previous Exhibitions
BARKLY ARTISTS | Aileen Napaljarri Long • Ada Pula Beasley • Jessie Kemarr Peterson • Rita Kemarr Beasley
Alcaston Gallery introduces four artists from the Barkly Region in the Northern Territory, Aileen Napaljarri Long, Ada Pula Beasley, Jessie Kemarr Peterson and Rita Kemarr Beasley, whose entirely distinctive yet complementary paintings of Country epitomise the broad visual language typical of the Barkly Region.
Aileen Napaljarri Long’s abstract modernist paintings with her vibrant textual colour blocking exemplify Warlpiri colourist tradition. Highly contemporary, Long’s paintings depict the wanakiji (bush tomato) that grows in abundance across the Barkly region. A finalist in this years National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards presented by the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT), Long is garnering wide admiration for her natural fluency with colour.
In contrast, Ada Pula Beasley’s impressionist landscapes of Alyawarr Country are rendered in brief hazy strokes that coalesce to form trees, shrubs and flowers in a palette that draws from the local flowers of the region. Her evocative paintings capture the desert in bloom, with dunes of red earth blanketed by wildflowers.
Jessie Kemarr Peterson’s delicately rendered paintings are rhythmic and shimmering depictions of Wutunugurra (Epenarra), a place nestled in the foothills of Iytwelepenty (the Davenport Ranges). Her highly intuitive practice is driven by the broader concept of the everywhen, encompassing the past, present and future within a single moment.
Equally intuitive yet entirely distinct in artistic style, Rita Kemarr Beasley’s depictions of Wutunugurra (Epenarra) are bold and expressive. Her minimalist, graphic landscapes depict the pearlescent trunks of bloodwood trees standing stark against richly coloured backgrounds in a palette inspired by the landscapes of Iytwelepenty (the Davenport Ranges)
Aileen Napaljarri Long, Ada Pula Beasley, Jessie Kemarr Peterson and Rita Kemarr Beasley’s debut exhibition at Alcaston Gallery will be exhibited at the Alcaston Gallery Exhibition Space, 84 William Street Melbourne from 16 October – 8 November 2024.
In celebration of this exciting debut exhibition, we are pleased to host a meet the artist event with exhibiting artists Aileen Napaljarri Long and Ada Pula Beasley on Saturday 19 October 12-3PM at the Alcaston Gallery exhibition space.
© The Artist, Barkly Regional Arts and Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne 2024
TANIA MAJOR •ECHOES OF COUNTRY: STORIES FROM KOWANYAMA
Alcaston Gallery is delighted to present Echoes of Country - Stories from Kowanyama, the debut solo exhibition of award-winning Kokoberra artist Tania Major.
An accomplished artist, activist, and former Young Australian of the Year, Major is dedicated to preserving the rich cultural landscape and natural beauty of Kowanyama Country in Cape York, Queensland; bringing prominence to the profound connection between the Kokoberra, Yir Yoront (Kokomenjen), and Kunjen communities of Kowanyama and their land and ...
Rene Sundown •Ngura Tali - Sand Dune Country
Alcaston Gallery is thrilled to introduce respected senior Yankunytjatjara artist, Rene Sundown, in her debut exhibition with the gallery, Ngura Tali - Sand Dune Country.
Sundown is a senior artist and longstanding director of the Iwantja Art Centre in Indulkana, South Australia, whose practice is dedicated to passing on knowledge to future generations. Having exhibited in important national and international group exhibitions over the past decade, this will be Sundown’s first solo ...
HERMANNSBURG POTTERS | AFL Footy in Aranda Country Award • 2024
Alcaston Gallery is delighted to present AFL Footy in Aranda Country Award, a jubilant exhibition of new ceramic artworks by the acclaimed
Betty Kuntiwa Pumani • Titutjara - Ongoing
Alcaston Gallery is honoured to present Titutjara - Ongoing, a solo exhibition of significant paintings by revered artist and respected ngangkari (traditional healer),
Nellie Ngampa Coulthard •Ngura Itjanungka – Country After Rain
Alcaston Gallery is delighted to present Nellie Ngampa Coulthard’s fifth solo exhibition Ngura Itjanungka - Country After Rain.
Coulthard’s paintings of Yankunytjatjara Country are refined in both technique and composition. Accenting bold pinks, golden browns and burnt oranges - the colours of the central and eastern deserts of Australia – her paintings are defined by the outstretched linear branches of the Acacia Murrayana Wattle that sit at the heart of her ...
