About Gallery Gondwana
In the beginning…
Representing Contemporary Aboriginal Art since 1990. Sourcing the best in contemporary Aboriginal paintings, Australian design, and arts from Fiji and the wider Pacific region. From the start, Gallery Gondwana worked exclusively with a core group of cutting edge indigenous artists, providing them with studio space from which they could escape the everyday demands of their home lives and community, whilst being nurtured, encouraged and supported in their experimentation…
Exhibition
01 January 2018 - 31 December 2019
Gallery Gondwana Exhibitions
We are excited to be planning our series of online exhibitions over the next 12 months… after the thought provoking “Climate Change in The Pacific” by Fiji’s leading multi-media artist Rusiate Lali, other exhibitions in the pipeline cover a varied range of topics that include some of our key…
Blog
Friday September 8, 2017
Kinship - the web of inter-connectedness …
Skin names - relationships to each other and country. Relationships in Aboriginal society are quite complex: my ‘skin’ name is Napurrurla. Years ago when I received this name I did not know what was involved with the living of it. Your skin name is a way of placing you in the community - it…
Featured Portfolio
Billy Benn and Tommy Watson (Collector's Portfolio)
These fine examples of two highly regarded and highly collectable senior men artists have been reluctantly put up for resale as their owners have moved interstate and no longer have walls large enough to house them.
Artworks
Key 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, NT
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.
Rusiate Lali
Stunning Melanesian Aesthetic Energized with Powerful Modernist Expression… Rusiate Lali is a man of his times. Coming from a long lineage of potters, carvers, tapa cloth and fibre artists, Rusiate is one of the most exciting and provocative artists to exhibit at Gallery Gondwana. In 1999 he was…
Julie Nangala Robinson
Julie is the traditional custodian of her country Pirlinyanu, a land of rocky outcrops and deep water springs. It is a water dreaming site (Ngapa Jukurrpa) near Mina Mina.