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Alcaston Gallery would like to thank all our clients for their continued support of the gallery. We would also like to give a BIG thank you to all our wonderful artists who continue to inspire and amaze us every year!We wish you all a happy and safe holiday season and hope to see you in 2018.The gallery will be closed from 4pm today (22nd December 2017), re-opening on Wednesday 31st January 2018, in preparation for a very exciting exhibition programme launching with inspiring work from Betty Pumani, Ngupulya Pumani and Tuppy Goodwin. 

All online enquiries and sales can be directed to art@alcastongallery.com.au 

Alcaston Gallery was thrilled to host Claudia Moodoonuthi, our youngest artist, at the opening of her latest exhibition at Alcaston Gallery on Saturday the 25th November. 

Following an exceptional exhibition Ruby and Hunter: Claudia Moodoonuthi at Redland Art Gallery, Queensland earlier this year, this exhibition presents a number of dynamic paintings and sculptures by the artist. This vibrant body of work shares stories from Claudia's ancestral land, Kaiadilt Country of Bentinck Island in Queensland's Gulf of Carpentaria. 

The exhibition is on display at Alcaston Gallery until the 9th of December.

For more information, or to view available works please visit our website. 

Alcaston Gallery is thrilled to announce Judy Holding as one of the 23 finalists in the 2018 Montalto Sculpture Prize. 

The Montalto Sculpture Prize is an annual $30,000 acquisitive prize open to artists working in any medium. All of the finalist works will be on exhibition at the Montalto Vinyard & Olive Grove, Red Hill South, until end October 2018. 

For more information about the prize please visit Montalto's website.

For more information about the artist or to view available works, please visit out website.

Image | Judy Holding in her studio. © The Artist & Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne 2017

The Australian War Memorial has unveiled a vast painting by artists from the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) lands in South Australia. It will go on permanent display in the Memorial’s orientation gallery. Alcaston Gallery Director Beverly Knight said that she was very proud to have been able to instigate a dialogue with the Australian War Memorial and curator Ryan Johnson about the importance of the APY lands and protecting country, which eventuated in this special project. 

Kulatangku angakanyini manta munu Tjukurpa features symbols referring to the myriad and complex ways in which rock holes, trees, and the landscape are protectors of the Anangu way of life. In the orange-and-red-toned painting, the tjukurpa of the large central tree is a story of protection. The tree is a symbol of a wati (male) soldier, and the spirit of the ancestors stay in the trees, protecting Anangu. The kulata (spears) are for use by soldiers, not hunters. The u-shapes indicate a family gathering of hunting and inma (song and dance or ceremony). The text inscribed across the painting, “Wati Tjilpie Tjutaku Angakakanyilpai Manta Munu Tjukurpa”, translates as “the many men and old men hold and protect Country and Culture”.

The artists who participated in this powerful and significant collaberation were Alec Baker, Eric Kumanara Mungi Barney, Pepai Jangala Carroll, Taylor Cooper, Witjiti George, Willy Kaika, Brenton Ken, Ray Ken, Dickie Marshall, Willy Muntjanti Martin, Peter Mungkuri, Jimmy Pompey, Keith Stevens, Bernard Tjalkuri, Thomas Ilytjari Tjilya, Ginger Wikilyiri, Mick Wikilyiri, Mumu Mike Williams and Frank Young. 

For more information about this project, please see the Australian War Memorial's website.

Images | Kulatangku angakanyini manta munu Tjukurpa [Country and Culture will be protected by spears], APY Art Centre Collective, 2017, synthetic polymer paint on linen. Painted in Nyapari, Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands, South Australia; APY Lands Art Commission Launch. 16 November 2017 - photographs taken by Fiona Silsby.

Sally Gabori and women from Mornington Island are currently featuring in Past Legacy: Present Tense at the National Gallery of Victoria. This exhibition looks at Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists from city and bush studios who have made their mark by reinterpreting and transforming customary signs and objects into daringly different and modern works of art. 

Two stunning paintings by Sally Gabori feature in the exhibition along with a series of Dresses with hand painted Burkunda designs by Mornington Island women Birmuyingathi Maali Netta Loogatha, Dibirdibi Elsie Gabori, Helena Gabori, Agnes Kohler, Mingungurra Amy Loogatha, Alison Kirstin Goongarra, Dibirdibi Amanda Jane Gabori, Warthadangathi Bijarrba Ethel Thomas, Dolly Thunduyingathui Bangaa Loogatha and Rayarriwarrtharrbayingathi Mingungurra Amy Loogatha assisted by Designer Grace Lillian Lee. 

The woman note, ‘In the old days our mob made burrkunda (permanent markings on our body) to connect us to kandu, our blood relations, our family. Today we continue to make markings on paper, canvas and now fabric. Together we make these markings, strengthening our connections to family and Country. Today we can share this with a bigger world.’

The exhibition will be open to the public at the NGV Australia, Federation Square until January 2018. 

For more information on Sally Gabori, or to view available works, please visit out website.

Images| Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, Thundi, 2008, synthetic polymer paint on linen, 197 x 301 cm; Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, Thundi, 2008, synthetic polymer paint on linen, 196 x 101 cm; Birmuyingathi Maali Netta Loogatha, Dibirdibi Elsie Gabori, Grace Lilian Lee, Helena Gabori, Agnes Kohler, Mingungurra Amy Loogatha, Alison Kirstin Goongarra, Dibirdibi Amanda Jane Gabori, Warthadangathi Bijarrba Ethel Thomas, Dolly Thunduyingathui Bangaa Loogatha and Rayarriwarrtharrbayingathi Mingungurra Amy Loogatha, Burkunda, dress (installation view), 2017, painted cotton, dimensions variable.