WHAT`S ON

Dear Friends of REDOT GALLERY,
In Issue 2009-09:
WHAT’S ON...AND COMING UP!
THIS MONTH’S ARTIST PROFILE: JUDY NAPANGARDI WATSON
NEWS: PAPUNYA TULA IN NEW YORK
BRILLIANT PEOPLE DOING EXTRAORDINARY THINGS
ANNOUNCEMENTS: TELSTRA & WESTERN AUSTRALIA AWARD WINNERS
WHAT’S ON...
SEPTEMBER
‘WARLUKURLANGU – SURVEY SHOW 2009’
The 2nd Singaporean show of the works of the
Warlukurlangu Artists’ Aboriginal Corporation opened
on Wednesday 26th August at ReDot Gallery.
One hundred lovers of Australian Aboriginal art had the
opportunity to see firsthand the best of this art centre
and to meet two of its artists. World renowned Judy
Watson Napangardi and emerging star Alma
Nungarrayi Granites were in Singapore for the show,
which was officially opened by HE Mr. Doug Chester,
Australian High Commissioner to Singapore.
Judy and Alma had a packed week. Accompanied by the
art centre manager, Cecilia Alfonso, they visited 4
schools and conducted 2 workshops for children at
ReDot Gallery. Amid the busy schedule they also found
time to shop all over town. Half of Yeundumu will sure
enjoy presents purchased in Chinatown and Little India
(Mustafa was a favourite!).
Paddy Japaljarri Sims (1533/08) 122cm x 76cm
Warlukurlangu works are renowned for its use of
colours and authentic content. Using an unrestricted
colour palette (more than 200 colours are current
available) over 400 artists, living in the communities of
Yuendumu and Nyirripi, produce vibrant and colourful
pieces that depict the Warlpiri Tjukurrpa (Dreamtime).
Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation was
established in 1985 and is 100% indigenously owned and
governed. All the proceeds from the sale of the art
works go directly back to the artists and their
community projects.
‘Warlukurlangu – Survey Show 2009’ has been curated
with diversity in mind. Works from both renewed and
upcoming artists were selected in various styles.
ReDot Gallery has produced a beautiful catalogue, which
is available in printed and electronic versions and works
are also online. However nothing beats the real thing!
The exhibition runs till Saturday 3rd October 2009.
Judy Napangardi Watson (3038/08) 183cm x 122cm
View 'Warlukurlangu – Survey Show 2009' Works
COMING UP...
OCTOBER
‘STOCK ROOM SHOW – 2009 TELSTRA AWARD
SELECTED ARTISTS’
The ‘Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Art Award’ is the premier Australian indigenous event on
the arts calendar. It sets the benchmark for the market
and attracts collector from all over the world.
The award was established by the Museum and Art Gallery
of the Northern Territory in 1984 and it is open to all
adult Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists.
The 26th Telstra Art Award opened last month in Darwin
and 93 entries competed for AUD56,000 of prize money.
ReDot Gallery was present at the prize ceremony and is
proud to represent 35 of the 93 entries in this year’s
award.
‘Stock Room Show – 2009 TELSTRA Award Selected
Artists’ will showcase works by these artists and give our
clients the opportunity to see works from top artists from
all corners of Australia.
Canvases from the Central and Western Deserts will be
showcased alongside ceremonial poles and bark paintings
from the Top End. An eclectic selection showing the
directions this broad art movement is taking.
Billy Benn, Donald Moko, Doreen Reid Nakamarra,
Eubena Nampitjin, Harry Tjutjuna, Jukuja Dolly Snell, Lydia
Balbal, Maringka Baker and Cory Surprise are just some
names whose works will grace the walls of ReDot Gallery
Eubena Nampitjin (777-02) 80cm x 30cm
Preview 'Stock Room Show – 2009 TELSTRA
Award Selected Artists' Works
The exhibition opens on Wednesday 6th October and
runs till Saturday 7th November 2009.
NEWS...
PAPUNYA TULA IN NEW YORK
‘Icons of the Desert – Early Aboriginal Painting from
Papunya’ features seminal works from the collection of
John and Barbara Wilkerson, most of them dating back
to the earliest years of painting at Papunya, 1971–1972.
In 1971, at Papunya, a government-established Aboriginal
relief camp in the Central Australian desert, the Sydney
school teacher Geoffrey Bardon provided a group of
ranking Aboriginal men with the tools and the
encouragement to paint. The resulting works became the
first paintings ever to systematically transfer the imagery
of their culture to a permanent surface.
The collection includes important works by such great
names in the history of late twentieth-century Australian
art as Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Kaapa Mbitjana
Tjampitjinpa, Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri, Uta Uta Tjangala,
Charlie Tarawa (Tjaruru) Tjungurrayi, and Shorty
Lungkarta Tjungurrayi, Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula
and many others.
The exhibition will be held at the Grey Gallery at New
York University from September 1st to December 5th
2009.
www.iconsofthedesert.com
Catalogue Icons of the Desert
Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya
Distributed for the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art by
Cornell University Press
BRILLIANT PEOPLE DOING EXTRAORDINARY
THINGS
Qi’s inaugural event will bring you ‘Brilliant People doing
Extraordinary Things’ on the 8th October at The National
Museum of Singapore.
The central theme will be “human progress in harmony
with nature”: five speakers will inspire people to think and
act more progressively about a future world. From the
inspiring wildlife conservationist and TV celebrity, Lone
Droscher Nielsen who looks after 600 orang-utans, to the
former sustainable jewellery designer and now founder of
the Green school, John Hardy.
They will be accompanied by beautiful low carbon
products, locally sourced gourmet foods and fine
contemporary aboriginal art. ReDot Gallery will showcase
wonderful Aboriginal art work.
Please see the programme details
global.com/events/. Qi is the new IQ.
at
www.qi-
Sally Gabori (4258-L-SG-0509) 198cm x 101cm
ARTIST’S PROFILE...
JUDY NAPANGARDI WATSON
Judy Napangardi Watson was born at Yarungkanji, Mt.
Doreen Station, at the time when many Warlpiri and
other Central and Western Desert Peoples were living a
traditional nomadic life. With her family Judy made many
trips on foot to her country and lived for long periods at
Mina Mina and Yingipurlangu, her ancestral country on
the border of the Tanami and Gibson Deserts. These
places are rich in bush tucker such as wanakiji, bush
plums, yakajirri, bush tomatoes, and wardapi, sand
goanna. Judy still frequently goes hunting in the country
west of Yuendumu, near her homelands.
Judy was taught painting by her elder sister, Maggie
Napangardi Watson. She painted alongside her at
Warlukurlangu artists for a number of years, developing
her own unique style. Though a very tiny woman Judy
has had ten children, three of whom she has outlived.
She is a woman of incredible energy; this is transmitted
to her work through her dynamic use of colour, and
energetic "dragged dotting" style.
She is at the forefront of a move towards more abstract
rendering of Jukurrpa by Warlpiri artists; however her
work retains strong kurruwarri, the details which tell of
the sacredness of place and song in her culture. Her
themes are Mina Mina Jukurrpa (Mina Mina Dreaming),
Ngarlyipi Jukurrpa (Snake Vine Dreaming) and
Karntakurlangu (Women Dreaming).
Judy has been exhibitions regularly since 1990 and her
works can be found in major collections such as Araluen
Art & Cultural Centre, Alice Springs; Art Gallery of New
South Wales, Sydney; Gordon Darling Foundation and
National Gallery of Australian, Canberra; Flinders
University Art Museum and National Gallery of Victoria,
Melbourne; Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern
Territory, Darwin; South Australian Museum, Adelaide
and Aboriginal Art Museum, Utrecht
Judy is the top female artist painting at Warlukurlangu
Judy Napangardi Watson (4222/07) 122cm x 61cm
View Judy Watson's Works
Artists’ Aboriginal Corporation and has been included in
the 50 Most Collectable Artists by the Australian Art
Collector magazine in 2007.
Her works are sort after by collectors in Australia and
overseas. ReDot Gallery has few wonderful pieces in
stock.
ANNOUNCEMENTS...
TELSTRA WINNERS
The 26th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Art Award winners were announced in Darwin on
14th August 2009.
The winner was a fantastic, albeit unusual work, by
University of Sydney art theory lecturer, Danie Mellor.
The General Painting Award went to Yinarupa Nangala
of Papunya Tula and the Bark Painting Award to
Rerrkirrwanga Munungurr of Yirrkala Arts. Both these
artists will be showing at ReDot Gallery in the coming
months!
Indeed, our upcoming Papunya Tula show will have
works by ALL 7 of the artists from Kintore that were
shortlisted for the final cut!
For more on the selected artists and works, visit:
www.nt.gov.au/nreta/museums/exhibitions/natsiaa
Yinarupa Nangala (YN0904034) 122cm x 122cm
WESTERN AUSTRALIA INDIGENOUS ART
PRIZE WINNER
Across the border in WA, Wakartu Cory Surprise of
Mangkaja Arts also recently won the coveted Western
Australian Indigenous Artist Award!
Cory Surprise is ALSO one of ReDot’s main artists and
her works were first exhibited in Singapore in 2005.
Cory was also selected for the 26th Telstra Art Award
and her pieces will be showcased in our upcoming show,
opening on October 6th 2009.
View Wakartu Cory Surprise's Works
Wakartu Cory Surprise (544/06) 90cm x 60cm
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