Shining Forth - Colour Power 2018

01 - 30 April 2018

Shining Forth - Colour Power Exhibition proudly presents works by some of Australia’s leading aboriginal artists.

These selected works from Gallery Gondwana, highlight the use of colour, from intimate to bold, from delicate to kapow.

Proudly presenting the following artists:

• Mitjili Napanangka Gibson
• Geraldine Nowee
• Judy Napangardi Watson
• Pamela Napurrurla Walker
• Linda Napurrurla Walker
• Alma Nungarrayi Granites
• Jorna Napurrurla Nelson
• Elizabeth Nyumi
• Margaret Baragurra
• Bessie Liddle
• Abie Loy Kemarre
• Kathleen Ngale
  

Whilst there are many familiar names - Judy Napangardi Watson, Yannima Tommy Watson and Lucy Napanangka Yukenbarri, to name three. It is enthralling to discover younger artists stamping their presences including Eileen Napaltjarri, Lance Peck, Keith Stevens, Sylvia Ken and Tjungkara Ken.

What is interesting about these artists, and it’s a point Raffan makes well, is that even though they might not seem on the surface to be depicting journeys across country, if the paintings are read correctly then the ongoing connection to land becomes apparent, as does the connection to tribal law, which is often present even in the most decorative of their paintings. One of the most exciting artists, and one whose work reflects the melding of the old and the new, is Sally Gabori. She uses expressive abstract techniques on large linen canvases, often as much as three metres wide by two metres high.

Power + Colour: New Painting from the Corrigan Collection of 21st-Century Aboriginal Art more than lives up to its title. Its main theme has two elements vital to indigenous art; tribal law and the continually stunning and inventive use of colour to depict country and culture.