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Head On Photo Festival – Wayne Quilliam Lowanna, The Land and Community : A Collection

by Di on May 8, 2013 • 2 Comments

Opening this Thursday, May 23 6pm to 8pm Tali Gallery is delighted to present a collection of stunning photographs by the exceptional Indigenous photographer, Wayne Quilliam. This exhibition features three themes as a collection – Lowanna,The Land and Community. Each is distinctively different yet linked as Lowanna shows the human...

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Beanie Festival 2013

by Di on May 8, 2013 • No Comments

The theme of the 2013 Beanie Festival is “Beanies from the Heart – A Celebration of Friendship” For a third year Tali Gallery will hold the Beanie Festival exhibition in conjunction with the Alice Springs Beanie Festival – a 17 year-old community-run event that represents Aboriginal women from remote...

Exhibitions

Danielle Mate Sullivan’s Evocative Landscapes

by Di on May 7, 2013 • No Comments

Danielle M Sullivan draws on her heritage from the Kunja people of Queensland. Danielle was born in Fairfield NSW and has a raft of achievements in her young career as a versatile and talented painter. This collection of works is about Country, light and space and is a delight to...

Artefacts / Exhibitions / Top End

Fabulous Fibre Artefacts

by Di on Mar 10, 2013 • No Comments

Fabulous Fibreworks from Ramingining, Maningrida and Elcho Island always adorn our upstairs gallery - yawk yawks by Anniebell Marrngamarrnga and Lulu Luradjbi, sting rays, saratoga (fish) such as the one pictured, a butterfly, mats, baskets, dilly bags, and fish traps, and animals and owls by Mavis Ganambarr (included in the LoveLace...

Paintings

Young Urban Artists Expressing Traditional Knowledge

by Di on Mar 2, 2013 • No Comments

Tali Gallery works with several urban artists who paint in a contemporary aesthetic at the same time as conveying teachings from their forebears with stories handed down concerning Ancestral travels, songlines, knowledge of the earth, Aboriginal symbols and the importance of kinship and connection. Fine line and dot painting shows...

APY Lands / Central & Western Desert / Paintings

Desert Gems – from Remote Aboriginal Owned Communities

by Di on Mar 1, 2013 • No Comments

Tali Gallery regularly receives new paintings from the curators of Aboriginal Owned Art Centres in the remote desert regions of Australia. These are diverse in stories, colours and executions. Many are painted by women and men who followed a nomadic existence in their early years and were handed down survival...

Kimberley / Paintings

Kimberley Ochres

by Di on Feb 25, 2013 • No Comments

Tali Gallery works with three Aboriginal Owned, Community Art Centres in the Kimberley. Most of the work is created using ochres which are mixed and burnt to create colour variations. Sometimes pigments are added. Rover Thomas was a foundation artist from the Warmun Community. Artists represented at Tali include Mabel...

Exhibitions

The Namatjira Legacy

by Di on Feb 21, 2013 • No Comments

Tali Gallery has been pleased to hold an Open Studio and related events to celebrate a collection of contemporary watercolour paintings on paper from Ngurratjuta Many Hands Art Centre, including Albert Namatjira Jnr, Mervyn Rubuntja, Hilary Wirri, Lenie Manatjira, Johannes Katakarinja, Ivy Pareroultja, Hubert Pareroultjja, Elton Wirri, Kevin Wirri, Gloria...

Prints

Fine Art Prints – Dennis Nona, Dorothy Napangardi and more….

by Di on Feb 21, 2013 • No Comments

We have an extensive collection of fine art limited edition prints in the gallery – including works by Tiwi, Kimberley, Desert and Torres Strait Islander artists. A Fine Art Etching by Dennis Nona was recently purchased by local government as a gift for an overseas dignatory. Dennis is a...

Paintings / Tiwi Islands

Tiwi Works from Melville Island

by Di on Feb 20, 2012 • No Comments

We are proud to present Tiwi paintings by various artists painting at the Munupi Art Centre on Melville Island. Most are traditionally combed with ochre paints using Jilamara body paint designs.

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Bangarra/ TaliG Fundraiser for International Grammar School

by Di on May 18, 2013 • No Comments

Tali Gallery is proud to be involved in this fundraising event for the IGS Indigenous Scholarship Program. Come along and enjoy dance and music and take up the gold or silver for fine food from the Edna’s Table crew and enjoy our Art Exhibition, curated with help from students from the Sydney College of the...

Events

City of Sydney Library Event

by Di on May 17, 2013 • No Comments

Di will be delivering a curatorial talk at City of Sydney’s Library at Customs House in Sydney relating to a special NAIDOC Week Watercolour exhibition on Wednesday 6th July at 6PM. The paintings are a collection of distinctive watercolour landscapes created by the descendants of Albert Namatjira in the Hermannsburg style consigned to Tali Gallery...

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Digby Moran – a New Tali Gallery Artist

by Di on May 11, 2013 • No Comments

Tali Gallery is delighted to be working with Digby – a Bundjalung artist whose work speaks from the heart and soul and is imbued with memories and stories from his childhood. Digby has been referred to Tali Gallery by the Indigenous Development Officer of Arts Northern Rivers. His latest project involves paintings related to...

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Tjanpi Creatures from the Desert

by Di on May 9, 2013 • No Comments

The Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (NPY) Women’s Council was formed in 1980. They encourage women to carry on culture and build esteem through their creativity and operate a Co-Op for the promotion of weaving and jewellery making. Known as the Tjanpi Desert Weavers, the women use desert materials such as natural grasses and feathers as well...

Artefacts

Bagu and Jiman Figures from Girringun Community, Queensland

by Di on May 9, 2013 • No Comments

The form and imagery of the objects in this installation has its origins in the sky. A mystical spirit of fire, the Chikka-bunnah, would throw the jiman (firesticks) across the sky and a trail of fire would follow. The subject of many campfire stories, this malevolent spirit was capable of “instilling great fear into...

Events

Preschool and School Visits

by Di on May 2, 2013 • No Comments

Tali Gallery was delighted to host a visit from KU Phoenix Preschool kids, staff and parents with another due on the 22nd May. We have also had visits from students of the Montessori School and the Rozelle Childcare Centre at Callan Park this month who will return to their sandpit to draw symbols in the...

Events

Red Dust Fundraiser – a Big Journey Ahead

by Di on May 2, 2013 • No Comments

We have connected Tali Gallery artist, Danielle M Sullivan with Jessica and Vanig from Dreamtime Drive, who will be travelling around Australia in a Toyota 4WD, visiting remote communities and promoting and fundraising for Red Dust – an organisation which brings innovative and individual health initiatives to Indigenous youth in remote communities. Danielle will...

Artefacts / Top End

New Arrivals – Award Winning Fibre Artists

by Di on May 2, 2013 • No Comments

Robyn Djunginy was named NAIDOC Artist of the Year in 2011. Robyn weaves and paints for her community art centre at Ramingining in Arnhemland (Bula Bula) and visited the gallery on the weekend of her Awards Ceremony and gave weaving demonstrations. Her ‘bottle’ shaped pandanus works are included in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art...

Artefacts / Top End

New Arrivals – Artefacts from Arnhemland

by Di on May 2, 2013 • No Comments

Tali Gallery has enjoyed a strong association and fondness for owls since our cross cultural Indigenous exhibition relating to the 2012 Greek Festival of Sydney. These carved and ochre painted owls by Megan Yunupingu and Judy Manany come from the community Art Centre on Elcho Island and there is often a waiting list for them.

Paintings

Estate Works from an Ikuntji Artist

by Di on Apr 28, 2013 • No Comments

Molly Jugadai passed away in recent years and we are proud to now present her highly impactful and colourful work for sale. Depicting Molly’s mother’s country of Lake Mackay, these are bold and beautiful with a very simple but very evocative depiction of the sandhills of country, the white line indicating drought conditions –...

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A Special Partnership

by Di on Apr 16, 2013 • No Comments

Di and Yhanni are delighted to be working with the extraordinary knowledge holder, Aunty Margaret Campbell, once again! We used to work with Margaret previously on the harbour, and it’s wonderful to be reunited in a new partnership! Aunty Margaret now operates the Rocks Dreaming Aboriginal Heritage Tour, a 90 minute leisurely walkabout with...

Events

New Introduction to Aboriginal Art and Culture Course

by Di on Apr 6, 2013 • No Comments

http://www.sydneycommunitycollege.com.au/course/ARVA36 Through Sydney Community College – a four week course held at Tali Gallery on Thursdays for two hours each session – 6pm to 8pm commencing May 30th

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Head On Photo Festival – Wayne Quilliam Lowanna, The Land and Community : A Collection

Beanie Festival 2013

Danielle Mate Sullivan’s Evocative Landscapes

Fabulous Fibre Artefacts

Young Urban Artists Expressing Traditional Knowledge

Desert Gems – from Remote Aboriginal Owned Communities

Kimberley Ochres

The Namatjira Legacy

Fine Art Prints – Dennis Nona, Dorothy Napangardi and more….

Tiwi Works from Melville Island

Bangarra/ TaliG Fundraiser for International Grammar School

City of Sydney Library Event

Digby Moran – a New Tali Gallery Artist

Tjanpi Creatures from the Desert

Bagu and Jiman Figures from Girringun Community, Queensland

Preschool and School Visits

Red Dust Fundraiser – a Big Journey Ahead

New Arrivals – Award Winning Fibre Artists

New Arrivals – Artefacts from Arnhemland

Estate Works from an Ikuntji Artist

A Special Partnership

New Introduction to Aboriginal Art and Culture Course

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