This exhibition celebrates women artists now at the forefront of contemporary painting practice in Maningrida – maintaining knowledge, language, and culture while giving new shape and form to central and western Arnhem Land art traditions.
Artists draw inspiration from traditional designs and experiment with visual language characterised by rarrk (cross-hatching) whilst using a rich palette derived from natural pigments. Their work bridges the natural and spiritual realms, the secular and sacred, with bark painting and sculpture depicting myriad djang (Ancestral sites and stories, and associated spirit beings).
Fiona Jin-majinggal Mason Steele, Burarra people, born 1977, Jima Jima (waterlily), 2023, stringybark (Eucalyptus tetrodonta) with ochre pigment and PVA fixative, 88.2 × 37cm (irreg.). Courtesy the artist, Maningrida Arts and Culture, Northern Territory and Flinders University Museum of Art, South Australia
Flinders University Museum of Art
9 October 2023 to 15 December 2023
South Australia
