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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

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

Our special Christmas exhibition is now online.

What if this photograph is by Albert Namatjira? – Revisited

This is a project by contemporary Western Aranda artists working within the heritage of Albert Namatjira or ‘Hermannsburg school’ of watercolour painting. This project engages a less well-known aspect of this heritage – photographs. The artists have created a body of paintings in response to photographs from the South Australian Museum’s Battarbee Collection, which includes the rich photographic archive of the Victorian artist Rex Battarbee. These photographs were mostly taken in the mid to late 1930s in and around Ntaria/Hermannsburg, mostly through Tjoritja/the West MacDonnell Ranges.

Tom Nicholson

3 October – 27 October

HUBERT PAREROULTJA at Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne

On Friday the 7th of September, Neighbouring art centres, Iltja Ntjarra Many Hands, and Tangentyere Artists will open their doors after hours for the public to feast their eyes on some of the latest works coming out of their Centres.

The public is invited to our art centre on 29 Wilkinson Street to view exquisite watercolours painted by the Namatjira School of Art.

Our exhibition opening this year is called ‘Tjina Mob’, meaning ‘next door’.

This exciting display features new artworks from the Namatjira School painters, celebrating the beloved West MacDonnell Ranges, with featuring artists including: Hubert Pareroultja, Mervyn Rubuntja, Kevin Namatjira, Benita Clements, and Kathy Inkamala.

As an extra draw card this year, we will also be exhibiting some works by renowned artist, Arthur Murch, generously donated to the Namatjira Legacy Trust.

From 1933-1965 Arthur produced many works inspired by his trips to Central Australia, including portraits of Robina Namatjira, wife of Albert Namatjira.

In 1933 Arthur Murch travelled to Ntaria in Central Australia with a research team of Sydney doctors, living with Indigenous communities. This trip sparked Murch’s interest in painting the people and landscapes of the Australian interior, which he continued over the next three decades.

Again In 1964, Arthur and his daughter Michelle returned to Ntaria. Arthur taught drawing and sculpting skills at Ntaria school. On return to Sydney, Arthur produced many works inspired by this trip, including portraits of Rubina Namatjira, Wife of Albert Namatjira which amongst others will be exhibited.

Around the corner at 16 Fogarty Street, Tangentyere Artists are exhibiting Town Camp Stories, a beautiful range of paintings from the Tangentyere Artists studio accompanied by a range of richly embroidered soft sculptures by the Yarrenyty Arltere Artists that depict diverse aspects of their lives in Yarrenyty Arltere Town Camp, from gardening, to riding the bus.

Looking forward seeing you,

Iltja Ntjarra Many Hands

29 Wilkinson St

08 7979 3452

art@manyhandsart.com.au

www.manyhandsart.com.au

facebook.com/Ntjarra/

Instagram.com/manyhandsart

Tangentyere Artists

16 Fogarty St

08 8951 4232

arts@tangentyere.org.au

www.tangentyereartists.org.au/gallery/

facebook.com/tangentyere.artists

instagram.com/tangentyereartists

For those who haven’t had the chance to see our New Year Exhibition at our art centre in Alice Springs, all the works are now online! The exhibition features 4 different projects:

The West ‘McDonald’s’ Ranges collection, a collaborative project with artist Tony Albert. Clara Inkamala explains: “This is telling people we’ve got bush food out there and healthy ones, instead of McDonald’s and fish and chips. This is for our kids, we’ve got to try to look after the next generation …”

Reinhold Inkmala’s painterly landscapes on Canvas:

The Inkamala ladies’ beloved Ntaria painted with Gouache on board:

And Finally, Mervyn Rubuntja’s exquisite new paintings:

Enjoy!