Exhibitions, 2024
Barkly Groundswell
November 16th - December 7th, 2024
cbOne
Naarm/Melbourne
"In Barkly Groundswell cbOne celebrates the recent upsurge of artistic power in the Barkly, highlighting emerging artist from Arlpwe Art and Culture Centre, Artists of Ampilatwatja, Barkly Regional Arts, Nyinkka Nyunyu Art and Culture Centre and Utopia Art Centre. The exhibition amplifies the diverse voices of these artists, showcasing contemporary paintings that are deeply personal and rich with cultural stories from this region. Barkly Groundswell runs from November 16th until December 7th." - Harry Price, excerpt from the exhibition catalogue.
Participating artists; Marcus 'Double O' Camphoo Kemarre, Maria Dickenson Napanangka, Dayleen Miller Kamara, Sonya Murphy Napalarri, Martha Poulson Nakamarra
Martha Poulson Nakamarra, various works. Alongside work by Aileen Long Napaljarri.
Water is Precious in the Desert
October 26th - December 16th, 2024
The Cross Art Projects
Eora/Sydney
"Water is Precious in the Desert, is an exhibition about water in danger. Ancient aquifers — those well-known like the Great Artesian Basin and others, little-known, like the aquifers lying under arid lands in the Northern Territory — are the major sources of fresh water for the world’s driest and flattest continent. Disquiet over water, land and resource extraction lie at the heart of the northern Australian policy narrative, known by the euphemism “develop the north”.
The artists draw inspiration from their rich and complex country and time spent camping at soaks and observing, collecting, and hunting seasonal flora and fauna. Some water places are sacred sites needing to be appeased according to law and custom. More broadly, looking after country relates to regular burns, cleaning out soaks and related activities. Hence, artists working at Arlpwe Art and Culture Centre in Ali Curung community, are renowned for painting the vast seasonal almanac of the seed story and bush medicine." - excerpt from the exhibition catalogue by Jo Holder
Participating artists; Graham Beasley Pula, Rosieanne Holmes Napapanangka, Nabangardi Holmes, Jaclyn Holmes Nangala, Ned Kelly Jungarrayi, Owen Miller Japaljarri, Warrick Miller Japangardi, Doreen Rankine Nangala, Valerie Nelson Nakamarra, Martha Poulson Nakamarra, Cysila Rose Napanangka
Warrick Miller Japangardi, Karnta Ngapa Jukurrpa / Women’s Rain Dreaming, 2024. Ned Kelly Jungarrayi, Two Napaljarris, 2024. Valerie Nelson Nakamarra, Cabbage Gum Bore Soakage Dreaming, 2024.
Tennant Creek Brio: Juparnta Ngattu Minjinypa Iconocrisis
September 21st - November 17th, 2024
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Naarm/Melbourne
"Tennant Creek Brio: Juparnta Ngattu Minjinypa Iconocrisis references The Brio’s practice of reinscribing their experiences, cultural identity and mark making onto salvaged found materials such as oil barrels, car bonnets, solar panels, poker machines, television screens, and geological maps from the abandoned Warrego mine. Confronting the current state of polycrisis, of belief systems in conflict, and contested and scarring histories, the exhibition stresses an urgent need for truth-telling, future-thinking, collectivity and action. Exploring themes of extraction, reclamation and collaboration, The Brio’s artworks reveal the deeply personal and complex intergenerational influences that continue to shape and entwine the artists’ lives, identities and future-thinking." - Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Participating artists; Marcus 'Double O' Camphoo Kemarre, Fabian Rankine Jampijinpa
First Forms
September 6th - September 21st, 2024
June Marriot Gallery
Mparntwe/Alice Springs
Presented by Central Craft Mparntwe
"In mid-2023, Arlpwe Art and Culture Centre revived its ceramics studio. With guidance from Central Crafts resident studio technician, Mark Cole, they launched a flexible, artist-led program teaching various ceramic skills. Artists created sculptural and functional pieces for personal use or sale, showing a talent for hand-building and ambitious projects.
First Forms is a series of initial forms and vessels created form this ceramic works by the Arlpwe Artists alongside a series of paintings." - Central Craft Mparntwe
Lincoln Corbett Kemarre, wearing one of his ceramic ceremonial headbands exhibited in the show.
Desert Mob 2024
September 5th - October 20th
Araluen Art Centre
Mparntwe/Alice Springs
Presented by Desart Incorporated
"Desert Mob is presented annually in Mparntwe on Arrernte Country, bringing together hundreds of artists to celebrate desert culture in the heart of Australia. One of the nation’s oldest Aboriginal art festivals, Desert Mob features an exhibition, artist talks (formerly the symposium) and marketplace, as well as public programs and satellite events throughout Mparntwe/Alice Springs and the region. From the opening night celebration to community studio visits and Desert Mob After Dark, workshops and performances, Desert Mob is a cultural event for all the community." - Desart
Participating artists; Benjamin Barnes Kemarre, Marcus 'Double O' Camphoo Kemarre, Rosieanne Holmes Napanangka, Georgina Jones Pitjara, Ned Kelly Japaljarri, Nancy Long Nungarrayi, Rene Long Nungarrayi
Ned Kelly Jungarrayi, That hill near my Father’s Country, 2024.
MARKUSOOH, MAKUSOOH, MARUSOOH
June 22nd - July 13th
8 Hele
Mparntwe/Alice Springs
"MARKUSOOH, MAKUSOOH, MARUSOOH is Double O’s first solo exhibition and debuts a series of new works on paper. The title arises from the signatures given to the first three pastel on paper drawings that he created in Ali Curung and reflects a truth in his work; there is similarity, but never sameness or predictability. Perhaps informed by the materiality of Double O’s new paper endeavours the companion paintings share a tonal and auratic lightness, a noted departure from the dense, grimy aesthetic of previous work presented alongside the Brio." - excerpt from the exhibition catalogue by Harry Price
Solo exhibition by Marcus 'Double O' Camphoo Kemarre
Marcus 'Double O' Camphoo Kemarre, various works.
Cross Section - Tennant Creek Brio
March 16th - April 13th
Cassandra Bird Gallery
Eora/Sydney
"The Brio fuse Aboriginal cultural heritage, the industrial materiality of the mining industry and regional and global art influences to express and re-imagine their cross-cultural identities and the reality of unresolved tensions between Indigenous and settler colonial cultures, the renewal and remaking of cultural practices, and the collaborative resilience of a frontier community. The collective’s deeply personal artworks draw upon complex intergenerational influences that continue to shape the artists lives and identities." - Cassandra Bird Gallery
Participating artists; Marcus 'Double O' Camphoo Kemarre
Marcus 'Double O' Camphoo Kemarre, untitled, 2024. Alongside work by Clifford Thompson Japaljarri.