Browsing the Archives from 0 - Nomad Art


« Back to exhibitions

A Year in Review

As 2022 draws to a close, we celebrate our first year of Nomad Art at Kibble Lane, Avenel. It has been a year of celebrations and new beginnings.   Thank you to all those who supported and participated in our artistic program. A special acknowledgement to Arts Victoria for supporting the reactivation of Nomad Art in […]


Read More >

  • Nomad Art gallery and workshop in Avenel on Taungurung country.
  • Groundswell, work in paper by Winsome Jobling
  • Maku Inmaku Pakani (witchety grub) silkscreen by Ngupulya Pumani
  • Australasian Grebes on the Witjibar River, etching by John Wolseley
  • Wantaringuwi II (Sun), silkscreen by Tiwi artist Dino Wilson.
  • Boats, etching by Marina Strocchi

A Year in Review

-

As 2022 draws to a close, we celebrate our first year of Nomad Art at Kibble Lane, Avenel. It has been a year of celebrations and new beginnings.

 

Thank you to all those who supported and participated in our artistic program. A special acknowledgement to Arts Victoria for supporting the reactivation of Nomad Art in 2022.

 

The year kicked off with a workshop with paper making legend Winsome Jobling in March. In April master printmaker Basil Hall visited the Nomad Art workshop to share his skills and knowledge with a collagraph workshop. The irrepressible John Wolseley exhibited at Nomad Art in July. John’s new prints feature various creatures including Forest Kingfishers and Striated Pardalotes that inhabit the rich aquatic systems of rivers, creeks and ponds.

 

This year we featured a series of lectures on Aboriginal Art featuring the rich art making regions of the Tiwi Islands and western Arnhem Land. Nomad Art Lecture series will continue in 2023.

Christmas orders

Nomad Art is a rich source of limited-edition prints by artists working across remote Australia. Our online catalogue includes works from eastern Arnhem Land, the Kimberley, central and western deserts, the Tiwi and Torres Strait Islands. Artworks and gift certificates are available through the Nomad Art website. Please allow two working weeks to receive orders in the lead up to the busy Christmas period.

 

Links to the online Gallery

Groundswell, work in paper by Winsome Jobling

Maku Inmaku Pakani (witchety grub songline) by Ngupulya Pumani

Australasian Grebes on the Witjibar River by John Wolseley

Wantaringuwi II (Sun), etching by Tiwi artist Dino Wilson

Boats, etching by Marina Strocchi

John Wolseley – by the creek

Recent etchings, woodcuts and frottages   These prints were started four years ago by John while he was working in East Arnhem land with the late Mulkun Wirrpanda, and in the Riverina while making paintings for the project Earth Canvas – a collaborative project about regenerative farming with six artists and six farmers.   The Arnhem land prints include […]


Read More >

  • Djirrididi – Forest Kingfisher with moths and beetles, etching
  • Mayfly hatch with Pale Morning Duns, Blue-winged Olives, Green Drakes and Caddis Flies, etching
  • Australasian Grebes on the Witjibar River, etching
  • Australasian Grebes on the Witjibar River, etching & watercolour

John Wolseley – by the creek

01 July - 17 July 2022

Recent etchings, woodcuts and frottages

 

These prints were started four years ago by John while he was working in East Arnhem land with the late Mulkun Wirrpanda, and in the Riverina while making paintings for the project Earth Canvas – a collaborative project about regenerative farming with six artists and six farmers.

 

The Arnhem land prints include various creatures including Forest Kingfishers, Striated Pardalotes and ants which nest in termite mounds. Several of the birds are part of the big termite paintings in an exhibition called Still Life at the Buxton gallery, University of Melbourne.

 

The Riverina etchings  are about the miccorhizal fungus skeins and webs which connect trees and plants, and the rich aquatic life of the rivers, creeks and chains of ponds on Bibberinga Farm.

 

The artist would like to acknowledge Kaitlyn Gibson for her skill for printing of these works.

 

EVENTS

An evening soiree with the artist and his art

Friday 15 July 5.00 pm – $15 (new date)

 

Painting demonstration by John Wolseley SOLD OUT

Saturday 16 July 2.00 pm – $25 with afternoon tea (new date)

A demonstration of plein air watercolour, pencil, charcoal, ink, mud, frottage, nature printing and feral mark making. John will discuss his philosophical approach to art and irrepressible love of nature while demonstrating his methods of art making.

 

Bookings Essential

gallery@nomadart.com.au,

0428 308 793, 0415 912 115

Exhibition open by appointment 3 – 17 July

 

View the online catalogue

 

Winsome Jobling

  Winsome Jobling has 40 years’ experience turning natural fibres into fabulous two and three-dimensional art. She has exhibited nationally including a retrospective exhibition at the Northern Territory Museum in 2016 and regular solo exhibitions at Nomad Art Gallery.   Winsome recently conducted a paper making workshop at Nomad Art Studio in Avenel. During the workshop […]


Read More >

  • Winsome Jobling collecting sedge in Avenel Victoria
  • Winsome Jobling paper making workshop at Nomad Art, 2022
  • Network, drypoint on handmade paper by Winsome Jobling
  • Chatter #10, work in paper by Winsome Jobling
  • Chatter #2, print on handmade paper by Winsome Jobling 
  • The Wet, etching on handmade paper by Winsome Jobling 
  • Groundswell, Work in paper by Winsome Jobling

Winsome Jobling

01 April - 30 April 2022

 

Winsome Jobling has 40 years’ experience turning natural fibres into fabulous two and three-dimensional art. She has exhibited nationally including a retrospective exhibition at the Northern Territory Museum in 2016 and regular solo exhibitions at Nomad Art Gallery.

 

Winsome recently conducted a paper making workshop at Nomad Art Studio in Avenel. During the workshop people learnt how to choose suitable plant fibres, how to process them and form sheets of paper with a mould and deckle. They then expanded upon that skill turning the paper pulp into patterns and imagery through the paper making process. The outcome of the workshop was a series of unique and beautiful papers incorporating designs, stencils and water marks.

 

Focus on Basil Hall Editions

  Basil Hall has been working with Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal artists since 1983. For 16 years, he was based in Darwin where he and a group of experienced printmakers made prints with many hundreds of artists from over 55 Art Centres in Central Australia, Arnhem Land, the Tiwi Islands and the Kimberley area of Western Australia […]


Read More >

  • Brachychiton – Nanungguwa, etching by Fional Hall
  • Birrkuda, etching & screen print by Mulkun Wirrpanda (dec)
  • Guyamala (the naming of the fishes), linocut by Banduk Marika (dec)
  • Fertile, etching by Winsome Jobling
  • Awarrapun – Crocodile Design, etching by Aaron McTaggart
  • Untitled (two plate), etching by Karen Mills

Focus on Basil Hall Editions

01 March - 31 March 2022

 

Basil Hall has been working with Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal artists since 1983. For 16 years, he was based in Darwin where he and a group of experienced printmakers made prints with many hundreds of artists from over 55 Art Centres in Central Australia, Arnhem Land, the Tiwi Islands and the Kimberley area of Western Australia and southeast Asia.

 

In 2001 he established Basil Hall Editions (BHE), which has since initiated some of the most exciting art projects carried out in remote communities throughout Australia.

 

BHE is a centre of printmaking excellence, providing expert assistance to artists who wish to collaborate in the making of etchings, silkscreen prints, relief prints and collagraphs. Basil is now based in Canberra, where he has a print studio and workshop.

 

Basil Hall has worked closely with Nomad Art since 2005,
collaborating on numerous projects including:

 

Yalangbara Suite

Replant: A new Generation of Botanical art

Custodians: Country and Culture

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

Winsome Jobling

Aaron McTaggert

Karen Mills

 

Nomad Art – crossing borders

  Nomad art is now open at its new home in Avenel, Victoria. This year we will offer a program of practical art workshops, exhibitions and lectures at the new art complex. For information click here.   To celebrate reopening we are featuring watercolours and etchings by Anne McMaster and Jörg Schmeisser (dec).   Jörg Schmeisser Jörg […]


Read More >

  • Mt Buffalo Cathedral, etching by Jörg Schmeisser 
  • Milano Revisited, etching by Jörg Schmeisser
  • Diary and Beach Bits, etching by Jörg Schmeisser
  • Drift, unique etching by Anne McMaster
  • Balance, watercolour on paper by Anne McMaster
  • Stability, watercolour on paper by Anne McMaster
  • Nomad Art Gallery Avenel, open by appointment

Nomad Art – crossing borders

01 February - 31 January 2022

 

Nomad art is now open at its new home in Avenel, Victoria. This year we will offer a program of practical art workshops, exhibitions and lectures at the new art complex. For information click here.

 

To celebrate reopening we are featuring watercolours and etchings by Anne McMaster and Jörg Schmeisser (dec).

 

Jörg Schmeisser

Jörg Schmeisser was born in Germany in 1942 and lived in Australia from 1978 when he was appointed Head of Printmaking and Drawing at Canberra School of Art at the Australian National University. Schmeisser’s distinguished printmaking career was informed by a restless curiosity about the perception and essence of the visual world. From the beginning, Schmeisser was inspired by travel, his imagination fired by regular experiences of the unfamiliar and unknown.

 

His love of travel took him to Israel, Thailand, Japan, China, USA, Europe, India and Antartica. He participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. His work is a visual travelog of his wondrous life journey in prints.

 

View the online gallery

 

Anne McMaster

Anne is a contemporary visual artist based in Darwin, Australia. Her explorations with printmaking and watercolour mediums have led her to investigate the coastal aesthetics of coastal mangroves, coral, tide lines and sea faring objects.  Through the characteristics of using these materials and techniques Anne has incorporated the louvered window shapes found in tropical architecture to format her mark making and imagery.

 

Her recent research explored the notion of Drift, the motion of moving on the sea, movements in time, and elements of tidal flow. Anne uses the salty sea washes over etching plates and in her water colours representing the rhythmic tidal flows that occur daily, and is part of the natural coastal world.

 

View the online gallery

 

We acknowledge that we are on the traditional lands of the Taungurung people and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.