Thursday, 6 January - Friday, 4 March 2005

EARTH COLORS: Paintings by Aboriginal Artists from the Northern Territory

Featuring works by celebrated and collectible artists from the central and western deserts, including paintings of men’s business and women’s ceremonies, “maps” of country and ancestral travels, and Dreamings of totemic ancestors by:

Abraham Stockman
Anmanari Napanangka
Audrey Petyarre
Charlie Egalie Tjapaltjarri
Elizabeth Kngwarreye
Kathleen Purvis Kemarre
Lena Pwerle
Motorcar Jim Kgnale
Pauline Purvis
and “minis” by the masters – small paintings by Minnie Pwerle,    Barbara Weir Petyarre, Gloria Petyarre and others

Australia’s vast deserts are both the home of many of the continent’s most celebrated Aboriginal artists, and the inspiration for their paintings of the Dreamings for which they have responsibility.

COMING SOON:
Utopia Revisited: New works from Ampilatwatja
Uncrated III: Our annual show of work fresh from our buying trips to Australia

Geoffrey Bardon, “The Dreamtime,” in Modern Art/Ancient Icon, the catalogue for the World Bank Exhibition of Aboriginal Art, presented by the Aboriginal Gallery of Dreamings, 1992
“The Dreamtime is the Aboriginal understanding of the world, of its creation, and of its great stories. The Dreamtime is the beginning of knowledge, from which came the laws of existence. For survival these laws must be observed.”