previous Exhibitions
BARKLY ARTISTS | Aileen Napaljarri Long • Ada Pula Beasley • Jessie Kemarr Peterson • Rita Kemarr Beasley
Alcaston Gallery introduces four artists from the Barkly Region in the Northern Territory, Aileen Napaljarri Long, Ada Pula Beasley, Jessie Kemarr Peterson and Rita Kemarr Beasley, whose entirely distinctive yet complementary paintings of Country epitomise the broad visual language typical of the Barkly Region.
Aileen Napaljarri Long’s abstract modernist paintings with her vibrant textual colour blocking exemplify Warlpiri colourist tradition. Highly contemporary, Long’s paintings depict the wanakiji (bush tomato) that grows in abundance across the Barkly region. A finalist in this years National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards presented by the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT), Long is garnering wide admiration for her natural fluency with colour.
In contrast, Ada Pula Beasley’s impressionist landscapes of Alyawarr Country are rendered in brief hazy strokes that coalesce to form trees, shrubs and flowers in a palette that draws from the local flowers of the region. Her evocative paintings capture the desert in bloom, with dunes of red earth blanketed by wildflowers.
Jessie Kemarr Peterson’s delicately rendered paintings are rhythmic and shimmering depictions of Wutunugurra (Epenarra), a place nestled in the foothills of Iytwelepenty (the Davenport Ranges). Her highly intuitive practice is driven by the broader concept of the everywhen, encompassing the past, present and future within a single moment.
Equally intuitive yet entirely distinct in artistic style, Rita Kemarr Beasley’s depictions of Wutunugurra (Epenarra) are bold and expressive. Her minimalist, graphic landscapes depict the pearlescent trunks of bloodwood trees standing stark against richly coloured backgrounds in a palette inspired by the landscapes of Iytwelepenty (the Davenport Ranges)
Aileen Napaljarri Long, Ada Pula Beasley, Jessie Kemarr Peterson and Rita Kemarr Beasley’s debut exhibition at Alcaston Gallery will be exhibited at the Alcaston Gallery Exhibition Space, 84 William Street Melbourne from 16 October – 8 November 2024.
In celebration of this exciting debut exhibition, we are pleased to host a meet the artist event with exhibiting artists Aileen Napaljarri Long and Ada Pula Beasley on Saturday 19 October 12-3PM at the Alcaston Gallery exhibition space.
© The Artist, Barkly Regional Arts and Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne 2024
Pedro Wonaeamirri • Ngiya Purrungbarri – My Bark Painting
Alcaston Gallery is honoured to present Pedro Wonaeamirri's exhibition Ngiya Purrungbarri – My Bark Painting, the first exclusively bark exhibition of Wonaeamirri's career.
As one of the few Tiwi people of his generation who speaks old or classic Tiwi, Wonaeamirri’s contemporary art practice is steeped in Tiwi tradition. His commanding paintings on bark reveal a profound knowledge of heritage, meticulously depicting the Jilamara (design) with artistic confidence and an exceptional sense of ...
Nellie Ngampa Coulthard •Ngura Itjanungka – Country After Rain
Alcaston Gallery is delighted to present Nellie Ngampa Coulthard’s fifth solo exhibition Ngura Itjanungka - Country After Rain.
Coulthard’s paintings of Yankunytjatjara Country are refined in both technique and composition. Accenting bold pinks, golden browns and burnt oranges - the colours of the central and eastern deserts of Australia – her paintings are defined by the outstretched linear branches of the Acacia Murrayana Wattle that sit at the heart of her ...
Sydney Contemporary 2024
At Sydney Contemporary 2024, Alcaston Gallery is proud to present a curated selection of significant work by leading Australian contemporary artists whose practice inspires and challenges the national and international perception of the Australian landscape, Djakaŋu Yunupiŋu, Betty Kuntiwa Pumani, Dean Smith and the late Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori (c.1924 - 2015) - four artists intrinsically connected to a particular landscape or skyscape ...
ALCASTON GALLERY COLLECTORS EXHIBITION•MIND MAPPING COLOUR - ALL ABOUT ARTISTS 2024
'colour is always more than colours'....
Alcaston Gallery presents Mind Mapping Colour – All About Artists, a significant collectors' exhibition featuring paintings and sculptures from some of Australia’s most influential and eminent contemporary artists.
The second instalment in Alcaston Gallery’s Counterpoint series, Mind Mapping Colour – All About Artists showcases important work by represented and exhibiting artists Karen ...
Adrian Jurra Tjungurrayi •Yunala Tjukurrpa
Alcaston Gallery is proud to present Adrian Jurra Tjungurrayi’s first ever solo exhibition Yunala Tjukurrpa.
Tjungurrayi is an emerging contemporary Pintupi artist, whose paintings of meandering lines and geometric forms create compositions that oscillate on the canvas with visceral energy.
