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Always Was, Always Will Be: In celebration of NAIDOC Week 2020

Past exhibition
7 - 30 November 2020
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Always Was, Always Will Be, In celebration of NAIDOC Week 2020

In celebration of the theme of NAIDOC Week 2020,  a wide selection of vibrant Aboriginal art that celebrates that Australia's land Always Was and Always Will Be Aboriginal.  Art has been a key factor in numerous Indigenous land rights claims with works often created for the purpose providing graphic and powerful demonstration of Aboriginal people’s long and close history with their lands and their entitlement to them. For Aboriginal people there is little distinction between themselves and their lands; they don’t live on their lands so much as they are the land. Here, the works of   33 artists from Victoria, the Central, Western and Eastern Deserts, the Kimberley, the Pilbara, Arnhem Land, the Tiwi Islands and Queensland demonstrates particular aspects of connection to lands.  Most of the exhibiting artists still live on their traditional lands. Some, such as Bugai Whyoulter, Doris Bush, Julie Yajtitja, Nellie Coulthard, Teresa Pumani and Yurpiya Lionel grew up living a very traditional ‘bush’ lifestyle - rarely in contact with Europeans and strongly connected to the seasons, traditional foods, medicines and ceremonial practices. Others such as Gordon Barney, Peggy Madjirroong Griffiths, Patrick Smith Tjapaltjarri, Lizzie Moss Pula and Jeannie Mills Pwerle in their youth lived a semi traditional lifestyle as well as working as station workers and stock men and women on and around their traditional lands.  Alison Munti Riley, Barbara Weir, Ben Galmirri Ward, Norm Stewart have been notable activists for their communities in acquiring landrights and fighting the destruction of their lands through agriculture, mining and other incursions.  Mornington Island’s Amanda Gabori, Papunya’s Watson Corby Tjungurrayi, Yuendumu’s Athena Nangala Granites and Debbie Napaljarri Brown learnt the art of painting from their famous artist mothers, grandmothers and grandfathers while Victorian artists Cynthia Hardie, Jack Anselmi and Laurel Robinson note that the practice of art has helped to reconnected them to both their culture and country. 

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Works
  • Agnes Mm5010
  • Ada Mm5054
  • Amanda Jane Gabori Dibirdibi Corals at My Fathers Country, 2018 acrylic on canvas 152 x 101 cm 59 7/8 x 39 3/4 in
    Amanda Jane Gabori Dibirdibi
    Corals at My Fathers Country, 2018
    acrylic on canvas
    152 x 101 cm
    59 7/8 x 39 3/4 in
    Sold
  • Athena Nangala Granites Napaljarri-warnu Jukurrpa (Seven Sisters Dreaming) , 2020 acrylic on linen 122 x 91 cm 48 1/8 x 35 7/8 in
    Athena Nangala Granites
    Napaljarri-warnu Jukurrpa (Seven Sisters Dreaming) , 2020
    acrylic on linen
    122 x 91 cm
    48 1/8 x 35 7/8 in
    Sold
  • Connie Brown Yala Yala Tjukurrpa , 2018 acrylic on canvas 91 x 152 cm 35 7/8 x 59 7/8 in
    Connie Brown
    Yala Yala Tjukurrpa , 2018
    acrylic on canvas
    91 x 152 cm
    35 7/8 x 59 7/8 in
    Sold
  • Rosalind Tjanyari & Priscilla Singer Ngura (Country), 2020 acrylic on linen 152 x 198 cm 59 7/8 x 78 in
    Rosalind Tjanyari & Priscilla Singer
    Ngura (Country), 2020
    acrylic on linen
    152 x 198 cm
    59 7/8 x 78 in
    Sold
  • Rosalind Tjanyari & Priscilla Singer Ngura Kuuti (Spirit Country), 2019 acrylic on linen 152 x 122 cm 59 7/8 x 48 1/8 in
    Rosalind Tjanyari & Priscilla Singer
    Ngura Kuuti (Spirit Country), 2019
    acrylic on linen
    152 x 122 cm
    59 7/8 x 48 1/8 in
    Sold
  • Cynthia Hardie Bush Tucker Coolaman, 2020 Ceramic - unglazed
    Cynthia Hardie
    Bush Tucker Coolaman, 2020
    Ceramic - unglazed
    Sold
  • Bugai Whyoulter Parrngurr, 2019 acrylic on linen 91 x 61 cm 35 7/8 x 24 1/8 in
    Bugai Whyoulter
    Parrngurr, 2019
    acrylic on linen
    91 x 61 cm
    35 7/8 x 24 1/8 in
    Sold
  • Doris Bush Mm5002
  • Gordon Barney Birnoo Country, 2014 natural ochre and pigments on canvas 90 x 120 cm 35 3/8 x 47 1/4 in
    Gordon Barney
    Birnoo Country, 2014
    natural ochre and pigments on canvas
    90 x 120 cm
    35 3/8 x 47 1/4 in
    Sold
  • Julie Yatjitja Iwantja Tjukitji (Iwantja Soakage), 2019 acrylic on canvas 152 x 122 cm 59 7/8 x 48 1/8 in
    Julie Yatjitja
    Iwantja Tjukitji (Iwantja Soakage), 2019
    acrylic on canvas
    152 x 122 cm
    59 7/8 x 48 1/8 in
    Sold
  • Lizzie Moss Pwerle Dancing Lines, 2020 acrylic on linen 120 x 150 cm 47 1/4 x 59 1/8 in
    Lizzie Moss Pwerle
    Dancing Lines, 2020
    acrylic on linen
    120 x 150 cm
    47 1/4 x 59 1/8 in
    Sold
  • Maureen Hudson Nampitjinpa Tali - Sandhills, 2019 acrylic on canvas 91 x 122 cm 35 7/8 x 48 1/8 in
    Maureen Hudson Nampitjinpa
    Tali - Sandhills, 2019
    acrylic on canvas
    91 x 122 cm
    35 7/8 x 48 1/8 in
    Sold
  • Nellie Coulthard Tjuntala Ngurangka (Country with Acacia Wattle), 2019 acrylic on linen (Unstretched) 101 x 167 cm 39 3/4 x 65 3/4 in
    Nellie Coulthard
    Tjuntala Ngurangka (Country with Acacia Wattle), 2019
    acrylic on linen (Unstretched)
    101 x 167 cm
    39 3/4 x 65 3/4 in
    Sold
  • Patrick Smith Budgerigah, 2005 Etching on paper (framed) 39 x 59 cm 15 3/8 x 23 1/4 in 4/30
    Patrick Smith
    Budgerigah, 2005
    Etching on paper (framed)
    39 x 59 cm
    15 3/8 x 23 1/4 in
    4/30
    $ 1,100.00
  • Peggy Madijarroong Griffiths Jalin-Beasley Knob, 2018 natural ochre and pigments on canvas 60 x 60 cm 23 5/8 x 23 5/8 in
    Peggy Madijarroong Griffiths
    Jalin-Beasley Knob, 2018
    natural ochre and pigments on canvas
    60 x 60 cm
    23 5/8 x 23 5/8 in
    Sold
  • Watson Corby Tjungurrayi Kalipinypa Tjukurrpa, 2019 acrylic on linen 152 x 183 cm 59 7/8 x 72 1/8 in
    Watson Corby Tjungurrayi
    Kalipinypa Tjukurrpa, 2019
    acrylic on linen
    152 x 183 cm
    59 7/8 x 72 1/8 in
    Sold
  • Yurpiya Lionel Anumara, 2020 acrylic on canvas 80 x 165 cm 31 1/2 x 65 in
    Yurpiya Lionel
    Anumara, 2020
    acrylic on canvas
    80 x 165 cm
    31 1/2 x 65 in
    Sold
  • Wulu Marawili Mikariny Muluminya Yathikpa - larrakitj, 2018 Earth pigments on Stringybark hollow pole height 167 cm height 65 3/4 in
    Wulu Marawili Mikariny Muluminya
    Yathikpa - larrakitj, 2018
    Earth pigments on Stringybark hollow pole
    height 167 cm
    height 65 3/4 in
    Sold
  • Moyurrurra Wunungmurra Baliny - larrakitj, 2017 Earth pigments on Stringybark hollow pole 185 x 14 cm 72 7/8 x 5 1/2 in
    Moyurrurra Wunungmurra
    Baliny - larrakitj, 2017
    Earth pigments on Stringybark hollow pole
    185 x 14 cm
    72 7/8 x 5 1/2 in
    Sold
  • Norm Stewart Yalaba Yalaba 2 Wooden shield
    Norm Stewart
    Yalaba Yalaba 2
    Wooden shield
    Sold
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