Saturday, 11 June through Saturday, 17 September 2011

Marking Time:
Original Prints by Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Artists

Aussie Wine Reception:

3:00 – 6:00 pm

Saturday, 11 June 2011

with a gallery talk at 4:30 pm

Gallery Talk:

Marking Time on Paper: Australian Aboriginal Printmakers

Please join us for Marking Time, Booker-Lowe's group exhibition of recent etchings, linocuts and screen prints by indigenous artists from Australia!

Marking Time is just one of many exhibitions and events comprising PrintHouston2011, the inaugural citywide "celebration of original prints, the artists who create them, and the people who collect them," sponsored by PrintMatters.

Marking Time features works by the acclaimed printmakers of Australia's Torres Strait Islands, Dennis Nona, Alick Tipoti, and Billy Missi. It also includes prints by some of the best-known Aboriginal painters of the Kimberleys, as well as artists from Arnhem Land and the Tiwi Islands, in Australia’s Top End.

Nana Booker, Honorary Consul of Australia and co-owner of Booker-Lowe, will lead an informal gallery talk at 4:30 pm, Saturday, 11 June, about Australia's indigenous print-makers, their subjects drawn from ancestral traditions and daily lives, and their artistic styles and special printmaking techniques.

Booker-Lowe showcases a wide variety of contemporary fine art by Australia's indigenous artists, and offers the largest collection of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island artworks for sale in the Americas.

Coming Soon . . .

29 September 2011
Rare Finds: A Special Collection of Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Paintings
A mix of "big names" in Aboriginal art including Minnie Pwerle, Gloria Petyarre, Abie Loy Kemarre, and Johnny Bulun Bulun, as well as other artists

Mid-November 2011
Constellations: Alma Granites Nungurrayi Paints the Seven Sisters Dreaming

15 December 2011
Aboriginal writer Anita Heiss introduces her latest novel, Manhattan Dreaming, at Booker-Lowe

19-28 January 2012
Australia Week in Houston. Check the Australian-American Chamber of Commerce website for events.