Exhibitions

The ReDot Fine Art Gallery is proud to be participating in the 2012 Affordable Art Fair, being held at the F1 Pit Building.

We will be at Level 2, Paddock 1, Booth 2B-12. 

We look forward to welcoming you to our booth and all the exciting new works we have picked for this very special event.

The fair opens officially to the public on Thursday 15th November and runs till Sunday 18th November 2012.

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If you require further information please contact Giorgio on +65 8113 5333. Email: info@redotgallery.com or check our website: www.redotgallery.com

The ReDot Fine Art Gallery is proud to welcome back the beautiful works from Australia’s foremost Aboriginal owned art centre, Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd. This exhibition will represent the 9th annual showing in Singapore of the stunning work by the desert masters in what marks the 40th anniversary of the incorporation of this ground breaking community art centre from Central Australia’s Western Desert.

This year’s show, ‘Tjukurrpa Ngaatjanya Maru Kamu Tjulkura’ (Dreaming in Black and White), brings together the finest collection of works, executed in the unusual black and white style, from some of the company’s most senior law-people as well as some of the most important emerging artists. This exhibition boldly honours the traditions of the company’s founding artists and shareholders of the early 1970’s but simultaneously embraces today’s modern contemporary art world.

Senior artists such as Patrick TJUNGURRAYI, Yinarupa NANGALA, Ningura NAPURRULA, Yukultji NAPANGATI and Warlimpirrnga TJAPALTJARRI epitomize the integrity and success of Papunya Tula Artists, and it is befitting in this 40th year that their spellbinding works are accompanied by the future of the company, the emerging artists such as Cedric BENNETT TJUNGURRAYI, Mantua NANGALA, Michael REID TJAPANANGKA to name but a few.

All these artists, together with other Pintupi men and women, are the custodians of important sacred sites relating to the Tingari Song Cycle. The Tingari people were a group of ancestral beings who travelled over vast areas of the Western Desert, performing rituals and creating or "opening up" the country. They were usually accompanied by recently-initiated novices to whom they provided ceremonial instruction relating to the cultural law of the region.

At the many sites that make up these songlines, groups of Tingari people held ceremonies, experienced adversity and had adventures, in the course of which they either created or became the physical features of the sites involved. The oral narratives that describe these adventures stretch to thousands of verses, and provide countless topographical details that would assist nomadic bands to navigate and survive in the arid landscape.

Come and see the work of some of Australia’s most celebrated Aboriginal artists and learn more about their ancestral stories. The roundels, lines and interlocking designs embedded in their paintings tell you of these ancient rituals. Soft natural colours, bold secretive brush movements and traditional iconography all act to preserve the sacred and important stories of Australia’s Western Desert Art movement.

The exhibition opens on Wednesday 17th October and runs till Saturday 1st December 2012 and it is a must see for anyone interested in following the development of Papunya Tula Artists, one of the Aboriginal art movements most important art centers, over the last 40 years. The show will be opened by Mr. Paul Sweeney, General Manager of Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd.

ReDot Fine Art Gallery is thrilled to host the first international exhibition of the works from Mimili Maku Arts, an indigenous owned and directed art centre, located in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands, in the far north west of South Australia, where some of the most exciting, fresh and contemporary Aboriginal art of recent years has emerged.

The area is dominated by red sandstone ridges dotted with boulders, a stony landscape that holds a network of waterholes and streams, making the area abundant in sites rich of plant and animal life and sacred sites. One special site is Antara, located south west of Mimili and home of the Maku Tjukurpa (witchetty grub dreaming) which gives the art centre its name. Maku is the Pitjantjatjara word for the edible witchetty grubs or caterpillars found in the roots of the witchetty bush (Acacia kempeana or Wattle Tree).

The artists of Mimili Maku have been painting for almost a decade but the art centre didn’t gain wider recognition until Milatjari Pumani, a respected senior Yankunytjatjara woman, started painting in 2008 at the age of 80, propelling this remote community into the spotlight of the modern Australian contemporary art scene. Today the art centre works with more than 50 artists, men and women, young and old from Mimili and the four surrounding homelands of Perentie Bore, Wanmara, Blue Hills and Sandy’s Bore.

The whimsical works currently being produced at Mimili Maku Arts continue to attract attention with their traditional imagery, symbols and narrative combined with the abstract wild application of colour and texture. Artists retain individual styles, differing modes of application, brushstrokes and colour combinations, but all manage to create fluid pieces depicting mountain ranges, waterholes, caves and other topographical elements of the land, embedded with sacred spiritual connection.

Equal in traditional appeal and contemporary resonance, Mimili Maku works are considered some of the most exciting to emerge from the APY Lands in recent years and are found in all important private and public collections in Australia and overseas focused on Aboriginal art.

This exhibition will showcase superb works by the legendary Milatjari Pumani, her daughters Ngupulya and Betty Pumani, Tuppy Ngintja Goodwin and Kathleen Tjapalyi amongst others.

ReDot Fine Art Gallery is honoured to host the first ever group show of works from Ernabella Arts, titled ‘Tjukurpa Mulapa’ (True Stories). Senior artists from this renowned community will showcase their talents in a spectacular show of colour and detail, bold dotting and subtle textures.

The oldest permanent settlement in the Anangu Pitjantjtjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) region of north-western South Australia, Ernabella, or Pukatja (440 kilometres south-west of Alice Springs), was established as a Presbyterian mission in 1933 and likewise in 1948, Ernabella Arts was founded laying claim to being the oldest indigenous art centre in Australia, now run by an executive committee consisting of six senior Anangu artists.

Ernabella Arts is the work place for some 70 artists of all ages, making strong, culturally important work for national and international exhibitions. With a history spanning the production of wool and ‘knick-knacks’ Ernabella became famous for the pioneering success of Ernabella batiks, which have been celebrated through the National Gallery of Victoria’s nationally touring exhibition ‘Raiki wara: long cloth from Aboriginal Australia and the Torres Strait’ (1998), and it’s more recent ‘Across the Desert: Aboriginal Batik from Central Australia’ in 2008/2009.

For all its aesthetic and critical high-points, the hot and labour-intensive production of batik, however, never captured the market in the same way as the phenomena of acrylic painting on canvas. Though Ernabella artists dabbled in painting since the 1980s, spurred in part by its prevalence in other Central and Western desert communities, it’s only in the last five years that they have really taken to the medium in earnest, with the most incredible national acclaim and success. With its embrace has come a newfound emphasis on artworks which do relate to Jukurrpa (Dreaming) and which do tell significant stories.

It’s a really exciting time’, enthuses Ruth McMillan, coordinator at Ernabella Arts Inc., along with her partner Julian Green, since September 2009. Their involvement at the centre parallels a seminal shift in art production at Ernabella.

This explosion culminated in Dickie Minyintiri, one of the most senior men painting on the APY Lands, winning the coveted General Painting Award and Overall Prize Winner of the 28th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA), the highest accolade for an Aboriginal painter. The move was a long overdue recognition of his work, and the endorsement of the continued strength of art making in APY Art Centres.

‘Dickie works by building layers’, says Julian Green of his ‘charge’, Dickie Minyintiri. ‘Each layer, sometimes each colour is a different memory’, reveals Green: ‘the tracks of different animals, waterholes, a fragment of song, the steps in a dance, the many paths that he has walked across his country.’

Ernabella art is in all major Australian state and national collections and overseas including the British Museum, the National Ethnographic Museum Osaka Japan, Edinburgh City Gallery etc. and artists have been winners and exhibitors in the annual NATSIAA, the Whyalla Santos Art Awards, Fremantle Print Awards.

Even though it has always as primarily been a women’s space, nowadays several senior male artists also paint regularly and the current show is a beautiful blend of senior and emerging male and females, including current Chair of Ernabella Arts Pepai Jangala Carroll, ranked among the centre’s ‘most exciting artists’ for his optically charged, monochromatic fields on black, Langaliki Langaliki, Yurpiya Lionel, Ungakini Tjangala, Tjariya (Nungalka) Stanley, Renita Stanley, Pepai Jangala Carroll and Tjunkaya Tapaya to name a few.

The exhibition opens on Wednesday 25th July and runs till Saturday 1st September 2012. ReDot Fine Art Gallery invites anyone fascinated by indigenous art and captivated by the raw, tjukurpa-rich paintings of the senior men and women to join us for this amazing show.

Most Aboriginal art relates to stories of the Dreamtime, “Tjukurpa”. The Dreamtime is the creation period in Aboriginal belief, when Ancestral Beings formed the land and created the people, the plants and the animals. The particularities of the Dreamtime vary between different Indigenous groups across Australia but its core ethos is ever present. Often depicted in the art, these Ancestral Beings may take human, animal, plant or combined forms. They taught the people their laws and ceremonies. The Dreamtime stories depicted in Aboriginal art reveal centuries of history, and demonstrate a respect and passion for their culture, as well as a detailed knowledge of the land which occupies a very sacred place in the hearts of all Indigenous people.

ReDot Fine Art Gallery is proud to be exhibiting a stunning selection of pieces to give the art lover an up close look into these sacred rituals. The works of ‘Dreamtime Stories’ are grounded in strong cultural knowledge whilst executed in a contemporary and modern style, allowing the pieces to stand strongly alongside any western comparison and indeed drawing parallels with many established artists from all around the world. Sandhills and waterholes, meeting places and sacred sites are all depicted in abstract, raw, colourful, sometimes naive, sometimes intense, maps of land and country. We invite anyone fascinated by indigenous art and culture to step into a world that is familiar in its simplicity but memorizing in its depth and wonder. The living stories virtually leap off each canvas.

ReDot Fine Art Gallery is the first and only dedicated Aboriginal Art Gallery in Singapore, and indeed, the only throughout Asia-Pacific. It has been in operation since 2004, and is located in the heart of Singapore’s dock precinct. ReDot features a superb range of Aboriginal Art at both affordable prices for art lovers as well as more important collectors’ pieces for investment purposes. ReDot Fine Art Gallery is committed to promoting the work of Indigenous artists, and creating opportunities for a wider understanding and appreciation of Aboriginal art and culture. Furthermore, it is one of the aims of the gallery to explore the cultural diversity which exists in Aboriginal art, and to actively promote a range of work that displays a rich variety of cultural expression.

Please email info@redotgallery.com or call 62221039 for further information.

The ReDot Fine Art Gallery is excited to hold an impromptu mid-year Stock Room Show given the fact that our last Ninuku show sold out!  We didn’t want to keep our clients that bought waiting another month to recieve their works nor did we want to dissapoint any of our clients visiting by not being able to purchase works on our walls.  

Soooooo, we spent some time rummaging around in our vast storeroom to find some gems that have been hidden for a while and we came up with the following just for you!

The emphasis is on works from the NT of Australia, including works from the powerhouses, Papunya Tula, Ikuntji Arts & Warlukurlangu Arts to name but 3 of the participating art centres.

The vibrant colours and stunning palettes that make up this summer stock room show will be the perfect way to idle an hour or so during the relaxing month of July until our next opening on the 25th of July - with the works of the exciting community of Ernabella!

For ALL the football widows of Euro 2012 what better way to spend some of your partners hard earned spoils!  ;)  OH and FORZA AZZURRI!!!!!!!!!!!!

ReDot Fine Art Gallery is honored to host a ground-breaking show “Nganampa Ngura” (Our Place) by Ninuku Arts. Deriving from a tiny community in the north-western corner of South Australia, Ninuku Arts is one of the most exciting art centres to emerge over the past 5 years. They are an important part of the celebrated district known as the APY (Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara) Lands which has become known as one of the most dynamic in the whole of Australia, thrusting itself onto the national stage over recent years.

Ninuku Arts is an Indigenous-owned organisation based in a tiny community called Kalka. The majority of the artists in the district speak Pitjantjatjara. It is a place of colour and beauty – rocky mountain ranges, cavernous ravines, desert flowers, red earth, narrow trees and flourishing foliage, covering much of the ground. It is not surprising that a lot of the artwork from this area uses a vibrant palette of rich colour.

The “Nganampa Ngura” (Our Place) exhibition boasts an exciting group of master works painted mostly by the senior men and women from the Ninuku Art Centre. They are the traditional owners of the land and they hold the stories of the country deep within their hearts. As the name ‘Our Place’ suggests, this exhibition is a subtle statement about ownership and history, but also a joyous collection of paintings acting as an invitation to the viewer – an invitation onto the land of the old men and women. As well as teaching the international audience about the culture, the show also aims to teach the emerging artists from the district. It is critical to the continuation of this great indigenous culture that it continues to be taught to the future generations. As senior man and Ngangkari (traditional healer) Harry Tjutjuna describes, “Old generation are here now and I am old generation too. Lots of old generation have passed away. What can we do? What happens when I pass away? New generation got to learn Tjukurpa (Dreaming Stories).”

Harry Tjutjuna is the most senior of the artists exhibiting. His unique style and approach has made him one of the most sought-after practicing artists in the country. He paints a range of stories with both authority and courage. He is known for the drippy, painterly qualities in his technique, and is a natural colourist often choosing a palette of vibrant, poppy hues. Stanley Young also uses lots of colours but he lays them down with precision and a steady hand into a composition of structure and minimalism.

Senior artist Jimmy Donegan is another artist inspired by the colourful landscape. Colloquially known as Mr. D around the art centre, Donegan uses a plethora of colours to depict his Tjukurpa (or Dreaming stories). Donegan continues to be celebrated as one of the most sought-after artists from the district to Australian and International collectors, galleries and institutions, since winning the prestigious Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Telstra Art Award in 2010.

The women featured in the show definitely lean towards a more feminine palette. The most revered female artist at Ninuku Art Centre is Puntjina Monica Watson. Her works have a stand-alone quality which commands the attention of the audience. She has a quirky approach to composition, creating a border or frame with every painting dotted heavily with lines of bright colourful dots.

This exhibition is a true celebration of the men and women’s contribution to culture and art. It showcases an exceptional and masterful collection of works – many of which are large-scale – to give the audience powerful insight into their place, their country and their story. The exhibition will be accompanied by landscape photographs from the district, portraits of the artists and documentation which will give the viewer great context for the paintings. It will be the first independent exhibition by Ninuku Arts internationally and it will be held in Singapore. The exhibition opens Wednesday 23rd May at 7.30pm.