What's New at Nomad Art
Jean Baptiste Apuatimi and Maria Josette Orsto new prints and paintings.
On exhibition at Nomad Art from 7 July - 8 August 2008
In 2007 Jean Baptiste Apuatimi and her daughter Maria Josette Orsto from Tiwi Design on Bathurst Island, began a new series of etchings and lithographs with master printer Martin King at the Australian Print Workshop in Melbourne. This exhibition features Jean Baptiste Apuatimi's etchings of her jikapayinga (fresh water crocodile design) and lithographs by Maria Josette Orsto of jilamara body painting designs using the traditional ironwood comb.
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Photo: Jean Baptiste Apuatimi
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Jean Baptiste Apuatimi Jikapayinga etching ©Tiwi Design 2008 |
Maria Josette Orsto Miyinga jilamara lithograph © Tiwi Design 2008 |
Nyapanyapa Yunupingu - prints, carvings & barks: Nomad Art from 1-30 June 2008
Nyapanyapa is quite remarkable. She is perhaps the artist of the region most remote from the market she creates for. In this sense her art is really quite pure for it is without any consideration or desire to understand what happens beyond point of sale to her art centre. Through an increasing interest in her work these things may change.
She is a widow, a wife of the late Djapu clan leader Djirrin Mununggurr. She is a ceremonial woman and a battler without material possession. She is a classificatory sister to star artist Gulumbu and traveled once to Adelaide for the 2005 Festival with her kin for a critically acclaimed crying performance in honour of her deceased sister and senior artist Gaymala.
Nyapanyapa’s prints, especially her whacky and boldly coloured screen prints have been a hit for 10 years. Many of her editions have been in many exhibitions around the world. She started to paint on bark in 2007.
'Nyapanyapa' is on show at Nomad Art from 1-30 June
Image: Nyapanyapa working at Buku-Larrnggay Mulka ©2008
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 Garrangali the Crocodiles Nest, natural pigments on bark, 101x38 cm, © Buku-Larrnggay Mulka 2008 |
 Baru ga Miyapunu (Crocodile and Sea Turtle), natural pigments on bark, 101x38 cm, © Buku-Larrnggay Mulka 2008 |
Gunytjulu, screenprint © Buku-Larrnggay Mulka 2008 |
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Recent prints from Warmun Arts (May 2008)
Twenty new etchings reflect the vibrant ochres of the artists of Warmun, Western Australia. In all, 12 Warmun artists collaborated with Monique Auricchio at Basil Hall Editions.
Blandina Barney has painted Gumbubayin, the river heading across her father Gordon Barney's country towards a hill called Gulungurren. In the Ngarrangkarni (Dreaming) the crocodile and the goanna swapped their teeth in this country.
Other artists featured in the collection include Evelyn Malgil, Gabriel Nodea, Katie Cox, Lena Nyadbi, Mabel Juli, Madigan Thomas, Marietta Bray, Marissa Kingsley, Sade Carrington, Seanne Peters, Shirley Purdie and Marika Patrick.
Warmun prints are on show at Nomad Art from 5-30 May
(Image: Dayiwul Jimbirla Ngarrangkarni by Lena Nyadbi, part of a new collection of etchings from Warmun Arts in Western Australia reflecting the vibrant ochre colours and the artist’s cultural associations with the Kimberly landscape.
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Seanne Peters Emu Dreaming
Recent prints from Warlukurlangu Artists (April 2008)
Paddy Japaljarri Sims from Yuendumu in collaboration with Basil Hall has completed a folio of 4 etchings to mark the artists 90th year.
The prints show the traditional practices associated with burning off areas of spinifex country. The fires are lit around the central circular motifs that depict mulju (water soakages) so that Liwirringki (burrowing skinks) and other lizards and small mammals are flushed out of their burrows and hiding places. The circular motifs represent mulju and curvy lines are used to represent Warlu (fire) and flames spreading out in the area. This Dreaming is specifically associated with hunting Liwirringki and is celebrated with a corroborree, on the same ground burnt by the fire.
(Image: Paddy Japaljarri Sims at Yuendumu working on the etching plates published to mark his 90th year.)
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| Warlu Jukurrpa (Fire Dreaming), etching Image size 19 x 14 cms © Warlukurlangu Artists 2007. | Warlu Jukurrpa (Fire Dreaming) by Paddy Japaljarri Sims © Warlukurlangu Artists 2007 | The folio containing the four etchings. |
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Basil Hall Editions (BHE) Collectors' Folio series III (March 2008)
This folio is a compilation of etchings and a linocut featuring six prominent Indigenous artists including Dennis Nona (winner of the 2007 Telstra Art Award), Dhuwarrwarr Marika, Janice Murray, Lena Nyadbi, Lofty Nadjamerrek and Shorty Robertson.
This is the latest in the highly sought after BHE Collectors series, which are packaged in a unique A4 sized presentation folio.
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Tales of the Avians (August 2007)
Tales of the Avians is a visual carnival of warm-blooded, egg-laying, vertebrate animals with feathered wings, three primary and one accessory toe, keen sight, acute hearing, little sense of smell, hollow bones, a gizzard and the extraordinary ability to fly and sing.
Well-known Darwin artists Bryan Bulley, Rob Brown and Monique Auricchio are joined by remote Indigenous artists Janice Murray from Melville Island, Peggy Jones from Tennant Creek and Nura Rupert from Central Australia. The collection includes etchings and screenprints created by a group of eclectic artists linked by a common interest in birds and a unique creative vision. The works embody the cultural and geographical diversity and distinctive spirit, which characterises art from northern and central Australia.
Presented by Nomad Art Productions in conjunction with Basil Hall Editions, the exhibition is part of the Festival of Darwin August 2007
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Rob Brown and Basil Hall at the printing press at Basil Hall Editions Darwin. |
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Artist Peggy Jones during the print workshop at Julalikari Arts in Tennant Creek. |
Basil Hall Editions (BHE) Central Australian Collection
The new Basil Hall Editions (BHE) Collectors' Folio series II is now available. The collection of etchings features six prominent Indigenous artists from central Australia including Kathleen Petyarre, Abie Loy, Paddy Sims, Paddy Stewart, Betsy Lewis and Lorna Fencer (dec.)
Series II follows the highly successful series I collection of Arnhem Land prints which includes etchings by Bardayal "Lofty" Nadjamerrek, Glen Namundja, Gabriel Maralngurra, Gulumbu Yunupingu, Wukun Wanambe and Don Namundja.
The BHE Collectors folio is packaged in a unique A4 sized presentation folio and is ideal for gifts and travelers.
(Image: Abie Loy, Body Painting 2006. BHE Collectors' Folio series II)
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Replant: a new generation of botanical art
Replant is an excursion through the eyes of six different artists into the remarkable world of plants in the tropical north of Australia. This exciting folio of limited edition etchings explores the unique characteristics of species that survive and prosper through the climatic extremes of monsoonal rains, dry weather and wild fires
Gathering at Daly River, 230 kilometres southwest of Darwin in March 2006 the artists explored the scientific, cultural and social aspects of Indigenous plant species with traditional knowledge custodians and ethno botanist Glenn Wightman. Together they distilled ideas and visions in an acutely observed survey of Top End flora and environment. The group then returned to Darwin to the printmaking studio of master printmaker Basil Hall to resolve the work.
Replant reflects the traditional role of women as gatherers of food and holders of knowledge, combined with the rise of printmaking as a significant medium for Indigenous artists.
Replant was exhibited at George Brown Darwin Botanical Gardens August 2006 as part of the Darwin Festival and is supported the Australia Council for the Arts, NT Research and Innovation Board and Arts NT.
Injalak Hill Suite - Kunwarrde Bim
Kunwarrde Bim (Stone Country Painting) is a collection of etchings by nine artists from Injalak Arts and Crafts in Western Arnhem Land. The x-ray images are based on ancient rock art at Injalak Hill, which overlooks the community of Oenpelli. The etchings are presented in a series of unique ceramic boxes. Celebrated artist Bardayal (Lofty) Nadjamerrek has painted directly onto the clay surface of each box reflecting the ancient sandstone of the Arnhem escarpment, thus providing an opportunity for collectors to acquire examples of the rock art of Bardayal Nadjamerrek, one of the last surviving rock art practitioners.
Kunwarrde Bim originated in 2003 when printmaker Basil Hall approached Injalak Arts with the idea. In 2004 a printmaking workshop took place at Injalak Hill resulting in a folio of etchings by the nine men featuring x-ray images painted in a similar style to those on the rock surfaces.
Manager of Injalak Arts, Anthony Murphy believes the project is the first of its kind involving a rock artist. “Injalak Hill" is a world famous rock art site. It boasts extensive galleries, literally thousands of paintings scattered amongst the boulders and breathtaking views of floodplains and the famed Arnhem Land Escarpment. Lofty has eagerly embraced the idea of working on a “new” surface and younger artists at Injalak have often expressed their interest in working in the “old way” on etching plates” he said.
Sets of the etchings are presented in ten ceramic boxes or 20 cloth-bound folios, a limited selection of individual prints are also available from the end of June 2006.
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New prints by renowned Top End artists, Banduk Marika and Christine Christophersen.
Banduk Marika: Yalangbara Suite
Distinguished Arnhem Land artist Banduk Marika recently completed a colour version of her celebrated Yalangbara Suite of six colour reduction linocuts. Printed by Neil Emmerson at Basil Hall Editions in Darwin, the prints explore the theme of Guyurr (the journey) of the Ancestor creator, Djan’kawu to the shores of northeast Arnhem Land.
The Djan’kawu, two sisters and their brother, come from the east by canoe to Arnhem Land and then traveled west creating names, animals, landforms and languages and giving birth to the Dhuwa moiety clans of the area. The suite of six prints depicts the stages in the siblings’ journey from the island of Barralku to the shores of the mainland.
The six beautifully carved and elegant images are now available at Nomad Art Productions nomad@nomadart.com.au
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Christine Christophersen: The balance between men and women
The balance of men and women...............The creator gave us the gift of
social structure, therefore all humans are either, Sun, Pandanus, Fire or
Rock. The balance of our obligation is an equal arrangement.
The balance of men and women, silk screen-print on Archers Buff Paper, paper size 56 x 76cm, image size 52.2 x 72.2, price $300.00.
Christine Christophersen was born in 1959 in Darwin Australia. While her mother's country is located in Kakadu National Park, Christine is a member of the Murran Clan, in northwest Arnhem Land. She is of the Iwatja language group. With a diverse background as an artist, journalist, researcher, administrator, teacher, writer and activist Christine has been at the forefront of Aboriginal issues for over two decades. Christine recently returned from France where she spent two and a half months giving lectures at art schools and Universities and to the public. She presented a solo exhibition of her work "BluePrint" at Maison Follie in Lille, which ended in December. While in France she made her first print "The Balance of Men and Women" in collaboration with print master Alain Buyse.