Polymer Landscape Paintings

Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri (ca. 1920 – 2008) Language group: Pitjantjatjara Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri lived in the small community near Mount Liebig in the Northern Territory. He cam...

Dorothy Napangardi spent her early childhood living a nomadic life at Mina Mina near Lake Mackay in the Tanami Desert during the late 1950s and early 1960s. This idyllic life came to...

An important figure in the contemporary East Kimberley painting movement, artist Paddy Nyunkuny Bedford was born on Bedford Downs Station where he worked as a stockman. As an Elder o...

This year, 2024, the artist Ruth Vidal (1998, Isla de Arousa) launches her latest research into painting and games. These works are based on the references that the artist draws from...

Freddie Timms (1946–2017) was a distinguished Gija artist from the East Kimberley region of Western Australia. Born at Police Hole near Foal Creek on Bedford Downs Station, he spent ...

Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula 1925 - 2001 Born : Mintjilpirri, Kintore, NT Language group : Pintupi/Warlpiri Community : Papunya, NT Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula was born in 1925 at ...

Makinti Napanangka walked in to Haasts Bluff ration depot during the 1940’s with her young son when in her early 20’s and by the time she had moved to the new settlement of Papunya h...

This year, 2024, the artist Ruth Vidal (1998, Isla de Arousa) launches her latest research into painting and games. These works are based on the references that the artist draws from...

This year, 2024, the artist Ruth Vidal (1998, Isla de Arousa) launches her latest research into painting and games. These works are based on the references that the artist draws from...

This year, 2024, the artist Ruth Vidal (1998, Isla de Arousa) launches her latest research into painting and games. These works are based on the references that the artist draws from...

RONNIE TJAMPITJINPA (c. 1943 – June 2023) Born: Tjiturrunya, Kintore Language Group: Pintupi Community: Kintore, NT Ronnie Tjampitjinpa was the last painter to have witnessed the em...

Born in Quairading (Ballardung Country) in the south-west of Western Australia, Shane Pickett was one of the foremost Nyoongar artists of his generation. Combining his deep knowledge...

Helicopter Joey Tjungurrayi (1947 – ) Language group: Kukatja Born at Nymi, west of Kiwirrkurra, Helicopter learnt from a young age the location of water sources and how to hunt for...

Yannima Tommy Watson is a Pitjantjatjara artist born around the 1930s, in the bush some 44km west of the small isolated community of Irrunytju. Not yet very well known to the French ...

Yannima Tommy Watson is a Pitjantjatjara artist born around the 1930s, in the bush some 44km west of the small isolated community of Irrunytju. Not yet very well known to the French ...

Yannima Tommy Watson is a Pitjantjatjara artist born around the 1930s, in the bush some 44km west of the small isolated community of Irrunytju. Not yet very well known to the French ...

Yannima Tommy Watson is a Pitjantjatjara artist born around the 1930s, in the bush some 44km west of the small isolated community of Irrunytju. Not yet very well known to the French ...

Yannima Tommy Watson is a Pitjantjatjara artist born around the 1930s, in the bush some 44km west of the small isolated community of Irrunytju. Not yet very well known to the French ...

EMILY KAM KNGWARRAY 1916 - 1996 Country: Central/Eastern Desert, NT Language: Anmatjerre Community : Utopia, Soakage Bore/ Alhalkere Octogenarian Emily Kam Kngwarray painted for jus...

EMILY KAM KNGWARRAY 1916 - 1996 Country: Central/Eastern Desert, NT Language: Anmatjerre Community : Utopia, Soakage Bore/ Alhalkere Octogenarian Emily Kam Kngwarray painted for jus...

Daniel Walbidi comes from a small coastal community 250km south of Broome called Bidyadanga which is the traditional homeland of the Karrajarri people. Formerly La Grange Mission, it...

Daniel Walbidi comes from a small coastal community 250km south of Broome called Bidyadanga which is the traditional homeland of the Karrajarri people. Formerly La Grange Mission, it...

Yannima Tommy Watson is a Pitjantjatjara artist born around the 1930s, in the bush some 44km west of the small isolated community of Irrunytju. Not yet very well known to the French public, despite his participation in the architectural project of the Musée du Quai Branly, Tommy Watson is nevertheless often considered the greatest living Aboriginal artist. Like many aborigines of his generation, he lived a traditional, nomadic or semi-nomadic life before his contact with Western civilization; then he will occupy the only jobs that the Aborigines find: herdsmen (until Yuendumu), laborers for the construction of infrastructures in the desert. Throughout this period he became familiar with his "country", a harsh region, and deepened his knowledge, both profane and sacred, relating to Dreams and Dreamtimes, to the connections between sacred sites and the Ancestors. He will even work in Papunya, where the artistic movement started. But the Pijantjarra are intransigent with tradition…no question at this time of revealing the motives and the secret stories. The North of South Australia, the region where he is from, was touched by the pictorial movement only at the very beginning of the 2000s. In 2001, Tommy began his career as an artist in Irrunytju (Wingellina). He is a young artist… He learns by observing other painters and draws on the experiences of a long life and on the exceptional knowledge he has stored up. But quickly he will find his way, a radically new style where color plays a major role. Very quickly, the iconography now well known by the artists of Yuendumu, or the Western Desert, Balgo or Lajamanu disappeared. The symbols are no longer there. As Rover Thomas, Emily Kame or Paddy Bedford...

Naata Nungurrayi was born at Kumilnga, west of the Pollock Hills in Western Australia, and was about thirty years old when she and her family were brought to Papunya by the welfare p...

Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori began painting in 2005 at the age of 81, while living in aged care on Mornington Island. Having never previously used a paintbrush, she quickl...

Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori began painting in 2005 at the age of 81, while living in aged care on Mornington Island. Having never previously used a paintbrush, she quickl...

EMILY KAM KNGWARRAY (1910 - 1996) Country: Central/Eastern Desert, NT Language: Anmatjerre Community : Utopia, Soakage Bore/ Alhalkere Merne Alhalkere Soakage, 1994 Synthetic polyme...

EMILY KAM KNGWARRAY 1916 - 1996 Country: Central/Eastern Desert, NT Language: Anmatjerre Community : Utopia, Soakage Bore/ Alhalkere Octogenarian Emily Kam Kngwarray painted for jus...

EMILY KAM KNGWARRAY (1910 - 1996) Country: Central/Eastern Desert, NT Language: Anmatjerre Community : Utopia, Soakage Bore/ Alhalkere Summer Abundance, 1993 Synthetic polymer paint...

EMILY KAM KNGWARRAY (1910 - 1996) Country: Central/Eastern Desert, NT Language: Anmatjerre Community : Utopia, Soakage Bore/ Alhalkere Merne Anooralya, 1995 Synthetic polymer paint ...

EMILY KAM KNGWARRAY 1916 - 1996 Country: Central/Eastern Desert, NT Language: Anmatjerre Community : Utopia, Soakage Bore/ Alhalkere Octogenarian Emily Kam Kngwarrey painted for jus...

Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula 1925 - 2001 Born : Mintjilpirri, Kintore, NT Language group : Pintupi/Warlpiri Community : Papunya, NT Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula was born in 1925 at ...

Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula 1925 - 2001 Born : Mintjilpirri, Kintore, NT Language group : Pintupi/Warlpiri Community : Papunya, NT Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula was born in 1925 at ...

Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula 1925 - 2001 Born : Mintjilpirri, Kintore, NT Language group : Pintupi/Warlpiri Community : Papunya, NT Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula was born in 1925 at ...