Collector Spotlight – 2017

REDOT FINE ART GALLERY in collaboration with Various Australian Artists presents

Collector Spotlight – 2017 A Collection of Contemporary Australian Art

2 January – 4 February 2017

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Collector Spotlight – 2017 ReDot Fine Art Gallery opens its 2017 exhibition schedule with an exciting collection of new works by upcoming and highly collectable Australian artist Aaron Kinnane, in what will be a “small” teaser to his first ever solo show in Singapore in October 2017.

In conjunction with the art celebration surrounding Art Stage 2017 during the course of January, this showcase is combined with a regular changing hang of collectable Australian contemporary art for collectors and art aficionados alike.

Collector Spotlight – 2017 is a collection of 12 new oil paintings on canvas by Aaron and a rotating salon hang of over 30 additional works from some of Australia’s most accomplished and renowned artistic talents both Indigenous and non-Indigenous.

The exhibition will herald a merging of opposing Australian art forms, opening up a dialogue about the interconnectivity of modern Australia and its more fragile Indigenous heritage via the usage of mediums ranging from acrylic and oil on canvas, wooden artefacts, bronze and steel sculptures and even reclaimed environmental materials all blending harmoniously into one collectors paradise.

In Aaron’s own words, he “engages with painting in its purest form to perpetuate his effervescent vision of the natural world. Visceral layers of paint form sublime and atmospheric landscapes that are at once sullen and savage, bleak and beautiful, heavy, desolate and wildly alive. The resulting aesthetic equilibrium spawns a purification that pushes the viewer beyond a physical and visual appreciation of the works into a metaphysical meditation.”

The salon exhibition begins on Monday 2 January and runs until Saturday 4 February 2017. It will highlight several key recent and past works, exciting new initiatives that the Gallery will be involved in throughout the year, which range from first ever exhibitions for several new artists who have become part of our widening stable of artists over the last 18 months and a museum show in the summer of 2017.

Giorgio Pilla Director ReDot Fine Art Gallery

Left Page: Installation of Collector Spotlight – 2017 Source: © ReDot Fine Art Gallery

Installation of Collector Spotlight – 2017 Source: © ReDot Fine Art Gallery

Makinti NAPANANGKA Lupulnga Acrylic on Belgian Linen 122 x 91cm MN0102051

This painting depicts designs associated with the travels of the Kungka Kutjarra (Two Women) to a site on the south side of Lake MacDonald. The two women were digging for the small animal Kuningka (Western Quoll). These animals usually live in burrows which were dug by other animals such as the burrowing bettong or rabbits and occasionally in hollow logs.

The women later continued their travels to the east. The circles at the bottom of the work show the rockholes at Lupulnga.

Ronnie TJAMPITJINPA Tarkul Acrylic on Belgian Linen 121 x 152.5cm RT960374

This painting depicts designs relating to an Echidna Dreaming at the site of Tarkul, which is slightly north-east of Winparku (Mt. Webb). The designs in the painting are consistent with those painted on the bodies of men during ceremonial events at the site. There is a soakage water at Tarkul and the site itself is part of the Tingari Song Cycle. Tingari men travelled through this country after visiting Kiwirrkurra further west.

Since events associated with the Tingari Cycle are of a secret nature no further detail was given.

Generally, the Tingari are a group of mythical characters of the Dreaming who travelled over vast stretches of the country, performing rituals and creating and shaping particular sites. The Tingari Men were usually followed by Tingari Women and accompanied by novices and their travels and adventures are enshrined in a number of song cycles.

These mythologies form part of the teachings of the post initiatory youths today as well as providing explanations for contemporary customs.

Naata NUNGURRAYI Marrapinti Acrylic on Belgian Linen 91 x 122cm NN20000461

This painting depicts designs associated with the rockhole site of Marrapinti, just to the west of the Kiwirrkurra Community. The lines through the work represent the sandhills surrounding the area. A large group of senior women camped at this rockhole making the nose-bones which are worn through a hole in the nose-web. These nose-bones were originally worn by both men and women but are now only worn by the older generation on ceremonial occasions. The women later travelled east passing through the Kiwirrkurra area.

Ray James TJANGALA Karrilwarra Acrylic on Belgian Linen 122 x 122cm RJ1005088

This painting depicts designs associated with Karrilwarra a rockhole site west of the Kiwirrkurra Community in Western Australia. Two ancestral snakes travelled to this site from far in the east.

At Karrilwarra the snakes created the rockholes, soakages and sandhills before travelling further west to Jigalong. This site is also one that was visited by travelling Tingari people who later also continued their journey in the same direction as the snakes.

Since events associated with the Tingari Cycle are of a secret nature no further detail was given.

Generally, the Tingari are a group of mythical characters of the Dreaming who travelled over vast stretches of the country, performing rituals and creating and shaping particular sites. The Tingari Men were usually followed by Tingari Women and accompanied by novices and their travels and adventures are enshrined in a number of song cycles.

These mythologies form part of the teachings of the post initiatory youths today as well as providing explanations for contemporary customs.

Various Spinifex Artists (WOMEN’S COLLABORATIVE) Minyma Tjuta Acrylic on Linen 233 x 197cm 13198

Seven senior Spinifex women, Kunmanara (Linda) Coleman, Kathleen (Kanta) Donnegan, Kunmanara (Anne Ngantiri) Hogan, Estelle Hogan, Myrtle Pennington, Kunmanara (Yarangka Elaine) Thomas and Tjaruwa (Angelina) Woods, have collaborated on this major work, an epic story which covers a vast tract of Spinifex Lands. It is the Kungkarangkalpa Tjukurpa (Seven Sisters), also referred to as Minyma Tjuta. Minyma Tjuta is perhaps the most substantial and overtly women’s Tjukurpa from the Spinifex area that weaves across and through much of the country, profoundly affecting the sites, ceremonial connections and responsibilities of the people. The song line travels out west and east far beyond the Spinifex territory into neighbouring lands. As such, Minyma Tjuta is intimate to the cultural cycles of the broader Western Desert region and features prominently in many Spinifex paintings as it traverses far across and through the country. This is miil-miilpa (sacred) and has numerous layers of knowledge and comprehension available depending on the status of the viewer according to Anangu Law. In this Tjukurpa, a group of sisters are travelling and pursuing a large python which proves to be elusive and is followed through various important sites such as Kuru Ala and Kulyuru. The snake leaves in its wake several significant landforms such as deep ravines at Kulyuru where it escaped down a hole in the escarpment and heading north creating a large creek bed. The women are in turn being pursued by a lustful old man who wants Kampukura the eldest sister for a wife. He camps close to the sisters hiding and spying on them in order to strike out in surprise and catch the one he wants. The sisters take off to the east. They fly up into the sky thus creating the constellation known as Pleiades. This story is full of sexual innuendo pertinent to women and men in different aspects. It is present at literally hundreds of Spinifex sites. The women listed some of such sites in this work including Tjulapi, Tjawanya, Tjutjunga, Tolunga, Paltatatjara, Atinga, Pilkatja, Makuritjara, Ngalkuritjara, Pukara, Kuru Ala and Kulyuru.

Tiger PALPATJA Wati Wanampi Acrylic on Canvas 196 x 121cm 10320

This is a painting about the two men who became wanampis (serpents). Ngayulu Wanampi watkatjara (Tiger Palpatja always paints wanampi).

Piti tjuta (many holes) Minyma kutjara tjawanu (that the two sisters have dug). All the round ones are the holes the sisters have dug while chasing the wanampi. The wanampi leaves a mark in the sand which looks like a kuniya (edible python). Ngunti kuraningi (it was not an actual kuniya mark). Kangkuruku wana wakunu (the elder sisters digging stick speared the wanampi by mistake). The wanampi rose in agony and swallowed the sister.

Tiger was born at this Dreaming site, where you find the water of Piltati.

Wingu TINGIMA Kuru Ala Acrylic on Canvas 109 x 142cm NKUWT04268

This is Wingu Tingima’s country which tells the Kungkarrakalpa Tjukurpa (Seven Sisters Dreamtime).

The sisters were digging for kuniya (python) but that kuniya went in a really deep hole. A man named Nyiiru was hiding and trying to get the eldest sister to be his wife.

Keith STEVENS Piltati Acrylic on Linen 150 x 100cm 12495

This is the Wanampi Tjukurpa (water snake men dreaming) for Nyapari. This place is called Piltati. Piltati rockhole is just in the hills, located really close to the community.

There are two men who are water snakes. Piltati is the main waterhole and those wanampi (snake men) go in one rockhole and can come up in another one. Also, here there is kuyi (harmless small snakes) that have ngura tjuta (many homes) The wanampi love to eat those kuyi. Minyma kutjara (two women) were digging for that big kuniya (carpet python) but it was only those wanampi (watersnake men) tricking. Those women speared the wanampi by accident and he got up and chased them and killed them.

Patrick MUNG MUNG Jarlarlu & Ngarrgooroon Country Natural Ochre and Pigments on Canvas 100 x 140cm WAC068/08

Jarlarlu is the country of Patrick Mung Mung’s father, George Mung Mung. Jarlarlu and Ngarrgurun are located North of the Bungle Bungles (Purnululu National Park). The country is hilly terrain, with waterholes and some areas of flat country.

As a young man, Patrick used to work as a stockman and gardener for Texas Downs Station. This gave him an opportunity to live and work and be in the country of his ancestors. He still makes frequent visits back to his country on the weekends with his grandchildren. Mining companies are now looking for nickel on this country. There are many caves in this country. “Those little cheeky rock wallabies live in the nawans”, says Patrick.

Jarlarlu is the name for a particular tree, also known as corkwood that grows along the Ord River catchment

Mabel JULI Marranyji & Jiyirriny Natural Ochre and Pigments on Canvas 120 x 120cm WAC142/08

This Ngarrangkarni (Dreaming) is from Darrajayin country, also known as Springvale Station.

In the Ngarrangkarni (Dreaming) an old woman sang out for her dog Marranyji, an old wild dingo. Her dog had taken off in pursuit of a jiyirriny (kangaroo). The dog followed the jiyirriny into a cave. The kangaroo grabbed the dog when they were in the back of the cave and held him there. The old woman followed the dog and called out to him. She burnt grass trying to find her dog but he never came out.

The old woman is the figure standing up with her stick, on top of the hill in this painting. The dog and the kangaroo are in the cave below, represented by the two circles. The woman and her dog are still there in stone in Mabel’s country. This place is also called White Water.

Mick JAWALJI Dabanjuwa Natural Ochre and Pigments on Plywood 80 x 60cm WAC769/04

In Bronco Valley, west of Ban.gurr, Baulk Face Range and in Mick Jawalji’s part of Gija country, there is a place called Dabanjuwa. There is a creek that flows from the top of Ban.gurr Range down to Dabanjuwa.

In the Dreamtime, a man passed through Dabanjuwa and left his fat there and is a now a kangaroo. You can still see the fat, seen as a shiny stone today.

Katie COX Loomoogoo Natural Ochre and Pigments on Canvas 90 x 120cm WAC541/06

Loomoogoo (Pompey’s Pillar) is a tall stone pillar divided in two, that rises above the country approximately 100 kilometres north of Warmun.

Loomoogoo was the blue lizard in the Ngarrangkarni (Dreaming).

This is Jimbala (Spearhead) Country. This is sharp, stony country.

Wakartu Cory SURPRISE Mimbi Atelier Acrylic Paint on 14oz Canvas 120 x 120cm 928/07

“Big one water hole; mine one! All the men go there first, then the women.”

Sonia KURARRA Martuwarra Atelier Artist Acrylic on 14oz Canvas 180 x 120cm 2/13

Martuwarra is Sonia Kurarra’s river country. This painting is all about the Fitzroy River which flows down through Noonkanbah where Sonia lives. All kinds of fish live in the water, where you can catch big mobs of fish. Sonia especially likes parlka. You can catch catfish and brim in the river too. Nganku (shark), wirritunany (swordfish) and stingray also live in the waters. These fish live in these waters long after the flood has gone.

This painting is also about parlka (barramundi) swimming on the surface of the water.

You can see the wakiri (pandanus trees) and rocks all around. The rock holes hold all the parlka that live in the river. Kalpurtu (serpent-type creator being) also live in these rock holes and swim all around the palma (creeks) and wakiri that grow in the river.

Mawukura Jimmy NERRIMAH Jilirrkujarra Acrylic on Canvas 120 x 60cm pc610/05

This painting depicts a jila (waterhole) in the artist’s country in the Great Sandy Desert

Eva NARGOODAH Winter Rain (Kuluwa) Atelier Acrylic Paint on 14oz Canvas 120 x 120cm 71/13

During the gentle monsoon rains, people stay inside and sing rain songs. The Fitzroy Crossing River rises.

Eva’s country, Christmas Creek, gets full and floods.

The water covers the plain and fills the billabongs (rarrakatji). It can rain for weeks and weeks.

Harry TJUTJUNA Mututa Tjukurpa Acrylic on Linen 153 x 122cm NKHT12416

This is a Dreaming story about a site near Kalka known as Mututa. A Minyma Ninu (bilby woman) was there with her family and they were all eating maku (witchetty grubs). They found the maku in the roots of different plants, from tjilka-tjilka (shrubs), punti (cassia bushes), ngarkalya (sandhill wattle) and kanturangu (desert poplar). They ate so many that there were only ngingirpa (little, immature ones) left. The Wati Mututa (ant men) got really angry because there was no good food left. They all marched together, chasing the bilby family. The army of ants punished them by spearing them. At this site today, there are clusters of black rocks set into the side of the hill – they represent the Wati Mututa or the ant men.

Sandy BRUMBY Kulitja Acrylic on Linen 122 x 107cm NKSB12421

This story is about a place called Kulitja, in Yankunytjatjara country close to Victory Downs in the Northern Territory. There are many rockholes at this site and it is the home of a wati wanampi (male water serpent). He is looking around for kuka (meat) and mai (bushtucker) such as kampurarpa (bush tomato) and wayanu (quandong). One day, another water serpent comes to this place. The wati wanampi fights him and he runs away. After that, the wati wanampi eats the food, curls up and goes to sleep, forming a large rockhole that is still there today. This is the home of the wati wanampi (male water serpent).

Amanda PENROSE HART Lion Island Oil on Canvas 122 x 162cm APH201602001

Victoria CATTONI Untitled #1, 2015 Oil on Linen 109 x 113cm VC_1-1_2015

Painted in Portugal

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