LOOKIN' AT COUNTRYSIDE, LOOKIN' AT THAT PLANE
LOOKIN' AT COUNTRYSIDE, LOOKIN' AT THAT PLANE, presented by Coconut Studios and Bindi Mwerre Anthurre Artists, features works by Adrian Jangala Robertson, Billy Kenda, Charles Inkamala, Conway Ginger, and Lance James. Skilfully playing with form and perspective, these artists convey relationships to place, both personal and interconnected. Disorienting and reorienting the viewer, each artist presents an alternative way of seeing in their own distinct style, shedding light on the very nature of looking.
Opening 6pm Friday, 3 May
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Image: Billy Kenda, The Man Lookin' At Countryside, and He's Lookin' At That Plane, 2023, acrylic on paper, 42 x 29.5 cm
Kuntarringanyi wankatjaku
Coconut Studios presents a selection of new works by the men of Papunya Tjupi Arts. Kuntarringanyi wankatjaku (Luritja: Too shy to speak) captures the collective creativity and expression born out of recent experimentation and exploration taking place at the men’s studio, which was completed in 2020. Kuntarringanyi wankatjaku celebrates the success of the men’s studio and the burgeoning creativity of emerging and established male artists working at Papunya Tjupi Arts.
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Featuring artists:
Ashley Robertson
Dennis Nelson Tjakamarra
Denzel Nelson Tjakamarra
Herman Corby Tjapaltjarri
Isaiah Egan
Jayquin Nelson
Jerome Raggett
Justin Allen
Keanu Nelson Tjakamarra
Kieran Roger Tjupurrula
Leemyn Corby Tjapaltjarri
Martin Pollard
Nathan Brown Tjangala
Selwyn Nacambala
Wilfred Thomas Tjampitjinpa
Image credit: Justin Allen, Walpa kurrunpa, 2003, synthetic polymer on linen, 122 x 183 cm
Gary Lee: midling
Coconut Studios presents midling (Larrakia: together), a selection of new and remade works by Gary Lee. Drawing on the artist’s personal archive of historic family photographs and artworks (photo-based and illustration), the exhibition brings together key strands of a practice which redefines notions of cultural identity, masculinity and beauty from a Larrakia perspective.
Midling coincides with launch of the publication Heat: Gary Lee, selected texts, art & anthropology.
Curated by Maurice O’Riordan
Image: Gary Lee, Self-portrait with Manish, from the Skin series (2003-23), type-C print, 30 x 42 cm
All that glitters...poetics of the Barkly
OPENING 6pm Friday 16 June
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All that glitters…poetics of the Barkly presented by Coconut Studios and Barkly Regional Arts will showcase paintings and sculptures by leading artists from the Barkly region, alongside photography by Jesse Marlow, celebrating poetic and enchanting expressions of the intimate with the power and tenacity of tradition.
Rippling light and shadow across the hills of the Barkly catch the glint of leaf, stone and grasses. Passing seasons marked by shifts in sand, firescars and tracks of the sun, herald the succession of fruit and flower harvests. Native birds and rainbows mark the visitation of rain and the earth hosts a vast array of creatures and precious metals. The works of Barkly Artists sing these treasures of the arid plains, vast skyland and the mythic, elemental forces that inhabit them. They magnify the tiny blooms and potent medicinal herbs as testimony to their significance to survival while also delighting the eye with lusters of rhythm, joy and light that uplift the spirit.
Aileen Napaljarri Long
Jessie Kemarr Beasley
Julie Pwerl Beasley
Jesse Marlow
Jessie Kemarr Peterson
Kaye Pwerl Beasley
Lindy Nungarrayi Brodie
Lorna Pwerl Corbett
Pammy Kemarr Foster
Rita Kemarr Beasley
Susannah Nakamarra Nelson †
Susie Ngwarrey Peterson
Vicky Napurrurla Pope
Image credit: Rita Beasley, Wutunugurra 2022, synthetic polymer on linen, 122 x 91 cm
The great sea is never far away...
The great sea is never far away...
OPENING at 6pm, Friday the 28th of April.
Exhibition runs until the 28th of May.
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A solo exhibition by Gaye Coyne, charting her on-going affinity with the sea and the natural world and her process of incorporating close observation, emotional reaction and memory.
“Each of us is as old as the entire biological kingdom and our blood streams are tributaries of the great sea, of its total memory”
- JG Ballard, The Drowned World
“Gaye Coyne is emblematic of the sea-drawn artist. She seeks for surface effects, but she also probes the depths, and the rich mysteries at the sea’s edge. Her praxis fits her purpose. Proceeding from a central idea, she gives the accepted senses and startling visceral reactions free expressive play. There may be a horizon line, there may be an opaque cloud evoking a looming menace, there may be a chaos of unsettled water, there may be sinuous lines of weed and worm and mangrove knee (say), there may be a tumble of rock at the base of a seacliff. Let’s stay with these rocks. They may be sea-washed; they may not. They may be integral to a seascape, or they may, rather, be redolent of sun-battered desert. What is encoded within their ancient chemistry? What do they know; what might they tell us?” - Pete Hay
Pete Hay is a Tasmanian writer. His most recent books are Physick: Catharsis; and The Natural Things and Forgotten Corners: Essays in Search of an Island’s Soul
Image: Gaye Coyne, Sea landscape, 2022, acrylic and Indian ink on canvas, 40 x 40 cm
gwalwa mamadlema (Larrakia: star country)
Opening 6pm Friday 17 March
Coconut Studios presents gwalwa mamadlema (Larrakia: star country), an exhibition of works by emerging artist Cyan Sue-Lee and her mother Nadine Lee. Together, their paintings and sculptural works explore coming into being, passage and return, bringing forth a new artist and illuminating the cycle of creativity across generations.
Image: Nadine Lee, Journey, 2021, mixed media, dimensions variable
Through Our Eyes
Through Our Eyes: personal and social histories that unfold through collective art-making within the community.
A project funded by Darwin Community Arts and the City of Darwin.
Opening: Saturday 22 October at 5pm with live music and catering by Mela Kulcha.
Pictured: Sasha Antsel, ‘Soldiers’, 2022, acrylic on canvas, 15 x 21 cm
SHOCK & ORE
A Tennant Creek Brio exhibition at two venues.
SHOCK & ORE features recent work from the Tennant Creek Brio, illuminating the poignant relics of abandoned mines and mock irreverence of former "glory days". Exploration targets, geology and drilling intercepts are detailed on mining plans and earth-scars alike. The Brio repurpose and transmogrify this insignia to their own tune – resounding works that evoke the haunting wounds and wonders of Country and imagination, attesting to their resilience.
Curated by Dr Erica Izett in collaboration with CDU Art Gallery and Coconut Studios.
Image credits: Headless horseman (left, detail), by Rupert Betheras and Fabian Brown, 2022; and Fire serpent (right, detail) by Rupert Betheras and Lionel Possum, 2015.
Mermaids: mirror Worlds
Coconut Studios presents a solo exhibition from Belyuen by The Karrabing Film Collective, featuring a two-channel video installation Mermaids: Mirror Worlds (2018), along with interviews that span the collective’s globally celebrated career.
Meramids: Mirror Worlds - Karrabing Film Collective - Catalogue 2022
PUBLIC PROGRAM // SATURDAY, 18th JUNE
The Karrabing Film Collective in conversation with:
Dr Kirsty Howey (Co-Director Environment Centre NT)
Dr Lisa Stefanoff (media-arts producer and curator)
Matthew van Roden (lecturer in Creative and Visual Arts at CDU)
11AM - 12:30PM / SLOWLY BY SLOWLY, OUR WATER TURNS TO MUD / Dr Kirsty Howey + KFC
Environmental destruction in the NT.
1PM - 2:30PM / Round table discussion with the KFC
Mermaid: Mirror Worlds + the Karrabing Film Collective’s work over time.
3PM - 4:30PM / BROKEN SCREENS + MOBILE SCENES / Matthew van Roden + KFC
Experimental filmmaking – Karrabing processes + techniques.
This exhibition is proudly supported by the Northern Territory Government through Arts NT and the Australian Government’s Regional Arts Fund, which supports arts in regional and remote Australia.
Weaving Wellness FREE workshop for international students
Join Aly de Groot and Mayála-Bol for a FREE holistic wellness & weaving workshop for international students.
Register: https://weavingwellness.eventbrite.com.au
(BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL!)
For more information, please email: weaverorwoven@yahoo.com
This event is sponsored by the Northern Territory Government through the Study NT International Student Wellbeing Grant.
Weaving Wellness FREE workshop for international students
Join Aly de Groot and Mayála-Bol for a FREE holistic wellness & weaving workshop for international students.
Register: https://weavingwellness.eventbrite.com.au
(BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL!)
For more information, please email: weaverorwoven@yahoo.com
This event is sponsored by the Northern Territory Government through the Study NT International Student Wellbeing Grant.
Weaving Wellness FREE workshop for international students
Join Aly de Groot and Mayála-Bol for a FREE wholistic wellness & weaving workshop for international students.
Register: https://weavingwellness.eventbrite.com.au
(BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL!)
For more information, please email: weaverorwoven@yahoo.com
This event is sponsored by the Northern Territory Government through the Study NT International Student Wellbeing Grant.
Intrusive thoughts: the internal monologue of a stressed singularity
Intrusive thoughts: the internal monologue of a stressed singularity
A workshop led by Sam Leiblich
Presented by Coconut Studios and Free Association
FREE