previous Exhibitions
CLAUDIA MOODOONUTHI - MY BODY, MY COUNTRY
Alcaston Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of new paintings and installation by Queensland artist Claudia Moodoonuthi. Claudia spent the first seven years of her life on Bentinck and Mornington Islands in the Gulf of Carpentaria where she was raised by her late Great Grandmother May Moodoonuthi. It was here that Claudia formed a deep connection to her Kaiadilt family and culture, learning traditional skills such as hunting, fishing and gathering in the bush.
My Body, My Country will exhibit new paintings, puppets and skateboards. Claudia’s bold and colourful painting style is greatly influenced by the time spent with her Great Grandmother and renowned artists and elders from Bentinck Island. Her artwork intimately depicts the landscape of her youth, including the island’s swamps and salt pans, cliffs and birdlife, as well as sea pods which appear in the wet season and signify creation and regeneration. Claudia’s artworks convey her wicked sense of humour, and reveal at every stroke of her brush her love and connection to Bentinck Island. This exhibition will include three paintings by the late May Moodoonuthi.
In 2014 Claudia Moodoonuthi was a finalist in the Churchie National Emerging Art Prize, and featured in major exhibitions Solid! Queensland Contemporary Indigenous Sculpture at the Cairns Regional Gallery, and Dreamings: L’arte Aborigena Australiana Incontra de Chirico, at the Museo Carlo Bilotti, Italy. Claudia Moodoonuthi is currently studying a Bachelor of Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art at Griffith University, Queensland.
For more information and to preview this exhibition please contact Alcaston Gallery on 03 9418 6444 or email art@alcastongallery.com.au
My Body, My Country
$3,000 AUD
AK19716
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Bushfire
$1,900 AUD
AK19718
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Sea Pods
$1,900 AUD
AK19717
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Untitled
$1,900 AUD
AK19322
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Mrs Gabori
$750 AUD
AK19320
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Dawn Naranatjil
$750 AUD
AK19321
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Longy (Michael Long, Essendon)
$750 AUD
AK19727
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Neon Leon (Leon Davis, Collingwood)
$750 AUD
AK19726
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360 Flip on Country
$1,000 AUD
AK19724
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360 Flip on Country
$1,000 AUD
AK19725
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360 Flip on Country
$1,000 AUD
AK19723
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360 Flip on Country
$1,000 AUD
AK19722
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360 Flip on Country
$1,000 AUD
AK19721
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360 Flip on Country
$1,000 AUD
AK19720
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Burrkunda
$4,250 AUD
AK14544
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Burrkunda
$4,250 AUD
AK14304
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Burrkunda
$4,250 AUD
AK16081
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BETTY KUNTIWA PUMANI & MARINA PUMANI BROWN
Alcaston Gallery is proud to present new paintings by Betty Kuntiwa Pumani and Marina Pumani Brown.
This exhibitionhighlights the creative artistic visions of mother and daughter, as they each uniquely portray their sacred landscape in the APY Lands of South Australia.
Betty Kuntiwa Pumani is respected senior artist and traditional custodian of the significant site of Antara, her mother’s country. Pumani creates her own visual language to evoke the beauty, power and energy of the land through her signature palette; the deep reds pulsate through composition, while the understated tones of white and blue offer subtle tonal balance, resulting in highly sophisticated and contemporary paintings.
Winner of the prestigious General Painting Award at the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards in 2015 and 2016 and winner of the Wynne Prize in 2017, Pumani continues to build on her stellar artistic career; in 2019 she was announced winner of the prestigious $50,000 Len Fox Painting Award at Castlemaine Art Museum, Victoria.
Like her mother and ancestors before her, Betty Kuntiwa Pumani passes down the long line cultural knowledge to her daughter Marina Pumani Brown, who embodies the next generation of strong female Anangu artists.
Brown’s distinctive paintings can be viewed as both literal maps of country and objects of meaning removed from any physical representation. Whilst the significance of Antara is always present in her work, Brown broadens her artistic practice by culminating both the traditional and contemporary aspects of life in the APY lands.
Alcaston Gallery is thrilled to announce that Betty Kuntiwa Pumaniand Marina Pumani Brown have been shortlisted for the prestigious37th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, with a major collaborative painting. This year Brown was also shortlisted for The Churchie Emerging Art Prize at the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane, Queensland.
MICK WIKILYIRI: NGAYUKU NGURA – MY COUNTRY
Alcaston Gallery is thrilled to present an exhibition of new paintings by senior Tjala artist Mick Wikilyiri. The striking, contemporary works presented in this exhibition offer a representation of country, spirituality and a rich family history of revealed creative practices.
The story of the Honey Ant is the impetus within Mick Wikilyiri’s painting practice. His landscapes are thoughtfully depicted through striking imagery, stylistic experimentation and intense colour. As a respected elder in his community, Mick Wikilyiri’s highly contemporary paintings are a celebration of Anangu culture, as well as a means to protect cultural ties for future generations.
Mick Wikilyiri grew up in Amata in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunyjatjara (APY) Lands of far north South Australia, and worked as a stockman on cattle stations before establishing an artistic career. Wikilyiri was one of the first men to begin painting at Tjala Arts after a men’s painting room was established, and has since become one of Tjala Arts leading artists. In 2016, Mick Wikilyiri featured in the major exhibition Nganampa Kililpil – Our Stars at the Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, New South Wales. Nganampa Kililpil – Our Stars was the first major survey of exhibition of its kind, presenting over 100 artists from across the APY Lands. Alcaston Gallery presented a body of works on paper by Mick Wikilyiri and his wife Paniny Mick in 2017, alongside the first solo exhibition of their daughter Yaritji Young.
Mick Wikilyiri has been collected by many National institutions including the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Parliament House Collection, Canberra
And Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.
HERMANNSBURG POTTERS - IRNA: TREES 2017
Alcaston Gallery is delighted to present Irna: Trees a new body of work by The Hermannsburg Potters. This exhibition represents an important development in the practice of the celebrated ceramic artists, introducing new directions in sculptural forms and painterly depictions celebrating the beauty, spirit and life-giving force of trees within the landscape: IRNA: Marna, Itarrkngilanha, Pmara - Tree: Food, Medicine, Home.
Presented alongside new work by leading watercolourist and sculptor Judy Holding, who was artist-in-residence at The Hermannnsburg Potters studio in 2016.
Alcaston Gallery has represented the Hermannsburg Potters spanning 30 years. Their unique, immediately recognisable style has been exhibited widely through Australia and internationally. Their major installation commission for the National Gallery of Victoria Our Land is Alive, NGV Australia 19 December 2015 - 11 April 2016, set new benchmarks for their engaging and lyrical pots.
The Hermannsburg Potters are world-renowned as master ceramicists and their work is held in most major Australian institutions and several major art collections internationally.
Hermannsburg Potters: Lyilhama - Music 2017
Alcaston Gallery is delighted to present this small collection of ceramics by the renowned Hermannsburg Potters. Lyilhama – meaning music, or song - depicts scenes of Indigenous musicians, concert performances, visiting community bands and songs – all based around the artists’ personal experiences and memories of music. Exhibiting artists: Rahel Kngwarriya Ungwanaka, Rona Panangka Rubuntja, Hayley Panangka Coulthard, Anita Mbitjana Ratara, Beth Mbitjana Inkamala, Caroline Kamaarra Forbes.
Alcaston Gallery has represented the Hermannsburg Potters spanning 30 years. Their unique, immediately recognisable style has been exhibited widely through Australia and internationally. Their major installation commission for the National Gallery of Victoria Our Land is Alive, NGV Australia 19 December 2015 - 11 April 2016, set new benchmarks for their engaging and lyrical pots.
The Hermannsburg Potters are world-renowned as master ceramicists and their work is held in most major Australian institutions and several major art collections internationally.
Image: Rona Panangka Rubuntja, Pitjantjatjara Boy (Isaac Yamma), 2016 (AK20625) Terracotta nd underglazes, 50 x 30 cm.
DEAN SMITH: PINK TERRACES
We are delighted to present Dean Smith's second solo exhibition with Alcaston Gallery - his most adventurous and important exhibition to date. A masterful ceramic artist, Smith has achieved global recognition for his sculptural ceramics and technically complex glazing techniques.
Of his forthcoming exhibition the artist states:
The Pink Terrace was once a large and beautiful silica deposit in New Zealand, created by chance and destroyed by chance, possibly by an eruption of Mount Tarawera. A place exists and then doesn’t exist. For this exhibition I have made some slab-built vessels, moving away from the familiarity of the wheel-thrown form as the sole basis for my work. As I build the work my thoughts are around structures, chambers or tombs - permanent structures housing the impermanent/ the permanent structure erased by the forces of nature/beauty and fragility. - Dean Smith, 2017 Dean Smith was a finalist in the 2016 Biennial North Queensland Ceramic Art Award and is currently a finalist in the 8th Talent Award of the Nassauische Sparkasse at the Keramikmuseum Westerwald, Höhr-Grenzhausen, Germany. Pink Terraces will be open by Jennifer Kalionis, Director, Castlemaine Art Museum, Saturday 8 April 2 - 4 pm. Contact us for further information
