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Threads of Life – Glass works by Meng Hoeschle
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 […]
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Threads of Life – Glass works by Meng Hoeschle
6 - 28 November 2009Meng 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.
Azimuth
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 […]
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Azimuth
2 October - 31 October 2009New 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
Tali Tjintiri-Tjintiri Munu Kapi Tjukula (Red Sands and Rockholes)
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 […]
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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.
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 […]
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Elcho Elements
July 11 - August 1 2009This 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.
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 […]
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New Prints from Buku Larrnggay Mulka
Sat 11 July - Sat 1 August 2009Artists 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 […]
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Recent prints from Mangkaja Arts
13 June - 4 July 2009Mangkaja 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.
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 […]
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Nyapanyapa Yunupingu – prints, carvings & barks
6 June - 4 July 2009Nyapanyapa 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
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 […]
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Yati: Mono Prints from Tiwi Design
9 May - 10 June 2009Yati (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 […]
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Mono Prints and etchings from Ninuku Arts
May 2 - May 30 2009Pirinyi, (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
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 […]
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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 >>
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 […]
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Kimberley Focus: Recent etchings from Waringarri Artists, Kununurra and Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills April 2009
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 >>
Gapu: Water (Billabong Series II). Exhibiting at Nomad Art: 6-28 March 2009
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. (Image: Simon Ashley etching copyright Ghunmarn Culture Centre 2008 )