This extraordinary display features historic watercolours from the South Australian Museum’s collection by the earliest Hermannsburg watercolourists including the celebrated Albert Namatjira, alongside contemporary watercolour works created by their descendants revealing the artists’ deep political and ecological concerns for their changing Country.
If you are in Adelaide make sure to visit this special (but temporary) exhibition!!!!
Image above: Kathy Inkamala,The store at Ntaria (Hermannsburg Mission), NT, 33 x 50cm, watercolour on paper.
"It is in this extraordinary environment that Hubert Pareroultja learnt to paint from an early age. His life of painting and living in the landscape has led to a unique understanding and vision of the country to which he belongs. His meticulous eye, and sense of the subtleties of colour translated through watercolour, is now collected and recognised world-wide. In 2020, Hubert won the prestigious Wynne Prize for landscape painting at the Art Gallery of NSW. It was the culmination of a story of an artist whose unique vision of the land has been decades in the making. And now, in Tnagkara Nuka (Cultural Dreamings)—held in conjunction with the Iltja Ntjarra Art Centre—the artist’s stories will be told through the painted surface to an ever-widening audience." Ralph Hobbs
Image above: Hubert Pareroultja, Palm Valley (Alyape) NT, 70 x 100cm, watercolour on paper.
LANDSCAPES ON CANVAS BY SELECTED ARTISTS Now available on our website
This month we admire Noreen Hudson’s tenacity. Although she has had a stroke and is now limited to the use of her left hand, Noreen is determined to keep her love of painting going strong. Noreen has now turned her hand (literally) to painting her beloved country on canvas.
Noreen Hudson - Tjoritja (West MacDonnell Ranges) , NT
30 x 30cm Acrylic on Canvas, $325
Reinhold Inkamala - Tjoritja - West MacDonnell Ranges NT
30 x 49cm Acrylic on Canvas $625
Kathleen France - nyingke / zebra finch singing
30 x 30cm Acrylic on Canvas, $325
