previous Exhibitions
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 composition and which have become synonymous with her practice.
In Ngura Itjanungka - Country After Rain, Coulthard presents a sublime collection of light-flooded canvas’ of dappled brushstrokes and creamy white hues, introducing a softness of palette and mark-making to her practice. This shift signifies a refined progression in her practice and reveals a quiet confidence in an artist whose career continues to rise year after year
Coulthard has garnered wide admiration and institutional recognition for her emerging practice. In the past year alone, she was named a finalist in three major national awards: the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize, the highest value professional artist prize for women in Australia, the prestigious Hadley’s Art Prize, a significant $100,000 acquisitive Australian landscape prize presented by the Hadley’s Orient Hotel in Hobart, Tasmania, and, the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, at the Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria where she was awarded second-runner-up in the People’s Choice Award.
Ngura Itjanungka - Country After Rain is on exhibition at Alcaston Gallery Exhibition Space, 84 William Street, Melbourne from 17 July – 2 August 2024.
© The Artist, Iwantja 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 ...
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.
Betty Kuntiwa Pumani • Titutjara - Ongoing
Alcaston Gallery is honoured to present Titutjara - Ongoing, a solo exhibition of significant paintings by revered artist and respected ngangkari (traditional healer),
