Sydney Contemporary 2023: NextGen Ernabella + Jack Nawilil Spirit Poles
Visit us at Booth A11 (First Section) at Carriageworks, September 07 - 10 for Sydney Contemporary 2023.
We're delighted to be presenting NextGen Ernabella - dynamic and innovative paintings by younger generation artists Janice Stanley, Lynette Lewis, Michelle Lewis and Tjulyata Kulyuru from Australia's oldest continuously running art centre - Ernabella Arts.
Backgrounding the work of these young artists is that of senior artist Yurpiya Lionel. One of Ernabella's most revered artists, Lionel's soft-hued, fine-lined paintings of both the place, Anumara in the far west of the APY Lands, and its eponymous caterpillar dreaming site have become sought after internationally.
Each of the four younger generation artists and Yurpiya Lionel have evolved significant painting careers and become well known for their fresh and exciting interpretations of ancient stories. Forty-four-year-old Lynette Lewis's paintings depict the ripples in the sand created by wind at a large red sand dune near Ernabella. Fluid and richly coloured, the paintings by Michelle Lewis - Lynette's younger sister - evoke the quiet beauty of her country in its vast scale, with landforms and riverbeds depicted, as though from an aerial perspective. Forty-five-year-old Tjulyata Kulyuru's striking and sophisticated linear abstracts document the all-important waterholes (tjukula) sites of her Country. Youngest of the group, 36-year-old Janice Stanley is the granddaughter of one of Ernabella’s most well-known founding artists and cultural leaders - the late Tjariya Stanley. In washes of luminous colour and meandering line, Janice's paintings depict the Pantu (Salt Lakes) of an important Seven Sisters site at Mt Connor.
Contrasting with these colour-rich works are unique paperbark, feathers and bush string Spirit Poles by senior Maningrida sculptor Jack Nawilil. Winner of the 2012 Wandjuk Marika 3D Award of the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Award, Nawilil’s poles are sculptures of his own creation. The narratives that they represent however, span multiple places, clans and events that cover vast distances and timeframes. Made from textured fibre work, these unique Spirit Poles exude a timeless presence that seamlessly melds the ancient and the contemporary.
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Janice StanleyPantu (Salt Lake), 2023acrylic on canvas120 x 121 cmSold
47 1/4 x 47 5/8 in -
Janice StanleyPantu (Salt Lake), 2023acrylic on canvas121 x 121 cmSold
47 5/8 x 47 5/8 in -
Janice StanleyPantu (Salt Lake), 2023acrylic on canvas150 x 100 cmSold
59 x 39 3/8 in -
Janice StanleyPantu (Salt Lake), 2023acrylic on canvas170 x 180 cmSold
66 7/8 x 70 7/8 in
Acquired by Australian Parliament House Art Collections, Canberra -
Lynette LewisWamikata Walka Tali (Sand Dune), 2023acrylic on linen71 x 120 cmSold
28 x 47 1/4 in -
Lynette LewisWamikata Walka Tali (Sand Dune), 2023acrylic on linen70 x 120 cmSold
27 1/2 x 47 1/4 in -
Lynette LewisWamikata Walka Tali/Sand Dune, 2023acrylic on linen71 x 121 cmSold
28 x 47 5/8 in -
Michelle LewisMichelle's Tjala Dreaming (Honey Ant), 2023acrylic on linen119 x 182 cmSold
46 7/8 x 71 5/8 in -
Michelle LewisMichelle's Tjala Dreaming (Honey Ant), 2023acrylic on linen155 x 184 cmSold
61 x 72 1/2 in -
Michelle LewisMichelle's Tjala Dreaming (Honey Ant), 2023acrylic on linen120 x 180 cmSold
47 1/4 x 70 7/8 in -
Michelle LewisMichelle's Tjala Dreaming (Honey Ant), 2023acrylic on linen150 x 180 cmSold
59 x 70 7/8 in -
Michelle LewisMichelle's Tjala Dreaming (Honey Ant), 2023acrylic on linen153 x 198 cmSold
60 1/4 x 78 in -
Tjulyata KulyuruTjukula/Waterholes, 2023acrylic on canvas99 x 180 cmSold
39 x 70 7/8 in -
Tjulyata KulyuruTjukula/Waterholes, 2023acrylic on linen99 x 179 cmSold
39 x 70 1/2 in -
Tjulyata KulyuruTjukula/Waterholes, 2023acrylic on canvas151 x 198 cm
59 1/2 x 78 in$ 8,200.00 -
Tjulyata KulyuruTjukula/Waterholes, 2023acrylic on linen170 x 179 cmSold
66 7/8 x 70 1/2 in -
Tjulyata KulyuruTjukula/Waterholes, 2023acrylic on canvas99 x 149 cmSold
39 x 58 5/8 in -
Yurpiya LionelAnumara - Caterpillar, 2023acrylic on linen
99 x 169 cm
39 x 66 1/2 in$ 5,200.00 -
Yurpiya LionelAnumara - Caterpillar, 2023acrylic on linen120 x 152 cmSold
47 1/4 x 59 7/8 in -
Yurpiya LionelAnumara - Caterpillar, 2023acrylic on linen99 x 150 cm
39 x 59 in$ 4,600.00 -
Jack NawililNamorrorddo a Profane Spirit, 2012paperbark, natural fibres, ochreheight 154 cm
height 60 5/8 in$ 3,700.00 -
Jack NawililNamarrorddo a Profane Spirit, 2015paperbark, natural fibres, ochre165 x 10 cmSold
65 x 4 in -
Jack NawililNamorrorddo a profane spirit, 2015kurrajong with ochre pigment, PVA fixative, natural fibres, bush wax and feathers130 x 10 cmSold
51 1/8 x 4 in -
Jack NawililNamorrorddo (a profane spirit), 2016paperbark, ochre pigment, PVA fixative, natural fibres, bush wax and feathers158 x 9 cm
62 1/4 x 3 1/2 in$ 3,700.00 -
Jack NawililBuya Male, 2021kurrajong with natural fibres, ochre pigment, PVA fixative, bush wax and feathersheight 139 cmSold
height 54 3/4 in -
Jack NawililNgalkodjek Spirit Pole, 2023Kurrajong with ochre, feathers and bush string180 x 10 x 10 cmSold
70 7/8 x 4 x 4 in -
Jack NawililBuya male, 2023Kurrajong with ochre pigment, feathers and bush string175 x 10 x 10 cm
68 7/8 x 4 x 4 in$ 5,200.00 -
Jack NawililNgalkodjek Spirit Pole, 2023Kurrajong with ochre pigment, PVA fixative, bush wax and feathers164 x 6 x 6 cmSold
64 5/8 x 2 3/8 x 2 3/8 in -
Jack NawililNgalkodjek Spirit Pole, 2023Kurrajong with ochre pigment, PVA fixative, bush wax and feathers168 x 5 x 5 cmSold
66 1/8 x 2 x 2 in -
Jack NawililBuya Male, 2023Kurrajong with ochre pigment, feathers and bush string177 x 10 cm
69 3/4 x 4 in$ 6,900.00 -
Jack NawililDaluk Ngalkodjek, 2023Kurrajong with ochre pigment, feathers and bush string189 x 9 cmSold
74 3/8 x 3 1/2 in