ANGITJA ETLARINTJA EKARLTA
WORKING TOGETHER WITH STRONG THOUGHTS

If you are in Adelaide visit the Migration Museum from December 18th to view our new exhibition!

It presents work from current and deceased artists of Iltja Ntjarra Art Centre. The exhibiting artists sustain an important piece of living history, but also  reimagine their art practice by integrating new influences. Two works in this show are the outcome of a recent collaboration between Western Aranda artists Vanessa Inkamala and Hubert Pareroultja, and Shannon Alexander Murphy, an Australian artist currently based in Germany. Conceptually these works symbolise the shared relationship that Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Australians have to their country, to their culture and to each other.
All artworks for sale.

TEMPORARY EXHIBITION
18 December 2020 – 28 February 2021
10am – 5pm daily, closed Christmas Day

WHERE
Migration Museum, 82 Kintore Avenue, Adelaide SA, Australia

Benita Clements, Mining at Areyonga – my partners country

REGISTER HERE!!

Join Iltja Ntjarra exhibiting artists in their art centre for a landscape painting masterclass and travel through the magical West Mac Donnell Ranges with paint. See how they colour mix, discover their tips on creating movement in the work, layering and how they achieve their loose painting technique to capture the essence of place. Click here for registration and details: Online watercolour masterclasses

New Works from Hermannsburg: Watercolours from artists at Iltja Ntjarra Art Centre.

If you are in SA why not visit our exhibition @ the Barossa Regional Art Gallery? The show features stunning works by Hubert Pareroultja, Vanessa Inkamala, Selma Coulthard, Ivy Pareroultja, Betty Namatjira Wheeler and others!!

When: 28 October 2020 – 15 December 2020

Benita Clements’ work below is available in the exhibition.
Tourists at Palm Valley, NT, 54 x 74 cm, watercolour on paper.

Namatjira descendants revisiting Hahndorf – 52 years on
March 18 – July 27, 2020, Hahndorf Academy, SA

This exhibition of works by Western Aranda watercolourists associated with Ntaria (Hermannsburg) pays tribute to the enduring legacy of famed artist Albert Namatjira. For Western culture, the language of land tends to be based in commerce and resources, but for First Nations peoples around the globe, the basis of land language is emotive, connective and generational. This exhibition presented by Iltja Ntarra (Many Hands) Art Centre from Mparntwe (Alice Springs) at the Hahndorf Academy evokes a strong message of – our Family, our Country, our Legacy – as well as generational connection. Here is the heart story of land language from the Western Aranda people and in particular the descendants and kin of Albert Namatjira.

Works from this exhibition are now available for sale through the Hahndorf Academy Website and for private viewing. please contact Rachel: rachel@hahndorfacademy.org.au to arrange a viewing.

Iltja Ntarra (Many Hands) Art Centre is the home of The Hermannsburg Watercolour Art School. This Art School is proud to exhibit at the Hahndorf Academy in 2020, for the second time in history. Dudley Burns, who lived and worked in Alice Springs during the second World War compiled lists of many Hermannsburg Watercolour Art Exhibitions and noted a mixed exhibition held at Hahndorf Gallery in 1968. This exhibition was organised independently by a gentleman by the name of Mr Gordon Simpson, who worked at the Postmaster-General’s Department from 1939 for a period of 15 years. It is believed that the 1968 Hahndorf exhibition was of Gordon Simpson’s collection, bought while he was a resident in Alice Springs. During those years, Rex Battarbee, Namatjira’s mentor and friend, used to place paintings by The Hermannsburg Watercolour Art School on display outside Griffiths House in Alice Springs on a Friday evening. Alice Springs was quite small then and interested people would enjoy viewing the paintings which were for sale. Gordon successfully bought some of the paintings at this time.

Namatjira descendants revisiting Hahndorf – 52 years on is an exhibition drawn from artists of Iltja Ntjarra (Many Hands) Art Centre who continue this long-lasting painting tradition. The exhibition features 52 recent landscape watercolours by practising artists from The Hermannsburg Watercolour Art School. It charts the innovation and ingenuity of artists across several generations, inspired by both their heritage but also creating work that reflects both their culture and contemporary life.

We are proud our fathers were a part of the original Hermannsburg Watercolour Movement and now, generations on we are still painting together, carrying on this same tradition. – Gloria Pannka

Sources: parts of this text were generously provided by Gayle Quarmby and Ruth Ellis.

HOMELESS ON MY HOMELAND
We’re super excited to announce that we will be exhibiting @biennalesydney (2020), titled NIRIN. A huge thank you to our dear friend @tonyalbert who has supported us on this special project addressing the issue of homelessness.

This March we will be working with Michael Kempson from Cicada Press (UNSW) to create a new and incredible limited edition etchings and mono-prints.

Read more about this print workshop here!

Watercolour Landscapes – Central Australia

The Japingka Gallery in WA will showcase a curated display of paintings by Iltja Ntjarra’s artists, as well as landscape watercolours by previous generation masters.  The exhibition will launch on February 14th and will highlight works by acclaimed watercolourists Ivy Pareroultja. The display will also include two unique silk paintings by community leaders Mervyn Rubuntja and Hubert Pareroultja.

David Wroth from Japingka Gallery takes us on a tour of a watercolour exhibition from Central Australia that explores how the different generations approach painting their homelands.

The watercolour painters of Central Australia are amongst the most recognisable of Aboriginal artist groups. Albert Namatjira began painting the West MacDonnell landscapes in his ancestral country in the 1930s.

We now have an exhibition of works from contemporary artists, some of whom are grandchildren of Albert Namatjira. The paintings are extraordinary things. They are all about exceptional structures found in the West MacDonnell Ranges – ragged hilltop ridges and rocky knolls and dramatic horizons. The colours are quite extraordinary. Many of the works feature the blues and purples of the distant ranges placed against the pinks and oranges of the rocky structures in the foreground.

Iltja Ntjarra will be at the upcoming AIATSIS market in Canberra with its stunning watercolours and new merchandise line!

Date:
Friday, 6 December 2019 to Saturday, 7 December 2019

Time:
Friday 10am – 9pm, Saturday 10am – 4pm

Location:
AIATSIS, Acton Peninsula
51 Lawson Crescent, Acton.
Australian Capital Territory

The Indigenous Art Market returns this summer for its 6th consecutive year.
With over twenty Indigenous artists and art centres from around Australia, these markets have never been bigger.
Presenting artists’ work, direct from communities, to the shores of Lake Burley Griffin, paired with culturally rich activities, contemporary music, cultural performances and food.
Presented by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, this market is an unparalleled opportunity for our local community to encounter, engage, and be transformed by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture from around Australia.
Join us at this year’s Indigenous Art Market, grab some lunch, browse the stalls, enjoy the entertainment and perhaps you’ll find that perfect Christmas gift.

Did you know?
Attending Art Centres keep 100% of their sales from the art market.
All art is sourced ethically and directly from Indigenous Community Art Centres an independent artists and the funds raised go directly into helping their communities.

#Indigenousart
#IAM2019
#Aboriginalart
#AIATSIS
#CBR

Reinhold Inkamala, Mt. Sonder, limited edition etching

Kathy Inkamala, monoprint 2019, Ntaria (Hemannsburg) Mission.

Hazelhurst Arts Centre will host the most comprehensive exhibition of works from Iltja Ntjarra Many Hands Art Centre ever presented in NSW! It will feature etchings and unique state monoprints, as well as new works supported by the mentorship of leading Australian artist Tony Albert.

More information here

Exhibition ends: July 9th 2019.

land/place presents a selection of watercolours by Benita Clements and Mervyn Rubuntja.

Recreating landscapes that respond to structural and cultural changes since white settlement, these bright watercolours are testament to tradition, as well the artists’ own experiences of life in Mparntwe and its ever-changing nature.

@Hanging Valley
Level 2, 95 Victoria St, Fitzroy
Opening night: Wednesday 3 July, 6-8pm
Gallery open: 4-6 July

Benita Clements, My family, cooking