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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 Mills, Kunmanara (Tiger) Yaltangki (1973-2024), Betty Kuntiwa Pumani, Rene Sundown, Adrian Jurra Tjungurrayi, Shirley Macnamara and Dean Smith, as well as special releases from the Estates of Ginger Riley Munduwalawala (c.1936 – 2002), Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori (c.1924 - 2015), Kuruwarriyingathi Bijarrb Paula Paul (c.1937 - 2021) and Thunuyingathi Bijarrb May Moodoonuthi (c.1929 -2008).
As master colourists, these artists capture the vivid hues and distinctive character of their environment, visualised from the mind’s eye and translated into an explosive palette of colour. Atmospheric and harmonious, their use of colour conveys more than mere naturalistic representation, speaking to deeper significances, symbolic, real and imagined. Exhibited together, these diverse artistic practices and perspectives converge to reveal a rich and nuanced portrayal of the Australian landscape.
Mind Mapping Colour – All About Artists is on exhibition at the Alcaston Gallery Exhibition Space, 84 William Street Melbourne / Naarm from 7 August – 13 September 2024.
(1) Jacques Ranciere, Philosopher and Cultural Critic, in Jason E. Smith and Annette Weisser (eds), Everything Is In Everything – Jacques Rancière Between Intellectual Emancipation and Aesthetic Education, Zurich: JPR-Ringier, 2011, 13.
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 ...
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),
