Gauchet Fine Art

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...

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

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Judy Watson Napangardi was born around 1935 at Yarungkanji, Mt. Doreen Station, at the time when many Warlpiri and other Central and Western Desert Peoples were living a traditional ...

Malcolm Jagamarra Maloney is a celebrated painter who has been exhibiting in Australia and internationally since the 1980s. This exhibition surveyd the artist’s work from the 1990s t...

Share Rosella Namok was born in May 1979. She comes from the Kanthanampu and Aangkum language group. Rosella Namok was one of the original ART GANG members and is a current artist me...

Bessie Malarvie was born 1st April 1958 at Kirkimbie Station in the Northern Territory. She is of Jaru (desert) skin. Bessie attended school at Halls Creek, however at age 13 was pro...