About Gallery Gondwana
Gallery Gondwana - representing Contemporary Aboriginal Art since 1990. Sourcing the best in contemporary Aboriginal paintings, Australian design, and arts from the Pacific region...
Exhibition
23 May - 31 July 2017
Significant Gondwana Studio Artists - 1990 to 2012
In the beginning... Gallery Gondwana worked exclusively with a core group of cutting edge indigenous artists. Providing the artists with studio space, it enabled them to escape the everyday demands of their home lives and community; in the days when art centres were few and far between and when…
Artworks
Featured Artists
Dorothy Napangardi
Central Desert, Western Desert
One of the leading artists of the contemporary Aboriginal art movement, Napangardi’s work is highly sought after by both collectors and curators worldwide. Her paintings and prints have been widely exhibited and are in all national collections within Australia and in major collections worldwide…
Barney Campbell Tjakamarra
Walungurru (Kintore), Western Desert
Barney Campbell Tjakamarra is of the Ngaanyatjarra language group, born circa 1928 at Kaylilwarra south Warbuton in the Gibson Desert of Western Australia and is a well respected Pintupi Law-Man.
Sonia Kurarra
Sonia Kurarra grew up in the river country at Yungngora (Noonkanbah). She paints the sandy billabong country along the stretch of the Fitzroy River. Sonia relates her paintings to her birth country, Martuwarra (River Country), rather than her ancestral home of the Great Sandy Desert.
Delilah Freddy Puruntatameri
Delilah is the daughter of the late renowned artist Paddy Freddy Puruntatameri, and sister to leading Tiwi carvers Patrick Freddy Puruntatameri and Matthew Freddy Puruntatameri.
Matthew Freddy
With an outstanding reputation as a leading Tiwi artists, Matthew has worked with ochres on paper, linen, bark and iron wood carvings.
Dhuwarrwarr Marika
This lino print, hand cut by Dhuwarrwarr using a razor blade, represents the salt water between the mainland and Bremer Island, (near Yirrkala)...
Elizabeth Nyumi Nungurrayi
This artwork depicts the country known as Parwalla, dominated by tali (sand hills). This is her father’s country, located far to the south of Balgo in the Great Sandy Desert, west of Kiwirrkurra.
Stumpy Brown
“My paintings are about my country, my mother’s country and my father’s country. We lived in the desert country (the Great Sandy Desert)...
Wukun Wanambi
Wukun Wanambi is a Yolngu artist from Eastern Arnhem Land and a member of the Marrakulu clan.
Weaver Jack
This is my country, Lungarung country. This is where I was born, I travelled around this place as a young women walking through the sand dunes (Tali) collecting Mayi (bushfood) with my mother”