Backyard Wild

Opening Friday 18 November 2011
Until 10 December

Prints, photographs and sculpture by: Talitha Kennedy, Siying Zhou, Anna Reynolds, Winsome Jobling, Merran Sierakowski, Basil Hall.

Darwin suburbs are a unique environment where the indoor and out-door blend together. Houses, backyards and parks host a continuing cycle of growth, decay and fusion, a place where wildlife thrives as a continuum of nature. Plant roots, creepers, seedpods, birds, reptiles, insects, organisms and people collaborate and compete for backyard equilibrium.

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Recent Prints from Warnum Arts

Warmun artists are renowned for images in natural ochres, which are integral to the contemporary expression of land, culture and identity of the Gija people. These etchings draw upon traditional Ngarrangkarni (Dreaming) stories and contemporary life and include new work by Charlene Carrington, Churchill Cann, Nancy Nodea and Shirley Purdie. Editioned at Basil Hall Editions in Darwin.

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Bardayal Bim

A folio of ten limited edition prints by renowned artist Bardayal Nadjamerrek AO (Deceased)

From the heart of Ankung Kunred (sugarbag), country of the Arnhem Land plateau, Bardayal brought the sacred stories of ancestral beings and fauna and flora to life. Bardayal Bim is the ‘big story’, the embodiment of his dreaming place. ‘My ancestors gave me this place and I myself have a longing for this country.’ Bardayal Nadjamerrek AO.

A boxed folio of ten limited edition etchings, edition size 30. Collaborative printmaker Andrew Sinclair.

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Many Stories To Tell

Many Stories to Tell is a selection of new prints from Yarrenyty-Arltere in Alice Springs. The exhibition features powerful images of the artists’ Arrernte homelands west of Alice Springs and are the result of a two-week workshop with Tasmanian print maker Maddie Goodwolf.

Yarrenyty-Arltere Learning Centre is a family resource and learning centre, which aims to improve the social, health, environmental and economic well being of the community in a way that strengthens and respects culture.

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I AM TIWI

A boxed folio of ten prints by Jean Baptiste Apuatimi

Launching 15 April in Darwin, Canberra and Melbourne An important folio of ten limited edition prints by renowned Tiwi artist Jean Baptiste Apuatimi. This body of work embodies the iconic imagery produced by this important Australian artist for whom painting is an act of engagement in a culture and tradition linking the past with the present and nurturing the future.

Etchings produced at Australian Print Workshop and lithographs produced at Tiwi Design, Bathurst Island in collaboration with APW Printers Martin King and Simon White. All works editioned at Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne.

Download a PDF Catalogue of the exhibition (2MB) >

Jean Baptiste Apuatimi at Tiwi Design on Bathhurst Island working on her prints. Martin King and Jean Baptiste Apuatimi at Australian Print Workshop in Melbourne.

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Napurrung Djama (Our Work)

Nov 25 – Dec 31 2010

Napurrung Djama (Our Work) is a collection of limited edition multi-plate etchings created by artists working with Elcho Island Arts in collaboration with printmakers from Basil Hall Editions.

The etchings, by men and women, both young and old, tell old stories in new ways – stories of creation, spirit beings, funeral and initial ceremonies, art making, body painting, weather patterns and the movement of water, and stories from the mission days.

The artists included in the exhibition are Mavis Warrngilna Ganambarr, Andrew Marrkula, Margaret Gudumurrkuwuy, Joe Manyguluma, Wendy Galanini Yunupingu, Tommy Minburra, Jocelyn Gumirrmirr and David Djarrka.

Image: David Djarrka, Mokuy (Spirit men) © 2010, etching

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Tiwi Shima

Tiwi Shima celebrates the combined creative printmaking talents of artists across the Tiwi Islands in the Northern Territory. For the first time, artists from all three Tiwi art centres have worked exclusively in water-based Japanese-style woodcut method known as suisai moku hanga, and have collaborated with Northern Editions’ printmaker Jacqueline Gribbin to achieve remarkable new work. The Tiwi tradition of woodcarving has translated seamlessly into this unique style of printmaking. The resulting prints from Munupi Arts and Craft, Tiwi Design and Jilamara Art and Craft provide a fresh and exciting addition to an already impressive printmaking history on the Tiwi Islands which began in the 1960s.

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Djalkiri: We are standing on their names – Blue Mud Bay

31 July – 4 September 2010: Exhibiting at 24HR ART NT Centre for Contemporary Art

Djalkiri is a Nomad Art Production exhibiting at 24HR ART NT Centre for Contemporary Art, as a part of the Darwin Festival in August 2010.

Djalkiri is an exhibition of works by Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists created during a cross-cultural collaborative printmaking workshop at Yilpara, Blue Mud Bay, Arnhem Land in 2009. Djalkiri literally means ‘footprint’, but when applied to Yolgnu law it takes on a more profound meaning, forming the ‘spiritual foundation of the world’.

The title, Djalkiri: We are standing on their names, are words spoken by Djambawa Marawili AM. It is an acknowledgement of cultural inheritance based on understanding and mutual respect. It is about walking together in the footsteps of the ancestors.

Read more about Djalkiri: We are standing on their names – Blue Mud Bay >>

Download a PDF Catalogue of the Folio (2.4MB) >>

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Prints & Pandanus: Bula’bula Arts and Durrmu Arts

Until 29 June 2010

This exhibition features prints and weavings from two Top End art centres. Durrmu artists at Peppimenarti have produced a new body of etchings which focus on women’s weaving traditions. The lino prints by Bula’bula artists at Ramingining focus on traditional themes including woven objects. The exhibition includes a range of beautiful pandanus weavings, mats, bottles and baskets.

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Ochres on paper from Ngaruwanajirri Art Centre on Tiwi Islands

4 - 27 June 2010

Featuring new works on arches paper by Lorna Kantilla, Estelle Munkanome and Alfonso Puautjimi.
Ngaruwanajirri is located at Nguiu on Bathurst Island, Northern Territory, Australia, (known as the Tiwi Islands) located about 60 kilometers north of Darwin.

The word Ngaruwanajirri is Tiwi for “helping one another”. The workshop is located at the historic “Keeping House” and has been operating as an art centre for people with disabilities since 1994.

New Prints from Yarrenyty-Arltere

Yarrenyty-Arltere Learning Centre (YALC) is a family resource and learning centre located at Yarrenyty-Arltere (Larapinta) town camp in Alice Springs.

The centre aims to improve the social, health, environmental and economic well being of the community in a way that strengthens and respects culture.

The art program has been at the heart of the centre’s activities and this exhibition features powerful images of people and place.

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Anna Reynolds Awesome Atrocity

Anna Reynolds has lived on the Darwin waterfront and in rural areas for the past 16 years. In this series of digital inkjet prints she reflects on the changing face of Darwin as new developments replace the old, yet the natural tropical environment remains resilient and undeniable.

View artwork by Anna Reynolds at the Online Gallery >>

Gapu Series III

These 11 new etchings make up the third series of the ‘Gapu’ edition, developed with Darwin print maker Basil Hall (basil Hall Editions). The artists are from Mialli (West Arnhem) and Wagilak (North East Arnhem) language groups. Artists have depicted scenes around ‘gapu’ (water), central to their daily lives and to the extensive cultural knowledge system of remote Arnhem Land.

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Darwin Editions

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.

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 >>

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Azimuth

New paper works by Winsome Jobling

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

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Tali Tjintiri-Tjintiri Munu Kapi Tjukula (Red Sands and Rockholes)

This 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.

View the Tali Tjintiri-Tjintiri Munu Kapi Tjukula (Red Sands and Rockholes) Collector’s Folio on the Online Gallery >> 

Elcho Elements

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.

View the Elcho Elements collection on the Online Gallery  >>

New Prints from Buku Larrnggay Mulka

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.

View the prints from Buku Larrnggay Mulka on the Online Gallery >>

Recent prints from Mangkaja Arts

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.

View the Mangkaja artists on the Online Gallery >> 

Nyapanyapa Yunupingu – prints, carvings & barks

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’s work has been more valued for the spontaneity and texture of her hand. She expresses her capacity to live in the moment in the freeness of her mark making. There is no calculation or even regard for the audience in her renditions. Their final appearance is almost random. They are an expression of the movements of her hand as they happen to have taken place on that particular day.

In 2008 Nyapanyapa attracted critical acclaim when she won the Wandjuk Marika 3D Memorial Award at the annual Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards. This installation of video and print reflected on an incident from the 1970’s when Nyapanyapa was badly gored by a buffalo.

Image: Nyapanyapa working at Buku-Larrnggay Mulka ©2008

View Nyapanyapa Yunupingu artwork on the online gallery >> 

Yati: Mono Prints from Tiwi Design

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

Mono Prints and etchings from Ninuku Arts

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

View the Ninuku Artists on the Online Gallery >> 

Basil Hall Editions (BHE) Collectors’ Folio series IV

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 >> 

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.

View the Waringarri Artists, Kununurra artwork on the online gallery >>

View the Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills artwork on the online gallery >>

Ta Teut Amarasi – Awakening: Contemporary textiles and prints based on the traditions of Amarasi, West Timor

Ta Teut Amarasi – Awakening is visual arts exhibition of traditional Indonesian hand woven textiles and contemporary prints on hand-made paper and is part of the at Darwin Festival 2008. The exhibition is the outcome of an ongoing artistic collaboration between Darwin artists and Sanggar Uim Nima, an Indonesian weaving collective.

In 2007, Darwin artists, Winsome Jobling and Leon Stainer, travelled to Baun, Amarasi, in West Timor to introduce fine art print and paper-making techniques to Sanggar Uim Nima. Local plant crops including grasses and banana trees were utilised for papermaking, while the community learnt print-making techniques including linocut and copper engraving.

From the workshops a series of limited edition prints has been produced. These prints, which employ motifs and imagery used in Sanggar Uim Nima’s textile work, will be exhibited as part of Ta Teut Amarasi – Awakening along with a range of the community’s traditional textiles.

This project is part of the Asialink Eastern Indonesia – Northern Territory Partnership Program, funded by The Ford Foundation, Jakarta and Arts NT, and produced in partnership with Yayasan Kelola, Charles Darwin University and Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory and Nomad Art Productions.

Read the essay by Angus Cameron 2008>> Ta Teut Amarasi – Awakening: Contemporary textiles and prints based on the traditions of Amarasi, West Timor.

View the Ta Teut Amarasi collection on the Online Gallery >>

Galuku 2008

The Galuku Gallery on show at the Botanic Gardens Darwin, Darwin Festival 15–31 August 2008. Open evenings 6–10 pm.

In Galuku 2008, artists from the renowned Buku Larrnggay Mulka Art Centre in Yirrkala present a new body of etchings and Larrakitj (Ceremonial poles). The new works pay homage to their ancestors and the historic visit to Yirrkala by anthropologists Ronald and Catherine Berndt in 1947.

The Galuku (Palm Tree) Gallery is one of the highlights of the Darwin Festival as the Botanic Gardens are transformed into a magical night-time gallery with no walls.

Read more about the background to the prints >>

View the Galuku 08 collection on the Online Gallery >>

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 (dec) 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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Nyapanyapa Yunupingu – prints, carvings & barks:

Nomad Art from 1-30 June 2008 and 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.

Nyapanyapa’s work has been more valued for the spontaneity and texture of her hand. She expresses her capacity to live in the moment in the freeness of her mark making. There is no calculation or even regard for the audience in her renditions. Their final appearance is almost random. They are an expression of the movements of her hand as they happen to have taken place on that particular day.

In 2008 Nyapanyapa attracted critical acclaim when she won the Wandjuk Marika 3D Memorial Award at the annual Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards. This installation of video and print reflected on an incident from the 1970’s when Nyapanyapa was badly gored by a buffalo.

Image: Nyapanyapa working at Buku-Larrnggay Mulka ©2008

View Nyapanyapa Yunupingu artwork on the online gallery >>

Recent prints from Warmun Arts (May 2008)

Warmun prints are on show at Nomad Art from 5-30 May

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.

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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.

View the Warlukurlangu Artists artwork on the online gallery >>

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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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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Injalak Hill Suite – Kunwarrde Bim (2006)

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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Banduk Marika: Yalangbara Suite

Distinguished Arnhem Land artist Banduk Marika's 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 (2006)

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.

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