art is inspired by Tjukurpa (traditional stories), including those associated with Minyma Kutjarra, Wati Ngintaka and Kungkarrakalpa

$1300

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Wati Kutjara Wanampi, 2022 acrylic on linen

Wati Kutjara Wanampi, 2022 acrylic on linen $1170 REV23-128

Wati Kutjara Wanampi, 2022 acrylic on canvas $2600 REV23-129

Wati Kutjara Wanampi, 2022 acrylic on canvas

$810 REV23-130

ANGELA WATSON

BORN 1966, Warburton LIVES & WORKS Pipalyatjara, SA LANGUAGE GROUP Pitjantjatjara

In the early 2000s, the first Aboriginal art studios were set up in the western region of the APY Lands. It was during this time that Angela started her art practice. Her artworks draw influence from Tjukurpa (traditional stories), particularly those of Minyma Kutjara (Two Women Dreaming), an important story from her father’s country, Irrunytju. The Minyma Kutjara story tells of two women travelling alone who are looking for fresh kapi (water). Angela’s paintings frequently show the path and camps from their journey across the lands, as well as the nighttime constellations of the Milky Way that lays above. She works with bold, graphic colour palettes and is notable in her use of both contemporary techniques and composition to tell the traditional story.

Mamu Story, 2022 acrylic on linen $3685 REV23-125

ANGKALIYA NELSON

BORN 1960, Pukatja LIVES & WORKS Pipalyatjara, SA LANGUAGE GROUP Pitjantjatjara

Angkaliya Nelson was born in 1960 at the Ernabella Mission in Pukatja, South Australia. She later grew up in Amata, where she met her husband and had two children. During the late 1970s, at the time of the homeland movement, Angkaliya and her family made the move west to Pipalyatjara to be closer to her traditional homelands. She continues to live in Pipalyatjara today. Angkaliya is a highly skilled craftswoman and artist. Like many other Anangu women, she has learnt the craft of punu (wood carving and burning) and tjanpi (grass weaving). In all of her crafts, including her modern dot work paintings, Angkaliya draws influence from Mamungara and Kungkarrakalpa Tjukurpa, Seven Sisters Dreamtime stories.

Kungkarankalpa, 2023 acrylic on linen

$2154

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Kungkarankalpa, 2022 acrylic on linen

$1880 REV23-127

RENAE FOX

BORN 1986, Alice Springs

LIVES & WORKS Kalka, SA

LANGUAGE GROUP Pitjantjatjara

Renae paints regularly at Ninuku Arts alongside her mother, Yangi Yangi and sister, Tanisha Fox. She has been developing a painting practice since 2007 and paints a number of different Tjukurpa, including the Kungkarangkalpa (Seven Sisters) and most recently, Wati Ngintaka Tjukurpa from her mother’s Country. Renae uses acrylic to create boldly coloured tonal compositons. She is a strong young leader in the community and is actively involved as a leader with the NPY Youth program and within her church.

Wati Ngintaka Tjukurpa, 2022 acrylic on linen $2100 REV23-132

Wati Ngintaka Tjukurpa, 2022 acrylic on canvas $2160 REV23-133

ROWENA NELSON

BORN 1981, Pipalyatjara

LIVES & WORKS Pipalyatjara, SA

LANGUAGE GROUP Pitjantjatjara

$1080 REV23-134

Ninuku Tjukurpa, 2022 acrylic on canvas

Image courtesy: Noongar Arts Program

NOONGAR ARTS PROGRAM

This program is facilitated at the Bunbury Regional Art Gallery on Wardandi land. The Noongar people come from the South West corner of Western Australia; with boundaries that go as far north as Geraldton and continue through to Esperance in the south, taking in coastal plains, wet lands, lakes and rivers, hills, and mountain ranges through to inland rocky outcrops.

The program is funded Federally through the City of Bunbury by Indigenous Visual Arts Industry Support.

The Noongar Arts Program works with Aboriginal Artists living on Wardandi Country. The artists have developed their practice over an extensive exploration of mediums, including silk, natural dyes, acrylic and water colour painting, ceramic, and glass works. All celebrating personal expression, living Culture and Artistic voice from this beautiful region.

ARTISTS

Dawn Alone

Janine Wallam

Maya Hume

LIVES & WORKS Goomburrup | Bunbury LANGUAGE GROUP Noongar

“I am a local Aboriginal Wardandi woman. I love painting. I started to paint in reflection of my journey growing up in the bush with my parents and siblings. I am connected to the land. I still enjoy going out into the bush looking for the wildflowers and looking for the bush foods. The greens and blues in my work represent my connection to the oceans and rivers. My work is about the connection of land, ocean and rivers that surround us.

Life is colour, and river is water and life!”

Tracks on Country, 2023

textiles – silk

$80

REV23-135

Djilba – spring flowers, 2023 textiles – silk

$80

REV23-137

Boomerangs, 2023

textiles – silk

$80

REV23-140

Waterways, Hills and Bush on Wardandi Country, 2023

textiles – silk

$80

REV23-136

Coral and Ocean, 2023 textiles – silk

$80

REV23-139

Waters of Goomburrup, 2023 textiles – silk

$80

REV23-141

Fire and strength, 2023 textiles – silk

$80

REV23-138

JANINE WALLAM

LIVES & WORKS Goomburrup | Bunbury LANGUAGE GROUP Noongar

Janine Wallam’s artworks always come back to the wild flowers and strong colour that she responds to around Roelands with the changes of season.

$420

REV23-142

Sunset Over Estuary, 2023

acrylic on canvas

LIVES & WORKS Goomburrup, Bunbury LANGUAGE GROUP Noongar

Maya is a young emerging artist who sits quietly in her practice, exploring colour and mark making with confidence, and is developing a strong political voice from a young perspective.

Maya says, “My Grandmother has led the family with love and I feel her words come through me. Her love and the way she saw the world and dealt with life has shown us how to repond to our lives. It is generational knowledge. I will carry this forward.”

$460

REV23-143

For my Grandmother, 2023 acrylic on canvas

Image courtesy: Papulankutja Artists Aboriginal Corporation

PAPULANKUTJA ARTISTS ABORIGINAL CORPORATION

Papulankutja Artists is an Aboriginal owned and directed corporation that represents artists from Papulankutja (Blackstone) and Mantamaru (Jameson) communities on the Ngaanyatjarra Lands, Western Australia. We are proud of our strong links to artists past and present, our culture and our Country. We are committed to achieving positive economic, social and cultural outcomes for Yarnangu, and value the authenticity of our artwork and that we operate as an ethically conscious, sustainable business.

ARTISTS

Anawari Mitchell

Jennifer Nginyaka Mitchell

Marcia Mitchell

Sharon Doolan

ANAWARI MITCHELL

BORN Kampurrapapiti

LIVES & WORKS Papulankutja | Blackstone

LANGUAGE GROUP Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara

SKIN GROUP Karimarra

Anawari grew up at the Warburton Mission to attend school like many other kids from across the Ngaanyatjarra Lands at the time. Anawari was an advocate for the Blackstone Women’s Centre when it first opened and became the manager. The women enjoyed learning craft techniques in making tie-dyed shirts, batik, lino and silk-screen printing, making spinifex paper and jewellery using nuts from the local flora. Anawari is an important spokesperson for her community, sitting on the board of Papulankutja Artists and working closely with the NPY Women’s Council and Ngaanyatjarra Land and Culture. Her grandmother’s Country is Kuru Ala, an important site for the Kungkarrangkalpa (Seven Sisters) Tjukurrpa (dreaming story).

Anawari paints stories of when the sisters travelled and camped at Kulyuru east of Blackstone and Kuru Ala, which is a sacred womens’ ceremonial site where young girls are initiated and taught about womanhood.

Kungkarrangkalpa

(Seven Sisters), 2022 acrylic on canvas

$3230

REV23-144

SHARON DOOLAN

BORN Mparntwe | Alice Springs

LIVES & WORKS Papulankutja | Blackstone

LANGUAGE GROUP

Pitjantjatjara

Sharon is a young artist who works at Papulankutja Artists in Blackstone, a remote community in the Gibson Desert in Western Australia. Her works map her grandfather’s Country, named Aputula in the Northern Territory. Sharon speaks both Pitjantjatjara and English, she was born in Alice Springs in 1981, and grew up in Aputula. In 2008, Sharon and her partner moved to Blackstone with their young family of three children. It was around this time that Sharon took a small plane over Apatula and saw the rivers and salt lakes from up high, an aerial perspective. Since this flight, Sharon has experimented with the shape and features of the surface of Aputula, through detailed, topographical paintings by memory.

$3650

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My Grandfather’s Country, 2022 acrylic on canvas

JENNIFER NGINYAKA MITCHELL

BORN Kala Tjutji

LIVES & WORKS Papulankutja | Blackstone

LANGUAGE GROUP Pitjantjatjara

SKIN GROUP Karimarra

Jennifer was born in 1955 at Kala Tjuti near Irruntju (Wingellina) in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands.

As a child, Jennifer travelled across the APY Lands with her family and was near Maralinga when atomic rocket testing was conducted by the British, American and Australian Defense Forces. Her grandfather became ill from the radioactive fallout and died soon after. Having returned from Oodnadatta, SA, Jennifer and her family hid in a wiltja (bush shelter) at Watinuma to be safe from the bomb, only coming out at night when the smoke was gone.

Jennifer became a senior custodian of the Kuru Ala Seven Sisters site after her mother Eileen Tjayanka Woods passed away. She started making tjanpi (grass) baskets in 1995 and has been painting since 2008. Jennifer is also an accomplished basket-maker and sculptor, making animated dogs and caricatures of people out of wool and grass.

Kungkarrangkalpa (Seven Sisters), 2023 acrylic on canvas

$3230

REV23-145

MARCIA MITCHELL

BORN Kalgoorlie

LIVES & WORKS Papulankutja | Blackstone

LANGUAGE GROUP Ngaanyatjarra

SKIN GROUP Yiparrka

Marcia is the daughter of Anawari Inpiti Mitchell and Winston Mitchell, who are both very active community members and decision makers in Papulankutja. Marcia comes from a family of artists and was influenced by her parents to begin painting in 2009 when the new art centre was built.

Marcia learnt how to paint by being around other artists, at home and at the art centre. No one taught her but she picked it up intuitively. She painted ‘any way’, developing her own unique style.

Marcia has been involved in NPY Women’s Council and NG Media, an Yarnangu Corporation that supports cultural performance, recording, radio, video training, production and broadcast throughout the Ngaanyatjara Lands.

Marcia paints in a style influenced by her uncle Tommy Mitchell’s (dec.) work. He painted the Walu Tjukurrpa, a story of two men and one boy camping at Walu Rockhole.

Kungkarrangkalpa

(Seven Sisters), 2022 acrylic on canvas

$2380

REV23-146

Women’s Collaborative Project: Nancy Donegan, Pamela Hogan, Kendrea Hogan, Kunmanara Walker and Donna Brown. Image courtesy: Spinifex Arts Project

SPINIFEX ARTS PROJECT

The Spinifex Arts Project is a vibrant Indigenous owned and managed not for profit arts project located in the traditional lands of the Pila Nguru (Spinifex People), in the Great Victoria Desert region of Western Australia.

It was established in 1997 to help document the Country within the Spinifex native title claim area. Pila Nguru translates as ‘people from the area between the sand hills.’ Their 'common' name comes from the abundance of spinifex bushes, which are a feature of this desert region.

Spinifex Artists are well known for their collaborative paintings as historically two large scale collaboratives were entered as part of their successful Native Title Determination to reclaim their Spinifex Lands in 2000. This collaboration process stems from mutual family and cultural connection to the multiple sites depicted. There is always a shared vision and understanding that is overlayed with individual creativity.

ARTISTS

Michael Hogan

Milpa – Mara Wangkapai Project

Women’s Collaborative Project –Nancy Donegan, Pamela Hogan, Kendrea Hogan, Kunmanara Walker and Donna Brown

WOMEN’S COLLABORATIVE PROJECT –NANCY DONEGAN, PAMELA HOGAN, KENDREA HOGAN, KUNMANARA WALKER AND DONNA BROWN

Large collaborative paintings like ‘Tjintirkara’, reflect ways of learning, sharing knowledge and the passing of important cultural knowledge. They are created as collaborations but are spaces for more senior artists and knowledge holders to educate younger artists, resulting in works that reflect continued connection and enduing attachment to the places often depicted within the works themselves.

Kungkarungkalpa, also known as the Seven Sisters is a major Western Desert Tjukurpa prevalent throughout the Spinifex lands. It is an epic songline that tells the story of a group of women who journey across vast terrain, carrying out ritual obligations, whilst being pursued from a distance by Nyiru, a lustful trickster of a man in pursuit of a wife.

Tjintirkara, 2023 acrylic on linen

$16000

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Women’s Collaborative Project: Nancy Donegan, Pamela Hogan, Kendrea Hogan, Kunmanara Walker and Donna Brown. Image courtesy: Spinifex Arts Project

NANCY DONEGAN

Nancy was born in the hospital at Kalgoorlie in 1973, but her traditional lands are actually some 900 kilometres to the north east in the Great Victoria Desert. Nancy lived with the old people in the mission at Cundeelee after they were moved out of the Great Victoria Desert due to the atomic testing in the late 1960s. After moving to Coonana and Warburton for a time, today, Nancy is back in the Great Victoria Desert, in Tjuntjuntjara, with her children and extended family.

PAMELA HOGAN

Born in Kalgoorlie, Pamela Hogan grew up at Cundalee Mission and Coonana, a place she says is “gone now”. After a move to Blackstone, Pamela spent many years working at the Arts Centre until, like the other women in the group, she moved back to Tjuntjuntjara in 2019, where a lot of her family live. “It’s really nice going out on Country with the old ladies now, it helps me feel connected and strong,” she says. “It’s good at Tjuntjuntjara, with the old people. Happy and safe.”

KENDREA HOGAN

Kendrea comes from a family of artists, her father Timo Hogan is one of the Spinifex Arts Project’s leading painters. Timo and Susan Young (her mother) were living in Kalka in the APY Lands, when she was born and the family lived in Kalka for the first 10 years of Kendrea’s life, later moving to Tjuntjuntjara. Kendrea has a great passion for the arts and has recently began painting with the Spinifex Arts Project.

KUNMANARA WALKER

Kunmanara was a Pitjantjatjara woman from the Great Victoria Desert. At the time of her birth in the 1960s her family had moved away from their traditional country and relocated to Cundeelee Mission. A few years later, the British Government began testing atomic weapons at Maralinga, within the range of the Spinifex people. Kunmanara had very fond memories of life in the mission and it was the primary theme of her work.

MARIE (DONNA) BROWN

Marie (Donna) Brown is a Cundeelee Mission baby, meaning she was born in Kalgoorlie but her parents (Cyril Brown and Dulcie Grant) were residing at Cundeelee Mission when she was born and that is where she spent her formative years. Marie moved to Tjuntjuntjara in the late 90s and has recently began painting with Spinifex Arts Project in between her job in the community Aged Care.

MICHAEL HOGAN

BORN 1969, Cundeelee

LIVES & WORKS Tjuntjuntjara

LANGUAGE GROUP Pitjantjatjara

Michael was born at Cundeelee Mission in the late sixties to Simon and Estelle Hogan. He went to the mission primary school and high school at Coonana after Cundeelee closed. He attended Wongatha Caps, a Christian College in Esperence and also did some schooling in Perth. Michael married a woman from Yalata and he has several children and grandchildren. He has watched from afar his parents hugely successful painting careers and in early 2023 decided he was ready and comfortable to depict his story on canvas. Michael paints Upupily Upupilya, a very important Tjukurpa from Cundeelee.

Upupily Upupilya, 2023

acrylic

$800

REV23-150

Upupily Upupilya, 2023

$1000

REV23-149

Ulpulyi Ulpulyi, 2023

$1000

REV23-148

on linen

acrylic on linen

acrylic on linen

MILPA PROJECT

LANGUAGE GROUPS Language groups: Pitjantjatjara, Tjuntjuntjara

Hand crafted puppets have been cooking Butter Chicken in Tjuntjuntjara. This year, artists from the Milpa studio, a digital arts space run by Spinifex Arts Project, have created a Pitjantjatjara stop motion animation cooking show set in a miniature replica of the kitchen at the Women’s Centre in the Tjuntjuntjara Community.

Working from real photos, the artists have modelled puppets, props and a movie set created using recycled materials and polymer clay. The film is performed, shot and edited by the men and women from the Milpa crew of artists, with Kendrea and Pamela Hogan performing the voices of the cooks.

Milpa works with Anangu artists to produce new artworks and to tell stories in local dialects.

Through digital media, artists are able to experiment and produce important artworks that capture and express their own ideas and cultural values, continuing the legacy of the many great Spinifex artists from this community.

The Tjuntjuntjara-Nya Cooking

Show / Mai Wiru Palanya, 2023 stop motion animation

Not for sale

VOICES AND SCRIPT

Kendrea and Pamela Hogan

MILPA PROJECT COORDINATOR

Ange Leech

LANGUAGE TRANSLATION, SUBTITLES

Pamela Hogan, Kendrea Hogan, Ange Leech, Dianne Thompson

MUSIC

Kasman Kelly

PUPPET ANIMATORS

Adelle Hogan, Naomi Felton, Pamela Hogan, Ange Leech, Regina Lyons, Donna Mungee, Adrienne Stevens, Loretta Stevens, Dianne Thompson, Mathew York

GRAPHICS

Adelle Hogan, Ange Leech, Dianne Thompson, Mathew York

PUPPETS, SETS, PROPS ARTISTS

FM Donaldson, Maureen

Donegan, Adelle Hogan, Naomi Felton, Janine Hogan, Kendrea Hogan, Pamela Hogan, Jarmen Goodwin, Donna Mungee

Adrienne Stevens, Loretta Stevens, Dianne Thompson, Sherrie West, Susan Young, Mathew York

Image courtesy: Spinifex Hill Studio

SPINIFEX HILL STUDIO

Spinifex Hill Studio is located in South Hedland on Kariyarra Country in the Pilbara region. Established in 2008, naming themselves the Spinifex Hill Artists. Spinifex Hill Studio works with artists from many different language groups and is renowned for showcasing contemporary works across a breadth of styles. In 2021, Spinifex Hill Project Space was built for the local community to connect with the Pilbara’s dynamic creative practice, and to promote the local culture, heritage, and traditions.

ARTISTS

Maisie Ward Nungurrayi

Donovan Jungala Brown

MAISIE WARD NUNGURRAYI

BORN c.1975, Papunya

LANGUAGE GROUP Luritja, Ngaanyatjarra

Maisie Ward Nungurrayi was born in Papunya and is the daughter of Dr George Ward Tjapaltjarri, a well known artist and Ngangkari or medicine man. Her mother passed away when she was just 16. Maisie paints “stories from her mother’s country – Kulkuta near Tjukurla, and Tingari one from father’s country – Junti – I can paint it.”

Maisie is connected to some of the major figures of the early Papunya arts movement. Her older brothers, George Ward Tjungurrayi, Yala Yala Gibbs and Willy Tjungurrayi, were among the first artists to paint for the Papunya Tula arts cooperative in the early 1970s.

Rockhole, 2022

acrylic on canvas

$720

REV23-155

Bush Tucker on Dry Country, 2022 acrylic on canvas $444 REV23-152

Bush Tucker on Green Country, 2022 acrylic on canvas $852 REV23-153

Bush Tucker, 2022 acrylic on canvas $1014 REV23-154

DONOVAN JUNGALA BROWN

BORN 1974, Yuendumu, NT

LIVES & WORKS South Hedland

LANGUAGE GROUP Warlpiri, Pintupi

“I was born in January 1974 in Yuendumu, Northern Territory. I grew up in Kintore and stayed there with my family. I have a big family from my Grandfather’s side, big family tree. I came to Port Hedland with my family. I met Maisie Ward Nungurrayi who invited me to come painting at Spinifex with her in 2021. I first started painting in 2016. My family are painters. My paintings are of Grandfather’s country, fire and water.”

Grandfather’s Country, 2023 acrylic on canvas

$1758

REV23-156

Grandfather’s Country, 2023 acrylic on canvas

$468

REV23-157

Image courtesy: Tjanpi Desert Weavers

TJANPI DESERT WEAVERS WARAKURNA, MANTAMARU, PAPULANKUTJA COMMUNITIES

Tjanpi Desert Weavers is a social enterprise of the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (NPY) Women’s Council that enables women living in the remote Central and Western deserts to earn an income from fibre art. Tjanpi represents over 400 Aboriginal women artists from 26 remote communities who make spectacular contemporary fibre art in the form of baskets and sculptures. Tjanpi field officers visit these communities to purchase artworks, supply art materials, hold skills development workshops and facilitate grass collecting trips.

ARTISTS

Anawari Mitchell

Cessara Butler

Janet Forbes

Lalla West

Madeline Jackson

Maimie Butler

Marcia Mitchell

Ningbell Lyons

Olive Yalpinyka Lawson

Paula Sarkaway Lyons

Phillipa Smyth

Sunnette Lyons

CESSARA BUTLER

LIVES & WORKS Papulankutja | Blackstone

LANGUAGE GROUP Papulankutja | Blackstone

Cessara is a young Ngaanyatjarra women living in the remote Papulankutja Community (also known as Blackstone), Western Australia. Born in 1997 in Kalgoorlie hospital, Cessara is the daughter of Morita Ward and the granddaughter of Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunyjatjara

Womens’ Council director and renowned Tjanpi artist Maimie Butler. Cessara spent her early years in Papulankutja, where she went to school. Despite her emerging status, Cessara already demonstrates strong skills creating well-woven Tjanpi works. Primarily working with traditional Tjanpi materials, including wool, raffia and Minarri grass, Cessara’s works focus on depicting local Central Desert animals such as tinka (goanna) and papa (dogs).

Basket, 2023

tjanpi (wild harvested grass), acrylic wool, raffia, wipya (emu feathers)

$396

REV23-160

Basket, 2023

tjanpi (wild harvested grass), bush dyed raffia

$363

REV23-159

JANET FORBES

BORN Papulankutja | Blackstone

LIVES & WORKS Papulankutja | Blackstone

LANGUAGE GROUP Ngaanyatjarra

Janet Forbes is a Ngaanyatjarra woman from Blackstone (Papulankutja) Community. Janet learnt to make baskets from her older sister Ruby Reid and was taught to make artefacts by her mother. She soon began experimenting with Tjanpi sculptures with great enthusiasm, and has produced a large quantity of unique and high-quality works filled with character and charm. Many years of wood carving has given her a good feel for three-dimensional work. She attended a metal casting workshop in Brisbane which further excited her sculptural imagination and skills.

Basket, 2023

tjanpi (wild harvested grass), bush dyed raffia

$313.50

REV23-161

Basket, 2023

tjanpi (wild harvested grass), bush dyed raffia

$264

REV23-162

LALLA WEST

LIVES & WORKS Warburton

LANGUAGE GROUP Ngaanyatjarra

Lalla West is an artist belonging to the Ngaanyatjarra language and cultural group and lives in the remote community of Warburton, WA. Lalla’s work is notable for its well-executed style and shows some influence of the early missionary cottage craft styles. Lalla has developed some particularly innovative works, such as a basket covered with crotched wool.

Basket, 2023

tjanpi (wild harvested grass), bush dyed raffia

$462

REV23-163

BORN Warburton

MADELINE JACKSON

BORN Warburton

LIVES & WORKS Warburton LANGUAGE GROUP Ngaanyatjarra

Madeline Jackson is an artist belonging to the Ngaanyatjarra language and cultural group and lives in the remote community of Warburton, WA. Madeline has learned to make Tjanpi through her grandmother, Christine West, as well as from her aunty, Cynthia Burke. Madeline has also attended Tjanpi workshops in Ngaanyatjarra Lands. Madeline makes beautiful woven baskets.

tjanpi (wild harvested grass),

Maimie grew up in the Papulankutja | Blackstone area and spent much of her childhood in the Benson camp with Kanytjupayi Benson. Maime is a Mitchell and the Country north of Blackstone along the Walu road is Mitchell Country with many stories and important cultural places. Maimie married into family from Tjukurla way and spends time travelling to visit family there. Maimie is a strong leader in Blackstone Community and in the past has been chair of Papulankutja Artists board. She is both a painter and a Tjanpi fibre artist, and the current chairperson of NPY Women’s Council.

Marcia is the daughter of Anawari and Winston Mitchell and resides in Blackstone, WA. Learning fibre art techniques from her mother, Marcia likes

NINGBELL LYONS

BORN Papulankutja | Blackstone

LIVES & WORKS Papulankutja | Blackstone

LANGUAGE GROUP Ngaanyatjarra

Born in Papulankutja | Blackstone in 1997, Ningbell spent her early years in this area, travelling around with her parents, from whom she learnt about her Ngaanyatjarra culture, heritage and language. Ningbell later went to school in Papulankutja Community, where she learnt her second language, English. Ningbell’s unique name was composed by her grandmother and Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunyjatjara

Womens’ Council Director Maimie Butler.

Basket, 2023

tjanpi (wild harvested grass), bush dyed raffia

$330

REV23-167

Basket, 2023

tjanpi (wild harvested grass), acrylic wool, raffia

$264

REV23-168

PAULA SARKAWAY LYONS

BORN Kalgoorlie

LIVES & WORKS Papulankutja | Blackstone

LANGUAGE GROUP Ngaanyatjarra

Born in Kalgoorlie in 1980, Paula, also known by her bush name Sarkaway, spent her early years in Papulankutja, travelling around with her mother, Edith Lyons, from whom she learnt about her Ngaanyatjarra culture, heritage and language. Paula later went to school in Papulankuja, where she learnt her second language, English. With her formal education completed Paula stayed in Papulankutja, working in the community school and raising her young daughter Neisha.

Basket, 2023

tjanpi (wild harvested grass), acrylic wool, raffia

$396

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OLIVE YALPINYKA LAWSON

BORN Warburton

LIVES & WORKS Warburton

LANGUAGE GROUP Ngaanyatjarra

Olive Yapinyka Lawson is an artist belonging to the Ngaanyatjarra language and cultural group and lives in the remote community of Warburton. Olive learnt to weave baskets and sculptures from watching her mother and attending an Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunyjatjara

Womens’ Council AGM where a workshop was conducted. She loves to make “baskets, goannas, birds, anything really”. Olive is also a painter and woodworker, spreading her time between the three art forms.

Basket, 2023

tjanpi (wild harvested grass), acrylic wool, raffia

$396

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ANAWARI MITCHELL

BORN c. 1960, Papulankutja | Blackstone LIVES & WORKS

LANGUAGE GROUP

Basket, 2023

tjanpi (wild harvested grass), acrylic wool, raffia, wipya (emu feathers)

$297

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PHILLIPA SMYTH

BORN Mantamaru | Jameson LIVES & WORKS LANGUAGE GROUP

Basket, 2023

tjanpi (wild harvested grass), raffia

$231

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SUNNETTE LYONS

BORN Alice Springs NT

LIVES & WORKS Papulankutja | Blackstone

LANGUAGE GROUP Ngaanyatjarra

Sunnette is a young woman born in Alice Springs, NT, but now living in Papulankutja community in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands. Sunnette attended her first Tjanpi skills development workshop in Papulankutja in 2022, and created a number of lovely baskets created for the Revealed exhibition in 2023. Sunnette has continued making baskets since this first workshop, developing her own thick-coiled, organically shaped signature style.

Basket, 2023

tjanpi (wild harvested grass), bush dyed raffia

$363

REV23-172

Basket, 2023

tjanpi (wild harvested grass), bush dyed raffia

$363

REV23-173

Image couretesy: Tjarlirli Art

TJARLIRLI ART

Tjarlirli Art represents the artists of Tjukurla in Western Australia and Kaltukatjara in the Northern Territory. Tjarlirli Art’s core business is the preservation, maintenance and promotion of the artwork of the Ngaanyatjarra and Pitjantjatjara people by nurturing the development of artistic practice, exploring new mediums and innovative opportunities for creative expression.

ARTISTS

Adam Butler

Carol Giles

Elaine James

Jade Butler

Kennedy Edimintja

Nola Bennett

CAROL GILES

LIVES & WORKS Tjukurla

LANGUAGE GROUP Ngaanyatjarra

SKIN GROUP Ngungarayi

Carol is an artist from the Giles family, who are prominent artists and cultural knowledge keepers in the region. As a child, Carol was taken to into the Warburton mission with her family and later they walked to Docker River. While Carol previously lived in Tjukurla Community in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands, she now resides in Kaltukatjara (Docker River) to access essential dialysis treatment. Carol’s mother’s Country is called Pilge and her father’s Country is between Kurlkurta and south-west of Kurlkurta.

Carol draws upon her strong knowledge of Tjukurrpa (Dreaming) and her mother and father’s Country whilst painting, experimenting with a range of forms. Her style is characterised by a liberal application of paint and a relaxed, non-rigid composition. Painting seems to come naturally to Carol, as she draws from her knowledge of inma (women’s ceremony) and the application of body paint for cultural purposes.

Tjilkamata, 2022 ink on paper $760 REV23-178

Wilkarti, 2022 ink on paper $760 REV23-176

Tjilkamata, 2022 ink on paper $760 REV23-177

ADAM BUTLER

BORN Papunya

LIVES & WORKS Tjukurla

LANGUAGE GROUP Ngaanyatjarra Pintupi

SKIN GROUP Tjupurrula

Adam Butler is an artist and arts worker with Tjarlirli Art. ‘Butler’, as he is affectionately known around the art centre, is a member of a family well-known in the Western Desert region for their artistic and cultural knowledge. His father was John Tjakamarra (dec.), a founding member of Papunya Tula Artists.

Adam was born at Papunya, and has lived in Kintore and Kiwirrkurra communities closer to his homelands. He now lives and paints from Tjukurla Community in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands, just across the West Australian border.

Butler brings a lively presence and joyful sense of humour to the art centre, and enjoys all aspects of art centre life including solo and collaborative painting, access-to-Country trips, and assisting with studio maintenance and preparation as an arts worker.

$780

REV23-174

$480

REV23-175

Papa Tjukurpa, 2022 synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Papa Tjukurpa, 2022 synthetic polymer paint on canvas

KENNEDY EDIMINTJA

BORN Utju

LIVES & WORKS Tjukurla and Kaltukatjara

LANGUAGE GROUP Pitjantjatjara

Kennedy’s father was born out bush way near Warburton, WA. He travelled on foot across into Ernabella and Areyonga, where he met Kennedy’s mother. Kennedy has four sisters, all of whom are also painters. In 1969, Kennedy and his family established an outstation at Tjunti (Lasseter’s Cave) on his mother’s homelands. Kennedy and his sisters learned to paint from his mother, who was a talented traditional artist. Other family members were part of the Hermannsburg school, and taught Kennedy landscape and watercolour techniques. Both of these influences are evident in his work, as he combines both western and Aboriginal artistic conventions to depict stories which also intersect with Dreaming and settler histories.

Tjunti

$450

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Tjunti

$450

REV23-185

Tjunti

$300

REV23-186

Tjunti

$450

REV23-187

, 2022 synthetic polymer paint on canvas

, 2022 synthetic polymer paint on canvas

, 2022 synthetic polymer paint on canvas

, 2023 synthetic polymer paint on canvas

JADE BUTLER

BORN Adelaide, SA

LIVES & WORKS Tjukurla

LANGUAGE GROUP Ngaanyatjarra

SKIN GROUP Napurrula

Jade was born in Adelaide. Her mother is from Balgo Community and her father, Sammy Butler, is from Tjukurla. Jade began painting with Warlayirti Artists in 2013, before moving to Tjukurla to be with her father’s family. As well as being a painter, Jade is a superstar arts worker, and recently has been learning to stretch canvas. Jade likes to paint rockholes, bush bananas and sand hills from her grandfather’s Country Nyinmi (west of Kiwirrkurra) where she used to live when she was little with her grandparents. The family then went to Kiwirrkurra, but flooding forced the family to move to Balgo, and they made a home in Balgo. Jade was taught to paint by her mother. Her grandfather passed away a long time ago and so she paints his Country to learn his story from her elders and family.

REV23-181

Nyinmi, 2022 synthetic polymer paint on canvas $600

Nyinmi, 2022 synthetic polymer paint on canvas $600 REV23-182

Nyinmi, 2022 synthetic polymer paint on canvas $600 REV23-183

ELAINE JAMES

BORN Kaltukatjara

LIVES & WORKS Kaltukatjara & Tjukurla

LANGUAGE GROUP Pitjantjatjara, Ngaanyatjarra

SKIN GROUP Jarra

Elaine was born in Kaltukatjara in 1972 and grew up between Kaltukatjara and Warakurna. She has been a skilled punu carver for many years and in 2015, Elaine painted her first painting for Tjarlirli Art. Since then, she has continued to focus on her painting practice, drawing inspiration from her grandmothers Mrs T. James and Mrs N. Bennett, both acclaimed artists in their own right. Elaine paints Tjukurrpa stories of the Kaltukatjara region, including Kungka Kutjara (Two Sisters) and the story of Ontulu

Bottom, Ontulu, 2022 synthetic polymer paint on canvas

$520

REV23-179

Ontulu, 2022 synthetic polymer paint on canvas

$520

REV23-180

NOLA BENNETT

BORN Mpartwe | Alice Springs

LIVES & WORKS Tjukurla

LANGUAGE GROUP Ngaanyatjarra

SKIN GROUP Ngungarayi

Nola is an artist and arts worker at Tjarlirli Art. She was born in Alice Springs and spent her early years living in Docker River with her family. After marrying, Nola moved to Tjukurla so that she could be closer to her father’s Country. Nola loves this Country, it is the Country that she spent her childhood learning about from her grandmother and mother. She now paints the dreaming of her family and ancestors.

$1320

REV23-188

Irriya, 2022 synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Irriya, 2022 synthetic polymer paint on canvas

$1320

REV23-189

Image courtesy: Tjukurba Art Gallery

TJUKURBA ART GALLERY

Located in Wiluna at the start of the Canning Stock Route, the Tjukurba Art Gallery is an initiative of the Wiluna Shire Council, providing a venue for local Martu cultural expression by ensuring the ethical production and sale of Indigenous art. Birriliburu artists paint in a variety of styles and palettes, depicting stories which embody a rich culture of Country, history and lifestyle. Images of the Canning Stock Route and the Rabbitproof fence are often central to the works. The Birriliburu artists are gaining recognition for paintings and works on paper through representation in the National Museum of Australia's Canning Stock Route Collection.

ARTIST

Patricia Corlett

PATRICIA CORLETT

BORN Kalgoorlie LIVES & WORKS Wiluna LANGUAGE GROUP Ngaanyatjarra

“This painting depicts the healing pool of my home Country where I grew up. The healing pool is a natural saltwater spring that never dries up. It is positioned in the middle of Salt Lake Country where my people have utilised the waters to heal themselves over thousands of years. It is believed that the healing pool is protected by the Wunapi, meaning Rainbow serpent in Wongutha language. The Wunapi is one of the most powerful forces of nature and spirits in Aboriginal culture. It is the giver of life the creator of land, water holes, creeks, rivers and gorges but most of all he is protector of water.”

$4100

REV23-190

Healing Pool, 2022 acrylic on canvas

Cathy Marawuk Binbirridj Ward wearing her textile and clothing designs on Country. Image courtesy: Waringarri Aboriginal Arts

WARINGARRI ABORIGINAL ARTS

Waringarri Aboriginal Arts was established in the early 1980s by senior cultural leaders of the East Kimberley as a place of art and culture that would also support economic aspirations for artists and their community. Situated in the heart of Miriwoong Country, the art centre is owned and operated by the Miriwoong Community. It is the first Indigenous owned art centre established in Western Australia and one of the oldest continuously operating art centres in Australia.

ARTISTS

Cathy Marawuk Binbirridj Ward

CATHY MARAWUK BINBIRRIDJ WARD

BORN 1994

LIVES & WORKS Kununurra

LANGUAGE GROUP Miriwoong

SKIN GROUP Nanany

“I grew up mostly around the old people. I was raised by Peggy and Mr A. Griffiths who taught me right from wrong and raised me to be a good mum to my kids. They taught me about culture and painting. I grew up at Waringarri Arts from a little kid. I remember running around the centre when I was 6 years old. I started painting when I was 10 which I enjoyed. I also work in ceramics and textiles. I want to pursue textiles for now and maybe in the future I will start painting again. I have also become a board member for Waringarri Arts. Both my father and mother’s side of the family are strong artists. My goal is to be an artist for the rest of my life and teach my kids about their culture and passing down knowledge.”

$1400

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Goordim, 2023

natural ochre and pigment on canvas

Jawoojing Dawang, 2023 natural ochre and pigment on canvas $550 REV23-193

Jawoojing Dawang, 2023 natural ochre and pigment on canvas $550 REV23-192

Image courtesy: Warlayirti Artists

WARLAYIRTI ARTISTS

Established in 1987, Warlayirti Artists is located in the community of Wirrimanu (Balgo) in the southeast Kimberley, on the edge of the Great Sandy and Tanami Deserts in the Kutjungka region of northern Western Australia.

They represent more than 200 artists across the four communities in the Kutjungka region – Kururrungka (Billiluna), Mulan, Kundat Djaru (Ringer Soak) and Wirrimanu (Balgo). There are eight distinct language groups – Kukatja, Ngardi, Djaru, Warlpiri, Walmajarri, Wangkajunga, Pintupi and Manyjiljarra – each with their own history and stories to tell. For this multicultural and diverse artistic group, art is part of everyday life and cultural continuity.

ARTISTS

Clinton Samson Scobie

Jane Gimme

Leah Nanala

Renita Brown

Stephanie Yukenbarrie

CLINTON SAMSON SCOBIE

BORN Mpartwe | Alice Springs

LIVES & WORKS Wirrimanu | Balgo

LANGUAGE GROUP Luritja

SKIN GROUP Tjapanangka

Clinton is the son of Fabrian Peterson and Ashley Scobie. He grew up watching his grandfather (Johnny Scobie, dec.) and grandmother (Nabula) paint. His mother started painting for Papunya Tula in Kintore, and he would watch her paint the stories for her Country; Mt. Leibig, part of the MacDonnell Ranges. Clinton started drawing when he was a young boy, and began painting alongside his wife Latoya Moody at Warlayirti Artists in 2022. Latoya exhibited in the Revealed exhibition in 2021.

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MacDonnell desert, my home, 2023

acrylic on linen

$650

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MacDonnell desert, my home, 2023 acrylic on linen

JANE GIMME

BORN Old Balgo Mission

LIVES & WORKS Wirrimanu | Balgo

LANGUAGE GROUP Kukatja, Manyjiljarra

SKIN GROUP Nungurrayi

Although Jane grew up in the Old Balgo Mission, her mother ensured that Jane continued to practice the traditions of her culture. Like her mother, Jane applies bright colours both to her canvas and to her silk pieces, creating works that reflect her precision and delicate structuring. Jane paints with a reverie and deep consideration and is continually evolving and expanding her style as an artist.

Jane is the current Vice-Chair of Warlayirti Artists, having served on the board consistently since Warlayirti’s inception.

Untitled

$3800

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, 2022 steam set dye on silk

LEAH NANALA

LIVES & WORKS Wirrimanu | Balgo and Mulan

LANGUAGE GROUP Pintupi & Walmajarr

SKIN GROUP Napurrula

Leah lives between the Wirrimanu (Balgo) and Mulan communities. Her grandmother is Ningie Nanala and her grandfather is Tjumpo Tjapanangka (dec.), both renowned Balgo artists. Leah paints Ningie’s stories and has also been given permission to paint her grandfather’s Country, Wilkinkarra. Her mothers and fathers (the children of Ningie and Tjumpo) are all artists; Winifred, Dulcie and Vincent Nanala have all previously featured in the Revealed exhibition. Leah is also an enthusiastic arts worker; she keeps the Warruyanta Art Centre open everyday.

$1250

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Lirrwarti, 2022 acrylic on linen

Lirrwarti, 2022 acrylic on linen

RENITA BROWN

BORN 1984

LIVES & WORKS Wirrimanu | Balgo

LANGUAGE GROUP Luritja & Warlpiri

SKIN GROUP Nungurrayi

Renita paints Mina Mina, a significant women’s Dreaming site, as passed down to her by her Mother Flora Brown Nakamarra who received it from her mother, and so on. Renita lives between Papunya, NT with her father’s Luritja family and her Warlpiri mother, and Balgo where she visits her mother’s extended family, including esteemed artist Veronica Daniels. The Mina Mina story Renita paints belongs to the Warlpiri side.

Mina Mina, 2023 acrylic on linen $1100 REV23-199

Mina Mina, 2023 acrylic on linen $1100 REV23-200

STEPHANIE YUKENBARRIE

BORN Derby

LIVES & WORKS Wirrimanu | Balgo

LANGUAGE GROUP Kukatja

SKIN GROUP Nungurrayi

Stephanie is part of a strong painting family. Granddaughter of Helicopter Tjungurrayi and Lucy Yukenbarri (dec.), her aunties Christine and Imelda Yukenbarri are renowned Balgo artists. Stephanie grew up in Balgo, and lives there with her three boys and husband. When her kids got older she started working as a Teaching Assistant at Luurnpa Catholic school, occasionally coming to the art centre to paint and learn from her old people. Last year, Stephanie got permission from Helicopter to paint her Grandmother’s way, depicting the stories she heard from Lucy Yukenbarri and experimenting with her distinctive paint application.

Bottom, Witjindee, 2023 acrylic on linen $750 REV23-201

Winpurpurla, 2023

acrylic on linen

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Witjindee, 2023

acrylic on linen

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Winpurpurla, 2023 acrylic on linen

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Patrick Mung Mung.

Image courtesy: Warmun Art Centre

WARMUN ART CENTRE

Warmun Art Centre is located in a small community of the same name in the Kimberley region of northern Western Australia. Warmun is owned and governed by the Gija people.

The Centre was established in 1998 by the late founding members of the contemporary painting movement in Warmun, such as Rover Thomas, Queenie McKenzie, Madigan Thomas and Hector Jandany, so they could support, maintain and promote Gija art, language and culture.

ARTISTS

Eileen Joomena Bray

Evelyn Malgil

Patrick Mung Mung

Shailyn Mosquito Peris

Tatum Rivers-Purdie

EILEEN JOOMENA BRAY

BORN Near Alice Downs Station

LIVES & WORKS Warmun Community

LANGUAGE GROUP Gija

SKIN GROUP Nangari

This painting is about Joomena’s Ngaginyji Joomooloony, her boab tree. “The boab tree we are born under becomes our special tree for life; this one is Ngaginyji Joomooloony, which means ‘My Boabtree’.”

Eileen Bray Joomena was born on the side of a dusty highway along the road from Alice Downs Station. The family had ventured out on a fishing trip when Eileen’s mum went into labour and was “laid down, with her sisters in law”, under a big boab tree and gave birth. The women stayed there, under this boab for a week as is customary, until all were ready to go back to camp.

Ngaginyji Joomooloony, 2023

natural ochres on canvas

$1900

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Ngaginyji Joomooloony, 2023

natural ochres on canvas

$1800

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Ngaginyji Joomooloony, 2023

natural ochres on canvas

$1900

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EVELYN MALGIL

BORN Derby

LIVES & WORKS Warmun Community

LANGUAGE GROUP Gija, Kimberley Kriol

SKIN GROUP Nangari

“This is my family place. Hot water spring and cold water spring. That big hill on the background is my family place. That water live all year ‘round. That littlle sand frog, it live for a long time. This place is the Ngarrangkarni (Dreaming) site for the sand frog. The waterhole at Winuba holds water all through the dry season.”

$950

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Winuba, 2022

acrylic on canvas

Winuba, 2022

acrylic on canvas

PATRICK MUNG MUNG

BORN 1948, Yunurr | Spring Creek

LIVES & WORKS Warmun Community

LANGUAGE GROUP Gija, Kimberley Kriol

SKIN GROUP Juwurru

Patrick Mung Mung is a senior artist at Warmun Art Centre and an elder, law and culture man at Warmun Community in the East Kimberley.

Painting with natural earth pigments on canvas is a significant aspect of his art practice. His knowledge of his Country and his cultural memory of family, land and work are powerfully linked in his work. Like his late father, George Mung Mung, Patrick is a strong cross-cultural communicator.

In this painting Patrick Mung Mung employs new visual iconography in the repetition of 6TE, the cattle branding iron used on Texas Downs Station. He worked as a stockman for many years on Texas Downs Station and was the last worker to leave the station when it closed in the 1970s.

Patrick’s work is influenced by the previous generation of Warmun artists, including Rover Thomas and Paddy Jaminji.

6TE, 2023

natural ochres on canvas

$4300

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SHAILYN MOSQUITO PERIS

BORN Kununurra LIVES & WORKS Warmun Community LANGUAGE GROUP Daguragu, Gija

“110 k’s per hour through the Kimberley in the wet season; storms, so many colours, and a lot of rain.”

100 kph, 2023 acrylic and ochres on canvas

$420

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BORN Baluwah | Violet Valley

LIVES & WORKS Warmun Community

LANGUAGE GROUP Gija

A fourth generation Warmun artist, Tatum first started painting in 2021 and likes to paint the stories that she has learnt from her grandmother Shirley and mother Madeline. These are stories from Guda Guda Country and they depict the Country, the history and the Ngarranggarni (Dreaming) from that place.

Tatum started painting the ant hills as its a big part of the Kimberly region but it also has alot of meaning to her and her family; her ancestors were placed in ant hills when they passed away. Her Jaru family believe ant hills are for healing, you get rubbed down with the ant hill, and after you wash it off you feel refreshed, it takes away sickness and bad luck.

Her work Kilkayi Barramundi Dreaming depicts the story of three women trying to trap Dayiwul the great barramundi with spinifex nets. Dayiwul was too clever, so the women gave up and walked to a place called Gawinyji where they turned into rocks. The scales of Dayiwul embedded in the rock, became the diamonds that are extracted from the Argyle Diamond Mine.

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Kilkayi Barramundi Dreaming, 2022 natural ochres on canvas $1500

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Ant Hills, 2022 natural ochres on canvas

Darren Ryder. Image courtesy: Wirnda Barna Art Centre

WIRNDA BARNA ART CENTRE

Wirnda Barna Art Centre is located in Mount Magnet and managed by the Badimia Land Aboriginal Corporation. The Wirnda Barna Art Centre supports and represents Aboriginal artists from Badimia and Wajarri Country based in Mount Magnet and surrounding areas. Wirnda Barna offers a creative environment in which artists can meet and work together to share skills and knowledge, connect with their language and culture and generate income through the sale of their art. Artists draw inspiration from the rich landscape, spectacular wildflower season in Spring and important cultural sites of the region including the Granites, Wilgie Mia Aboriginal Ochre Mine, Australia's largest ochre mine and Walga Rock, Western Australia's largest gallery of Aboriginal rock paintings.

ARTISTS

Darren Ryder

DARREN RYDER

BORN 1969, Geraldton LIVES & WORKS Mt Magnet LANGUAGE GROUP Wajarri, Ngarluma

Darren Ryder was born in Geraldton, sees Cue as his hometown and he now lives in Mount Magnet. When Darren started painting in April 2021, he realised he really enjoyed it and found it to be a great way to tell stories about his Country. Darren has enjoyed developing his style since then and enjoys painting his Country’s landscape and the sky around Mount Magnet and Cue.

The Three Tribes, 2022 acrylic on canvas $850 REV23-214

Collection of Granite Rocks, 2021 acrylic on canvas

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Ciara Mourambine, Untitled (detail)

YAMAJI ART

Yamaji Art is an emerging Aboriginal art centre in Western Australia. The centre provides professional services for artists with a focus on sustaining cultural maintenance and arts practice in a variety of mediums including painting, textiles, weaving, printmaking, design and performance. Yamaji Art represents artists from more than five broad cultural groups from the region: Amangu, Nhanagardi, Naaguja, Badimaya, Wajarri and Wilunyu. As a contemporary urban based art centre, Yamaji Art represents others currently residing in Geraldton or the region,

ARTISTS

Raharna Peterson

Ciara Mourambine

RAHARNA PETERSON

BORN 1997 LANGUAGE GROUP Banjiyma

Raharna is an emerging artist at Yamaji Art. Her artwork is a reflection of her own feelings and stories. Her style has developed significantly since joining the Art Centre. She uses dot work in a contemporary form, with beautiful bright colours. The use of design is very present in her artwork.

Homelands, 2023

$380 REV23-217

acrylic on canvas

Sunny Hills Over Country, 2023

acrylic on canvas

$380 REV23-216

CIARA MOURAMBINE

BORN 2005

LIVES & WORKS Geraldton

LANGUAGE GROUP Noongar, Yamaji, Kija, Wajarri

An emerging artist, Ciara started painting with the guidance of established artists through her school-based program in 2022. She is mostly working with acrylic on wooden boomerangs, while also dabbling in acrylic on canvas.

Untitled, 2023 acrylic on canvas $700 REV23-218

Mandy White. Image courtesy: the artist

INDEPENDENT ARTISTS

ARTISTS

NYOONGAR BOODJAR

Darryl Dempster

Emily Rose

Enid Kickett

J.D. Penangke

Kayley Emery

Mandy White

Michael Banks

Peter Farmer Jnr

Valerie Woods

Wendy Jean Hayden

Whitton Park

Zali Morgan

UNDALUP |

BUSSELLTON

Shannon Clohessy

SOUTHWEST BOOJARAH

Candy Riley

Dumbleyung

Diahan Riley

WYNDHAM

Bianca Long

IRRUNYTJU | WINGELLINA

COMMUNITY, NGAANYATJARRA LANDS

Diane Dawson

TOM PRICE

Gail Cox

BIANCA LONG

BORN Halls Creek

LIVES & WORKS Wyndham

LANGUAGE GROUP Jaru

Bianca is a Djaru women born in the outback town of Halls Creek in the Kimberley Region of West Australia with creativity and red dust in her veins from a young age. Her family connection with Country is where her artistic journey began.

“My artworks feature my Country, bush fruits where I grew up and where I belong. Each of the painting show different areas and features of this land I call my home such as the rivers and creeks that run through this rugged a remote land and the grass, flowers and fruit that decorate my country.”

Bush Fruits, 2023

acrylic on canvas

$500

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Bush Banana, 2023

acrylic on canvas

$500

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CANDY RILEY

BORN Wagyl Kaip – Great Southern

LIVES & WORKS Southwest Boojarah

LANGUAGE GROUP Noongar

SKIN GROUP Noongar

Candy is a Noongar woman. She was born in the Wagyl Kaip area and resides in the South West Boojarah. Candy works for the Department of Communities as a Senior Housing Officer. Candy paints her interpretation of the six Noongar seasons, land and water.

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Kambarang (Springtime), 2023 acrylic on canvas $950

Djeran (one of the six Noongar seasons), 2023 acrylic on canvas

$950

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DARRYL DEMPSTER

BORN Esperance

LIVES

& WORKS Boorloo | Perth

LANGUAGE GROUP Goreng Noongar People

A proud Indigenous man, Darryl was born in Esperance where he lived for most of his early life. Darryl moved to Perth in his early adulthood. Since the move, Darryl has explored his creative side, uncovering his creative flair by joining various art classes run by DADAA and one on one art sessions with local artists. He has limited spoken words and chooses to use hand gestures and sounds to communicate. You will most likely find Darryl pointing to his favourite super hero and then be glued to the pen and paper, taking them on a journey throughout his artwork. From stop signs to fast cars, there is most certainly a whole world going on in Darryl’s mind when he’s in the process of creating. Painting helps Darryl feel grounded and connected, it’s an activity that he looks forward to doing in his daily life.

$300

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Coka-Cola Train, 2023 mixed media on wood

$275

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Coka-Cola Nggrrgk, 2023 mixed media on wood

Coka-Cola Banana, 2023 mixed media on paper

$350

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Coka-Cola Car, 2023 mixed media on paper

$350

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$350

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Coka-Cola Plane, 2023 mixed media on paper

DIAHAN RILEY

BORN Katanning

LIVES & WORKS Dumbleyung LANGUAGE GROUP Noongar

“There are many paths that we can walk down. We must choose the one that’s right for us to follow and walk down it. I choose to follow the path that my father walked in the Country that his parents walked in the Dumbleyung area.

At times we think we have our life mapped out but then circumstances change, and this is where we tend to cling so much more to our family, our culture, our friends. The family circle is so important in our culture – it can help save our life.”

Cultural Circle, 2023

acrylic on canvas

$750 REV23-228

Following the Path, 2023 acrylic on canvas $850 REV23-229

DIANE DAWSON

BORN Amata

LIVES & WORKS Irrunytju | Wingellina Community, Ngaanyatjarra Lands

LANGUAGE GROUP Pitantjatjara

Born in Amata on the APY lands of South Australia, Diane belongs to the Pitantjatjara language and culture group and comes from a family of well known Irrunytju artists. Her mother, Alkawari Dawson painted Kalaya Wati Tjukurpa (Emu Man creation story) which relates to the country of her birth and her father, Nyakul Dawson was a highly regarded cultural man, artist and ngangkari (traditional healer). Diane is a passionate and versatile artist who explores a variety of styles including traditional Tjukurpa (ancestral creation stories) passed down by her parents. Diane has recently been exploring landscapes in her own contemporary style, capturing the country around Irruntju community through acrylic, watercolour and sculpture.

$546

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Hill and Riverbed, 2022 wool/acrylic stitch on stretched hessian canvas

Two Women Digging for Goanna, 2022 wool/acrylic stitch on stretched hessian canvas

$546

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Two Women Cleaning Malu Tail and Making a Basket , 2022 wool/acrylic stitch on stretched hessian canvas

$546

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Bush Trip in a Toyota, 2022 wool/acrylic stitch on stretched hessian canvas

$546

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Two Men Cooking Kangaroo in the Ground, 2022 wool/acrylic stitch on stretched hessian canvas

$546

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GAIL COX

BORN Wyloo Station

LIVES & WORKS Tom Price

LANGUAGE GROUP Yinhawangka

“I was born in 1969 in Wyloo Station (in Jurruru Country) and grew up in Onslow with my Nana because Paraburdoo was a closed town in those days. My old people were born and raised at Rocklea station, and they stayed in Rocklea; even though they worked at the surrounding stations, they always returned home. As a young person, every time I went past Rocklea, my heart would sing, even though I didn’t realise that it was really my home until later. During the Homeland Movement, my gudja (big brother) and I came back to Yinahwangka Country.”

Rocklea Station, 2023 acrylic on canvas

$495

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KAYLEY EMERY

BORN Whadjuk Country, Perth

LIVES & WORKS Whadjuk Country, Perth

LANGUAGE GROUP Wangkatha-Yamatji

SKIN GROUP Thururu

Kayley Anne Emery is a proud 19-year-old Wangkatha-Yamatji woman, born and raised in Whadjuk Country. Kayley has had a number of commissions of her original art and designs through local exposure and working alongside the Peter Farmer Design team. Kayley is most at home when she is creating artwork with any medium. She is connected and works closely to nature and the environment, and is passionate to teach and learn about her culture.

Nurlurringu

(Become Frightened), 2023 acrylic on canvas

$2500

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Ngunhthurarra

(Mother & Child), 2023 acrylic on canvas

$2500

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MANDY WHITE

BORN Mandoon | Midland

LIVES & WORKS Boorloo | Perth

LANGUAGE GROUP Yamatji

Mandy White is an artist with Yamatji and Australian/European heritage.

A self-confessed ‘bird-lady’, she loves to paint fairytales and wildlife, including colourful birds floating across the sky. “They are cheeky and show offs, ” she says.

Mandy White worked with animation artist Jake at DADAA to learn how to bring her quirky, colourful creatures and critters to life on the ipad. Mandy is obsessed with Disney and Pixar movies, so learning this process of animation was a dream come true for her. She is keen to learn more skills and produce longer animations with storylines.

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Sunset Creatures in the Sky 1, 2023 acrylic, posca pen on canvas

$600

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Sunset Creatures in the Sky 2, 2023

acrylic, posca pen on canvas

$600

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Animation, 2023

video: 2 minute loop

Original artworks and animation

Direction by Mandy White, Animation by Jake Carlshausen.

Animation created during a DADAA residency at Midland Junction Art Centre.

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Is it a dog? A guinea pig? A horse? Or just a product of Mandy’s obsession with animals and vivid imagination?

Mandy brought this creature to life by moulding papier mache and then adorning it with pen marks and frenzy of tube paint splats. Lots of fun and joy went into the making of this vibrant work.

Splat, 2023 papier mache, poster paint, acrylic paint, paint pen

$300

MICHAEL BANKS

BORN Leonora

LIVES & WORKS Ballajura

LANGUAGE GROUP Wongi, Ngaanyatjarra

Banks is a Wongi man born and raised in the north-west of Laverton in Mulga Queen. He went to school with the old people, with his grandpop, learning the bush language, how to tell stories, how to make spears and boomerangs. Banks listened to what they said. When he was older, Banks worked on cattle stations in and around Mt Weld where he learnt to ride a horse by his uncles and rode around in an old army Willy Jeep chasing kangaroos. Banks is a self-taught visual artist currently based in Ballajura, Perth. His paintings are memories of his life, of his Country, inspired by his old people’s stories of the Dreamtime, and of how it used to be. Banks’ strength in colour harmonising allows for reminiscent landscapes, vibrant memories of Country, as well as haunting portraits.

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Self Portrait 3, 2022 acrylic and pencil on paper $200

Self Portrait 1, 2022 pencil on paper $175

Self Portrait 2, 2022 pencil on paper $225

Self Portrait 4, 2022 acrylic on canvas $270

Home Country, 2022 acrylic on canvas

$195

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Haunted House, Mt Weld Station, 2022 acrylic on canvas

$375

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Home Bush, 2022 acrylic on canvas

$195

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Hunting in the Bush with the HR, 2022 acrylic on canvas

$195

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BORN Boorloo | Perth

LIVES & WORKS Boorloo | Perth

LANGUAGE GROUP Noongar

"Djil Djit is a traveler, always moving from one place to another. He is moving from the ocean (salt water) to the river (fresh water), throughout the many water-catchments, inlets and bays in the Southwest.

His journey is a long and difficult one; but at the end, he will always return to his birthplace to begin life again. A moving away, and then returning; he’s travelled full circle. The circles represent his offspring, as well as the many paths he has carved!"

$4500

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Djil Djit, 2023 acrylic on canvas

SHANNON CLOHESSY

BORN Duncraig

LIVES & WORKS Undalup | Busselton

LANGUAGE GROUP Wadandi

Shannon grew up between Perth and Busselton. After studying environmental science in Perth, she moved back down to Busselton, spending her time reconnecting to Country and assisting her family as a Wadandi custodian. She focuses her time working at the interface of cultural and contemporary environmental management.

Drawing on her experiences growing up, and the connection she has always had to places along the coast, Shannon’s work is intrinsically linked to family, Country and the salt water. Shannon specialises in glass, acrylics, carved wood, clay and the weaving of natural fibres in her work on Country.

Boonur Djaanga –Tree Spirit, 2023 mixed media –glass and wood

$1200

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Kaala Yaljer –Fire Bright, 2023 mixed media –glass and wood

$800

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Boodja Nyininy –Country Sitting, 2023 mixed media –glass and wood

$700

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Gnwirri Djet Yen Boodja –Beautiful Flowers on Country, 2023 mixed media –glass and wood

$1400

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WENDY JEAN HAYDEN

BORN 1959, Katanning

LIVES & WORKS Boorloo | Perth and Katanning

LANGUAGE

GROUP Noongar

Perth based artist Wendy Hayden was born in Katanning. Raised in a strong Noongar household, Wendy was encouraged by her father to be proud of her heritage and gather strength from it. Her mother is a member of the Stolen Generation, and it is from her mother’s stories that Wendy draws inspiration for her painting.

Her work One Big Nut is comprised of many quandong nuts, a traditional bush food. According to Wendy, “I designed the sculpture to emphasise the importance of how much our Aboriginal people rely on our yearly diet, produced from the skin. It is an open medicine for our people. The nuts are very, very hard. It’s likened to our people being resilient to the hard history we have been through and is stronger for it today.”

One Big Nut, 2023 Quandong nuts and wire $3500 REV23-259

WHITTON PARK

BORN Dubbo

LIVES & WORKS Gnaala Karla Boodja | Mandurah and Boddington

LANGUAGE GROUP

Wiradjuri | Bogan River People

Wit is a Wiradjuri woman of the Bogan River People. Born in Dubbo, she grew up in the small community of Peak Hill, NSW. Wit has lived in WA for the past 5 years, residing and working in the Gnaala Karla Booja Region (Mandurah and Boddington). Art has provided solace, allowing her to heal feelings of isolation and seclusion experienced while separated from family and Country. This is portrayed in her work, which typically features a lonesome depiction of herself over a flat landscape, incorporating motifs that reflect new growth, bridging the physical distance and spiritual connection between both Countries.

It’s Just Me, 2023

acrylic on canvas

$800

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Sunsets over Water, 2023

acrylic on canvas

$800

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Unlike the Goobang, 2023

acrylic on canvas

$800

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Tangent, 2023

acrylic on canvas

$800

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VALERIE WOODS

BORN Gnowangerup

LIVES & WORKS Maddington

LANGUAGE GROUP Noongar Gorinninninnining, Yamaji Wadjari Elder

“I have been interested in art all my life. Growing up my main influences were my Grandmother Florrie Colbung and Grannie Bella Kelly and most importantly my brother Ralph Woods-Winmar. They were all great teachers, each told a story which captured my koort (heart) into self-reflection on my own path into telling my story through my artwork.

For a long time, my artwork has been consisting of landscapes and portraits and now I’ve been experimenting with other styles and all my artwork is done with acrylics. My first time learning the technique of resin and adding colours to blend in. I used a torch to make it pop out then the natural beauty of the flow came through… It’s like, the natural beauty of land and water –the tapestry art of the land when looking from up in the sky. When you look at it, you have peace on the inside.”

Serenity, 2023 resin on canvas (4 x canvas pieces)

$1500

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“I was inspired by the trees down by the stream with the smoke meandering between them from a fire not far away. The rivers is flowing and the birds flying up top, buttercups there in the corner.

I like the trees straight up and down and the light reflection through the trees, so I decided to try the spatula as a new way to make the trees to express myself. I was so overwhelmed to accomplish something with a new technique. I thought it was more natural to put real bark because it is it’s natural habitat.

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Trees down by the stream in Gosnells, 2023 acrylic on canvas $800

ZALI MORGAN

BORN Wooditchup | Margaret River

LIVES & WORKS Boorloo | Perth

LANGUAGE GROUP Whadjuk, Ballardong & Willman

An emerging artist and curator based in Boorloo | Perth, Zali Morgan’s work Australia by the Book is an interrogation of the colonial ideology surrounding how we describe what we now call Australia. “This language often diminishes the struggle of First Nations people,” Zali says. The work is made using steel plate etching and chin collé to collage text.

Australia by the Book, 2022 steel plate etching with collage on paper

$450

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“Still on Country and Whadjuk Boodja are part of a series of works where I looked at what people to perceive as Country. Usually it is going out bush. Many people forget that they are walking on Country everyday, walking where First Nations people – in this instance Whadjuk people – have walked for centuries. These reduction Lino prints are of parts of Whadjuk Country, I walk everyday, at Curtin University and Como Beach foreshore, walking where my ancestors once walked.”

Whadjuk Boodja, 2022 reduction lino print on paper

Edition: 1/5 (framed)

$350

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Editions: 2–5/5 (unframed)

$200

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Still on Country, 2022 reduction lino print on paper

Editions: 1/6 (framed)

$400

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Editions: 2–6/6 (unframed)

$250

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JD PENANGKE

BORN Middle Swan

LIVES & WORKS Perth

LANGUAGE GROUP Whadjuk, Ballardong, Arrernte

JD Penangke is a Whadjuk, Ballardong, Arrernte Yorga (woman) from Boorloo | Perth. JD are her initials and Penangke is the skin name she inherits from her Dad’s side in Alice Springs. JD has been a practicing mural artist since 2016 and uses her art as an opportunity to amplify the original story of boodjar (land) in the public realm. She uses vibrant and loud colours to engage with the public and works in water based exterior paints.

This artwork honours Yorga (women) and the importance of their voices in our community locally and nationally. We are guided by Yorga Birdiya (women bosses) who have paved their paths and have continued standing strong for justice and equality through generations.

JD’s mural speaks to the importance of meaningful representation, and to First Peoples having agency over their own lives.

In 2023, Australia will decide on whether or not to enshrine an Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament into the Australian Constitution.

Fremantle Arts Centre and the City of Fremantle endorse the Voice to Parliament and the Uluru Statement, and believe that this important change is a significant step towards self-determination for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

Mambakoort, 2023 canvas from a site specific mural using synthetic polymer paint

$540 REV23-280

Dillybag, 2023 canvas from a site specific mural using synthetic polymer paint

$560 REV23-281

Booyi, 2023 canvas from a site specific mural using synthetic polymer paint

$610 REV23-282

Yandi full of berries, 2023 canvas from a site specific mural using synthetic polymer paint

$580 REV23-283

ENID KICKETT

BORN 1976, Northam

LIVES & WORKS Northam | Ballardong Noongar Country

LANGUAGE GROUP Ballardong Noongar Peoples

The recent discovery of Enid Kickett’s landscape works by her family, came as a complete surprise. Enid, who was taught to paint by a previous partner, had secretly rendered delicate landscape paintings of varying sizes and on different materials for many years. She hadn’t considered herself an artist or that people might appreciate her works, which primarily document Ballardong Noongar boodjar (Country).

The work you see here is Enid’s most recent artistic endeavour, painted over a period of 18 months as a kind of therapy while her health has been in a state of decline. The choice of paper plates as a canvas provides an affordable painting surface at a smaller scale and has resulted in a prolific level of artistic output, with Enid creating a personal atlas, mapping boodjar as seen through her eyes, during her lifetime.

Enimo, 2022–23

synthetic polymer paint and gouache on paper plates (multiple)

Price on Application

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REVEALED

Revealed Advisory Group

Clothilde Bullen (Wardandi & Badimaya Peoples)

Chad Creighton (Bardi & Nyul Nyul Peoples)

Sharyn Egan (Whadjuk Nyoongar Peoples)

Revealed Selection Panel

Ron Bradfield (Bardi Peoples)

Sharyn Egan (Whadjuk Nyoongar Peoples)

Jessyca Hutchens (Palyku Peoples)

Glenn Iseger-Pilkington (Nhanda & Nyoongar Peoples)

Revealed Aboriginal Art Workers

Tracey Mulardy, Broome Circle (Karajarri Peoples)

Cathy Ward, Waringarri Arts (Mirriwoong Peoples)

Larrissa Brown (Ngarla & Kariyarra Peoples)

Marli Ryan (Ngarluma, Yindjibarndi Peoples)

Photography

Rebecca Mansell Photography

Graphic Design

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PURCHASING ARTWORKS

To purchase an artwork please visit our online shop: shop.fac.org.au

Payment is required in full and a receipt and confirmation of sale will be issued once payment is received. There are no holds or deposit options available.

Almost all works in the Revealed Exhibition are for sale, some works are POA (Price on Application).

Organisations and collections may purchase works by invoice. Please request this option by emailing artscentre@fremantle.wa.gov.au or visit us at FAC reception. Please include the following information:

• Your full name, email address and phone number

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• The organisation or collection you represent, if applicable

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WHEN WILL I RECEIVE MY ARTWORK?

The exhibition is open from Saturday 6 May–Sunday 23 July 2023 and no artworks may be collected or freighted until the exhibition closes.

Upon purchasing an artwork from Revealed, you will be asked to select a collection/ freight option. Fremantle Arts Centre staff will be in contact with you to confirm details with you.

FREIGHT CHARGES

If you live in the Perth metropolitan area, we encourage you to collect your artwork from FAC at no charge (our team will be in contact to arrange a date and time).

If you are unable to collect your Revealed artwork purchase in person, you are responsible for covering any additional packaging and freight costs incurred and agree to this at the time of purchase. The cost of freighting artwork is additional to the prices listed in the catalogue and you will be contacted to arrange this payment prior to the work being sent.

Artworks will be sent with a courier or Australia Post, depending on the size and location of recipient. Tracking details will be sent to the buyer. Artworks will be packed and posted within 6 weeks of the closure of the Revealed Exhibition, subject to freight payment completion. Postage times will vary depending on service and location.

Revealed is presented by FAC with the support of the WA State Government through the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries; and the Australian Government through the Indigenous Visual Arts Industry Support Program.