Exhibitions
2022
2022 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Free/State
Ended on — at AGSA
Free/State assembles a group of artists who are fearless; the provocateurs, vanguards and outsiders – challenging histories and art forms, and in the process, offering reflections on an era of multi-faceted global upheaval. The exhibition explores ideas of transcending states, from the spiritual and artistic to the psychological, and embraces notions of freedom in expression, creation
Owen Yalandja
Ended on — at Michael Reid Sydney
Adorned in thousands of cascading painted water droplets, and delicately scalloped fish scales, Owen Yalandja’s Yawkyawk figures are exquisite. Yalandja’s repertoire is almost exclusively concerned with three dimensional representations of yawkyawk spirits. In this solo exhibition he explores this theme through sinuous carved Kurrajong branches, and three small barks of such exceptional beauty that they demand reverence.
An-jawa (Creek) – Fibre from Maningrida
Ended on — at Sabbia Gallery
Sabbia Gallery is pleased to present An-jawa, a curated selection of new works in fibre by some of the foremost artists from Maningrida. Maningrida Arts & Culture is based on Kunibídji country in Arnhem Land in Australia’s Northern Territory. The area where artists live encompasses 7,000 square kilometres of land and sea, and over 100
Fibre Fun!
Ended on — at Everywhen Artspace
Joyous figurative weavings and baskets by Tjanpi Desert Weavers of Central Australia, woven fish traps by Maureen Ali from Maningrida Arts and brilliantly coloured ghost net baskets from Numbulwar Numburindi Arts of Numbulwar, Arnhem Land in an exhibition that celebrates a central art & craft practice of Aboriginal women for International Women’s Day 2022. Fibre
Thread Count
Ended on — at Agency Projects & Padre Coffee
First Nations fibre artisans of the Top End have been threading together the stories of their ancestors for generations upon generations, with age-old techniques passing from hand to hand. An ancient and traditional craft that sees form seamlessly melded with functionality, Thread Count is a multi-media installation that shares the powerful stories of this intricate
The Summer Collector’s Show 2022
Ended on — at Everywhen Artspace
This exhibtion showcases a range of Aboriginal art from nine regions, as well as works from gallerist Susan McCulloch’s own collection. Light-filled and welcoming, Everywhen Artspace exhibits paintings, barks, sculptures and ceramics by more than 350 artists from 40 + Indigenous-owned art centres from Australia’s most notable art-producing regions. Directors Susan McCulloch OAM and Emily
Together we tell our stories 2021 : Indigenous Glass, Ceramics, Fibre + Sculpture
Ended on — at Sabbia Gallery
Sabbia Gallery is pleased to present the newest addition to its schedule, the biannual Indigenous exhibition series TOGETHER. The second exhibition in the series, TOGETHER we tell our stories 2021, showcases contemporary artworks in ceramics, glass, fibre and works on canvas that have been created by both highly established and emerging Indigenous artists across Australia.
2021
Spirit Worlds: Contemporary Works from Maningrida
Ended on — at Michael Reid Berlin
Presenting contemporary voices from the world’s oldest continuous artistic practice, Michael Reid Berlin is honoured to present Spirit Worlds, a group of artworks from Maningrida Arts & Culture. A small town in Kunibídji country, West-Arnhem land, Maningrida is a cultural hub for more than 100 clan estates, speaking over 12 distinct languages and spanning 7,000 square
Anniebell Marrngamarrnga: Ngalkunburriyaymi (Yawkyawk Dreaming)
Ended on — at Jam Factory
Anniebell Marrngamarrnga: Ngalkunburriyaymi (Yawkyawk Dreaming) is showing in Gallery One until 28 November 2021 as part of Tarnanthi 2021, the Art Gallery of South Australia’s Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art. Anniebell Marrngamarrnga is a senior Kuninjku artist from Maningrida in western Central Arnhem Land. She is renowned for her large-scale, flat fibre
Northern Waters
Ended on — at Short St Gallery
Short St Gallery brings you Northern Waters, featuring artworks from three of Arnhem Lands stellar and pervading art communities; Injalak, Maningrida and Yirrkala. The majesty of Arnhem Land’s environment is well known, from the rocky escarpments and freshwater ways of West Arnhem Land, through to the rivers and forests of the east, to the shorelines
Spirit in Bark
Ended on — at Koskela Gallery
Koskela Gallery is excited to present, Spirit In Bark: a Celebration of Bark Art from Across Oceania, featuring works by Elcho Island Arts, Ömie Artists and Maningrida Arts & Culture. This online exhibition is showing from the 18th September – 30th October, 2021. Bark is a versatile medium both traditionally and in the contemporary art space. Bark can be stretched, whittled,
Maningrida Arts & Culture
Ended on — at Michael Reid Berlin
This online exhibition presents MANINGRIDA Arts & Culture, a pre-eminent site of contemporary cultural expression and art-making, abundant with highly collectable art and emerging talent. Through their homelands resource organisation, Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation, artists turned an art trade that began just over 50 years ago into an arts and cultural enterprise. Ways of learning and
Lineage
Ended on — at Delmar Gallery
This exhibition was curated by Bronwyn Rennex in collaboration with Maningrida Arts & Culture and Bábbarra Designs. The Maningrida region in Arnhem land is one of the most linguistically diverse places in the world. There are more than 12 distinct languages spoken and over 100 clan groups. The artists in Lineage come from all over
The Women’s Show
Ended on — at Vivien Anderson Gallery
The Women’s Show began in 2005 to reflect the blazing trajectory of Australian First Nation’s women as artists of renown and to honour their contribution to world art and culture. It is an annual exhibition of paintings, sculpture and jewellery in celebration of leading and emerging contemporary Indigenous women artists.
Infinities
Ended on — at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery
Curated by Lauren Reid, ‘Infinities’ presents works that defy our human-scale conceptions of time: from the microbial-scale of bacterium inside our bodies, to the planetary-scale of the spinning of the Earth and beyond. Curated by Berlin-based curator, Lauren Reid, ‘Infinities’ brings artists and ideas from across the globe in to Goulburn for the very first
2020
Top End Bugi
Ended on — at Koskela Gallery
Top End Bugi is a collaborative exhibition featuring bark art from three art centres in Australia’s Top End, Buku-Larrngay Mulka Centre, Maningrida Arts and Culture, and Ngukurr Arts. Presenting a series of works on Stringybark and selection of Larrakitj, Top End Bugi celebrates the creativity and diversity of bark artists, emerging and established. The evolution
Resilience – The Power of the Past Reverberates Today
Ended on — at Aboriginal Signature Estrangin Gallery
This exhibition presents the work of leading and emerging Maningrida Arts & Culture artists. It is a testament to the fierce resilience of the region’s peoples to keep their languages, their country and their artistic practices alive in a contemporary world. The artists of the Maningrida region tell the story of the power of their
Legacy — the influence of Balang John Mawurndjul
Ended on — at Outstation Gallery
This exhibition brings together new work from the Kurulk clan. Emerging from an artistic dynasty, the work of the next generation reveals new ways, whilst affirming the integrity and strength of Kuninjku painting. Artists lead the way for Kuninjku people. Balang John Mawurndjul AM is a community, clan and artistic leader. He speaks of the
The Alchemists
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Weaving describes an action, and it also connotes a tradition imbued with cultural heritage. Distinctively and regionally diverse, the Indigenous fibre art of Australia is nonetheless expressive of a community of practice, unified by the amazing ability of practitioners to transform raw materials into creative expressions of story and place. Connected to women’s traditional knowledge
Waraburnburn: new works by Warrawarra clan artists
Ended on — at Art Mob
This is the first exhibition featuring a major body of work from the new generation of Burarra artists: Marcus Pascoe, Mathaniel Pascoe and Matilda Pascoe. These long-legged figures, described as jarra an-baykarda ‘supertall’, live in patches of jungle surrounding Gamurra Gu-yurra. They are also physically represented by the cabbage palm which grows in these areas. Like people, warraburnburn live
Rising Stars 2020
Ended on — at Outstation Gallery
RISING STARS is our annual exhibition celebrating emerging artists; in 2020 we are showing artists’ work from Papunya Tjupi, Maningrida Arts & Culture, Tjala Arts, Tjungu Palya and Jilamara Arts. A strong selection of work including canvas and bark painting, reveals diverse techniques as each artist depicts their stories. Rising star from Maningrida Arts & Culture
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
Together we tell our stories : Indigenous Glass, Ceramics, Fibre + Canvas
Ended on — at Sabbia Gallery
Sabbia’s new bi-annual Indigenous exhibition Together we tell our stories presents a group of Indigenous artists and communities who are telling their own stories whilst creating artwork at the highest level with their chosen materials. Each artist is looking back at traditions for inspiration, whilst at the same time looking forward, creating extraordinary artwork as contemporary artists
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 Gallery
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 Gallery
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