We’re excited to be in Darwin this week for DAAF 2024. We will be presenting our new fashion collection on Tuesday 06/08/2024, and will exhibit a stunning new art collection and new merchandise at the fair.

Come meet our talented artists and explore their works at the Darwin Art Fair, August  9 – 11.

Artwork above: Jonathon Price, Barrow Creek

A presentation of 20 new watercolour paintings by Iltja Ntjarra artists is now showing at Yaama Ganu Gallery & Cafe Gali. It is a wonderful document showing the Western Aranda artists’ intimate knowledge of their Country.

Pictured: Stanley Ebatarinja, Alyape (Palm Valley), NT

The exhibition can be viewed in person or online here:
https://yaamaganu.com.au/category-portfolio/iltja-ntjarra-from-my-memories/

ARTHOUSE GALLERY DIGITAL CATALOGUE

We’re thrilled to announce the upcoming exhibition at Arthouse Gallery, “Kangkwerrama – Respectfully Take Notice,”
Exhibition Dates: 15 June – 1 July 2023
Location: Arthouse Gallery

Painting on repurposed road signs this unique and innovative body of work speaks to the way country is named and boundaries are drawn since colonisation. Whether used to direct traffic or to communicate specific rules, signs like these are crucial in governing our relationship to the land. In bright and arresting colours, they are used to convey laws and regulations across the continent. In the hands of the Iltja Ntjarra artists, their function is subverted to communicate important information relating to Country, its beauty, cultural practices and customary lore on traditional lands. Each sign has been painted with images of Country in the Hermannsburg style.

Featuring Vanessa Inkamala, Dellina Inkamala, Dianne Inkamala, Delray Inkamala, Reinhold Inkamala, Kathy Inkamala, Selma Coulthard Nunay, Mervyn Rubuntja, Betty Namatjira Wheeler Naparula, Benita Clements, Mandy Malbunka, Kathleen France & Ada Lechleitner, the exhibition invites us to respectfully take notice of the beauty that surrounds us. Artists use their artwork as a powerful voice to speak volumes about culture, protection of country, and their profound connection to the land, expressing their respect and reverence for their country.

Experience the rich diversity of desert art and culture at the 31st Desert Mob in Mparntwe Alice Springs.

Now managed entirely by Aboriginal-led organisation Desart, the Desert Mob Exhibition presents hundreds of new artworks from emerging and established artists. If you’ve been looking for a beautiful piece to add to your collection, the works are available to purchase in-person at Araluen Arts Centre, and online HERE.

The trademark exhibition was curated by two Aboriginal women for the first time in the event’s history. Senior curator-at-large at the National Gallery in Canberra, Hetti Kemerre Perkins, and assistant manager of Iltja Ntjarra Art Centre Marisa Maher.

Pictured: Mervyn Rubuntja, Selma Coulthard, Dellina Inkamala and Vanessa Inkamala with the Iltja Ntjarra display at Desert Mob 2022.

Iltja Ntjarra Art Centre will participate in the 2022 Australian Ceramics Triennale in Alice Springs Apmere Mparntwe. The art centre will feature in the Clay on Country exhibition at the Araluen Arts Centre, and will also showcase unique ceramic vessels and platters at the art centre’s own gallery space. Additionally, Iltja Ntjarra will facilitate a watercolour painting masterclass to the public. Read on for more information.

Clay on Country
Developed by Artback NT, Clay on Country showcases the work of over 30 artists living and working in Central Australia, including Iltja Ntjarra artists Benita Clements, Dellina Inkamala, Selma Coulthard, Vanessa Inkamala, Clara Inkamala and Mervyn Rubuntja.

Where: Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
Exhibition opening: Tuesday 19 July, 3pm

Our Country in Paint and Clay
This exhibition showcases both watercolour works on paper and hand painted ceramic vessels and platters. The Iltja Ntjarra gallery is situated on-site at the art centre so come along during opening hours to view the works and meet the artists.

Where: Iltja Ntjarra Art Cenre, 29 Wilkinson St. Alice Springs
Exhibition opening: Wednesday July 20, 5.30pm

Watercolour Masterclass
Join artists from Iltja Ntjarra Art Centre for an informal and immersive experience learning to paint watercolours in the Hermannsburg painting tradition. Paint alongside descendants of iconic artist Albert Namatjira and experience, absorb and practice their approach to landscape painting.

Where: Iltja Ntjarra Art Cenre, 29 Wilkinson St. Alice Springs
When: Monday July 18, 1pm
Bookings essential: Click HERE

Selected drawings and paintings from our exhibition Kuprilya Spring – Living Water/Kwatja Etatha are now available on our website. The collection was exhibited at the Art Gallery of South Australia in 2021 during Tarnanthi, the festival of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and has now become available for purchase for the general public.

An incredible opportunity for an Aboriginal Studio Art Worker!

The Cross Arts Projects, Kings Cross, Sydney

We are thrilled to be exhibiting at The Cross Art Projects, Kings Cross, Sydney.

The exhibition will launch on 12 March at 3pm

Exhibition ends on 9 April 2022.

One too many, is a new body of work by artists from the powerhouse art centre and studio Iltja Ntjarra in Mparntwe (Alice Springs). The artists juxtapose the luminous watercolour heritage of Albert Namatjira and Central Australia’s blindingly glorious landscapes with overlays of modernity and powerful political and social statements. One too many opens a window onto the rivers of grog that blight lives and litter landscapes. If you’ve had one too many, you have drunk too much alcohol.

The exhibition’s opening scene is an installation of flattened beer cans, wreckage collected from beside the road between Mparntwe and Ntaria (Hermannsburg), a former Lutheran mission. Painted on each crushed and re-burnished aluminium can is a vignette, a miniature painting that recalls country and western songs about roads that “take me home”. The land is home to the Western Aranda people. The litter suggests you could be singing your heart out as you travel on any Australian country road.

This road runs beside Tjoritja West MacDonnell National Park to old Hermannsburg mission and new mission. Here is the old stone church where Selma Coulthard, artist and project co-ordinator says, ‘you will end up unless you stop drinking.’

Mervyn Rubuntja, Selma Coulthard, Vanessa Inkamala, Dellina Inkamala, Benita Clements, Marcus Wheeler, Betty Wheeler, Dianne Inkamala and Reinhold Inkamala will be exhibiting their extraordinary collection.

Below: Dianne Inkamala – Old Mission Church in Ntaria (Hermannsburg)
Acrylic on recycled aluminum can. 14 x 9 cm

Pmarra Nurna-kanha Ntarntarai – Care for our Country

The 23rd Biennale of Sydney (2022)

When: March 12 – June 13 2022

Where: The Cutaway – Barangaroo, Sydney

Iltja Ntjarra Artists will feature in the Biennale of Sydney with an installation titled “Pmarra Nurna-kanha Ntarntarai – Care for our Country. The exhibition will launch to the public on March 12, at The Cutaway, Barangaroo.

Iltja Ntjarra’s project for the 23rd Biennale of Sydney is co-curated by Marisa Maher working closely with the Artistic Director and Curatorium of the 23rd Biennale of Sydney.

Participating artists: Mervyn Rubuntja, Selma Coulthard, Vanessa Inkamala, Clara Inkamala, Kathy Inkamala, Dellina Inkamala.

With support from: The 23rd Biennale of Sydney, The Australia Council for the Arts, Artback NT with funds from Northern Territory Regional Arts

Below: Vanessa Inkamala, AHEAD, recycled road sign

Kathy Inkamala

Hubert Pareroultja