YESTERDAY'S MASTERS AND TODAY'S STARS
The Summer Collector's show at Everywhen features an extensive range of outstanding works of founding artists and contemporary talents of First Nations art from 1997 to 2024. Earliest is a 1997 etching by the Kimberley's Rover Thomas, and the most recent is a painting by 37-year-old Pitjantjatjara artist Janice Stanley, whose work has just been acquired by Australian Parliament House in Canberra.
The Shoreham-based Everywhen Art has been exhibiting First Nations art on the Peninsula since 2009. The gallery represents more than 40 Indigenous-owned art producing communities from around Australia and exhibits a wide range of works and media. Directors Susan McCulloch OAM and Emily McCulloch Childs have been writing on, and exhibiting First Nation's art for more than 40 years. As authors of leading reference works such as the Encyclopedia of Australian Art, they have in-depth knowledge of all Australian art and especially that of First Nations artists.
Featured in the summer show is a group of ochre paintings from the Warmun region of the East Kimberley whose country is Ngargaroon or Texas Downs Station. Held in partnership with the Warmun Art Centre, artists include the late master artist Churchill Cann, senior Warmun artist Patrick Mung Mung and younger generation artists Mark Nodea, April Nulgit and Sevanna Carrington. Their many-hued, textured ochres depict aspects of their lush lands, its ancient rock art and creation sites.
Other Kimberley artists include Freddie Timms, Billy Thomas, Jack Britten and Jimmy Nerrimah. Founding artists from other regions include leading bark painter Nyapanyapa Yunupingu and senior Pitjantjatjara painters Carlene Thompson, Tiger Palpatja, Eileen Stevens, Wawiriya Burton and Pepai Jangala Carroll.
Contemporary stars include Anita Pumani, Bugai Whyoulter, Colleen Ngwarreye Morton, Debra Nakamarra, Doris Bush Nungarrayi, Janice Stanley, Michelle Lewis, and many more. The exhibition also includes a selection of works by leading modernist artist Charles Blackman - a friend of, and early visitor to the McCulloch family's house, Whistlewood, now home to Everywhen Art.
Image: Patrick Mung Mung - My Mother's Country: Texas Downs
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