Rover Thomas & Kimberley Ochre Painters
Gallery 1
14 May - 30 June 2021
 Queenie McKenzie | Bower Bird DreamingSold |  Rover Thomas | Bedford StationSold |  Freddie Timms | Four Mile Plain – Bow RiverSold |  Freddie Timms | Dry Creek Plains- diptychSold |  Jack Britten | Munjalnariny – Yalatji CountrySold |  Rover Thomas | Bedford StationSold |  Freddie Timms | Mule Creek Waterhole – Bow RiverSold |  Jack Britten | Burrup Nyitka – Sunrise over Bungle BunglesSold |  Queenie McKenzie | Dalyuyn CountrySold |  Henry Wambini | Ord JunctionSold |  Freddie Timms | Warabuny GorgeSold |  Shirley Purdie | Violet ValleySold |  Henry Wambini | Hann Springs Country – DowelooSold |  Freddie Timms | Brumby Yard – Bow RiverSold |  Shirley Purdie | Bunagany and KinyanySold |  Jack Britten | Goodi-GoodiSold |  Jack Britten | Kinyany – HeronsSold |  Jack Britten | Narranguny HillsSold |  Freddie Timms | Pipe Creek, LissadellSold |  Beerbee Mungnari | Mulugurr Hills – Kildurk StationSold |  Christopher Churchill | Yaranga – Chinamans GardenSold |  Shirley Purdie | Bulanji – McKenzie SpringsSold |
Japingka Gallery presents Rover Thomas & Kimberley Ochre Painters, featuring older works by major East Kimberley artists using ochre pigments. Many of these artists helped set benchmarks for a new generation of painters to appreciate and aspire to.
Major works by Rover Thomas evoke the raw experience of the Kimberley with the artist’s brush strokes and gestures all recorded in layers of ochre paint that are swept over the surface of the boards as he painted. Other leading artists from the time include Queenie McKenzie, Jack Britten, Henry Wambini, Beerbee Mungnari and Freddie Timms.