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.
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.
Margaret Lewis Napangardi – Mina Mina Exhibition
27 March - 13 May, 2015
Warlpiri artist Margaret Lewis Napangardi presents recent paintings, Women’s Ceremony stories from Mina Mina and other associated Warlpiri stories from the Tanami Desert
Marrga – Creating the Pilbara: Yinjaa-Barni Artists
13 February – 18 March 2015
Yinjaa Barni artists have made an impact with their unique stories and images of the Pilbara landscape. The artists work from the town of Roebourne, presenting a new vision of the region that is best known for its mining industry.
Mitjili Napurrula Exhibition 2015
13 February – 18 March 2015
Mitjili Napurrula paints distinctive images of Dreaming stories related to spear making from her father’s country, Uwalki, west of Haasts Bluff. Her images represent the trees – watiya tjuta – that provide the wood for spears and other artefacts.
Colours of the Earth
10 December 2014– 10 February 2015
Artists from Central Australia and from the Kimberley region of Western Australia present artworks that reflect the importance of the natural environment in their lives. The online exhibition ‘Colours of the Earth’ presents artists from across the north and Central desert regions whose work uses colours that are derived from the earth.
Warlpiri Star Gazers
21 November – 31 January 2015
Warlpiri artists of the Tanami Desert draw on a rich heritage of Jukurrpa or Dreaming Law stories as the basis for their paintings. This exhibition is presented in association with Warlukurlangu Artists.
Linda Syddick Napaltjarri
21 November – 23 December 2014
Linda Syddick Napaltjarri, a distinctive voice among Pintupi artists, draws on stories of her family’s survival in the desert, including first contact accounts with white settlements.
Spinifex Artists 2014
10 October – 7 November 2014
New paintings from the Spinifex artists at Tjuntjuntjara community in the Great Victoria Desert. Senior Pitjantjatjara artists retrace the pathways and actions of Ancestors who travelled across traditional Spinifex lands. Presented in association with Spinifex Arts Project.