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![\"Alison](\"https:\/\/japingkaaboriginalart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/alison-munti-riley-australian-aboriginal-artist-profile.jpg\")
<\/a>\n Alison Munti Riley<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: APY Lands<\/a><\/p>\nAlison Munti Riley, a Pitjantjatjara artist born at Ernabella, began her painting career in 2006. She has won the Peoples Prize in the NATSIAA Telstra art awards in Darwin and exhibited widely in Australia, as well as USA and Europe. Alison paints the Seven Sisters Jukurrpa from her homelands.<\/p>\n\t\n\t![\"Andrew](\"https:\/\/japingkaaboriginalart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Andrew-Highfold-Artist-Profile-1.jpg\")
<\/a>\n Andrew Tjupurrula Highfold<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Alice Springs<\/a><\/p>\nAndrew Tjupurrula Highfold began his painting journey in Alice Springs, capturing the intensity of the Central Australian landscape through use of colour and fine detail depicting aspects of the natural world. “I am a contemporary artist experimenting with style and technique to carry the story from my family.’<\/p>\n\t\n\t![\"Angelina](\"https:\/\/japingkaaboriginalart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Angelina-Ngal-Pwerle-Aboriginal-Artist.jpg\")
<\/a>\n Angelina Ngal Pwerle<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Utopia<\/a><\/p>\nAngelina Ngal is a senior Utopia artist renown for her large, finely dotted canvases. With her sisters Kathleen Ngal and Polly Ngal, Angelina has created major paintings that refer to the native Bush Plum, encompassing the land, the women’s ceremonies and sites associated with the Bush Plum Dreaming story.<\/p>\n\t\n\t![\"Utopia](\"https:\/\/japingkaaboriginalart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Utopia-Australian-Aboriginal-Artists.jpg\")
<\/a>\n Artists of Utopia<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Utopia<\/a><\/p>\nArtists of Utopia have a unique place in the story of the Aboriginal art movement. Beginning with batik textile art in the 1970s, many of the women artists went on to become famous painters, developing new ways to tell traditional stories. The skills have been passed down across the generations.<\/p>\n\t\n\t![\"Beinda-Golder-Kngwarreye-Aboriginal-Artist](\"https:\/\/japingkaaboriginalart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beinda-Golder-Kngwarreye-Aboriginal-Artist-Art-Map-1024x168.jpg\")
<\/a>\n Belinda Golder Kngwarreye<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Utopia<\/a><\/p>\nBelinda Golder Kngwarreye is a Utopia artist who paints the Bush Plum Dreaming story that she inherits from her grandmother, leading Utopia artist Polly Ngale. Belinda paints many colour tones of the plant as the fruits ripen. Her style of dotting also reminds us of the works of Emily Kngwarreye.<\/p>\n\t\n\t![\"Bernadine](\"https:\/\/japingkaaboriginalart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bernadine-Johnson-Artist-Profile-1.jpg\")
<\/a>\n Bernadine Johnson<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Utopia<\/a><\/p>\nBernadine Johnson is an Anmatyerre artist, b 1965 at Utopia. In her paintings Bernadine incorporates traditional iconography along with realistic elements. The themes depicted are primarily bush medicines, yam dreaming and body painting.<\/p>\n\t\n\t![\"Biddee](\"https:\/\/japingkaaboriginalart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Biddee-Baadjo-Aboriginal-Artist.jpg\")
<\/a>\n Biddee Baadjo<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Wangkatjungka<\/a><\/p>\nBiddee Baadjo paints the vast sandhill country of the Great Sandy Desert at her birthplace Piyurr waterhole named after a native bird. Biddee captures the essence of the desert and hidden water resources. She bears the marks of an eagles’ claws that grabbed her when she was a small baby.<\/p>\n\t\n\t![\"Bill](\"https:\/\/japingkaaboriginalart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bill-Whiskey-Tjapaltjarri-Aboriginal-Artist.jpg\")
<\/a>\n Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Haasts Bluff<\/a><\/p>\nBill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri (1920-2008) is a phenomenon of contemporary Aboriginal art, a Ngangkari or traditional healer, who began painting in the last five years of his life. His works tell the story of the ancestral white cockatoo near the Olgas, and are mesmerising images of creation and life’s journey.<\/p>\n\t\n\t![\"Black](\"https:\/\/japingkaaboriginalart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Black-and-White-Paintings-Australian-Aboriginal-Artists.jpg\")
<\/a>\n Black and White<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Alice Springs<\/a><\/p>\nMany Aboriginal artists have made reputations partly based on their powerful use of black and white paintings. This collection provides a quick overview of some of the most impressive works in the gallery. Selected artists include Lily Kelly, Anna Petyarre, Mitjili Napurrula, Sarrita King and Gloria Petyarre.<\/p>\n\t\n\t![\"Clarise](\"https:\/\/japingkaaboriginalart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Clarise-Tunkin-Aboriginal-Artist.jpg\")
<\/a>\n Clarise Tunkin<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: APY Lands<\/a><\/p>\nClarise Tunkin is a fourth-generation artist from Kanpi on the APY Lands in South Australia. Recognised artists in her family include great-grandfather Jimmy Baker, grandmother Kay Baker and mother Teresa Baker. Clarise began paints the stories of Country associated with the ancestral figure Marliliu. <\/p>\n\t\n\t![\"Wangkatjungka](\"https:\/\/japingkaaboriginalart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wangkatjungka-Aboriginal-Artist-collaboration.jpg\")
<\/a>\n Collaboration Wangkatjungka Artists<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Wangkatjungka<\/a><\/p>\nSenior Aboriginal artists at Wangkatjungka community have painted their ancestral lands in the Great Sandy Desert. These collaborative artworks record the family ownership of waterholes, the knowledge which is embedded in Dreaming law. Each artist contributes to the story of their own family events and locations.<\/p>\n\t\n\t![\"Cowboy](\"https:\/\/japingkaaboriginalart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cowboy-Louie-Pwerle-Aboriginal-Artist.jpg\")
<\/a>\n Cowboy Louie Pwerle<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Utopia<\/a><\/p>\nCowboy Loy Pwerl is a senior Anmatyerr artist, who paints the\u00a0Bush Turkey, Emu and Lizard Dreamings. His finely dotted paintings mark in the minute the journeys of Ancestor spirits across Country. Cowboy paints with his wives, sisters Carol and Elizabeth Kngwarreye at Mosquito Bore on Utopia homelands.<\/p>\n\t\n\t![\"Damien](\"https:\/\/japingkaaboriginalart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Damien-Marks-Yilpi-Marks-Aboriginal-Artists.jpg\")
<\/a>\n Damien Marks & Yilpi Marks<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Alice Springs<\/a><\/p>\nDamien Marks and Yilpi Marks are a husband and wife team who bring new vitality into contemporary Aboriginal art. Their painting is marked by its strong colour and incorporating traditional symbols and artefacts. Damien was taught by the great artists Billy Stockman, Uta Uta Jangala and Clifford Possum.<\/p>\n\t\n\t![\"David](\"https:\/\/japingkaaboriginalart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/David-Downs-Australian-Aboriginal-Artist.jpg\")
<\/a>\n David Downs<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Fitzroy Crossing<\/a><\/p>\nJarinyanu David Downs (1925-1995) was one of the great figurative painters of the Kimberley, He used ochre paints to recreate the great Walmajarri Storm Being Kurtal. David Downs was a custodian for the rain ceremony, and his art shows the Kurtal ancestor with the dancers dressed in the ceremonial headdress.<\/p>\n\t\n\t![\"Debra](\"https:\/\/japingkaaboriginalart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Debra-Young-Nakamarra-Aboriginal-Artist.jpg\")
<\/a>\n Debra Young Nakamarra<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Kintore<\/a><\/p>\nDebra Young Nakamarra paints stories associated with Women’s ceremonies at the site of Tjintjintjin, west of Kintore. Her iconography comes from her mother Walangkura Napanangka. The shapes in the painting show the terrain through which the Tingari Ancestor Kutungka Napanangka passed on her Creation journey. <\/p>\n\t\n\t![\"Dennis](\"https:\/\/japingkaaboriginalart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dennis-Nona-Aboriginal-Artist.jpg\")
<\/a>\n Dennis Nona<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Torres Strait<\/a><\/p>\nDennis Nona is a Torres Strait Islander artist closely associated with the revival of local traditional stories and legends through the printmaking medium. His linocuts reflect the carving skills of his native Badu Island home. He also produces delicate coloured etchings and sculpture based on coastal life.<\/p>\n\t\n\t![\"Djambu](\"https:\/\/japingkaaboriginalart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Djambu-Barra-Barra-Aboriginal-Artist.jpg\")
<\/a>\n Djambu Barra Barra<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Roper River<\/a><\/p>\nDjambu Barra Barra (1946- 2006) is a major painter from Roper River region. He painted large canvases with bold acrylic colours and used traditional cross-hatching patterns. His images were deeply connected to men’s stories and ancestral beings from his homelands Djambu is represented in major collections.<\/p>\n\t\n\t![\"Doris](\"https:\/\/japingkaaboriginalart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Doris-Gingingara-Aboriginal-Artist.jpg\")
<\/a>\n Doris Gingingara<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Maningrida<\/a><\/p>\nDoris Gingingara (1946-1999) created a unique body of work based on her Arnhem Land heritage combined with her detailed observations of the bush and the natural world around her. Doris created artworks using ink marker pens on paper and many were editioned as full colour limited edition silkscreen prints.<\/p>\n\t\n\t![\"Dorothy](\"https:\/\/japingkaaboriginalart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dorothy-Napangardi-Aboriginal-Artist.jpg\")
<\/a>\n Dorothy Napangardi<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Yuendumu<\/a><\/p>\nDorothy Napangardi (1952- 2013) established an international reputation for her beautifully worked black and white paintings of Mina Mina, the women’s sacred ceremonial site. Her work is beguiling with its carefully layered dots presenting minimal structures with rhythmic movement and intriguing patterns.<\/p>\n\t\n\t![\"Dulcie](\"https:\/\/japingkaaboriginalart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dulcie-Long-Pwerle-Aboriginal-Artist.jpg\")
<\/a>\n Dulcie Long Pwerle<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Utopia<\/a><\/p>\nDulcie Long Pwerle continues the proud tradition of Utopia painters who draw on cultural stories, like the Yam ceremonies performed by the women, and create contemporary interpretations. Dulcie’s extended artistic family include Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Gloria Petyarre, Greeny Purvis Petyarre and Minnie Pwerle.<\/p>\n\t\n\t![\"Edward](\"https:\/\/japingkaaboriginalart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Edward-Blitner-Aboriginal-Artist-Profile.jpg\")
<\/a>\n Edward Blitner<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Roper River<\/a><\/p>\nEdward Blitner is a major painter from Ngukurr in the Roper River region, and is known for his intricate paintings of animals and birds using the rarrk cross-hatching technique. Blitner uses the style and subject matter of his traditional lands, with a palette of earth colours, rendered in acrylic paints.<\/p>\n\t\n\t![\"Elizabeth](\"https:\/\/japingkaaboriginalart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Elizabeth-Kunoth-Kngwarray-Aboriginal-Artist.jpg\")
<\/a>\n Elizabeth Kunoth Kngwarray<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Utopia<\/a><\/p>\nElizabeth Kunoth Kngwarray is a leading Utopia artist whose closely dotted paintings reflect the precise style of Utopia artists, including her mother Nancy Kunoth Petyarre and aunt Kathleen Petyarre. Elizabeth paints the Yam Dreaming story and exhibits with her husband, fellow artist Cowboy Loy Pwerl.\u00a0<\/p>\n\t\n\t![\"Fiona-Omeenyo-Aboriginal-Artist-large\"](\"https:\/\/japingkaaboriginalart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fiona-Omeenyo-Aboriginal-Artist-large-1024x168.jpg\")
<\/a>\n Fiona Omeenyo<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Lockhart River<\/a><\/p>\nFiona Omeenyo is a Lockhart River artist whose work emerged as fresh and contemporary when she began exhibiting in the late 1990s. Fiona has a semi figurative style of painting, representing both living people and mythic ancestral figures, created as though carved into the background layers of paint.<\/p>\n\t\n\t![\"Freddie](\"https:\/\/japingkaaboriginalart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Freddie-Timms-Aboriginal-Artist.jpg\")
<\/a>\n Freddie Timms<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Kununurra<\/a><\/p>\nFreddie Timms (1944-2017) creates spare and beautiful paintings in the bold ochre colours of his East Kimberley homeland. He worked alongside some of the great Warmun Artists – Jack Britten, Hector Jandanay, Henry Wambini, Rover Thomas and his father-in-law, Paddy Jampinji.\u00a0His work is in major collections.<\/p>\n\t\n\t![\"Gabriella-Possum-Nungurrayi-Aboriginal-Artist-Art-Map\"](\"https:\/\/japingkaaboriginalart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gabriella-Possum-Nungurrayi-Aboriginal-Artist-Art-Map-1024x168.jpg\")
<\/a>\n Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Mt Allan<\/a><\/p>\nGabriella Possum Nungurrayi is the eldest daughter of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri (1932-2002). She became a very accomplished artist while still in her teens, having absorbed the rich cultural stories of her family’s inheritance. Gabriella uses warm vibrant colours to record stories of her Grandmother’s Country.<\/p>\n\t\n\t![\"Genevieve](\"https:\/\/japingkaaboriginalart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Genevieve-Kemarr-Loy-Aboriginal-Artist-Profile.jpg\")
<\/a>\n Genevieve Kemarr Loy<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Utopia<\/a><\/p>\nGenevieve Kemarr Loy is a Utopia artist with strong family connections to the art tradition on her homelands. Her grandmother is Nancy Petyarr and her parents Cowboy Loy Pwerl and Elizabeth Kunoth Kngwarray. Genevieve paints fine dot artworks that represent the tracks of the bush turkey searching out bush food.<\/p>\n\t\n\t![\"George](\"https:\/\/japingkaaboriginalart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/George-Tuckerbox-Aboriginal-Artist.jpg\")
<\/a>\n George Tuckerbox<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Wangkatjungka<\/a><\/p>\nGeorge Tuckerbox is a Wangkatjungka artist from the Great Sandy Desert, his paintings of waterholes and Dreaming sites show his clan country near the Canning Stock Route. Tuckerbox has exhibited regularly at Japingka since 2003 and has sung the Kurtal rain ceremonial songs at some exhibition events. <\/p>\n\t\n\t![\"George](\"https:\/\/japingkaaboriginalart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/George-Ward-Aboriginal-Artist.jpg\")
<\/a>\n George Ward Tjungurrayi<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Kintore<\/a><\/p>\nGeorge Ward Tjungurrayi is a senior Pintupi artist whose geometric paintings convey the Tingari Dreaming law of his country near Lake McDonald. Complex and repeated designs are separated by rows of dots that give great energy and authority to his paintings. These designs represent Ancestor creation journeys. <\/p>\n\t\n\t![\"Gloria](\"https:\/\/japingkaaboriginalart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gloria-Petyarre-Australian-Aboriginal-Artist.jpg\")
<\/a>\n Gloria Petyarre<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Utopia<\/a><\/p>\nGloria Petyarre is one of Australia’s best known Aboriginal artists – her contemporary images of Bush Medicine Leaves have international appeal. Gloria is a Utopia artist, born c1945, who has an extensive exhibition history since 1984. Her stylistic development has been highly influential on Utopia artists.<\/p>\n\t\n\t![\"Bush](\"https:\/\/japingkaaboriginalart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gloria-Jap-016689-1024x618.jpg\")
<\/a>\n Gloria Petyarre & Bush Medicine Leaves<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Utopia<\/a><\/p>\nBush Medicine Leaves, a traditional Indigenous plant, are a key motif for Gloria Petyarre and a number of Australian Aboriginal artists from Utopia in Central Australia.<\/p>\n\t\n\t![\"Gracie](\"https:\/\/japingkaaboriginalart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gracie-Morton-Pwerle-Aboriginal-Artist.jpg\")
<\/a>\n Gracie Morton Pwerle<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Utopia<\/a><\/p>\nGracie Morton Pwerle has strong connections in Utopia art and has painted for over 30 years. Her sister Gloria Petyarre has had an influence though Gracie produces some of the best fine dot artworks coming from Utopia today. Gracie’s work features layers of colour dotting on a lively painting surface.<\/p>\n\t\n\t![\"Hamish](\"https:\/\/japingkaaboriginalart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hamish-Garrgarrku-Karrkarrhba-Aboriginal-Artist.jpg\")
<\/a>\n Hamish Garrgarrku (Karrkarrhba)<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Maningrida<\/a><\/p>\nHamish Garrgarrku (1967- 2017) made ochre painted barks and lorrkon hollow logs using the delicate rarrk or cross-hatching style from the Maningrida region of Arnhem Land. The materials are carefully selected on Country to express the totemic clan designs of his ancestors and made using a cut reed stem.<\/p>\n\t\n\t![\"Hermansburg](\"https:\/\/japingkaaboriginalart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hermansburg-Australian-Aboriginal-Arworks.png\")
<\/a>\n Hermannsburg Paintings<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Alice Springs<\/a><\/p>\nThe Hermannsburg School of Painters refers to the artists who followed after Albert Namatjira, whose watercolour paintings brought the beauty of the West MacDonnell Ranges to all Australians in the mid 20th century. Many of these artists are related to Namatjira, and use similar watercolour techniques. <\/p>\n\t\n\t![\"Jack](\"https:\/\/japingkaaboriginalart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jack-Britten-Aboriginal-Artist-Profile.jpg\")
<\/a>\n Jack Britten<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Warmun<\/a><\/p>\nJack Britten (c1921- 2001) was a senior Gija Lawman who painted the unique Kimberley landscapes of the Bungle Bungles using traditional ochre pigments. The artist placed body painting designs into the Purnululu hills to emphasise the connections between the land and the people and ceremonies.<\/p>\n\t\n\t![\"Jack](\"https:\/\/japingkaaboriginalart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jack-Dale-Mengenen-Aboriginal-Artist.jpg\")
<\/a>\n Jack Dale Mengenen<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Mowanjum<\/a><\/p>\nJack Dale Mengenen (c1920- 2013) records the stories of life in the Kimberley over an 80 year span. His ochre paintings detail Wandjina spirits and ceremonial practices of the West Kimberley as well as frontier life of turbulent years of white settlement on cattle stations created on Aboriginal lands.<\/p>\n\t\n\t![\"Janet](\"https:\/\/japingkaaboriginalart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Janet-Golder-Kngwarreye-Australian-Aboriginal-Artist.jpg\")
<\/a>\n Janet Golder Kngwarreye<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Utopia<\/a><\/p>\nJanet Golder Kngwarreye is a significant mid-career artist from Utopia. Her grandmothers are artists Polly Ngale and Angelina Pwerle. Janet paintings include Awelye Body Paint, Bush Yam Leaf and Bush Medicine stories. Her recent works include colourful images of Country combined with bushtucker stories. <\/p>\n\t\n\t![\"Jeannie](\"https:\/\/japingkaaboriginalart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jeannie-Mills-Pwerle-Aboriginal-Artist.jpg\")
<\/a>\n Jeannie Mills Pwerle<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Utopia<\/a><\/p>\nJeannie Mills Pwerle paints Anaty Bush Yam design that she infuses with subtle blends of colours then outlines with white dots. The colour impact of her work is striking. Jeannie is part of the first Utopia painting project which produced many great artists. Jeannie has painted for over 30 years.<\/p>\n\t\n\t![\"Jeannie](\"https:\/\/japingkaaboriginalart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jeannie-Petyarre-Aboriginal-Artist.jpg\")
<\/a>\n Jeannie Petyarre<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Utopia<\/a><\/p>\nJeannie Petyarre paints traditional plants that her people collect for food and medicine – Bush Yam and Bush Medicine Leaves stories. Jeannie is niece to famous artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye and sister to Rosemary Petyarre, Evelyn Pultara and Greeny Purvis. She began as a Utopia batik artist in the 1970s.<\/p>\n\t\n\t![\"Jill](\"https:\/\/japingkaaboriginalart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jill-Jack-Aboriginal-Artist.jpg\")
<\/a>\n Jill Jack<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Wangkatjungka<\/a><\/p>\nJill Jack is a Wangkatjungka artist born at Christmas Creek station in 1955. Her paintings show elements of her ancestral homelands, built from stories she has inherited from her mother and father’s country in the Great Sandy Desert. Jill Jack’s mother came from Japingka waterhole in Walmajarri country.<\/p>\n\t\n\t![\"Jimmy](\"https:\/\/japingkaaboriginalart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jimmy-Pike-australian-Aboriginal-Artist.jpg\")
<\/a>\n Jimmy Pike<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Fitzroy Crossing<\/a><\/p>\nJimmy Pike (c1940- 2002) became one of Australia’s most famous Aboriginal artists during the 1990s, exhibiting widely while creating textiles designs with Desert Designs. His use of vivid colour was extraordinary at the time, which helped bring Aboriginal artworks into mainstream design in Australia. <\/p>\n\t\n\t![\"Jorna](\"https:\/\/japingkaaboriginalart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jorna-Newberry-Aboriginal-Artist.jpg\")
<\/a>\n Jorna Newberry<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Alice Springs<\/a><\/p>\nJorna Newberry paints finely detailed Fire and Wind Dreaming stories from Pitjantjatjara country near the West Australian border. Jorna is niece to the famous artist Tommy Watson. Her art captures the effects of Fire used for land management with intricate lines, swirling energy and deep red colours.<\/p>\n\t\n\t![\"Judy](\"https:\/\/japingkaaboriginalart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Judy-Napangardi-Aboriginal-Artist.jpg\")
<\/a>\n Judy Napangardi Martin<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \t
<\/a>\n Alison Munti Riley<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: APY Lands<\/a><\/p>\nAlison Munti Riley, a Pitjantjatjara artist born at Ernabella, began her painting career in 2006. She has won the Peoples Prize in the NATSIAA Telstra art awards in Darwin and exhibited widely in Australia, as well as USA and Europe. Alison paints the Seven Sisters Jukurrpa from her homelands.<\/p>\n\t\n\t<\/a>\n Andrew Tjupurrula Highfold<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Alice Springs<\/a><\/p>\nAndrew Tjupurrula Highfold began his painting journey in Alice Springs, capturing the intensity of the Central Australian landscape through use of colour and fine detail depicting aspects of the natural world. “I am a contemporary artist experimenting with style and technique to carry the story from my family.’<\/p>\n\t\n\t<\/a>\n Angelina Ngal Pwerle<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Utopia<\/a><\/p>\nAngelina Ngal is a senior Utopia artist renown for her large, finely dotted canvases. With her sisters Kathleen Ngal and Polly Ngal, Angelina has created major paintings that refer to the native Bush Plum, encompassing the land, the women’s ceremonies and sites associated with the Bush Plum Dreaming story.<\/p>\n\t\n\t<\/a>\n Artists of Utopia<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Utopia<\/a><\/p>\nArtists of Utopia have a unique place in the story of the Aboriginal art movement. Beginning with batik textile art in the 1970s, many of the women artists went on to become famous painters, developing new ways to tell traditional stories. The skills have been passed down across the generations.<\/p>\n\t\n\t<\/a>\n Belinda Golder Kngwarreye<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Utopia<\/a><\/p>\nBelinda Golder Kngwarreye is a Utopia artist who paints the Bush Plum Dreaming story that she inherits from her grandmother, leading Utopia artist Polly Ngale. Belinda paints many colour tones of the plant as the fruits ripen. Her style of dotting also reminds us of the works of Emily Kngwarreye.<\/p>\n\t\n\t<\/a>\n Bernadine Johnson<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Utopia<\/a><\/p>\nBernadine Johnson is an Anmatyerre artist, b 1965 at Utopia. In her paintings Bernadine incorporates traditional iconography along with realistic elements. The themes depicted are primarily bush medicines, yam dreaming and body painting.<\/p>\n\t\n\t<\/a>\n Biddee Baadjo<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Wangkatjungka<\/a><\/p>\nBiddee Baadjo paints the vast sandhill country of the Great Sandy Desert at her birthplace Piyurr waterhole named after a native bird. Biddee captures the essence of the desert and hidden water resources. She bears the marks of an eagles’ claws that grabbed her when she was a small baby.<\/p>\n\t\n\t<\/a>\n Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Haasts Bluff<\/a><\/p>\nBill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri (1920-2008) is a phenomenon of contemporary Aboriginal art, a Ngangkari or traditional healer, who began painting in the last five years of his life. His works tell the story of the ancestral white cockatoo near the Olgas, and are mesmerising images of creation and life’s journey.<\/p>\n\t\n\t<\/a>\n Black and White<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Alice Springs<\/a><\/p>\nMany Aboriginal artists have made reputations partly based on their powerful use of black and white paintings. This collection provides a quick overview of some of the most impressive works in the gallery. Selected artists include Lily Kelly, Anna Petyarre, Mitjili Napurrula, Sarrita King and Gloria Petyarre.<\/p>\n\t\n\t<\/a>\n Clarise Tunkin<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: APY Lands<\/a><\/p>\nClarise Tunkin is a fourth-generation artist from Kanpi on the APY Lands in South Australia. Recognised artists in her family include great-grandfather Jimmy Baker, grandmother Kay Baker and mother Teresa Baker. Clarise began paints the stories of Country associated with the ancestral figure Marliliu. <\/p>\n\t\n\t<\/a>\n Collaboration Wangkatjungka Artists<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Wangkatjungka<\/a><\/p>\nSenior Aboriginal artists at Wangkatjungka community have painted their ancestral lands in the Great Sandy Desert. These collaborative artworks record the family ownership of waterholes, the knowledge which is embedded in Dreaming law. Each artist contributes to the story of their own family events and locations.<\/p>\n\t\n\t<\/a>\n Cowboy Louie Pwerle<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Utopia<\/a><\/p>\nCowboy Loy Pwerl is a senior Anmatyerr artist, who paints the\u00a0Bush Turkey, Emu and Lizard Dreamings. His finely dotted paintings mark in the minute the journeys of Ancestor spirits across Country. Cowboy paints with his wives, sisters Carol and Elizabeth Kngwarreye at Mosquito Bore on Utopia homelands.<\/p>\n\t\n\t<\/a>\n Damien Marks & Yilpi Marks<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Alice Springs<\/a><\/p>\nDamien Marks and Yilpi Marks are a husband and wife team who bring new vitality into contemporary Aboriginal art. Their painting is marked by its strong colour and incorporating traditional symbols and artefacts. Damien was taught by the great artists Billy Stockman, Uta Uta Jangala and Clifford Possum.<\/p>\n\t\n\t<\/a>\n David Downs<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Fitzroy Crossing<\/a><\/p>\nJarinyanu David Downs (1925-1995) was one of the great figurative painters of the Kimberley, He used ochre paints to recreate the great Walmajarri Storm Being Kurtal. David Downs was a custodian for the rain ceremony, and his art shows the Kurtal ancestor with the dancers dressed in the ceremonial headdress.<\/p>\n\t\n\t<\/a>\n Debra Young Nakamarra<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Kintore<\/a><\/p>\nDebra Young Nakamarra paints stories associated with Women’s ceremonies at the site of Tjintjintjin, west of Kintore. Her iconography comes from her mother Walangkura Napanangka. The shapes in the painting show the terrain through which the Tingari Ancestor Kutungka Napanangka passed on her Creation journey. <\/p>\n\t\n\t<\/a>\n Dennis Nona<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Torres Strait<\/a><\/p>\nDennis Nona is a Torres Strait Islander artist closely associated with the revival of local traditional stories and legends through the printmaking medium. His linocuts reflect the carving skills of his native Badu Island home. He also produces delicate coloured etchings and sculpture based on coastal life.<\/p>\n\t\n\t<\/a>\n Djambu Barra Barra<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Roper River<\/a><\/p>\nDjambu Barra Barra (1946- 2006) is a major painter from Roper River region. He painted large canvases with bold acrylic colours and used traditional cross-hatching patterns. His images were deeply connected to men’s stories and ancestral beings from his homelands Djambu is represented in major collections.<\/p>\n\t\n\t<\/a>\n Doris Gingingara<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Maningrida<\/a><\/p>\nDoris Gingingara (1946-1999) created a unique body of work based on her Arnhem Land heritage combined with her detailed observations of the bush and the natural world around her. Doris created artworks using ink marker pens on paper and many were editioned as full colour limited edition silkscreen prints.<\/p>\n\t\n\t<\/a>\n Dorothy Napangardi<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Yuendumu<\/a><\/p>\nDorothy Napangardi (1952- 2013) established an international reputation for her beautifully worked black and white paintings of Mina Mina, the women’s sacred ceremonial site. Her work is beguiling with its carefully layered dots presenting minimal structures with rhythmic movement and intriguing patterns.<\/p>\n\t\n\t<\/a>\n Dulcie Long Pwerle<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Utopia<\/a><\/p>\nDulcie Long Pwerle continues the proud tradition of Utopia painters who draw on cultural stories, like the Yam ceremonies performed by the women, and create contemporary interpretations. Dulcie’s extended artistic family include Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Gloria Petyarre, Greeny Purvis Petyarre and Minnie Pwerle.<\/p>\n\t\n\t<\/a>\n Edward Blitner<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Roper River<\/a><\/p>\nEdward Blitner is a major painter from Ngukurr in the Roper River region, and is known for his intricate paintings of animals and birds using the rarrk cross-hatching technique. Blitner uses the style and subject matter of his traditional lands, with a palette of earth colours, rendered in acrylic paints.<\/p>\n\t\n\t<\/a>\n Elizabeth Kunoth Kngwarray<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Utopia<\/a><\/p>\nElizabeth Kunoth Kngwarray is a leading Utopia artist whose closely dotted paintings reflect the precise style of Utopia artists, including her mother Nancy Kunoth Petyarre and aunt Kathleen Petyarre. Elizabeth paints the Yam Dreaming story and exhibits with her husband, fellow artist Cowboy Loy Pwerl.\u00a0<\/p>\n\t\n\t<\/a>\n Fiona Omeenyo<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Lockhart River<\/a><\/p>\nFiona Omeenyo is a Lockhart River artist whose work emerged as fresh and contemporary when she began exhibiting in the late 1990s. Fiona has a semi figurative style of painting, representing both living people and mythic ancestral figures, created as though carved into the background layers of paint.<\/p>\n\t\n\t<\/a>\n Freddie Timms<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Kununurra<\/a><\/p>\nFreddie Timms (1944-2017) creates spare and beautiful paintings in the bold ochre colours of his East Kimberley homeland. He worked alongside some of the great Warmun Artists – Jack Britten, Hector Jandanay, Henry Wambini, Rover Thomas and his father-in-law, Paddy Jampinji.\u00a0His work is in major collections.<\/p>\n\t\n\t<\/a>\n Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Mt Allan<\/a><\/p>\nGabriella Possum Nungurrayi is the eldest daughter of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri (1932-2002). She became a very accomplished artist while still in her teens, having absorbed the rich cultural stories of her family’s inheritance. Gabriella uses warm vibrant colours to record stories of her Grandmother’s Country.<\/p>\n\t\n\t<\/a>\n Genevieve Kemarr Loy<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Utopia<\/a><\/p>\nGenevieve Kemarr Loy is a Utopia artist with strong family connections to the art tradition on her homelands. Her grandmother is Nancy Petyarr and her parents Cowboy Loy Pwerl and Elizabeth Kunoth Kngwarray. Genevieve paints fine dot artworks that represent the tracks of the bush turkey searching out bush food.<\/p>\n\t\n\t<\/a>\n George Tuckerbox<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Wangkatjungka<\/a><\/p>\nGeorge Tuckerbox is a Wangkatjungka artist from the Great Sandy Desert, his paintings of waterholes and Dreaming sites show his clan country near the Canning Stock Route. Tuckerbox has exhibited regularly at Japingka since 2003 and has sung the Kurtal rain ceremonial songs at some exhibition events. <\/p>\n\t\n\t<\/a>\n George Ward Tjungurrayi<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Kintore<\/a><\/p>\nGeorge Ward Tjungurrayi is a senior Pintupi artist whose geometric paintings convey the Tingari Dreaming law of his country near Lake McDonald. Complex and repeated designs are separated by rows of dots that give great energy and authority to his paintings. These designs represent Ancestor creation journeys. <\/p>\n\t\n\t<\/a>\n Gloria Petyarre<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Utopia<\/a><\/p>\nGloria Petyarre is one of Australia’s best known Aboriginal artists – her contemporary images of Bush Medicine Leaves have international appeal. Gloria is a Utopia artist, born c1945, who has an extensive exhibition history since 1984. Her stylistic development has been highly influential on Utopia artists.<\/p>\n\t\n\t<\/a>\n Gloria Petyarre & Bush Medicine Leaves<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Utopia<\/a><\/p>\nBush Medicine Leaves, a traditional Indigenous plant, are a key motif for Gloria Petyarre and a number of Australian Aboriginal artists from Utopia in Central Australia.<\/p>\n\t\n\t<\/a>\n Gracie Morton Pwerle<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Utopia<\/a><\/p>\nGracie Morton Pwerle has strong connections in Utopia art and has painted for over 30 years. Her sister Gloria Petyarre has had an influence though Gracie produces some of the best fine dot artworks coming from Utopia today. Gracie’s work features layers of colour dotting on a lively painting surface.<\/p>\n\t\n\t<\/a>\n Hamish Garrgarrku (Karrkarrhba)<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Maningrida<\/a><\/p>\nHamish Garrgarrku (1967- 2017) made ochre painted barks and lorrkon hollow logs using the delicate rarrk or cross-hatching style from the Maningrida region of Arnhem Land. The materials are carefully selected on Country to express the totemic clan designs of his ancestors and made using a cut reed stem.<\/p>\n\t\n\t<\/a>\n Hermannsburg Paintings<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Alice Springs<\/a><\/p>\nThe Hermannsburg School of Painters refers to the artists who followed after Albert Namatjira, whose watercolour paintings brought the beauty of the West MacDonnell Ranges to all Australians in the mid 20th century. Many of these artists are related to Namatjira, and use similar watercolour techniques. <\/p>\n\t\n\t<\/a>\n Jack Britten<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Warmun<\/a><\/p>\nJack Britten (c1921- 2001) was a senior Gija Lawman who painted the unique Kimberley landscapes of the Bungle Bungles using traditional ochre pigments. The artist placed body painting designs into the Purnululu hills to emphasise the connections between the land and the people and ceremonies.<\/p>\n\t\n\t<\/a>\n Jack Dale Mengenen<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Mowanjum<\/a><\/p>\nJack Dale Mengenen (c1920- 2013) records the stories of life in the Kimberley over an 80 year span. His ochre paintings detail Wandjina spirits and ceremonial practices of the West Kimberley as well as frontier life of turbulent years of white settlement on cattle stations created on Aboriginal lands.<\/p>\n\t\n\t<\/a>\n Janet Golder Kngwarreye<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Utopia<\/a><\/p>\nJanet Golder Kngwarreye is a significant mid-career artist from Utopia. Her grandmothers are artists Polly Ngale and Angelina Pwerle. Janet paintings include Awelye Body Paint, Bush Yam Leaf and Bush Medicine stories. Her recent works include colourful images of Country combined with bushtucker stories. <\/p>\n\t\n\t<\/a>\n Jeannie Mills Pwerle<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Utopia<\/a><\/p>\nJeannie Mills Pwerle paints Anaty Bush Yam design that she infuses with subtle blends of colours then outlines with white dots. The colour impact of her work is striking. Jeannie is part of the first Utopia painting project which produced many great artists. Jeannie has painted for over 30 years.<\/p>\n\t\n\t<\/a>\n Jeannie Petyarre<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Utopia<\/a><\/p>\nJeannie Petyarre paints traditional plants that her people collect for food and medicine – Bush Yam and Bush Medicine Leaves stories. Jeannie is niece to famous artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye and sister to Rosemary Petyarre, Evelyn Pultara and Greeny Purvis. She began as a Utopia batik artist in the 1970s.<\/p>\n\t\n\t<\/a>\n Jill Jack<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Wangkatjungka<\/a><\/p>\nJill Jack is a Wangkatjungka artist born at Christmas Creek station in 1955. Her paintings show elements of her ancestral homelands, built from stories she has inherited from her mother and father’s country in the Great Sandy Desert. Jill Jack’s mother came from Japingka waterhole in Walmajarri country.<\/p>\n\t\n\t<\/a>\n Jimmy Pike<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Fitzroy Crossing<\/a><\/p>\nJimmy Pike (c1940- 2002) became one of Australia’s most famous Aboriginal artists during the 1990s, exhibiting widely while creating textiles designs with Desert Designs. His use of vivid colour was extraordinary at the time, which helped bring Aboriginal artworks into mainstream design in Australia. <\/p>\n\t\n\t<\/a>\n Jorna Newberry<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \tRegion: Alice Springs<\/a><\/p>\nJorna Newberry paints finely detailed Fire and Wind Dreaming stories from Pitjantjatjara country near the West Australian border. Jorna is niece to the famous artist Tommy Watson. Her art captures the effects of Fire used for land management with intricate lines, swirling energy and deep red colours.<\/p>\n\t\n\t<\/a>\n Judy Napangardi Martin<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \t
Alison Munti Riley, a Pitjantjatjara artist born at Ernabella, began her painting career in 2006. She has won the Peoples Prize in the NATSIAA Telstra art awards in Darwin and exhibited widely in Australia, as well as USA and Europe. Alison paints the Seven Sisters Jukurrpa from her homelands.<\/p>\n\t\n\t Region: Alice Springs<\/a><\/p>\n Andrew Tjupurrula Highfold began his painting journey in Alice Springs, capturing the intensity of the Central Australian landscape through use of colour and fine detail depicting aspects of the natural world. “I am a contemporary artist experimenting with style and technique to carry the story from my family.’<\/p>\n\t\n\t Region: Utopia<\/a><\/p>\n Angelina Ngal is a senior Utopia artist renown for her large, finely dotted canvases. With her sisters Kathleen Ngal and Polly Ngal, Angelina has created major paintings that refer to the native Bush Plum, encompassing the land, the women’s ceremonies and sites associated with the Bush Plum Dreaming story.<\/p>\n\t\n\t Region: Utopia<\/a><\/p>\n Artists of Utopia have a unique place in the story of the Aboriginal art movement. Beginning with batik textile art in the 1970s, many of the women artists went on to become famous painters, developing new ways to tell traditional stories. The skills have been passed down across the generations.<\/p>\n\t\n\t Region: Utopia<\/a><\/p>\n Belinda Golder Kngwarreye is a Utopia artist who paints the Bush Plum Dreaming story that she inherits from her grandmother, leading Utopia artist Polly Ngale. Belinda paints many colour tones of the plant as the fruits ripen. Her style of dotting also reminds us of the works of Emily Kngwarreye.<\/p>\n\t\n\t Region: Utopia<\/a><\/p>\n Bernadine Johnson is an Anmatyerre artist, b 1965 at Utopia. In her paintings Bernadine incorporates traditional iconography along with realistic elements. The themes depicted are primarily bush medicines, yam dreaming and body painting.<\/p>\n\t\n\t Region: Wangkatjungka<\/a><\/p>\n Biddee Baadjo paints the vast sandhill country of the Great Sandy Desert at her birthplace Piyurr waterhole named after a native bird. Biddee captures the essence of the desert and hidden water resources. She bears the marks of an eagles’ claws that grabbed her when she was a small baby.<\/p>\n\t\n\t Region: Haasts Bluff<\/a><\/p>\n Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri (1920-2008) is a phenomenon of contemporary Aboriginal art, a Ngangkari or traditional healer, who began painting in the last five years of his life. His works tell the story of the ancestral white cockatoo near the Olgas, and are mesmerising images of creation and life’s journey.<\/p>\n\t\n\t Region: Alice Springs<\/a><\/p>\n Many Aboriginal artists have made reputations partly based on their powerful use of black and white paintings. This collection provides a quick overview of some of the most impressive works in the gallery. Selected artists include Lily Kelly, Anna Petyarre, Mitjili Napurrula, Sarrita King and Gloria Petyarre.<\/p>\n\t\n\t Region: APY Lands<\/a><\/p>\n Clarise Tunkin is a fourth-generation artist from Kanpi on the APY Lands in South Australia. Recognised artists in her family include great-grandfather Jimmy Baker, grandmother Kay Baker and mother Teresa Baker. Clarise began paints the stories of Country associated with the ancestral figure Marliliu. <\/p>\n\t\n\t Region: Wangkatjungka<\/a><\/p>\n Senior Aboriginal artists at Wangkatjungka community have painted their ancestral lands in the Great Sandy Desert. These collaborative artworks record the family ownership of waterholes, the knowledge which is embedded in Dreaming law. Each artist contributes to the story of their own family events and locations.<\/p>\n\t\n\t Region: Utopia<\/a><\/p>\n Cowboy Loy Pwerl is a senior Anmatyerr artist, who paints the\u00a0Bush Turkey, Emu and Lizard Dreamings. His finely dotted paintings mark in the minute the journeys of Ancestor spirits across Country. Cowboy paints with his wives, sisters Carol and Elizabeth Kngwarreye at Mosquito Bore on Utopia homelands.<\/p>\n\t\n\t Region: Alice Springs<\/a><\/p>\n Damien Marks and Yilpi Marks are a husband and wife team who bring new vitality into contemporary Aboriginal art. Their painting is marked by its strong colour and incorporating traditional symbols and artefacts. Damien was taught by the great artists Billy Stockman, Uta Uta Jangala and Clifford Possum.<\/p>\n\t\n\t Region: Fitzroy Crossing<\/a><\/p>\n Jarinyanu David Downs (1925-1995) was one of the great figurative painters of the Kimberley, He used ochre paints to recreate the great Walmajarri Storm Being Kurtal. David Downs was a custodian for the rain ceremony, and his art shows the Kurtal ancestor with the dancers dressed in the ceremonial headdress.<\/p>\n\t\n\t Region: Kintore<\/a><\/p>\n Debra Young Nakamarra paints stories associated with Women’s ceremonies at the site of Tjintjintjin, west of Kintore. Her iconography comes from her mother Walangkura Napanangka. The shapes in the painting show the terrain through which the Tingari Ancestor Kutungka Napanangka passed on her Creation journey. <\/p>\n\t\n\t Region: Torres Strait<\/a><\/p>\n Dennis Nona is a Torres Strait Islander artist closely associated with the revival of local traditional stories and legends through the printmaking medium. His linocuts reflect the carving skills of his native Badu Island home. He also produces delicate coloured etchings and sculpture based on coastal life.<\/p>\n\t\n\t Region: Roper River<\/a><\/p>\n Djambu Barra Barra (1946- 2006) is a major painter from Roper River region. He painted large canvases with bold acrylic colours and used traditional cross-hatching patterns. His images were deeply connected to men’s stories and ancestral beings from his homelands Djambu is represented in major collections.<\/p>\n\t\n\t Region: Maningrida<\/a><\/p>\n Doris Gingingara (1946-1999) created a unique body of work based on her Arnhem Land heritage combined with her detailed observations of the bush and the natural world around her. Doris created artworks using ink marker pens on paper and many were editioned as full colour limited edition silkscreen prints.<\/p>\n\t\n\t Region: Yuendumu<\/a><\/p>\n Dorothy Napangardi (1952- 2013) established an international reputation for her beautifully worked black and white paintings of Mina Mina, the women’s sacred ceremonial site. Her work is beguiling with its carefully layered dots presenting minimal structures with rhythmic movement and intriguing patterns.<\/p>\n\t\n\t Region: Utopia<\/a><\/p>\n Dulcie Long Pwerle continues the proud tradition of Utopia painters who draw on cultural stories, like the Yam ceremonies performed by the women, and create contemporary interpretations. Dulcie’s extended artistic family include Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Gloria Petyarre, Greeny Purvis Petyarre and Minnie Pwerle.<\/p>\n\t\n\t Region: Roper River<\/a><\/p>\n Edward Blitner is a major painter from Ngukurr in the Roper River region, and is known for his intricate paintings of animals and birds using the rarrk cross-hatching technique. Blitner uses the style and subject matter of his traditional lands, with a palette of earth colours, rendered in acrylic paints.<\/p>\n\t\n\t Region: Utopia<\/a><\/p>\n Elizabeth Kunoth Kngwarray is a leading Utopia artist whose closely dotted paintings reflect the precise style of Utopia artists, including her mother Nancy Kunoth Petyarre and aunt Kathleen Petyarre. Elizabeth paints the Yam Dreaming story and exhibits with her husband, fellow artist Cowboy Loy Pwerl.\u00a0<\/p>\n\t\n\t Region: Lockhart River<\/a><\/p>\n Fiona Omeenyo is a Lockhart River artist whose work emerged as fresh and contemporary when she began exhibiting in the late 1990s. Fiona has a semi figurative style of painting, representing both living people and mythic ancestral figures, created as though carved into the background layers of paint.<\/p>\n\t\n\t Region: Kununurra<\/a><\/p>\n Freddie Timms (1944-2017) creates spare and beautiful paintings in the bold ochre colours of his East Kimberley homeland. He worked alongside some of the great Warmun Artists – Jack Britten, Hector Jandanay, Henry Wambini, Rover Thomas and his father-in-law, Paddy Jampinji.\u00a0His work is in major collections.<\/p>\n\t\n\t Region: Mt Allan<\/a><\/p>\n Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi is the eldest daughter of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri (1932-2002). She became a very accomplished artist while still in her teens, having absorbed the rich cultural stories of her family’s inheritance. Gabriella uses warm vibrant colours to record stories of her Grandmother’s Country.<\/p>\n\t\n\t Region: Utopia<\/a><\/p>\n Genevieve Kemarr Loy is a Utopia artist with strong family connections to the art tradition on her homelands. Her grandmother is Nancy Petyarr and her parents Cowboy Loy Pwerl and Elizabeth Kunoth Kngwarray. Genevieve paints fine dot artworks that represent the tracks of the bush turkey searching out bush food.<\/p>\n\t\n\t Region: Wangkatjungka<\/a><\/p>\n George Tuckerbox is a Wangkatjungka artist from the Great Sandy Desert, his paintings of waterholes and Dreaming sites show his clan country near the Canning Stock Route. Tuckerbox has exhibited regularly at Japingka since 2003 and has sung the Kurtal rain ceremonial songs at some exhibition events. <\/p>\n\t\n\t Region: Kintore<\/a><\/p>\n George Ward Tjungurrayi is a senior Pintupi artist whose geometric paintings convey the Tingari Dreaming law of his country near Lake McDonald. Complex and repeated designs are separated by rows of dots that give great energy and authority to his paintings. These designs represent Ancestor creation journeys. <\/p>\n\t\n\t Region: Utopia<\/a><\/p>\n Gloria Petyarre is one of Australia’s best known Aboriginal artists – her contemporary images of Bush Medicine Leaves have international appeal. Gloria is a Utopia artist, born c1945, who has an extensive exhibition history since 1984. Her stylistic development has been highly influential on Utopia artists.<\/p>\n\t\n\t Region: Utopia<\/a><\/p>\n Bush Medicine Leaves, a traditional Indigenous plant, are a key motif for Gloria Petyarre and a number of Australian Aboriginal artists from Utopia in Central Australia.<\/p>\n\t\n\t Region: Utopia<\/a><\/p>\n Gracie Morton Pwerle has strong connections in Utopia art and has painted for over 30 years. Her sister Gloria Petyarre has had an influence though Gracie produces some of the best fine dot artworks coming from Utopia today. Gracie’s work features layers of colour dotting on a lively painting surface.<\/p>\n\t\n\t Region: Maningrida<\/a><\/p>\n Hamish Garrgarrku (1967- 2017) made ochre painted barks and lorrkon hollow logs using the delicate rarrk or cross-hatching style from the Maningrida region of Arnhem Land. The materials are carefully selected on Country to express the totemic clan designs of his ancestors and made using a cut reed stem.<\/p>\n\t\n\t Region: Alice Springs<\/a><\/p>\n The Hermannsburg School of Painters refers to the artists who followed after Albert Namatjira, whose watercolour paintings brought the beauty of the West MacDonnell Ranges to all Australians in the mid 20th century. Many of these artists are related to Namatjira, and use similar watercolour techniques. <\/p>\n\t\n\t Region: Warmun<\/a><\/p>\n Jack Britten (c1921- 2001) was a senior Gija Lawman who painted the unique Kimberley landscapes of the Bungle Bungles using traditional ochre pigments. The artist placed body painting designs into the Purnululu hills to emphasise the connections between the land and the people and ceremonies.<\/p>\n\t\n\t Region: Mowanjum<\/a><\/p>\n Jack Dale Mengenen (c1920- 2013) records the stories of life in the Kimberley over an 80 year span. His ochre paintings detail Wandjina spirits and ceremonial practices of the West Kimberley as well as frontier life of turbulent years of white settlement on cattle stations created on Aboriginal lands.<\/p>\n\t\n\t Region: Utopia<\/a><\/p>\n Janet Golder Kngwarreye is a significant mid-career artist from Utopia. Her grandmothers are artists Polly Ngale and Angelina Pwerle. Janet paintings include Awelye Body Paint, Bush Yam Leaf and Bush Medicine stories. Her recent works include colourful images of Country combined with bushtucker stories. <\/p>\n\t\n\t Region: Utopia<\/a><\/p>\n Jeannie Mills Pwerle paints Anaty Bush Yam design that she infuses with subtle blends of colours then outlines with white dots. The colour impact of her work is striking. Jeannie is part of the first Utopia painting project which produced many great artists. Jeannie has painted for over 30 years.<\/p>\n\t\n\t Region: Utopia<\/a><\/p>\n Jeannie Petyarre paints traditional plants that her people collect for food and medicine – Bush Yam and Bush Medicine Leaves stories. Jeannie is niece to famous artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye and sister to Rosemary Petyarre, Evelyn Pultara and Greeny Purvis. She began as a Utopia batik artist in the 1970s.<\/p>\n\t\n\t Region: Wangkatjungka<\/a><\/p>\n Jill Jack is a Wangkatjungka artist born at Christmas Creek station in 1955. Her paintings show elements of her ancestral homelands, built from stories she has inherited from her mother and father’s country in the Great Sandy Desert. Jill Jack’s mother came from Japingka waterhole in Walmajarri country.<\/p>\n\t\n\t Region: Fitzroy Crossing<\/a><\/p>\n Jimmy Pike (c1940- 2002) became one of Australia’s most famous Aboriginal artists during the 1990s, exhibiting widely while creating textiles designs with Desert Designs. His use of vivid colour was extraordinary at the time, which helped bring Aboriginal artworks into mainstream design in Australia. <\/p>\n\t\n\t Region: Alice Springs<\/a><\/p>\n Jorna Newberry paints finely detailed Fire and Wind Dreaming stories from Pitjantjatjara country near the West Australian border. Jorna is niece to the famous artist Tommy Watson. Her art captures the effects of Fire used for land management with intricate lines, swirling energy and deep red colours.<\/p>\n\t\n\t<\/a>\n Andrew Tjupurrula Highfold<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \t
<\/a>\n Angelina Ngal Pwerle<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \t
<\/a>\n Artists of Utopia<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \t
<\/a>\n Belinda Golder Kngwarreye<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \t
<\/a>\n Bernadine Johnson<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \t
<\/a>\n Biddee Baadjo<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \t
<\/a>\n Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \t
<\/a>\n Black and White<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \t
<\/a>\n Clarise Tunkin<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \t
<\/a>\n Collaboration Wangkatjungka Artists<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \t
<\/a>\n Cowboy Louie Pwerle<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \t
<\/a>\n Damien Marks & Yilpi Marks<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \t
<\/a>\n David Downs<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \t
<\/a>\n Debra Young Nakamarra<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \t
<\/a>\n Dennis Nona<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \t
<\/a>\n Djambu Barra Barra<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \t
<\/a>\n Doris Gingingara<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \t
<\/a>\n Dorothy Napangardi<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \t
<\/a>\n Dulcie Long Pwerle<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \t
<\/a>\n Edward Blitner<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \t
<\/a>\n Elizabeth Kunoth Kngwarray<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \t
<\/a>\n Fiona Omeenyo<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \t
<\/a>\n Freddie Timms<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \t
<\/a>\n Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \t
<\/a>\n Genevieve Kemarr Loy<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \t
<\/a>\n George Tuckerbox<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \t
<\/a>\n George Ward Tjungurrayi<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \t
<\/a>\n Gloria Petyarre<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \t
<\/a>\n Gloria Petyarre & Bush Medicine Leaves<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \t
<\/a>\n Gracie Morton Pwerle<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \t
<\/a>\n Hamish Garrgarrku (Karrkarrhba)<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \t
<\/a>\n Hermannsburg Paintings<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \t
<\/a>\n Jack Britten<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \t
<\/a>\n Jack Dale Mengenen<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \t
<\/a>\n Janet Golder Kngwarreye<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \t
<\/a>\n Jeannie Mills Pwerle<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \t
<\/a>\n Jeannie Petyarre<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \t
<\/a>\n Jill Jack<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \t
<\/a>\n Jimmy Pike<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \t
<\/a>\n Jorna Newberry<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \t
<\/a>\n Judy Napangardi Martin<\/a><\/h3>\n \tView Paintings<\/a>\n \t