Located in Alice Springs, Central Australia
DOROTHY NAPANGARDI
Mina Mina – Memories of Country
This screen print depicts a major women’s ceremonial site known as Mina Mina, the artist’s custodial country, located near Lake Mackay in the Tanami Desert, north of Yuendumu in the Northern Territory. During the Jukurrpa Ancestral women of the Napangardi and Napanangka sub-section groups (aunt / niece relationship, in which knowledge is passed from one to the other) gathered to collect ceremonial digging sticks (karlangu) that had emerged from the ground. They then proceeded east, performing rituals of song and dance, to the place known as Jankinyi. A large belt of trees (Allocasuarina decaisneana) now stand where these digging sticks once were.
Medium: Screenprint
Image Size: 50 x 39 cm
Paper & size: Magnani pescia, 76 x 56 cm
Catalogue No: DN-24
Price: AUD 550
DOROTHY NAPANGARDI
Karntakurlangu Jukurrpa
Depicts a major women’s ceremonial site known as Mina Mina, the artist’s custodial country, located near Lake Mackay in the Tanami Desert, north of Yuendumu in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Limited Edition Etching
Image Size: 44 cm x 44 cm
Paper size: 57 cm x 78 cm
Catalogue No: DN-19
Price: AUD 1,200
DOROTHY NAPANGARDI
Salt Series 2
Depicts a major women’s ceremonial site known as Mina Mina, the artist’s custodial country located near Lake Mackay in the Tanami Desert, north of Yuendumu in the Northern Territory. During the Jukurrpa Ancestral women of the Napangardi and Napanangka sub-section groups (aunt / niece relationship, in which knowledge is passed from one to the other) gathered to collect ceremonial digging sticks (Karlangu) that had emerged from the ground. They then proceeded east, performing rituals of song and dance, to the place known as Jankinyi. A large belt of trees (Allocasuarina decaisneana) now stand where these digging sticks once were.
Medium: Limited Edition Etching
Image Size: 70 cm x 49 cm
Paper size: 100 cm x 70 cm
Catalogue No: DN-9.2
Price: AUD 2,500
DOROTHY NAPANGARDI
Sandhills
This work depicts ‘sandhills’ across the sacred site of Mina Mina, of which the artist is custodial owner. The site is located near Lake Mackay in the Tanami Desert, north of Yuendumu in the Northern Territory of Australia
Medium: Limited Edition Etching
Image Size: 44 x 44 cm
Paper size: 57 x 78 cm
Catalogue No: DN-20
Price: AUD 1,850
DOROTHY NAPANGARDI
Mina Mina Salt - Etching
Depicts a major women’s ceremonial site known as Mina Mina. Topographically, the sacred site of Mina Mina is made up of two enormous soakage areas that, rarely filled with water, exist as clay-pans. As water soaks into the ground small areas of earth dry out and lift at the edges, becoming delineated by salt. In this striking diptych design of white and black dotting, Dorothy depicts the crustations of salt stretching infinitely onward, etched with the tracks of the women as their paths stretch on, crossing and merging; telling their stories.
Medium: Limited Edition Etching
Image Size: 88 cm x 44 cm
Paper size: 108 cm x 78 cm
Catalogue No: DN-26
Price: AUD 3,150
DOROTHY NAPANGARDI
‘Karntakurlangu Jukurrpa’ (Women’s Dreaming)
Sandhills of Mina Mina
This screen print shows yet another development in the ever-evolving style of Dorothy Napangardi. As with all of this artist’s works, this painting revolves around the sacred site of Mina Mina, the land in the remote Tanami Desert of which Dorothy is custodial owner. Made up of two enormous soakage areas and endless sandhills, here Dorothy and her aunts (Napanangkas) perform rituals of dance and song as part of their passing on of Jukurrpa.
Medium: Screenprint
Image Size: 72.5 x 75.5 cm
Paper & size: Arches Cover, 98 x 80 cm
Catalogue No: DN-7.2 (bw)
Price: AUD 4,000
DOROTHY NAPANGARDI
Karntakurlangu Jukurrpa
This Limited Edition Etching depicts a major women’s ceremonial site known as Mina Mina, the artist’s custodial country located near Lake Mackay in the Tanami Desert, north of Yuendumu in the Northern Territory of Australia. During the Jukurrpa Ancestral women of the Napangardi and Napanangka sub-section groups (aunt / niece relationship, in which knowledge is passed from one to the other) gathered to collect ceremonial digging sticks (Karlangu) that had emerged from the ground. They then proceeded east, performing rituals of song and dance, to the place known as Jankinyi. A large belt of trees (Allocasuarina decaisneana) now stand where these digging sticks once were.
Paper: Arches Cover (White)
Image Size: 67 x 102.5 cm
Paper size: 80 x 120 cm
Catalogue No: DN-1.2
Price: AUD 3,500
DOROTHY NAPANGARDI
Karntakurlangu Jukurrpa
This Limited Edition Etching depicts a major women’s ceremonial site known as Mina Mina, the artist’s custodial country located near Lake Mackay in the Tanami Desert, north of Yuendumu in the Northern Territory of Australia. During the Jukurrpa Ancestral women of the Napangardi and Napanangka sub-section groups (aunt / niece relationship, in which knowledge is passed from one to the other) gathered to collect ceremonial digging sticks (Karlangu) that had emerged from the ground. They then proceeded east, performing rituals of song and dance, to the place known as Jankinyi. A large belt of trees (Allocasuarina decaisneana) now stand where these digging sticks once were.
Paper: Arches Cover (White)
Image Size: 67 x 102.5 cm
Paper size: 80 x 120 cm
Catalogue No: DN-1.1
Price: AUD 3,500
DOROTHY NAPANGARDI
Salt Country
In this etching the artist has created striking black, grey and white designs depicting the ancestral women dancing across the country of Mina Mina across the terrain, around the soakages of Mina Mina and the crustations that form when rainwater recedes, through the spinifex clumps and over the sand hills.
Paper: Hahnemuhle
Image Size: 20 x 25 cm
Paper size: 36 x 40 cm
Catalogue No: DN-4.3
Price: AUD 480
DOROTHY NAPANGARDI
Salt
In this etching the artist has created striking black designs depicting the ancestral women dancing across the country of Mina Mina across the terrain, around the soakage’s of Mina Mina and it’s crustations of salt; through the Spinifex clumps and over the sand hills.
Paper: Hahnemuhle
Image Size: 20 x 25 cm
Paper size: 36 x 40 cm
Catalogue No: DN-4.2
Price: AUD 520
DOROTHY NAPANGARDI
Karntakurlangu Jukurrpa
This limited edition etching depicts a major women’s ceremonial site known as Mina Mina, the artist’s custodial country located near Lake Mackay in the Tanami Desert, north of Yuendumu in the Northern Territory. During the Jukurrpa Ancestral women of the Napangardi and Napanangka sub-section groups (aunt / niece relationship, in which knowledge is passed from one to the other) gathered to collect ceremonial digging sticks (Karlangu) that had emerged from the ground. They then proceeded east, performing rituals of song and dance, to the place known as Jankinyi. A large stand of Desert Oaks (Allocasuarina decaisneana) now grow where these digging sticks once were.
In this etching the artist has created striking black, grey and white designs depicting the ancestral women dancing across the country of Mina Mina across the terrain, around the soakages of Mina Mina and the crustations that form when rainwater recedes, through the spinifex clumps and over the sand hills.
Paper: Hahnemuhle
Image Size: 20 x 25 cm
Paper size: 36 x 40 cm
Catalogue No: DN-4.4
Price: AUD 520
JULIE NANGALA ROBINSON
Pirlinyanu - Etching
Julie depicts her Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming), which is associated with her father’s traditional country of Pirlinyanu, a rocky outcrop in the Tanami Desert, west of Yuendumu and towards the WA border.
Medium: Etching
Image Size: 59 cm x 45 cm
Paper Size: 80 cm x 60 cm
Catalogue No: PRINT JR-01
Price: AUD 595
MITJILI NAPANANGKA GIBSON
‘Wilkinkarra’
Wilkinkarra is the Pintubi name for Lake Mackay. This area is Mitjili’s traditional country and this is the region where she lived pre-contact.
Mitjili’s family would camp on the Walatu (islands of the lake) and then go into the surrounding bush to hunt. One of their main camps was called “Parrailpit”, a large wetland area with many eucalyptus trees.
Medium: Screenprint
Image Size: 59.5 cm x 60 cm
Catalogue No: PRINTMN-02
Price: AUD 550
WALALA TJAPALTJARRI
Tingari events at Lake MacKay
In this beautifully subtle white work, the subject is associated with a Jukurrpa (Dreaming) event in the Tingari Cycle, which is related to the site of Wilkinkarra (the great salt lake of Lake Mackay) in Western Australia where Walala and his family lived a traditional lifestyle until 1984.
The quiet intensity of Tjapaltjarri’s rectangular forms seem to have a life of their own, creating movement not only up and down but through the entirety of the screenprint. From a distance, the background blends out of the picture, leaving the shapes as though hovering mid-movement in space. The once static geometrics tumble in arabesques over and under one another, the viewer’s eye caught in their flight. Tjapaltjarri, who has always made the most of his minimal use of colour, here uses its very lack to incredible effect. Coming as he does from salt-lake country where one’s vision is constantly challenged, always thrown askew, could it be that Walala is, unconsciously, recreating this optical effect here in this limited edition screen print...
Medium: Screenprint
Image Size: 51 cm x 73 cm
Paper size: 121 cm x 56 cm
Catalogue No: WDed45WT
Price: AUD 950
BILLY BENN
Artetyerre, 2007
This limited edition etching of Artetyerre by Billy Benn is a depiction from memory of his country, Harts Range.
Billy Benn was taught to paint by his two older sisters Ally Kemerre and Gladdy Kemerre, as well as memories of a Chinese lady showing him how to paint. Billy’s father was also an artist creating the more traditional artefacts of boomerangs, spears and wooden sculptures.
Medium: Limited Edition Etching
Image Size: 19.5 x 12.5 cm
Paper size: 38.5 x 26.5 cm
Catalogue No: PRINTBB-3
Price: AUD 650
LINDA JACKSON
Sturt Desert Pea
Awarded the office of the Order of Australia in 2018, Linda Jackson is one of the most innovative, prolific and successful artists and fashion designers on the Australian scene. Represented in the collections of the Powerhouse Museum, the National Gallery of Victoria and the National Gallery of Australia Linda is an important and influential figure in Australian art and fashion history.
The landscape of Central Australia has been a major influence on her work since 1980; the colours and landscape forming the theme for many paintings.
Medium: Original painting on paper (framed)
Image Size: 75 cm x 56 cm
Catalogue No: 14407LJ
Price: AUD 1,500
LINDA JACKSON
Bush Food After Rain
Awarded the office of the Order of Australia in 2018, Linda Jackson is one of the most innovative, prolific and successful artists and fashion designers on the Australian scene. Represented in the collections of the Powerhouse Museum, the National Gallery of Victoria and the National Gallery of Australia Linda is an important and influential figure in Australian art and fashion history.
The landscape of Central Australia has been a major influence on her work since 1980; the colours and landscape forming the theme for many paintings.
Medium: Original painting (framed)
Image Size: 56 cm x 75 cm
Catalogue No: 14408LJ
Price: AUD 1,500
IAN WALDRON
Duck Creek
Waldron’s traditional country is found between Karumba and the Mitchell River in north Queensland’s Gulf Country. His works are abstract and profound, often presented in exhibitions as a harmonious body of work.
While many of the paintings are highly experimental, the impact of some pieces hinges on the techniques of carefully working, shading and texture. His exhibition “From Gulf to Desert” at Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs, showed an interesting example of combining styles, with tonal and textural variations, overlaid with strands of fine lines as well as chalky stokes depicting the smooth contours of the Morr Morr (Bush Apple).
Waldron’s paintings are records of impressions of contemporary life and artistic expressions of the significance of traditional place, often using abstracted topography. Waldron shares with many desert masters an elegant execution of abstract minimalism. The gentle curves and meandering lines in works of Yellowwood, Bush Apple and Duck Creek reflect an unselfconscious freedom of movement.
Medium: Original painting stretched on canvas
Image Size: 55 cm x 120 cm
Catalogue No: 14040IW
Price: AUD 1,850
DHUWARRWARR MARIKA
Rulyapa
This lino print, hand cut by Dhuwarrwarr using a razor blade, represents the salt water between the mainland and Bremer Island, (near Yirrkala) where she spends a good deal of time painting on bark and teaching her children and grandchildren.
Medium: Linocut
Image Size: 14 cm x 18 cm
Catalogue No: PRINTBH-100DM
Price: AUD 520
NYUWARA TAPAYA
Ini Wiya
Nyuwara Tapaya is an artists and print-maker of the Pitjantjatjara people of South Australia. Born at Ernabella, which also has its own Aboriginal arts centre since 1948. Nyuwara began studying batik techniques about 1989 and has participated in a number of print workshops. Works exhibited in touring exhibitions of Australia and Indonesia, and works held in Australian and international collections (US and UK).
Her mother, Tjunkaya Tapaya (an established artist), is Pitjantjatjara and comes from Antalya. Her father was from Tipany and his first language was Yangkunytjarjara.
Medium: Zinc plate etching on paper
Image Size: 12 cm x 24 cm
Catalogue No: 14290NT
Price: AUD 480
STEVEN WALBUNGA
Central Australia Landscape (watercolour)
Steven Walbungara is from the Hermannsburg School art movement that began at the Hermannsburg Mission in the 1930s. He paints watercolours of the landscape he sees around him that includes the West MacDonnell Ranges.
Medium: Watercolour (framed)
Size: 25 cm x 38 cm
Catalogue No: 14409SW (WAT010SW)
Price: AUD 850
RUSIATE LALI
Sacred Ceremony - A Desert Mob 2010
In this painting we can see the feathery desert sky with the figures rising up out of the ground or even being consumed by the country. Within the paint, lines and patterns Rusiate encodes personal totemic iconography and narrative that reflect his ancestral stories as well as his attitudes to contemporary life.
Medium: Original painting stretched on frame
Size: 91 cm x 122 cm
Catalogue No: 14022RL
Price: AUD 2,800
RUSIATE LALI
Venus and Mars
In this etching we are invited to perceive the playfulness, lightness and beauty of Venus, the planet of love alongside the characteristics of the planet Mars, often associated with more masculine qualities. Both figures symbolize they are incomplete one without the other, inviting us to incorporate both the feminine and the masculine within us all.
Rusiate, one of the most exciting and provocative artists to exhibit at Gallery Gondwana, comes from a long lineage of potters, carvers, tapa cloth and fibre artists. Named Contemporary Fijian Artist of the Year in 1999, Rusiate’s work is a sensuous mix of past and present, myth and reality. He has had five solo exhibitions and participated in many group exhibitions. To date much of his work has explored his personal experiences and his universal awareness of social issues. He handles these subjects with intelligence and sensitivity.
Living the last year between Fiji and Australia, Rusiate is a multi-media artist, exploring film, music, dance, storytelling and writing.
Medium: Etching
Size: 50 cm x 40.5 cm
Catalogue No: PRINTRB-13
Price: AUD 480
RUSIATE LALI
Seek and you will find
In this aesthetically pleasing work, Rusiate portrays various fishing techniques for the flying fish found in the rivers of his homeland, Rewa River in Fiji.
IKA translate to fish.
Vakamuria to follow.
Vakataoa to be good.
Medium: Original painting stretched on frame
Size: 46 cm x 46 cm
Catalogue No: 7999RL
Price: AUD 550
RUSIATE LALI
Touching Earth Series 3
In this series of paintings, Touching Earth, we see Rusiate stressing the importance of maintaining a balance with Mother Nature.
He uses traditional tapa designs to portray the wind, rain and sun indicating that harmony comes from balance.
Medium: Original painting stretched on frame
Size: 51 cm x 51 cm
Catalogue No: 8149RL
Price: AUD 550
RUSIATE LALI
Navigating by the stars
In this painting, the artist describes how they navigating by the stars.
He uses traditional tapa designs.
Medium: Original painting stretched on frame
Size: 51 cm x 51 cm
Catalogue No: 8145RB
Price: AUD 550
RUSIATE LALI
In Between Hieroglyphics
Throughout life’s journey, we can sometimes feel that we are traveling along parallel lines simultaneously – and it is about the choices we make along the way. The artist sees these works as an expression of both his cultural and artistic journey.
The series were painted in 2004 whilst living in Sydney listening to David Bowie music.
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 31 cm x 25 cm
Catalogue No: 14345RL
Price: AUD 220
RUSIATE LALI
In Between Hieroglyphics
Throughout life’s journey, we can sometimes feel that we are traveling along parallel lines simultaneously – and it is about the choices we make along the way. The artist sees these works as an expression of both his cultural and artistic journey.
The series were painted in 2004 whilst living in Sydney listening to David Bowie music.
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 31 cm x 25 cm
Paper Size: 80 cm x 60 cm
Catalogue No: 14346RL
Price: AUD 220
RUSIATE LALI
The Studio
(The Protection Series 2006)
From Rusiate’s “Protection Series” of works, this beautiful artwork with its monochromatic and fine textural design, makes a statement with it block of red, framed as a door within a doorway within a doorway.
The closed door, is the entrance to the “Studio”… who knows what the artist has depicted beyond the door…
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 30 cm x 30 cm
Catalogue No: 10318RL
Price: AUD 350
RUSIATE LALI
The Protection Series 2006
From Rusiate’s “Protection Series”, this beautiful work sings with a subtle muted colour palate and fine textural design work.
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 30 cm x 30 cm
Catalogue No: 10347RL
Price: AUD 350
RUSIATE LALI
Pacifica (Balance Yourself)
Melanesians are part of a complex web of influences and histories that often places them in situations of conflict and confrontation. They are influenced by encounters and relationships that impact on their life. These encounters include local cultural language and
knowledge, various forms of schooling, Christian influences, media and information, and political and cultural changes.
The artist here is highlighting some of the issues concerning Pacific nations and putting forward that there should be a balance in all aspects of life.
Medium: Limited edition reproduction
Date: 2006
Size: 115 cm x 55 cm
Catalogue No: 10342RB
Price: AUD 495
RUSIATE LALI
Tribal Survival
Whenever I go back to my roots
Time will be spent in the forest
Beside the river bank
Looking for a clearance
To find myself
At that moment strong presence surrounds me
It waits for me
Watching every move
Sensing every reaction
The forest is alive
Spirits standing
Eye contact
Door to the soul
Understand Remember
Never forget this experience
You’ll only see and feel them today
Not the next day
There will never be a tomorrow
Breathe in
Smell it
Taste the tegu in the air
Tremble but do not fear
Close your eyes for you are here
Feel the experience
Hear the birds (kalu sara)
Watch the snakes
You are here now
This is swamp land
My land
Your land
Our land
Many of you have travelled far
Left your families and friends
Memories and feelings that couldn’t mend
But you had no choice
This has to be done
For the soul purpose of experimenting
And expanding your ideas
The idea to understand life
To understand the after life
They take you there these spirits
They direct you when in need
This is my mana
It can be yours too
Only if you believe
Half my people say
This is the work of the devil
Isa vakaloloma
Guess what - this is old religion
As old as water
This is the Culture
Without this we are lost
This is the Mana
Mana Mana
That poet
Is fusioned with a contemporary art form
How far Tribal Revival will travel
Only time will tell
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Date: 2005
Size: 122 cm x 61 cm
Catalogue No: 10092RB
Price: AUD 3,500
This beautiful painting was the cover artwork for the Tribal Revival Exhibition (October 2005) …
Fijian Artist Celebrates Indigenous Heritage
Stunning Melanesian Aesthetic Energized with Powerful Modernist Expression
Gallery Gondwana Stages
First Sydney Show for Rusiate Lali
RUSIATE LALI
Mine Tunnel
From Rusiate Lali Crossroad exhibition and just released from Gallery Gondwana private collection is his work ‘Mine Tunnel’.
The artist was working on this artwork when the news flash hit the airways about the Beaconsfield mine collapse in Tasmania (on 25 April 2006). This event was to trigger the emotional response by the artist of painting the white shaft of light in this work as a spiritual plea to the heavens for their safe rescue.
This artwork is freighted stretched on the frame, packed to travel safely with MDF board either side.
Medium: Original artwork stretched on frame
Date: 2006
Size: 152 cm x 91 cm
Catalogue No: 10341RB
Price: AUD 3,800
RUSIATE LALI
Indigenous Boundary
The boundary between indigenous people and the west is reflected in the boundary between what is revealed outside of one’s culture and what is hidden. This is in keeping with the tradition of indigenous people, to show only some of their cultural secrets to the outside world.
This work appeared in the Rusiate Lali exhibition “Crossroads”.
This artwork is freighted stretched on the frame, packed to travel safely with MDF board either side.
Medium: Original artwork stretched on frame
Date: 2006
Size: 137 cm x 112 cm
Catalogue No: 10339RL
Price: AUD 3,800
RUSIATE LALI
Changing World, 2006
Turukawa, representing the Spirit, the land and identity, watches over us - reminding us not to forget where we come from and to continue to respect traditional values even when located in a more contemporary context.
In this work the artist’s story is very hopeful and evolves in a counter clockwise direction from the clashing images at the bottom of the painting all the way around to the newly built constructions at the centre conveying the evolution of our consciousness from the disharmony and confusion of today’s troubled world into a more peaceful and harmonious world.
This artwork is freighted stretched on the frame
Medium: Original artwork stretched on frame
Date: 2006
Size: 152 cm x 91 cm
Catalogue No: 10340RB
Price: AUD 3,800
RUSIATE LALI
Awareness
In Rusiate’s Fijian cultural heritage, Turukawa, the large bird in the center right of the painting, represents the Spirit, the land and identity. He watches over us, reminding us not to forget where we come from. The reminder is also a warning as symbolized by the toppling of famous American icons but the threat is somewhat tempered and rendered impotent by the nostalgic, slightly comical black and white movie-esque quality of the original painting.
Medium: Limited edition reproduction (from an original painting)
Date: 2006
Size: 112 cm x 137 cm
Catalogue No: 10357RB
Price: AUD 495
