Shireen Malamoo/Work is a healer
Shireen Malamoo’s paintings are meditations on the artist’s upbringing in the strict, Pentecostal church system, and fuse the iconographies and narratives of Christianity and her own South Sea Islander and Aboriginal heritage. The artist expresses her own difficulties in reconciling these parts of her life, as well as some of the more troubling aspects of only Australia’s colonial history, specifically the people of the South Sea Islands, whose story is such a seminal, heartbreaking and often overlooked part of North Queensland’s history.
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
25 September to 22 November 2020
Queensland
WALIPAN / PULI PULI : Weaving & Rocks
Recent works from Durrmu Arts and Ikuntji Artists, with a focus on Regina Pilawuk Wilson from Peppimenarti (Durrmu Arts) and Keturah Zimran from Haasts Bluff (Ikuntji Artists). Wilson’s works are known for their subtle and delicate textures derived from sun mat weaving. This exhibition highlights these traditional weaving techniques and showcases the walipan – fish nets made using traditional materials and dyes. While Keturah Zimran paints the puli puli (rocks) and tali tali (sandhills) where she grew up, and Karrkurrutintja (Lake Macdonald, near the WA/NT border), her grandmother’s country.
Northern Centre for Contemporary Art (NCCA)
17 October to 21 November 2020
Northern Territory
Julie Davidson: Quiet Contemplation
‘Still life as a genre has a long and noble history, and yet such a simple and unassuming form seems to have limitless possibilities. In this latest body of work, I continue to fall back on a pictorial tradition that allows a contemplation of quiet domestic settings. The interplay between light and shadow defines form and aims to create a sense of mystery as to its source, hinting at something beyond the obvious.’ – Julie Davidson, October 2020.
Linton & Kay Galleries, Subiaco
10 October to 1 November 2020
Western Australia
Uwankara (All of Us)
Coinciding with Tarnanthi at the Art Gallery of South Australia, ‘Uwankara (All of Us)’ will feature new works from the next generation of artists emerging from the APY Lands: Delma Forbes, Gladys Roberts, Rene Sundown, Raylene Walatinna, Freda Brady, Sammy Lyons, Janie Kulyuru, Cassaria Hogan, Phyllis Donegan, Linda Puna, Emma Singer, Josina Pumani, Rhoda Tjitayi, Leah Brady, Yaritji Heffernan and Margaret Richards.
APY Gallery, Adelaide
14 October to 14 November 2020
South Australia
Philip Wolfhagen: The Long View
Philip Wolfhagen’s paintings are inspired by the atmospheric landscape of northern Tasmania and the emotive qualities of light and weather. ‘I find the approaching gloom of night a visually exciting time; the mutability of light, and inevitable loss that brings on an urgency and serves to heighten all of the senses. The fleeting moment when our perception of colour is almost lost, but the darker forms in the landscape take on a precise tonal weight, is an ongoing area of interest,’ says the artist.
Bett Gallery
24 October to 14 November 2020
Tasmania
