Aboriginal art exhibitions are on display at Japingka Aboriginal Art Gallery, 47 High Street, Fremantle - Mon-Fri 10am-5.00pm and Sat & Sun 12-5pm. There is no entrance fee to view the exhibitions.
Online art exhibition links are accessible below for those not able to attend the gallery. Advance viewing and purchasing of exhibition works is available to subscribers of the Japingka Newsletter.
Elsie Napanangka Granites Mina Mina Women’s Dreaming
11 November – 24 December 2016
Elsie Napanangka Granites has one of the longest artists’ working histories in her home community of Yuendumu, north-west from Alice Springs. Elsie began painting in 1987, showing traditional Women’s Dreaming stories of the important Mina Mina ceremonies.
Camel Camp & Beyond – Utopia Artists of the Eastern Desert
2 September – 28 October 2016
Camel Camp is one of about twenty outstation camps on the Utopia Homelands. These small settlements have been the basis of family life for the Alywarr and Anmatyerr people. Leading artists include Angelina Ngal Pwerle, Kathleen Ngale, Gladdy Kemarre, Polly Ngale, Susan Pitjara Hunter and Josie Petrick Kemarre.
George Tuckerbox Exhibition – Art from the Great Sandy Desert
2 September – 28 October 2016
George Tuckerbox painted the country and waterholes that he remembered from his childhood, from the time when his family lived off the resources of their traditional lands. Many of his paintings show the parallel rows of sandhills that flow out from Central Australia and dominate the landscape.
Maria Josette Orsto Exhibition
22 July – 24 August 2016
Tiwi artist Maria Josette Orsto, b.1962, combines traditional techniques with new processes, creating exciting new works in ochre. Exhibiting along with carved sculptures by artists from Tiwi Design.
Artists from Ngukurr
22 July – 24 August 2016
Artists from Ngukurr in S-E Arnhem Land exhibit images of their community and their traditions, often colourful narratives of everyday life. Included are representatives of the current generation of artists from Ngukurr, and some older historical works.
Sarrita King & Tarisse King 2016
8 April – 30 May, 2016
Sarrita King & Tarisse King return to Japingka Gallery with more of their exquisite multi- layered paintings of Ancestors, Salt Lake country & the elements
The Panel Show – 12 Aboriginal Artists
8 April – 30 May, 2016
Paintings in the panel format 120 x 30 cm created by twelve artists of the Central Desert including Thomas Tjapaltjarri, Rosemary Petyarre and Joylene Reid Napangardi
Ochre Painters of the Kimberley
19 February – 30 March, 2016
Kimberley artists have maintained strong links to the ochre painting of their forebears, a tradition that is expressed in rock painting and ceremonial body designs that are embedded in the culture. Today’s artists express aspects of their culture using earth pigments transformed into paintings on canvas.
Turbo Brown Exhibition
19 February - 30 March, 2016
Trevor Turbo Brown paints with directness, energy and focus – his subject is the outdoor world of birds and animals. He explains that this relates to a time when he was homeless, living in Mildura on the banks of the Murray River.
Fine Dot Artists
27 November – 23 December, 2015
The work of these three Central Desert artists reflect the best of the fine dot art style and the deep cultural links this has with the ancient culture of desert life. Jorna Newberry, Wentja Napaltjarri & Eva Nelson Napaltjarri exhibit new paintings.
Mowanjum – Paintings & Prints
27 November – 23 December, 2015
New paintings and prints from the artists of Mowanjum community display the ongoing traditions that have their history in the timeless rock paintings of the west Kimberley
Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi & Michelle Possum Nungurrayi
9 October – 14 November 2015
Sisters Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi and Michelle Possum Nungurrayi have carried on the legacy of their father, the late artist Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, who died in 2002. Both these second generation artists have established their reputations painting the ancestral stories that have come down to them from their parents and grandparents.
Our Mother’s Dreaming – Katherine Marshall Nakamarra & Debra Young Nakamarra
9 October – 14 November, 2015
Walangkura Napanangka (1946 – 2014) re-created the great Pintupi Tingari stories of her homelands, using the graphic symbols of the Country and the Tingari journey to show what happened there in the Dreaming.
Rosella Namok 2015
28 August – 30 September 2015
Rosella Namok returns to Japingka Gallery with a new exhibition focused on the coastal lifestyle of tropical north Queensland, with her Monsoon Rain series. Rosella Namok rose to prominence in the 1990s with the Lockhart River Art Gang, young artists working out of Cape York. Rosella’s paintings combine contemporary techniques with traditional story-telling and cultural narratives.
Cynthia Burke – Warakurna Artists
28 August – 30 September 2015
Cynthia Burke is a Ngaanyatjarra artist who paints at the Warakurna art centre located near the Rawlinson Ranges, on the NPY Lands in Western Australia. Cynthia paints aspects of her traditional country showing the changes that unfold with the seasons and the stages that the country goes through during the year.
Sixteen Artists – 16×2
17 July – 19 August 2015
Sixteen impressive Aboriginal artists present two paintings each in one collection. These include major artists from the Western and Central Deserts, but also with selected contributions by great emerging artists.
Northern Alyawarra Artists
17 July – 19 August 2015
Artists of the Northern Alyawarra homelands paint the hunting grounds and waterholes of their ancestral country around the Davenport Ranges north of Alice Springs.
Kerry Madawyn McCarthy – 2015
22 May – 8 July, 2015
Kerry Madawyn McCarthy has refined a range of technical skills for this, her second solo exhibition at Japingka Gallery. She draws on a wide range of stories from her ancestral home at Bulgul on the Daly River.
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
22 May – 8 July, 2015
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa was among the first group of Papunya artists who began painting in 1971 and has since gone on to establish his bold linear style of Tingari painting that influenced the art of many of his contemporaries.
Hamish Garrgarrku, Maningrida – Solo Exhibition
27 March - 13 May, 2015
Japingka Gallery is proud to present this debut exhibition by Maningrida artist Hamish Garrgarrku. Works includes bark paintings and traditional carvings – painted hollow logs Lorrkon, & carved Mimih Spirit figures. This exhibition is presented in association with Maningrida Arts.