We are so excited about The Namatjira Project Auction coming up on Sunday 22nd October at the Art Gallery of South Australia! It is a collaboration with our Art Centre, Namatjira Legacy Trust, artist Tony Albert and Tarnanthi!

Place your bid at this historic auction featuring Boomerangs, Woomeras and Spears made in Collaboration with Cultural Leader Mervyn Rubuntja, Gloria Pannka and Kevin McCormack, as imagined by Australian Artists.

You can now view online the delicate watercolours of the current exhibition at the Residency: “The Women Artists of the Hermannsburg School of Art.” For information about the paintings please download the catalogue here: Catalogue Residency 2014.

Click on the thumbnails below to see a full picture of the painting. You can browse through the works by rolling over the large image and clicking on the arrow for the next image. For more information and purchases please contact the Residency:

Office: (08) 8953 6073

heritagealicesprings@telstra.com

The Ngurratjuta Artists are showcasing some new work on the walls of Alice Plaza!

In partnership with Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education and Alice Plaza, the wall of the lift shaft in the centre will be transformed into The Gap by Peter Taylor. The initial design was created through workshops held at Batchelor with teacher Brigida Stewart.

Painting on the mural will happen Mondays through to Thursdays for the next three weeks. Check out some of the action that started this morning.

Lenie Namatjira and Gloria Pannka recently travelled to Sydney and Geelong with arts support worker Marisa Maher in order to open exhibitions of work by Ngurratjuta Many Hands artists and to lead workshops on painting watercolours in the Hermannsburg style.

In Geelong, they travelled to Metropolis Gallery and opened an exhibition entitled ‘Colours of Country’, which is on until April 12.

From Geelong, they travelled to Sydney. Tali Gallery is holding an exhibition of work by Many Hands artists, and Lenie and Gloria opened the exhibition and led a watercolour workshop.

They also visited the Art Gallery of New South Wales, where an exhibition of Hermannsburg School watercolours is currently being held, entitled ‘the Hills Beyond Hermannsburg’. Lenie and Gloria led a question and answer session followed by several watercolour workshops, which were very successful.

Picture 1: At the airport in Alice Springs.

Pictures 2-6: At Metropolis Gallery.

Pictures 7-19: From Tali Gallery, by Yaja Hadrys.

Pictures 19- 24: Lenie and Gloria at the Hills Beyond Hermannsburg exhibition at the AGNSW with paintings by them and members of their families.

Pictures 25- 33: Lenie and Gloria leading a Q&A session, speaking to a journalist, and leading a watercolour workshop.

Five Generations: the strength of Albert Namatjira’s legacy opened on Saturday the 1st of March, with great success. The exhibition was opened by Member for Namatjira Alison Anderson MLA, with speeches by artist Gloria Pannka, Ntaria School students and scholar Alison French. The opening also marked the donation of Albert Namatjira’s last ever painting to Araluen Art Centre by owner Judith King, who presented the painting to Albert’s granddaughter Lenie Namatjira.

To read more about the exhibition opening, please:

-read Namatjira’s final work returns to Alice Springs on ABC Alice Springs,

-listen to 5 Generations Namatjira exhibition on ABC Alice Springs, and

-read Colours of landscape, colours of dreams across five generations in Alice Springs News .

The beautiful ‘Family Trees’ exhibition held by Desart in collaboration with the MBantua Festival is now showcased at the Tangentyere Gallery until the 15th of November. Experience vibrant artworks that embrace experimentation and innovation, whilst keeping culture and traditions strong. The picturesque WestMacs painted by the Hermannsburg School artists are displayed at the courtyard.

Where: 16 Fogarty Street, Alice Springs.

Below are the exhibited works. For inquiries, contact the Tangentyere Gallery: 08 89514242

From Left to right:
-Douglas Kwarlpe Abbott /36 x 54 cm Watercolour Paper/West MacDonnell Ranges, NT
-Gloria Pannka /36 x 54 cm Watercolour Paper/Hamliton downs, NT
-Mervyn Rubuntja /74 x 54 cm/Mt Undoolya, East of Alice Springs, NT
-Hilary Wirri /52 x 23 cm Watercolor/West MacDonnell Ranges, NT
-Lenie Namatjira /26 x 74 cm Watercolour with board backing/West MacDonnell Ranges, NT, near Mt Liebig
-Peter Tjutjatja Taylor /53 x 74 cm Watercolour on paperboard /Mid Day at Standley Chasm, West MacDonnell Ranges, NT
-Ivy Pareroultja /54 x 23 cm Watercolour on paperboard /Near Ormiston Gorge in the West MacDonnell Ranges, NT

Watercolour and Acrylic artists, brother and sister, Peter Taylor and Myra Ah Chee delivered a brilliant presentation about their life story during Desert Mob 2013. Ngurratjuta artists have also presented beautiful new watercolours at the Desert Mob exhibition at Araluen Arts Centre in Alice Springs. Finally, we had an open day at our art centre.

A special thank you to Carmen from BighArt, the Desart staff and all the passionate artists who helped make this happen.