Bonnie Connelly was born near Docker River in the Northern Territory, a site that features often in Dreamtime narratives. She grew up living a traditional semi-nomadic lifestyle, until her family moved to Ernabella mission in South Australia. She now lives at Mutitjulu, working as a guide for Uluru– Kata Tjuta National Park, and as a demonstration artist for Maruku Arts. Like most Maruku Artists, she has been carving punu (woodwork) since she was young. With the move into painting at the arts centre, she has begun producing these fascinating ‘walka’ boards (walka meaning ‘design’). These boards fuse poker burnt designs, a punu technique, with painting, creating a new style of art that is unusual and effective.
The exhibition will be opened by Susan McCulloch
Wednesday 19 May 2010, 6-8 pm
Alison Kelly Gallery
Level 1/25 St Edmonds Road
Prahran
Victoria 3181
‘Painting the Song is that rare work that balances history, anthropology, and art criticism and succeeds at all three. Appendices document the major artists, the APY kinship system, and botanical references; a glossary of APY linguistic terms and extensive bibliographic notes richly supplement the text. And finally, there is a superb index, a feature often lacking in even the best monographs on Aboriginal art.’
Please visit the book’s page to order copies of this unique publication.
Australasian Arts Projects Presents: The Utopia Story: The art and artists of Utopia
Australasian Arts Projects is a regionally focused arts production company, newly established to entertain, inform and educate the general public about art, artists and artistic practice. Initially based in Singapore, Australasian Arts Projects is delighted to present its first event – The Utopia Story – an exhibition of remarkable work from the large Aboriginal community of Utopia in the central desert of Australia.
Utopia is the birthplace and home of some of Australia’s most pre-eminent Aboriginal artists, and there are approximately 200 artists working in the region today. Utopia has long been associated with some of Australia’s most exciting art – and the Aboriginal art movement, which is now recognised as one of the greatest aesthetic movements of the 21st century, has Utopia as its cornerstone.
The exhibition, which is the first comprehensive showing in Singapore of Utopian work, showcases powerful contemporary pieces from established and emerging Aboriginal artists. The Utopia Story will contextualise the art, telling the stories of each artist, their artwork, their land and their heritage.
The artists exhibiting their work for sale at The Utopia Story include Gloria Petyarre, Angeline Pwerle Ngala, Cowboy Louie Pwerle, Gladdy Kemarre, and Freddy Kngwarreye Jones amongst many others.
The Utopia Story will be held from Thursday 6 May until 4pm Wednesday 2 June, in an historic black and white house at 303 Tanglin Road.
Susan McCulloch will launch the exhibition on Thursday 6 May from 7.30-9.30pm.
For further information, please contact
Gabrielle Cummins and Simone Lourey, Australasian Arts Projects
303 Tanglin Road, Singapore 247952
Ph 9771 8974/9099 3779
gbbat@sprint.net.au/mail@simwill.com
McCulloch & McCulloch have a stand at this weekend's Art Red Hill, running from Friday night to Sunday. We will be doing book signings and also have a range of Indigenous art works from Central Australia, the Western Desert, NPY lands, the Kimberley and Tiwi Islands.
Art Red Hill
It’s been thirty years since parents at Red Hill Consolidated School and members of the Peninsula art community banded together to stage a fundraising art show in the school hall.
Art Red Hill has grown to attract visitors by the hundred who come to view 1000-plus exhibits by national and local artists and craftspeople. The show opens this year on Friday, April 30 and runs over the first weekend in May.
Today, exhibits include painting, photography and sculpture, glass and ceramics, textiles and jewellery.
The show has attracted a plethora of talent over the years, including Mornington painter Margo Vigorito, whose abstract work Orange In Red will be a raffle prize at the show. Other exhibitors who have donated work this year are jeweller Barbara Gambin and sculptor Robert Ford.
Several local artists who contributed works to early shows, or helped organise them, continue to exhibit at Art Red Hill today. They include Peninsula painters Lyn Lewis, Gillian Haig and Michael Leeworthy.
All works are for sale, and across a wide price range, offering a timely shopping opportunity to buy unique gifts for Mother’s Day.
Art Red Hill showcases the best from the Peninsula’s thriving art community as well as works from selected artists around Australia. For artists it is an 'invitation-only' show, ensuring a high standard of works on display.
The Art Red Hill opening night is one of the region’s most anticipated events, featuring canapes and regional wines, plus the chance to be among the first to buy the work on display. Refreshments are available throughout the weekend.
The show is run entirely by volunteers and proceeds go to Red Hill Consolidated School.
WHEN: Fri 30th April to Sun 2nd May
WHERE: Red Hill Consolidated School, Mornington-Flinders Road, Red Hill
COST: Opening night $25 per person, All other times entry $5
We are now offering selective advertising in both these high quality, popular and comprehensive publications.
Please also note the Booking Deadline of April 7 2010
Benefits to advertisers include:
• Year round daily exposure of activities to thousands of art-interested readers
• High exposure via these publications at key art events such as Melbourne Art Fair, Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair & Cairns Indigenous Art Fair, at exhibitions we curate and in our other public appearances and book promotion
• Wide distribution throughout bookshops, gift shops, art galleries, gallery shops, to all major media, and as corporate gifts
• Six copies of the Diary/ies free of charge per page of advertising (12 copies for 2 pages or double page ads)
• The opportunity to purchase further copies pre publication (before August 4, 2010) of further copies at 50% discount off RRP (minimum 10 copies, plus freight) with further copies as per our Trade Discounts at any time
We now have a new online art stockroom with beautiful paintings from the Central Desert, including Utopia, the well-known painting school of great colourists in the Northern Territory, the historically significant and sophisticated Western Desert school of Papunya & Kintore painters, the vibrant newer art communities of the APY and NPY Lands in South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory, the remote, diverse Western Australian Martu people, the famous ochre style of painting and works on paper from The Kimberley, and the top end, with the distinctive ochre paintings from the Tiwi Islands.
All work is personally sourced by McCulloch & McCulloch and carries excellent provenance.
We also offer an art consultancy service, offering advice on collecting and sourcing quality Indigenous art works. Please email us at info@mccullochandmcculloch.com.au for further information.
Edith Richards, Walka Board, 2009, hot wire etching and acrylic on wood, 60 x 20 cm. Maruku Arts, Mutitjulu, NT.
Feb. 19-22 2010
A wide variety of more than 55 new and vibrant Aboriginal artworks as well as baskets, books, jewellery and more from the APY Lands, Utopia, Kintore, Yuendumu, the Canning Stock Route and the Tiwi Islands.
Artists include Adam Gibbs Tjapaltjarri, Barbara Weir, Daisy Leura Nakamarra, Emma Daniel Nungurrayi, Dulcie Gibbs, Emily Pwerle, Lloyd Kwilla, Annie Farmer, Nola Bennett, Mathew Minton and Mitjili Napurrula.
Opening drinks: Thurs. Feb 18 6-8pm
Curators Talk: The desert renaissance: the last frontiers of Aboriginal art
Sat. Feb 20 6.30pm
Flinders Village Café
49 Cook Street
Flinders, Vic. 3929
RSVP (opening and talk) Feb 12. rsvp@mccullochandmcculloch.com.au
Celebrating the colours of summer, this new exhibition showcases art from Australia’s newest and most dynamic desert art producing regions.
Including work from the APY Lands, Western Desert, Spinifex Country, The Martu and Utopia. Artists include Adam Gibbs Tjapaltjarri, Anne Hogan, Charlie Tjapangati, Gloria Petyarre, Emily Pwerle, Galya Pwerle, Tatali Napurrula, Walala Tjapaltjarri, Barbara Weir, Yukultji Napangardi and Judith Yinkiya Chambers.
Curated by Susan McCulloch and Emily McCulloch Childs
Curator’s Talk: Masters & Emerging Talents: the last frontiers of desert art. Sat. Jan 23 4 pm
Drinks: Sat Jan 23 6 pm
Curator’s Talk: The Desert Renaissance: highlights from the exhibition. Sun. Jan 24 4 pm
Montsalvat and Eltham Bookshop invite you to celebrate the festive season with a glass of wine in the company of eloquent writers Susan Hawthorne and Janine Burke.
Susan will be talking about her recent book, Earth's Breath, and Janine Burke will be in conversation with Susan McCulloch about her book Source: Nature's healing role in art and writing.
Australasian Arts Projects Presents: The Utopia Story: The art and artists of Utopia
