Exhibitions
2020
Primavera 2019 MCA Sydney
Ended on — at Museum of Contemporary Art
Primavera 2019: Young Australian Artists, the MCA Australia’s annual exhibition showcasing the country’s next generation of up-and-coming artists aged 35 years and younger. Now in its 28th edition, the MCA’s Primavera continues to be a vital platform for emerging Australian artists and curators to present exciting new art featuring works by Maningrida artists Rosina Gunjarrwanga
2019
Tarnanthi Art Fair
Ended on — at AGSA
Lovers and collectors of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art have the opportunity to meet artists and buy works of art direct from artists and art centres at the Tarnanthi Art Fair. This popular annual event brings together city-based, regional, emerging and established artists from across the nation, exclusively to Adelaide. The Tarnanthi Art Fair
JOHN MAWURNDJUL – I am the old and the new
Ended on — at Glasshouse Port Macquarie
Developed and co-presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) and the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA), in association with Maningrida Arts & Culture, this exhibition presents the work of one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists – master bark painter John Mawurndjul. Bringing forth a tradition shared by generations of Kuninjku artists, Mawurndjul is
Sculpture Bolkkime – Sculpture Today : New Works from Maningrida Arts and Culture
Ended on — at Harvey Art Projects
Central Arnhem artists have been at the forefront of the Contemporary Art movement, engaging Australian and international audiences with their painting and sculpture, which masterfully straddles innovative individual practice, long-standing cultural knowledge systems and social relations of creative production. Sculpture Bolkkime – Sculpture Today: New Works from Maningrida Arts and Culture debuts this month in
Outstation Gallery – Bukkan Rowk – ‘I am teaching you’ THE CONTINUING TRADITION OF BALANG JAMES IYUNA
Ended on — at Outstation
James Iyuna (1959-2016) and his wife Melba Gunjarrwanga (1959-) were the leaders of a group of artists living at the Kuninjku speaking outstation at Mumeka and, by sharing their artistic ideas, they created a unique local style centred upon their broader family. This exhibition includes Melba’s sister’s children, Deborah Wurrkidj (1971-) and Raphael Wurrkidj (1988-),
2018
Mardayin – Aboriginal Art von Maningrida Arts
Ended on — at Art Kelch
Artists Exhibited: Anniebell Marrngamarrnga, Helen Ganalmirriwuy, Don Djorlom, Ivan Namirrkki, Jennifer Wurrkidj, John Mawurndjul, Joy Garlbin, Kay Lindjuwanga, Lena Yarinkura, Margaret Rarru, Mick England, Miko Rostron, Owen Yalandja, Paul (Namarinjmak) Nabulumo, Rosina Gunjarrwanga, Samson Bonson, Bulanj (1965-2018), Sonia Namarnyilk and Susan Marawarr
BOB BURRUWAL & LENA YARINKURA: KUNKAMAK NGARRWONENG – OUR HOUSE OF CULTURE
Ended on — at Alcaston Gallery
Bob Burruwal and Lena Yarinkura’s Kunkamak ngarrwoneng (“our house of culture”) is an exhibition of Djarngo – laws, natural forces, animals, objects, emotions and phenomena – that form the artists’ religious beliefs. Burruwal and Yarinkura practice and instruct young people in ceremony, rituals, dance, song, art making and Kune and Rembarrnga lifeways. The artists have transformed paperbark, pandanus, feathers,
Ngaldjorlhbo | Mother of Everything | Mère de Toute Création
Ended on — at IDAIA - International Development for Indigenous Arts
Presented by IDAIA – International Development for Indigenous Arts, co-curated with leading senior artists and sisters Deborah Wurrkidj and Jennifer Wurrkidj, and Susan Marawarr, their aunt, and in collaboration with Maningrida Arts & Culture and Bábbarra Women’s Art Centre, the display articulates around an unprecedented concept and revolves around the central spiritual figure of Ngaldjorlhbo,
Djang in Fibre: From Bim to Form
Ended on — at Aboriginal & Pacific Art Gallery
Since the late eighties, artists of the Maningrida region have been known for their transformative use of weaving technologies to represent djang* in fibre forms. This exhibition celebrates some of the leading proponents of this movement which has permeated across the top-end, alongside the next generation of formidable fibre artists. Participating Artists: Seborna Namarnyilk, Yolanda
From Coast to Escarpment, Spirit Worlds of Maningrida
Ended on — at Michael Reid Sydney
Curated to coincide with the exhibition John Mawurndjul: I am the old and the new (Museum of Contemporary Art and the Art Gallery of South Australia), Michael Reid Sydney and Maningrida Arts & Culture are pleased to present this exhibition, From Coast to Escarpment, Spirit Worlds of Maningrida. We invite you to enter the spirit realm of
Samson Bonson // Susan Marawarr
Ended on — at Vivien Anderson Gallery
MIMIH SPIRIT SCULPTURES SAMSON BONSON The world of the mimih spirit is at play in this exhibition of new work by Samson Bonson. The society of mimih spirits is replete with family groups, politics and histories. Known to be mischievous, they live in stone country and are often slender enough to travel through the rock
Outstation
Ended on — at Outstation
The legacy of those Kuninjku leaders and renowned artists in Maningrida, who led the 1970s outstation movement to the west of Maningrida, Peter Marralwanga, Mick Kubarkku, Anchor Kulunba, Crusoe Kuningbal is presented in this exhibition. It is seen through the art practice of their children, acclaimed artists in their own right: Ivan Namirrkki, Paul Nabulumo,
Karrang Kunred / Mother Land
Ended on — at The Cross Art Projects
Opening: Friday 20th April 2018 at 6 pm Karrang Kunred/Mother Land unites three senior Kuninjku women of the Kurulk clan who are closely related: sisters Jennifer Wurrkidj and Deborah Wurrkidj and aunt Susan Marawarr. Artistic boundaries are pushed in this exhibition by connecting traditional bark paintings and lorrkon alongside experimental textile prints. Karrang Kunred in Kuninjku means
THE WOMEN’S SHOW
Ended on — at Vivien Anderson Gallery
Vivien Anderson Gallery’s annual exhibition of paintings, sculpture and photography by leading and emerging Indigenous women artists in celebration of their contribution to Australian and International visual arts and culture. OPENING: 6PM – 8PM WEDNESDAY 7 MARCH 2018 The 2018 exhibition will be opened by actor and advocate SHAREENA CLANTON, proud Wongatha, Yamatji, Noongar, Gija woman
2017
An-Nguliny Rarrk
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In his first solo exhibition Mick England presents a collection of bark paintings and carvings that speak to the ‘wanggarr’ of the Annguliny clan of the Cadell river. This body of work traces Mick’s country and it’s stories; the Jijapurn, an ancestral creator being that takes different forms, sometimes snake and sometimes a horned creature,
Karridjowkke Kunronj (Crossing Streams)
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This exhibition brings together the work of artists who work across countries, mediums and platforms – Karridjowkke Kunronj (Crossing Streams). Deborah Wurrkidj, Jennifer Wurrkidj, Susan Marawarr, Helen Lanyinwanga and Melba Gunjarrwanga, are women of the stone country surrounding the remote homeland of Mumeka, who work with both Bábbarra Designs and Maningrida Arts & Culture. The
Into the Water
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An immersive exhibition that delves into the waters of Arnhem Land. Through the storytelling of contemporary fibre artists of the larger Maningrida region, this exhibition presents a world abundant with totemic ancestors and beings, animals and the various technologies used to hunt. Featuring installations and fibre sculptures by senior artists including Lulu Laradjbi, Anniebell Marrngnamarrnga, Frewa Bardaluna, Vera
Marking the Infinite: Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia
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Marking the Infinite features the works of Nonggirrnga Marawili, Wintjiya Napaltjarri, Yukultji Napangati, Angelina Pwerle, Carlene West, Regina Pilawuk Wilson, Lena Yarinkura, Gulumbu Yunupingu and Nyapanyapa Yunupingu. Hailing from remote areas across the island continent, these nine artists are revered matriarchs, commanding leadership roles and using art to empower their respective communities. Their works offer
The Women’s Show
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ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF SELECTED LEADING AND EMERGING ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER WOMEN ARTISTS IN CELEBRATION OF THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO AUSTRALIAN AND INTERNATIONAL VISUAL ARTS AND CULTURE