Exhibitions

ReDot Fine Art Gallery is extremely honoured to be hosting our bi-annual exhibition for the highly collectable works of the Spinifex Arts Project.  We are proud to present the first ever 15 panel work by Myrtle Pennington, alongside rising star Timo Hogan and established master Lawrence Pennington.

Spinifex People Spinifex Lands is a stunning window into Indigenous culture with both a reflection on the past and a look to the future.  Three collaborative works make up the show, of which one is a mutli-panel, first of its kind, by the men of the community.

The exhibition begins on Wednesday 18th July and run until Wednesday 8th August 2018 and they are a must-see for anyone interested in following the on-going developments in Indigenous Art and an opportunity to better understand the work being produced by one of Australia’s finest community based Indigenous art projects.

ReDot Fine Art Gallery is honoured to present the follow up exhibition to Walkatjunanyi Inmaku (Painting Songs). This exhibition, called Kuwaritja, builds on the themes of the 2017 sell-out show and explores new techniques and ideas from some of the communities most senior artists and a new rising star too, Helen Curtis.

Located at Nyapari community about 100 km south of Uluru (Ayres Rock) in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands, in the remote north west corner of South Australia, Tjungu Palya Arts is one of the most innovative art centres in Central Australia and is solely Aboriginal owned and governed.

The exhibition runs from Wednesday 6 June to Saturday 27 June 2018.

A must-see exhibition for those interested in following recent developments in Indigenous art. This is a wonderful opportunity to view important and collectable artwork emerging from Australia today, created by some of the most talented proponents of one of the world’s oldest art forms.

REDOT FINE ART GALLERY is honoured to be able to showcase a new series of works by the very hip and the very happening Aaron Kinnane, one of Australia’s brightest contemporary artist.

19 works, executed during a recent overseas residency in the beautiful Burgundy region of France, in a magical castle in the idyllic town of Créancey are a testament to Aaron’s growing talent, which has seen him have sell-out shows consistently over the last few years.

Those of you familiar with the gallery will know that we have steadfastly championed and focused our attention on Indigenous art for many years now. This journey, however, has recently bought us to a new crossroads.

An extremely exciting one at that, a crossroads where we have been able to carefully merge and nurture a dialogue between old and new, Indigenous and Contemporary, traditional and modern…

Aaron seamlessly fits into this dialogue, adding context to complex artistic discussions. Whilst his oeuvres are stunningly pleasing on the eye, they are also deep in meaning and sub-plots – insisting attention from the viewing public to understand the world Aaron sees and paints.

The residency in late 2017 to me signals a fresh turning point in Aaron’s progression as an artist. The works continue to build on the maturity of the quietly spoken and very respectful man that he is.

Parisienne paints, rural canvases, cheap local wine, new friendships all seem to have influenced these works, now seemingly more bold, extra release and passion in the gestural strokes. Increased awareness and self-confidence perhaps, or maybe I am just reading more into them than I should? Who knows…?

Perhaps he has found a place where the harmony envelopes the very core of his artistic practice and guides and encourages his bold strides forward, towards an inevitability of greatness.

We are very proud that Aaron has chosen us here to help expand the “gospel” that is Aaron Kinnane and we are very excited too to share these striking and breath-taking works with an audience that will quickly, I believe, come to realise why Aaron is now amongst Australia’s most important and collectable young living artists. I look forward to our mutual journey forward from here.

ReDot Fine Art Gallery is extremely honoured to welcome back one of Australia’s most exciting Indigenous community art centres, Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency, in a ground-breaking exhibition which involves one of the most ambitious body of works the community has ever produced and has taken almost 24 months to bring to its fitting realisation.

Following on from our strongly-curated exhibitions in 2016 and leveraging on a close-knitted working relationship with this progressive and exciting community art centre, Old Stories New Ways is a breath-taking body of 47 works, ranging from acrylic on Perspex and etchings on tin, completed by six senior women and one magical elder-lawman.

This is a collection of works by established female artists Sonia Kurarra, Daisy Japulija, Tjigila Nada Rawlins, Tarku Rosie Tarco King, Lisa Uhl, the recently departed doyenne Rosie Uhl and the master of the mark-making, Ngarralja Tommy May.

The exhibitions begin on Saturday 7th April and run until Saturday 28th April 2018, almost exactly two years since the last monumental exhibition by this community in Singapore. A must-see for anyone interested in following the on-going developments in Indigenous Art and an opportunity to better understand the work being produced by one of Australia’s finest community based Indigenous art projects.

REDOT FINE ART GALLERY is extremely honoured to announce the first ever collaboration with two of the central deserts more boutique community art centres, whom recently merged their resources to better service their respective communities.

Warakurna Arts and Kayili Arts had for many years now been know for their desirable and somewhat “quirky” contemporary art pieces and now the talented Jane Menzies works tirelessly to service both communities and all the artists either directly through the art centres at Warakurna or via weekly outreach programs in Kayili.

Tjukurrpa Purlkana, which loosely translated means big, strong, rich, is a fitting title for a show which represent so many different stories and places from Wanarn and Karilywara (Patjarr) to Wilpina (Lake Baker).

This small but very exciting body of work, comprising of 20 works in total, is not only important for the much-needed independence it offers the community members via the sale of their work, but also for allowing culture to remain strong and healthy, giving the elderly members of the Wanarn Aged Care facility an opportunity to remain active and integral to their respective communities.

The exhibition begins on Wednesday 28th February and runs until Wednesday 14th March 2018.

ReDot Fine Art Gallery is extremely honoured to present our annual Papunya Tula Artists exhibition. This year’s show will be dedicated to the last remaining works of the late Johnny Yungut Tjupurrula. This will be Tjupurrula’s fourth and final solo show and will mark the end of a stunning 30 year career during which he achieved great international success.

JOHNNY YUNGUT TJUPURRULA – a collection of 26 recently released works from Papunya Tula Artists and the late artist’s estate. He was born north-east of the Kiwirrkura Community circa. 1930 at the soakage site of Tjangimanta, one of the most remote parts of the Australian outback.

The works in this exhibition are a visual representation of the sacred soakages and waterholes of the Gibson Desert, including the western fringes of Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay). These sites also have great ceremonial significance and the related stories have been passed down through countless generations via song, dance and painted imagery.

ReDot Fine Art Gallery is thrilled to announce that the internationally celebrated Ömie women artists of Papua New Guinea will return to Singapore for a monumental 3rd exhibition of their barkcloth paintings this October.

Nom’e Javavamu Darugé I’jové (We Dance Our Designs to Life) is fittingly dedicated to the late Dapeni Jonevari (Mokokari), one of the great master painters of the Ömie’s ujawé initiation tattoo designs, who sadly passed away peacefully in her village home in October 2016. Her works in this exhibition represent some of the very last and most significant pieces she produced before her untimely passing. Dapeni’s immense contribution as a pioneering senior artist of the Ömie Artists cooperative from 2004 onwards, played a key role towards the flourishing of this extraordinary barkcloth art movement that we see today.

Highlights of the 31-piece exhibition, the most significant show of 2017 for the artists, will be the finely worked and powerful paintings by the Paramount Chief of Ömie women, Lila Warrimou (Misaso), as well as arresting, minimalist sihoti’e mud-dyed barkcloths by the last two women remaining who create their designs with a unique and ancient sewing technique using bat-wing bones, Sarah Ugibari and Brenda Kesi (Ariré) and of course the mesmerising final works by Dapeni Jonevari (Mokokari).

The exhibition begins on Wednesday 4th October and runs until Saturday 4th November 2017. A must-see show for anyone interested in Oceanic Art practices and the current evolution of this art movement.

ReDot Fine Art Gallery is extremely honoured to present the first overseas solo show for Amanda Penrose Hart, a Brisbane born landscape painter whom has risen to national acclaim with her stunning representations of the places to which she likes to travel, whether it is on the fields of France, the ancient shores of Gallipoli, the dusty central New South Wales research station of Fowlers Gap, the spectacular lake and alps of Queenstown, New Zealand, her remote home-stay and studio in Sofala or the coastal areas of the New South Wales Peninsula.

Amanda is a traditionalist and her favoured medium is oil. Painting en plein air, as Amanda mostly does, means to open oneself to spontaneity and chance, to the elements. It means to listen to stimuli, to receive the environment and translate the sensation of the moment into a form with more permanence, according to Dr. Andrew Yip, a seasoned writer that has critiqued Amanda’s works.

New Paintings, is a collection of 34 large, medium and small works on canvas completed over the last 18 months from several locations around the world that Amanda has visited either for residencies or for personal leisure. Activity and atmosphere animate Amanda’s canvases. Her trademark skies often invoke the harshness of coastal winter mornings, smears of paint knifed into the raw canvas evident, sending a chill to the bone. Others the warmth and beauty of a summer’s evening spent meandering through hazy fields and stunning panoramas, looking to recant that captured moment of beauty to us, her audience.

The exhibition begins on Wednesday 30th August and runs until Saturday 30th September 2017 and will be attended in person by Amanda as she presents her latest body of work. A must-see show for anyone interested in following the powerful developments in Australian Contemporary Art and an opportunity to meet one of today’s most collectable and talented living landscape painters.