Michael Davis
Michael Davis: Michael Davis’s most recent series of works blend together the realms of abstraction and landscape. For his larger works, bold colours flow across the canvas, making visible the figures of trees and the contours of river banks before slipping seamlessly back into abstraction.We are invited into an image of a landscape, yet not […]
Stephen Phibbs
Sydney-born Stephen Phibbs is a visual artist residing in the Northern Rivers region. From 2002 his art practice evolved through seeing the landscape through a multi-dimensional approach. He says “these works are about the metaphysical and physical elements of a site. The relationships and juxtapositions discovered in these chance objects signify multiple options of interpretation, […]
Jane Hoggard
Residing in the Northern New South Wales region of Fingal Head, artist Jane Hoggard is deeply connected to the natural surroundings around her. The rolling hills meeting the water, crisp air and bush birds calling from a crop of trees outside her studio. With an ancestral upbringing in the United Kingdom and New Zealand, Jane […]
George Hairbrush
George Hairbrush Tjungurrayi arrived at Papunya in 1962 after walking in from the Gibson Desert in Western Australia. When the Desert Art painting movement began at Papunya in 1971 George assisted other senior artists with their paintings. Then he began painting his own works around 1976 with the encouragement of senior lawman Nosepeg Tjupurrula. The […]
Benjamin Storch
Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa (Mrs Bennett)
Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa (Mrs Bennett) Born c1938 – 2013 Ningura was born around 1938 at Watulka, south of the Kiwirrkurra Community, west of Alice Springs. Ningura moved to Papunya in the early days of the settlement with her husband Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi. After originally learning her trade whilst doing the background dotting on Yala Yala’s […]
Tjungkara Ken
Tjungkara Ken was born in Amata (SA) in 1969 and was one of the first young artists to begin working with Tjala Arts (in 1997). Ken said, “I do paintings about my country. That’s ngura: rockholes and the land, the hills and big creek beds. Sometimes I do stories about the Seven Sisters and about […]
Freda Brady
Tanya Brady
Peter Smets
Peter Smets is the man of the moment in the Australian art world. He is the country’s young Old Master. For this exquisite example of his eloquent and highly finessed painting style, it is the old master he has most assiduously emulated. If bright is a thing, he has the advantage early of being born […]