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What's New at Nomad Art 2010
Darwin Editions 5 February - 6 March 2010
Recent etchings by Darwin artists Don Whyte and Rob Brown.
Rob Brown has collaborated with Northern Editions printmaker Jacqueline Gribbin to produce a series of etchings exploring the life and works of Charles Darwin, on the 150th anniversary of the publication of his seminal work On the Origin of Species.
With his characteristic wit, Brown has depicted both ends of Darwin's evolutionary scale in these inventive and lively monochrome prints. Reminiscent of 17th century copper plate etchings they pay homage to one of Brown's idols Rembrandt, with their deep black chiaroscuro, irregular scratching marks and experimental quality.
These prints cleverly marry an old world sensibility with a sharp, humorous contemporary edge.
View artwork by Rob Brown at the Online Gallery >>
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| Rob Brown © Alan Marshall | Rob Brown © Charles Darwin 1863 |
The tangled and evocative images created by Don Whyte represent the contrasting natural environment of Northern Australia. Don enjoys interpretations viewers bring to the work as they find geological forms, animal skin or botanical patterning emerging from the work. He has recently produced three new etchings introducing warm tones and variations of mark making which compliment his fine ink drawings, textural paintings and monotone etchings.
View artwork by Don Whyte at the Online Gallery >>
Image: Don Whyte © Sepia #3 (double plate)
Footsteps on Blue Mud Bay
In October 2009 Nomad Art Productions organised an artists camp at Blue Mud Bay in Arnhem Land. Nine artists participated in the workshop with printmaker Basil Hall.
Image: Welcoming ceremony given by community members at Yilpara
Threads of Life New glass works by Meng Hoeschle 6 – 28 November
Meng Hoeschle has lived and worked as an artist and arts manager in the Top End of the Northern Territory since 1974.
Meng’s work refers to her Chinese Malay heritage and expresses metaphorically her physical and spiritual journey. She uses mainly recycled materials to symbolise the cycle of life.
Fish bones and coloured sands suggest the life and country of the people with whom Meng lived and felt so at one with on remote NT communities. Found objects such as fragments of corrugated iron and other metals refer to the earth’s minerals, transformed in past times to functional objects and now transformed again, reflecting the continual changes of state of all matter. Copper wire is threaded, knotted and fused within glass, to indicate the many threads of experience within her life’s journey.
(Image: Glass artist Meng Hoeschle installing her work at the Nomad Art Gallery )
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Detail Threads of Life by Meng Hoeschle, glass, sand and copper wire © 2009 |
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Azimuth: New paper works by Winsome Jobling
2 - 31 October 2009
Winsome Jobling is engaged in all aspects of paper making from historical and seasonal research to sourcing, harvesting and nurturing the fibre plants. Each plant produces unique and different qualities of paper. Her new work is the result of a study trip to the USA, in which the artist has been exploring the use of pigments, pulp spraying and commercially produced fibres such as abaca and hemp.
“The exhibition encompasses the here and the far away. The tracts of bushland within Darwin city are a breathing space and a refuge, a source of materials and ideas. Further away to the moon and the planets – I don’t want to have to move to another planet.” Winsome Jobling 2009
Read artist biography (PDF file download)
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| Winsome Jobling | Artwork: Winsome Jobling Chintz Layered hand made paper |
Artwork: Winsome Jobling Lunar Globe – res communis, Drypoint on high impact styrene with sandblast aquatint. Printed on hand made manila hemp paper (old mooring rope), 2009
Artwork: Winsome Jobling Grid, printed and hand made paper, 2009.
Tali Tjintiri-Tjintiri Munu Kapi Tjukula (Red Sands and Rockholes) is a boxed folio of ten screenprints produced at Tjungu Palya Art Centre with Basil Hall. The boxed folio features works by David Miller, Ginger Wikilyiri, Wingu Tingima, Lance Peck, Beryl Jimmy, Jimmy Baker, Nyankulya Watson, Angkaliya Curtis and Bernard Tjalkuri.
Tjungu Palya is a collaboration of artists located about 100 km south of Uluru at Nyapari in South Australia and is set at the base of the majestic Mann Ranges in the heart of country owned by the Pitjantjatjara people. The artists have powerful spiritual links to this desert country and their culture. There is a strong relationship between this deeply spiritual existence and the creation of paintings which embody the authority of intimate knowledge.
Basil Hall traveled to the art centre in 2008 and early 2009 to work with the artists on this stunning body of work.
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| David Miller working on his screenprint during the print workshop with Basil Hall © Tjungu Palya 2009. | Beryl Jimmy working on her screenprint, © Tjungu Palya 2009 | Print maker Basil Hall with artist David Miller signing his prints at Tjungu Palya Art Centre © Tjungu Palya 2009. |
Elcho Elements
July 11 – August 1 2009
This series of reduction wood block prints comes from Elcho Island Arts, located approximately 550kms north east of Darwin.
The wood block prints are an extension of a long established carving tradition. Each artwork is based upon inherited designs, which originate with ancestral beings who created the land. The prints are based on the four natural elements (earth, fire, water and sky) but also exist as a person, spirit, place, colour, song, dance, ceremony, season, experience, thought, plant, animal, or sea creature and the relationships connecting all these.
Elcho Elements is the result of a workshop held with Basil Hall Editions on the Island in 2009.
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| Joe Manygulma Ocean Currents reduction woodcut © Elcho Island Arts |
Joe Manygulma working on his Ocean Currents woodblock |
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| Tommy Minburra Rock reduction woodcut © Elcho Island Arts. |
Tommy Minburra carving his Rock wood block |
View the Elcho Elements collection on the Online Gallery
What's New at Nomad Project Space 2009
New Prints from Buku Larrnggay Mulka
Sat 11 July – Sat 1 August 2009
Artists at Buku Larrnggay Mulka have been making limited edition prints with support from Basil Hall Editions since 1996. The print workshop is located at the Art Centre and produces limited edition lino prints, wood cuts, screen prints and etchings.
The print images express the sacred identity of the artists, who come from Yirrkala and approximately 25 homeland centres within a radius of 250km, (the Miwatj region). Miwatj means 'morning side' and refers to the fact that it is the most eastern part of the Top End. Every print relates to the design of the artist’s own clan or connecting clans within this region.
Buku Larrnggay Mulka are renowned for spectacular exhibitions mounted on stringybark trees at the annual Garma Festival (Gapan Gallery), and at the Darwin Festival (Galuku Gallery) in conjunction with Nomad Art.
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| Galuku 2007 | Naminapu 1 Maymuru and Naminapu Maymuru with Meren Serekowski at the Buku Larrnggay Mulka Print workshop. |
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| Dundiwuy 2 Mununggurr Burralku etching © Buku Larrnggay Mulka 2009 |
View the prints from Buku Larrnggay Mulka on the Online Gallery
Touring Exhibitions
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Replant Touring ExhibitionReplant: A new generation of botanical art is next showing in Tasmania at Burnie Regional Gallery 24 July to 13 September 2009. View the coming touring dates >> |
Dion Beasley A Dog's LifeCessnock Regional Art Gallery 21 July-23 August 2009 |
Previous Exhibitions during 2009
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Nyapanyapa Yunupingu
6 June - 4 July 2009
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.
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| Nyapanyapa Yunupingu Monananin (Gecko) screenprint © Buku Larrnggay Mulka 2006 | Nyapanyapa Yunupingu Crayfish natural pigments on bark © Buku Larrnggay Mulka 2009 |
View Nyapanyapa Yunupingu artwork on the Online Gallery >>
Recent prints from Mangkaja Arts
13 June – 4 July 2009
Mangkaja artists began print making in 1994 with Martin King from the Australian Print Workshop (APW) in Melbourne. The artists produced a wide variety of images in the first workshop at Mangkaja Arts and have continued to produce prints with APW.
More recently, in 2003, four Mangkaja artists Ngarralja Tommy May, Dorothy May, Nyuju Stumpy Brown and Hitler Pamba took part in the Garma collaborative panel workshop, an etching project conducted by Basil Hall Editions at the Garma Festival. Subsequently Basil Hall has conducted a number of workshops at the Art Centre resulting in this recent body of work.
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| Daisy Andrews Untitled screenprint © Mangkaja Arts 2009 | Daisy Andrews |
View the Mangkaja artists on the Online Gallery >>
Previous exhibitions at Nomad Art Gallery and Nomad Project Space
Yati: Mono Prints from Tiwi Design
9 May - 10 June 2009
Yati (One) is an exhibition of mono print etchings by artists at Tiwi Design. Each artist worked on acetate plates, which were then inked up and printed in traditional Tiwi red, yellow and black to mirror the ochres used in ceremonial body painting and the decoration of poles and carvings. The images were produced during a workshop with the an ‘Australian Print Workshop’ in 2008.
These works are not on the online gallery, please contact Nomad Art for more information gallery@nomadart.com.au
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| Brenda Tipungwuti Fighting Sticks 3 colour monotype, 2008 |
John Patrick Kelantumama Footy Man 3 colour monotype 2008 |
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| Mark Virgil Puautjimi Janini 3 colour monotype 2008 | Roslyn Orsto Purrikuparri (old bark) 3 colour monotype 2008 |
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| Tiwi Design artists and Manager during the APW workshop | ||
Mono Prints and etchings from Ninuku Arts
May 2 - May 30 2009
Pirinyi, (to scratch in Pitjantjatara), showcases a selection of limited edition mono prints and etchings from a recent workshop at Ninuku Arts in Kalka SA, a remote community near the tri-border of SA, WA & NT. The images were produced during a workshop with the ‘Australian Print Workshop’ in 2008.
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| Milyika Paddy Walpa etching © Ninuku Arts 2009 | Artists and facilitators at the APW workshop at Ninuku Arts in 2008 |
View the Ninuku Artists on the Online Gallery >>
Basil Hall Editions (BHE) Collectors' Folio series IV
April 2009
The BHE Collectors' Folio is a compilation of etchings and a screen print featuring six prominent Indigenous artists including Rosella Namok from Lockhart River, Judy Napangardi Watson from Warlukurlangu Artists, Yuendumu, Peggy Napangardi Jones from Julalikari Arts, Tennant Creek, Marika Patrick from Warmun Arts, Turkey Creek, Don Namundja from Gunbalanya and Regina Wilson from Durrmu Arts, Peppimenarti.
This is the latest in the highly sought after BHE Collectors series, which are packaged in a unique A4 sized presentation folio.
View the Basil Hall Editions (BHE) Collectors' Folio series IV on the Online Gallery >>
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| Rosella Namok Kaapay and Kuyan etching 2009 |
New etchings by Darwin Artist Don Whyte and Yirrkala artist, Wukun Wanambi.
View Don Whyte etchings on the Online Gallery >>
View Wukun Wanambi etchings on the Online Gallery >>
Kimberley Focus: Recent etchings from Waringarri Artists, Kununurra and Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills April 2009
This exhibition features Kimberley Ink, the Waringarri Suite and selected recent works produced at Northern Editions print studio in Darwin. This exhibition celebrates the culture and beauty of the Kimberley through the work of significant artists including Alan Griffiths, Peggy Griffiths, Mignonette Jamin, Peter Newry from Waringarri Arts and Eubena Nampitjin and Elizabeth Nyumi from Warlayirti Artists.
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View the Waringarri Artists, Kununurra artwork on the online gallery >>
View the Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills artwork on the online gallery >>
Gapu – Water (Billabong Series II). Exhibiting at Nomad Art
6 - 28 March 2009
Simon Ashley etching copyright Ghunmarn Culture Centre 2008
These new etchings make up the second series of the 'Gapu' edition developed with Darwin print maker Basil Hall. The artists are from Mialli (West Arnhem) and Rittharngu/Wagilak (North East Arnhem) language groups. Each artist has depicted scenes around 'gapu' (water), central to their daily lives and to the extensive cultural knowledge system of remote Arnhem Land.
The result is a series of delightfully whimsical prints in limited editions of 30.
View the Gapu – Water (Billabong Series II) Series on the Online Gallery >>
The Pandanus Project
The Pandanus Project showcases fibre works resulting from a six month artistic exchange between weavers from the Beswick community and fibre artist Adrienne Kneebone. The artists worked with Adrienne to develop new work, ideas and techniques and easily adapted to contemporary fibre art forms, fusing traditional knowledge with their new skills.
Image: Ghunmarn Cultural Centre at Wugularr (Beswick) Community in Arnhem Land
Nomad Art News Archive 2006-2008
In this section we have archived the news items that featured on this page. Please scroll through the list that begins with the most recent items and click on the link 'Read more>>' to see the original information.
Custodians: Country and Culture Exhibition 11 August - 30 September 2008
This set of 10 limited edition prints by ten Indigenous Australian artists reflecting upon the nature of their custodial role whether as a custodian of a particular image, story, area of country or in a wider ceremonial context.
Ta Teut Amarasi – Awakening: Contemporary textiles and prints Amarasi, West Timor. Darwin Festival 15–31 August 2008
Ta Teut Amarasi - Awakening is an exhibition of traditional Indonesian hand woven textiles and contemporary prints on hand-made paper and is part of the at Darwin Festival 2008.
Galuku 2008 Darwin Festival 15–31 August 2008
In Galuku 2008, artists from the renowned Buku Larrnggay Mulka Art Centre in Yirrkala present a new body of etchings that pay homage to their ancestors and the historic visit to Yirrkala by anthropologists Ronald and Catherine Berndt in 1947.
Jean Baptiste Apuatimi and Maria Josette Orsto new prints and paintings (Aug 08)
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. On exhibition at Nomad Art from 7 July - 8 August 2008
Nyapanyapa Yunupingu - prints, carvings & barks: Nomad Art from 1-30 June 2008
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.
Recent prints from Warmun Arts (Exhibiting 5-30 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. Warmun prints are on show at Nomad Art from 5-30 May
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.
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 and is the latest in the highly sought after BHE Collectors series, which are packaged in a unique A4 sized presentation folio.
Tales of the Avians (August 2007)
The collection includes etchings and screenprints created by a group of artists linked by a common interest in birds and a unique creative vision from northern and central Australia. The exhibition is part of the Festival of Darwin August 2007
Basil Hall Editions (BHE) Central Australian Collection
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 (deceased). The BHE Collectors folio is packaged in a unique A4 sized presentation folio and is ideal for gifts and travelers.
Replant: A new generation of botanical art
Replant is an exciting folio of limited edition etchings exploring the unique characteristics of species that survive and prosper through the climatic extremes of monsoonal rains, dry weather and wild fires of Northern Australia.
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 etchings are presented in a series of unique ceramic boxes.
Banduk Marika: Yalangbara Suite
Distinguished Arnhem Land artist Banduk Marika has completed a colour version of her celebrated Yalangbara Suite of six colour reduction linocuts. The prints explore the theme of Guyurr (the journey) of Djan’kawu to the shores of northeast Arnhem Land.
Christine Christophersen: The balance between men and women
Christine, born in 1959 in Darwin Australia is of the Iwatja language group. She is an artist, journalist, researcher, administrator, teacher, writer and activist. Read more >>
