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Uta Uta Tjangala: Yumari, Pintupi Country and the Origins of Papunya Painting
The paintings of Uta Uta Tjangala have an unusual energy. Circles, ancestral forms, pathways, dots, and painted lines push across the surface. Early works can feel raw and immediate, with important story elements given greater emphasis than technical refinement. Later...
Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula: Pintupi Country, Ceremony and the Geometry of Papunya Tula
The paintings of Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula are built from repetition and control.
Parallel lines extend across the canvas. Rectangles create rhythm. Circles and connecting paths organise significant places within Pintupi Country.
Trevor Nickolls: Dreamtime, Machinetime and a New Language for Contemporary First Nations Art
The paintings of Trevor Nickolls are full of collisions.
The natural world meets the machine.
The city meets Country.
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.
Rover Joolama Thomas: Country, Gurirr Gurirr and the Art of the East Kimberley
The paintings of Rover Joolama Thomas changed the visual language of contemporary First Nations art.
Large fields of ochre meet dark contours, white dots, and simple geometric forms. A hill may become a single block of colour.
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.