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EVENT RE-CAP | PEDRO WONAEAMIRRI: MEET THE ARTIST EVENT | IN CONVERSATION
Earlier this month we were honoured to present a special meet the artist event with important Tiwi artist and cultural leader Pedro Wonaeamirri. It was a beautiful spring evening filled with illuminating conversation and outstanding contemporary art.
It was an absolute pleasure to host Pedro Wonaeamirri in the gallery and we are delighted that the dreary Melbourne weather finally cleared to provide a warm welcome too! Thank you, Pedro, for your generous insights to your practice. Also making the trip to Melbourne from Melville Island. We would like to thank Will Heathcote, Jilamara Arts for joining us.
We would also like to thank Judith Ryan AM, Senior Curator, Art Museums at the University of Melbourne, for hosting our in-conversation alongside Alcaston Gallery Director, Beverly Knight. Judith also signed copies of her spectacular new publication, 65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art, co-edited with Marcia Langton AO and released in support of the Potter Museum of Art’s forthcoming landmark exhibition.
VIEW AVAILABLE WORK BY PEDRO WONAEAMIRRI
MAJOR PUBLICATION LAUNCH | 65,000 YEARS: A SHORT HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN ART THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
On Thursday 10 October we were thrilled to attend the official launch of 65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art edited by Marcia Langton AO and Judith Ryan AM and published by Thames & Hudson. This courageous and comprehensive exploration calls us to bear witness to 65,000 years of continuous culture, Indigenous knowledge and powerful art.
This publication precedes the opening of 65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art at the Ian Potter, University of Melbourne, in 2025 and this outstanding compendium will be available for public purchase from November 2024.
ACCA APPOINTS NEW ARTISTIC DIRECTOR & CEO, MYLES RUSSELL-COOK
Leading Australian curator Myles Russell-Cook has been appointed Artistic Director & CEO of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA).
Currently Senior Curator of Australian and First Nations Art at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Myles Russell-Cook has contributed to and curated numerous significant and internationally recognised projects for the NGV.
Russell-Cook will begin his new role in November following the departure of much-loved Director Max Delany.
Image: Myles Russell-Cook. Photograph: Kyle Archie Knight
LEN FOX PAINTING AWARD 2024 |OPENING NIGHT RECAP
On Friday 27 September 2024, Alcaston Gallery Director Beverly Knight attended the opening of the Len Fox Painting Award 2024 at Castlemaine Art Museum and had the privilege of accepting the award on behalf of winning artist, Nellie Ngampa Coulthard. In further celebration of Coulthard’s landmark career achievement, we are delighted to share with you these recently released images from the evening.
Congratulations again to Coulthard and Iwantja Arts on this spectacular achievement!
The Len Fox Painting Award finalist exhibition is now open, presented at Castlemaine Art Museum until 2 March 2025.
To enquire about available works by Nellie Ngampa Coulthard, please email art@alcastongallery.com.au
All images by James McArdle, courtesy of Castlemaine Art Museum
1. Alcaston Gallery Director, Beverly Knight, accepting the Len Fox Painting Award on behalf of Nellie Ngampa Coulthard with Bill Maltby, Trustee of Castlemaine Art Museum.
2. Len Fox Painting Award 2024 judges Emma Busowsky and John Woolsley announcing Nellie Ngampa Coulthard as prize winner.
3. (L-R) Naomi Cass, Director Castlemaine Art Museum, Helen Symon K.C, Hon. Maree Edwards MP, and Len Fox Painting Award 2024 judges John Wolseley, artist, and Emma Busowsky, Curator and Writer, in front of Nellie Ngampa Coulthard’s winning painting.
CONGRATULATIONS! NELLIE NGAMPA COULTHARD WINNER | LEN FOX PAINTING AWARD 2024
Alcaston Gallery and Iwantja Arts are delighted to announce that Nellie Ngampa Coulthard has won the prestigious $50,000 acquisitive Len Fox Painting Award 2024 presented at Castlemaine Art Museum from 27 September 2024 – 2 March 2025.
Coulthard’s win is a landmark achievement in her career and cements her practice amongst the most important contemporary painters in Australia.
Reflecting on her work, she says "I paint the trees and flowers of the Country where I grew up - Yankunytjatjara Country near Oodnadatta. After the rain and before the summer starts, the landscape here changes colour with lots of wattle blossoms.”
Please contact art@alcastongallery.com.au to enquire about available works by Nellie Ngampa Coulthard.
Portrait of Nellie Ngampa Couthard by Meg Hansen Photography
© The Artist, Iwantja Arts and Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne, 2024
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