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SHIRLEY MACNAMARA IN 'BIG SCULPTURE' TOURING EXHIBITION | BUNDABERG REGIONAL ART GALLERY, QUEENSLAND 11 APRIL - 13 JULY 2025
CIAF’s Big Sculpture Showcase touring exhibition continues from 11 April - 13 July 2025 at Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery featuring Shirley Macnamara’s major sculpture, Through the Gidgea and Gum Trees. Over Spinifex Ridges and Black Soil Plains.
Interwoven with horseshoes, horsehair, spinifex, ochre, steel and copper wire, the work is an embodiment of the dry yet beautiful country of northwest Queensland.
MAJOR EXHIBITION ANNOUNCEMENT | PAINTED COUNTRY AT MANNINGHAM ART GALLERY 3 MAY - 12 JULY 2025
Manningham Art Gallery has announced their next major exhibition, Painted Country, from 3 May – 12 July 2025, coinciding with both Reconciliation Week and the 50th anniversary of NAIDOC Week.
Manningham Art Gallery has partnered with Alcaston Gallery to curate this exhibition, which showcases the work of Nellie Ngampa Coulthard, Brenda Napaljarri, Clara Napurrula, Rene Sundown and Adrian Jurra Tjungurrayi. The opportunity to reach a broader audience in a public art gallery in the City of Manningham was met with enthusiasm by the five remarkable Australian First Nations artists, and their art centres Iwantja Arts, South Australia, and Papunya Tula Artists, Northern Territory.
MAF 2025 IN PRINT | ART COLLECTOR MAGAZINE
Art Collector magazine featured the outstanding artists of the Barkly Region, presented by Alcaston Gallery at this year's Melbourne Art Fair 2025, as well as being included in Art Collector magazine's top ten picks of Melbourne Art 2025!
DJAKANGU YUNUPINGU FEATURED IN ART COLLECTOR '50 THINGS COLLECTORS SHOULD KNOW' EDITION
We are proud to share that Djakangu Yunupingu has been featured in the latest issue of Art Collector, 50 Things Collectors Should Know. In reflection of Yunupiŋu’s career-milestone win of the Wynne Prize 2024, her sell-out presentation at Sydney Contemporary 2024 with Alcaston Gallery, and her extensive collector-base, Yunupiŋu has aptly been profiled in the issue’s section ‘Collector’s Love’. Written by Emma-Kate Wilson, this feature further cements Yunupiŋu as one of the most important artists in the Australian contemporary art landscape.
NICI CUMPSTON OAM APPOINTED NEW DIRECTOR OF KLUGE-RUHE ABORIGINAL ART COLLECTION
Alcaston Gallery is pleased to congratulate Nici Cumpston OAM, announced that after seventeen years as Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia, she will take up the coveted position as Director of Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA in May 2025.
After an international search, a committee of faculty, staff, and volunteer leaders selected Australian artist and curator Nici Cumpston OAM to be the new director of the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia (UVA). She will succeed Kluge-Ruhe’s founding director, Margo Smith, upon Smith’s retirement in May after 27 years of service.
“Nici Cumpston is recognised by her peers as a gifted museum curator, a pioneering art festival director, and a tireless advocate for Indigenous artists and communities across Australia,” search committee and UVA Art History department chair Douglas Fordham said. “We had an extraordinarily talented group of applicants for this position, and we are absolutely delighted that Nici has chosen to lead Kluge-Ruhe at this dynamic moment in its history.”
We would also like to congratulate and thank Margo Smith on the significant achievements she has made during her tenure as Kluge-Ruhe's founding director, and wish her all the very best for her retirement.
