Tracey Moffatt: Photography, Cinema and the Art of Storytelling

Tracey Moffatt: Photography, Cinema and the Art of Storytelling

The photographs of Tracey Moffatt rarely behave like documentary images. A woman waits beside a road. A domestic scene appears frozen at the moment something has gone wrong. Figures pose within landscapes that seem familiar but artificial. Images resemble film stills...
Rosella Namok: Lockhart River, Weather and the Language of Country

Rosella Namok: Lockhart River, Weather and the Language of Country

The paintings of Rosella Namok are shaped by movement. Rain moves across the coast. Tides change the beach. Wind presses into the landscape. People gather, talk, hunt, fish, and move through Country. Namok translates these experiences into layered surfaces built from...
Poly Ngal: Bush Plum, Aharlper Country and the Art of Utopia

Poly Ngal: Bush Plum, Aharlper Country and the Art of Utopia

The paintings of Poly Ngal are dense with colour. Layers of dots gather across the surface. Yellow, orange, red, white, and deeper earth tones overlap until individual marks become part of a much larger field. At first, the paintings can appear almost atmospheric....
Owen Yalandja: Yawkyawk, Water and the Sculpture of Arnhem Land

Owen Yalandja: Yawkyawk, Water and the Sculpture of Arnhem Land

The sculptures of Owen Yalandja seem to emerge from the trees from which they are carved. Long bodies bend with the natural curve of kurrajong branches. Fish-like tails extend below slender torsos. Thousands of tiny painted marks create scales, water droplets, and...
Naata Nungurrayi: Marrapinti, Women’s Tjukurrpa and Pintupi Country

Naata Nungurrayi: Marrapinti, Women’s Tjukurrpa and Pintupi Country

The paintings of Naata Nungurrayi are grounded in journeys across Country. Rockholes, sandhills, women’s sites, gathering places, and ceremonial movement appear through dense fields of dots, circles, bands, and sweeping linear forms. Some paintings are quiet and...