previous Exhibitions
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 composition. A master of traditional techniques his paintings are rendered with kayimwagakimi (the traditional Tiwi iron-wood comb), a process he has refined over decades to produce the strong fields of colour and geometric patterns that have become his signature. Wonaeamirri's sophisticated artistic practice has long affirmed his standing alongside the most significant and influential Tiwi artists of generations past and present.
In addition to being a highly esteemed and influential contemporary artist, Wonaeamirri is a senior cultural leader and artistic thinker. His career highlights are substantial, culminating in 2024 when he was invited to speak at the Venice Biennale, Italy at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum for the Indigenous Visions seminar curated by Professor Brook Andrew. He also served as a mentor to emerging Tiwi artist Johnathon World Peace Bush, to produce a body of work for the Country Road + NGV First Nations Commissions for the exhibition My Country, at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia in Melbourne.
Having joined the Alcaston Gallery stable in 1991, the same year he commenced his artistic career, Ngiya Purrungbarri – My Bark Painting marks Wonaeamirri’s ninth solo exhibition at Alcaston Gallery - a milestone in a friendship between artist and gallery spanning three decades.
Pedro Wonaeamirri’s exhibition will be exhibited at the Alcaston Gallery Exhibition Space, 84 William Street Melbourne from 18 September - 11 October 2024.
© The Artist, Jilamara Arts & Crafts Association and Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne 2024
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.
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),
