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Current Exhibitions - Japingka Gallery Australia
Japingka’s spring exhibition shifts from the sublime to the light-hearted, from the illuminated canvases of senior Anmatyerre artist, Kudditji Kngwarreye, to Ruth Robertson’s playful depictions of ‘cheeky dogs’ around the Alice Springs town camps.
In Gallery1 Japingka Gallery is showing Anwernekenhe Ayeye – The Story Belonging to Us. This lively, colourful and frequently humorous exhibition tells the stories of some of the artists living in the Town Camps in Alice Springs. They include dogs on trucks or running amok in front yards, desert landscapes and paintings of patchwork blankets that the artists, in their youth, were obliged to make on the missions.
The painters are members of Tangentyere Artists which was established in 2005 and is an Aboriginal owned and directed Art Centre situated in Alice Springs and managed by Tangentyere Council.
Liesl Rockchild, Art Coordinator of Tangentyere Artists, says: “We provide art support to over 400 artists from nineteen Alice Springs Town Camps. These camps are home to around 2000 Indigenous people from both the local area as well as many visitors from remote communities across Central Australia. The Town Camp artists represent twenty different central Australian languages, clearly a more complex situation than a remote community of one language group. The Town Campers are among the most highly disadvantaged people in Australia, living in the most challenging physical and social conditions. But in the face of disadvantage, these artists demonstrate resilience and passion for life, and reflect, in their paintings, the diversity of culture and daily camp life.”
In Gallery2 are recent works from Kudditji Kngwarreye. These colour-field paintings by 80 year old senior Anmatyerre artist capture a vision of his beloved desert homelands that is instantly modern yet strongly connected to Central Desert traditions. Some canvases are subtle and serene while others are intense and energetic, as the artist depicts his desert country in all the differing lights of day and seasons of the year. Kudditji extends the late works of his older sister, renowned artist Emily Kngwarreye, in a complementary way, creating suites of colour and mood that reflect the power of his custodial country at Alhalkere.
The exhibitions open on Saturday 12 September 2009 at 2.30pm and remain open daily until 7th October 2009
Print quality images are available from here for print media purposes.
For further information, please contact Ian Plunkett (Gallery Director)
on (08) 9335 8265 or via email on japingka@iinet.net.au.
Gallery Hours: Mon - Fri: 10.00am - 5.30pm, Sat & Sun: 12.00pm - 5.00pm. FREE ENTRY.
Exhibitions can be viewed online at: www.japingka.com.au.
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