Albert Namatjira Gallery
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Alfred Cook, "Portrait of Albert Namatjira" c. 1940, oil on board, 45.0 x 34.0 cm. Ngurratjuta Pmara Ntjarra Aboriginal Corporation Collection. |
The Albert Namatjira Gallery features a display of works by this famous Aboriginal artist, his family and contemporaries, as well as the work of Aboriginal watercolour artists of today. This image left is a painting of Albert Namatjira by Alfred Cook.
The exhibition also includes a display of the Papunya Community School Collection, a group of 14 paintings from the early 1970's. At this time, a stylistic change occurred in Central Australia, when acrylic paintings of a more symbolic nature emerged. The designs of these new works were more connected to traditional cultural practices rather than the realistic framing of local landscape in the watercolour tradition, and form the basis of a practice that continues today.
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Albert Namatjira Gallery |
The Papunya School Collection contains works by many celebrated artists, including Long Jack Phillipus, who remains a member of the Papunya Community School Council.
Generally there are exhibitions of Central Australian Indigenous Arts from the Araluen Collection on display at the Araluen Galleries.
