The Summer Collector's Show 2025: Outstanding works by founding artists and contemporary talents of First Nations art 1997 -2024
The painting I do is all about my mother's country, Texas Downs Station - there's Old Texas and New Texas, which is the one still standing today. Balunggard is the name of Country, the place goes back a long way, from early ages. Our old people, ancestors survived and were living on this rough and beautiful landscape, as you see it today. This Country goes a long way before my grandparents and mother came along this Country
Patrick Mung Mung
Ngargaroon (Texas Downs)
YESTERDAY'S MASTERS, TODAY'S STARS
The Summer Collector's Show 2025 features founding artists and contemporary talents of First Nation's art 1996-2024. Comprising paintings, works on paper, ceramics and sculptures by more than 30 founding artists and current talents of First Nations art across the country, the exhibition demonstrates the depth, breadth and progression of First Nations' art over almost 30 years. Earliest work is a 1996 etching by Kimberley master artist Rover Thomas and the latest a 2024 painting by young generation Ernabella artist Janice Stanley, whose work was recently acquired by Australian Parliament House in Canberra.
Artists include: Anita Pumani, Bugai Whyoulter, , Barbara Mbitjana Moore, Billy Thomas, Carlene Thompson, Colleen Kngwarreye Morton, Debra Nakamarra, Eileen Stevens, Freddie Timms, Janice Stanley, Jimmy Nerrimah, Nyapanyapa Yunupingu, Michelle Lewis, Pepai Jangala Carroll, Rover Thomas, Tiger Palpatja, Wawariya Burton and many more..
WITH FEATURE EXHIBITION: Ngargaroon (Texas Downs)
In partnership with Warmun Art Centre.
An exhibition in celebration of the expansive East Kimberley Gidja country of Ngargaroon (Texas Downs Station) by its traditional owners and artists - the late master artist Churchill Cann, leading and senior painter Patrick Mung Mung and younger generation artists Mark Nodea, April Nulgit and Sevanna Carrington. Their many-hued, textured ochres depict aspects of their lands and creation sites of this lush country and its ancient, significant and important rock art sites.
FULL EXHIBITION ONLINE SOON
