upcoming Exhibitions
Betty Kuntiwa Pumani • titutjara - ongoing
Alcaston Gallery is honoured to present Betty Kuntiwa Pumani's seventh solo exhibition presented by Alcaston Gallery, exhibiting significant paintings by the revered artist and ngangkari (traditional healer).
Heralding from a long line of knowledge keepers, Pumani's practice is an expression of her commitment to the passing on of the knowledge of her Country and her ancestors to the generations to come.
titutjara - ongoing speaks to these deeper resonances of Pumani's practice - exhibiting paintings that capture the eternal and ongoing story of Antara and her ancestors as it passes through her, reaching out into the future.
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Pumani is amongst Australia’s most distinctive and sophisticated painters, renowned for her breathtaking large-scale compositions and refined palette. Her extraordinary rise in the Australian contemporary art world includes successive wins of both the 2015 and 2016 General Painting Award at the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards at the Museum Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin and a major commission for the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Sydney, as part of The National 2021: New Australian Art. Pumani’s work is currently on exhibition in The Power of Colour at the Bendigo Art Gallery.
© The Artist, Mimili Maku and Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne 2024
Adrian Jurra Tjungurrayi •Yunala Tjukurrpa
Alcaston Gallery is excited to introduce Pintupi artist Adrian Jurra Tjungurrayi in his debut solo exhibition Yunala Tjukurrpa, presented at the Alcaston Gallery Exhibition Space, 84 William Street Melbourne/ Naarm from 26 June - 13 July 2024.
Tjungurrayi is the son of renowned Pintupi artist Joseph Jurra Tjapaltjarri, a respected ceremonial and community leader of the Pintupi people recognised for his meandering linear compositions depicting the desert flora and landscapes of his ...
