Exhibitions

It is the honour and pleasure of ReDot Fine Art Gallery to announce an exhibition of stunning canvases by Mornington Island Arts artist, Mrs. Gabori (c. 1924-2015). This show celebrates the life of a courageous senior woman who revitalised her people by the seemingly insignificant decision to lift a paint brush to a canvas. While this show, entitled Dibirdibi Country Revisited – Celebrating Mrs. Gabori’s Life, runs in Singapore, a retrospective of Mrs. Gabori’s work exhibits at the Queensland Art Gallery (QAGOMA) in Australia. It is a rare occasion for collectors and art enthusiasts to have access to a museum-grade show celebrating the development of an artist’s career with the coinciding opportunity to purchase that same artist’s work from a group of paintings and prints rarely viewed by public eye.

Mrs. Gabori became a national phenomenon and her works quickly became treasured and highly sought-after gems as she swept across Australia. Her works have been acquired by all major institutional collections across Australia and globally, her designs were showcased at the Venice Biennale and she has been commissioned on many occasions for public and private installations, the latest of which saw her stunning Tjukurpa come to life in the halls of the Brisbane International airport.

From extremely humble beginnings and until the late 1940s, Mrs. Gabori lived on Bentinck Island with her people, the Kaiadilt, who had remained virtually untouched by any other culture or people group. A drought, a cyclone and contaminated water eventually forced Mrs. Gabori and her people to relocate to the nearby Mornington Island, an upheaval so traumatising that their language has become almost extinct. Nearly fifty despondent and disorienting years later, Mrs. Gabori entered the Mornington Island Arts Centre and began to paint, finding her new voice, a stronger voice than she’d ever known, in the movement of her brush and the broad shapes of colours on her canvases.

The contemporary landscapes of her country, her husband’s country, and her parents’ country are the focus of this exhibition because they best summarise who she was, why she was, and what she has become. The works chosen are in typical Mrs. Gabori style – expansive canvases, bold colours and contemporary expression, retelling stories of her and her family’s country. Although she painted for only eight years, those were the last eight years of her life, as if everything that had happened beforehand had prepared her for this great opportunity to record what no one else knew how to express.

This show is an opportunity to see a living and breathing memory of a disappearing culture and a nationally esteemed Australian Indigenous artist who now lives on in the masterpieces she has left behind for future generations across the world. The exhibition at ReDot Fine Art Gallery will also include works by Mrs. Gabori’s niece, Paula Paul, and other family members, and runs from Wednesday 1st June until Saturday 2nd July 2016, with an opening reception on Wednesday, 8th June 2016 at 6:30pm.

ReDot Fine Art Gallery is extremely honoured to be hosting its second double-header exhibition of a strong 2016 exhibition calendar. We are proud to present the first ever solo show for Lawrence Pennington, a senior lawman born circa 1934 and a series of 8 collaborative works by the latest sensation that is sweeping the modern Indigenous art movement, the Spinifex Arts Project.

Tjungutja – Art of the Spinifex Collaborative and Wati Wara – Lawrence Pennington Solo are the culmination of over two years’ worth of curating and significant cultural discussion, to ensure that these two firsts for the small community in the southern part of the Great Victoria Desert, receive maximum attention and kudos.

Never before have 8 major collaborative works from the Spinifex Arts Project been gathered in one commercial gallery setting, until today. And indeed, the works that will be on display in Singapore have already - even before their commercial debut - been exhibited in a major museum offering, in the much praised and critically-acclaimed Tarnanthi exhibition in late 2015 at the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA), curated by Nici Cumpston.

Equally important are the 29 individual jewels amassed for this opening of Mr. Pennington’s first solo show, celebrating the life of one of the most revered Indigenous men in Australia today. Born just outside of the north-eastern boundary of Spinifex at a place called Urlu, Lawrence came in as a young Wati (initiated man). He married late in Cundeelee and has only one son. Lawrence painted in the early years, collaboratively and individually before leaving Tjuntjuntjara for about 7 years. Perhaps it was because he had aged somewhat or because he was back on country amongst his fellow senior lawmen and therefore in a more contemplative space. Whatever the reason that led Lawrence to recently begin painting again with vigour, it has produced a portfolio of fascinating, eclectic works which are distinctly his. His paintings have unearthed a treasure trove of culture and simplistic beauty using minimal colour palates and a honed sense of positive-negative space, drawing the viewer into a world which has long since been forgotten and the prerogative of a time passed.

The exhibitions begin on Wednesday 27th April and runs until Saturday 28th May 2016. The opening night will be attended in person by Winmati Roberts, Lawrence Pennington’s nephew, and Fred Grant, on behalf of the Spinifex Arts Project. Art Centre coordinators Amanda Dent and Brian Hallett will also be in attendance, in what will be their second trip to Singapore following on from their acclaimed international debut in 2014. A must-see show for anyone interested in following the recent developments in Indigenous Art and an opportunity to meet a beautiful and talented proponent of one of the world’s oldest art forms.

ReDot Fine Art Gallery is extremely honoured to be hosting its second double-header exhibition of a strong 2016 exhibition calendar. We are proud to present the first ever solo show for Lawrence Pennington, a senior lawman born circa 1934 and a series of 8 collaborative works by the latest sensation that is sweeping the modern Indigenous art movement, the Spinifex Arts Project.

Tjungutja – Art of the Spinifex Collaborative and Wati Wara – Lawrence Pennington Solo are the culmination of over two years’ worth of curating and significant cultural discussion, to ensure that these two firsts for the small community in the southern part of the Great Victoria Desert, receive maximum attention and kudos.

Never before have 8 major collaborative works from the Spinifex Arts Project been gathered in one commercial gallery setting, until today. And indeed, the works that will be on display in Singapore have already - even before their commercial debut - been exhibited in a major museum offering, in the much praised and critically-acclaimed Tarnanthi exhibition in late 2015 at the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA), curated by Nici Cumpston.

Equally important are the 29 individual jewels amassed for this opening of Mr. Pennington’s first solo show, celebrating the life of one of the most revered Indigenous men in Australia today. Born just outside of the north-eastern boundary of Spinifex at a place called Urlu, Lawrence came in as a young Wati (initiated man). He married late in Cundeelee and has only one son. Lawrence painted in the early years, collaboratively and individually before leaving Tjuntjuntjara for about 7 years. Perhaps it was because he had aged somewhat or because he was back on country amongst his fellow senior lawmen and therefore in a more contemplative space. Whatever the reason that led Lawrence to recently begin painting again with vigour, it has produced a portfolio of fascinating, eclectic works which are distinctly his. His paintings have unearthed a treasure trove of culture and simplistic beauty using minimal colour palates and a honed sense of positive-negative space, drawing the viewer into a world which has long since been forgotten and the prerogative of a time passed.

The exhibitions begin on Wednesday 27th April and runs until Saturday 28th May 2016. The opening night will be attended in person by Winmati Roberts, Lawrence Pennington’s nephew, and Fred Grant, on behalf of the Spinifex Arts Project. Art Centre coordinators Amanda Dent and Brian Hallett will also be in attendance, in what will be their second trip to Singapore following on from their acclaimed international debut in 2014. A must-see show for anyone interested in following the recent developments in Indigenous Art and an opportunity to meet a beautiful and talented proponent of one of the world’s oldest art forms.

ReDot Fine Art Gallery is extremely honoured to welcome back one of Australia’s most exciting Indigenous community art centres and one of the country’s most renowned living artists, in a double-header exhibition that celebrate the works and lives of the artists of Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency.

Following on from recent strongly-curated exhibitions and leveraging on a close-knitted working relationship with this progressive and exciting community art centre, these 2016 exhibitions will be a breath-taking body of over 50 works, ranging from acrylic on canvas, works on paper, etchings on tin, works on board and a sculpture in aluminium, completed by five senior women and one magical elder-lawman.

Mangkaja Arts has long been known for its ground breaking and innovative art works, setting trends and industry standards that many look up and aspire to. Likewise, this collection will be no exception. For the first time ever, we will showcase a body of over 27 works on board and tin, executed by Ngarralja Tommy May in what are reminiscent of early Papunya Tula boards. His creations are steeped in mark-making and cultural importance, based around soakage and waterhole sites sacred to this 81-year-old man who is now one of the oldest and most respected Indigenous figures in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Wurna Juwal - Walking up and down, always moving, from waterhole to soak marks a major milestone in Tommy’s work and stature, and his delicate stunning works have already received exciting and memorable reviews in Australia.

The remaining 28 works, collectively named Pinakarriluny Marnalunya Ngalimpakura Artists Jarlu Palu Wantinya (in dedication to our artists who have left us), brings together living and deceased female artists from this extraordinary community that has boasted some of the most important female Indigenous artists of the last quarter century. This is a collection of works by established artists Sonia Kurarra, Daisy Japulija, Tjigila Nada Rawlins and Lisa Uhl, paying homage to the recently departed doyenne of the art centre, Mrs. Snell.

This exhibition, curated over the last 18 months, also boasts a significant body of works on paper by Sonia Kurarra. We see a fresh and appealing mix of traditional and modern technique, blending all the skills and attributes that the public has come to expect of an artist at the forefront of the new modern contemporary Indigenous art movement, securing the position of this seminal art community.

The exhibitions begin on Wednesday 9th March and run until Saturday 23rd April 2016 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 extremely honoured to welcome back one of Australia’s most exciting Indigenous community art centres and one of the country’s most renowned living artists, in a double-header exhibition that celebrate the works and lives of the artists of Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency.

Following on from recent strongly-curated exhibitions and leveraging on a close-knitted working relationship with this progressive and exciting community art centre, these 2016 exhibitions will be a breath-taking body of over 50 works, ranging from acrylic on canvas, works on paper, etchings on tin, works on board and a sculpture in aluminium, completed by five senior women and one magical elder-lawman.

Mangkaja Arts has long been known for its ground breaking and innovative art works, setting trends and industry standards that many look up and aspire to. Likewise, this collection will be no exception. For the first time ever, we will showcase a body of over 27 works on board and tin, executed by Ngarralja Tommy May in what are reminiscent of early Papunya Tula boards. His creations are steeped in mark-making and cultural importance, based around soakage and waterhole sites sacred to this 81-year-old man who is now one of the oldest and most respected Indigenous figures in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Wurna Juwal - Walking up and down, always moving, from waterhole to soak marks a major milestone in Tommy’s work and stature, and his delicate stunning works have already received exciting and memorable reviews in Australia.

The remaining 28 works, collectively named Pinakarriluny Marnalunya Ngalimpakura Artists Jarlu Palu Wantinya (in dedication to our artists who have left us), brings together living and deceased female artists from this extraordinary community that has boasted some of the most important female Indigenous artists of the last quarter century. This is a collection of works by established artists Sonia Kurarra, Daisy Japulija, Tjigila Nada Rawlins and Lisa Uhl, paying homage to the recently departed doyenne of the art centre, Mrs. Snell.

This exhibition, curated over the last 18 months, also boasts a significant body of works on paper by Sonia Kurarra. We see a fresh and appealing mix of traditional and modern technique, blending all the skills and attributes that the public has come to expect of an artist at the forefront of the new modern contemporary Indigenous art movement, securing the position of this seminal art community.

The exhibitions begin on Wednesday 9th March and run until Saturday 23rd April 2016 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 proudly invites you to our 2nd exhibition of the quirky and iconic soft sculptures of the artists of Yarrenyty-Arltere, one of Australia’s foremost Aboriginal owned art centres.

Over the last 19 months the show’s 23 featured works were created by both the established and highly collectable Rhonda Sharpe and Dulcie Sharpe as well as pieces by rising stars Trudy Inkamala, Valerie Stafford, Roxanne Petrick, Rosabella Ryder and Marlene Rubuntja.

The tightly curated collection boasts birds, owls, dogs and imaginary other worldly creations, all with a story to tell about their creation and existence in the delicate eco-system of the central desert and the culture and law that they represent for Indigenous people.

ReDot Fine Art Gallery is extremely honoured to welcome back one of Australia’s most exciting Indigenous community art centres and one of the country’s most renowned living artists. To kick 2016 off with a huge bang, and to coincide with Art Week, we will be presenting a collection of over 30 works in differing mediums to commemorate the work of renowned mega-star, Wukun Wanambi, from Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Art Centre in the first major solo show by this artist in over 6 years.

Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Art Centre or Yirrkala, as it is better known, is acknowledged as one of the top three community-owned art centres in Australia and has won numerous prizes in the last twenty years at all major Australian art awards and participating in Biennales around the world, including Venice, Moscow and Sydney. It is a small Aboriginal community on the north-eastern tip of the top end of the Northern Territory, approximately 700km east of Darwin but it carries an enormous punch in the modern contemporary art movement.

This is not only Wukun’s first solo show in over six years, but his first solo international commercial show, and comes on the heels of two major museum shows of his larrakitj (memorial poles) at the British Museum in London (2015) and National Museum of Australia (NMA), Canberra (2014).

Several never before exhibited poles, along with a suite of other masterfully crafted gems, will adorn our new space at the Old Hill Street Police Station, including barks, foils and a video installation to engage the Singaporean audience into the world of Indigenous art and the world of saltwater country.

‘Trial Bay: Gurka’wuy’, is a collection of over 30 masterpieces produced over the last 24 months by one of the Australian Contemporary art scenes’ most collectable and sought after Indigenous artists. The masterpieces lay open the stunning country for which Wukun holds custodial responsibility. A senior lawman of the Marrakulu and Dhunili clans, he is a boisterous and infectiously happy man, whose intimate knowledge of the saltwater country in the far north eastern parts of Australia has been sought after by not only Institutional collections but also the law-makers. For example when land-right disputes arose and they required elder Indigenous input to assert title over some of the most impressive terrain of the Australian peninsula.

The exhibition begins on Wednesday 6th January and running until Sunday 31st January 2016 and will be opened by Wukun Wanambi in person on the Thursday 21st January, together with Mr. Richard England, Chairman of the Australian Indigenous Art Code and art-centre coordinator Kade McDonald.

This is a must-see show 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 be hosting our first ever show by the community art centre of Ngurratjuta Iltja Ntjarra, better known as Many Hands Arts, which has become famous for its production of sublime watercolours of the Australian outback in the style known as the “Hermannsburg School”. This continues the tradition of the great Arrernte artist, and possibly the most famous 20th century Australian watercolourist, Albert Namatjira.

Many Hands Arts started operating in 2004 as a non-for-profit making art centre and now boasts the support of over 300 artists as it tries to provide a platform for the development of Indigenous culture from its Alice Springs headquarters. Of these artists roughly 20 are practicing the new Hermannsburg School of painting – recreating some of the icon desert renditions made famous worldwide by Albert.

In a salon hang which promises to be a spectacular finale to the 2015 exhibition programme at ReDot Fine Art Gallery’s new Old Hill Street Police Station premises, ‘A Hermannsburg Christmas’ will be a collection of over 40 delicate watercolours, crafted by nine of the more senior artists of the cooperative, all direct family descendants of the great Albert Namatjira.

The exhibition begins on Wednesday 25th November and runs until Thursday 31st December 2015 and will be the perfect opportunity to find your loved ones that “special” Christmas present. Your way of saying thank you for being there to the ones you love. Hell why not treat yourself too for seeing out yet another challenging year and looking forward to a better, brighter and fun filled 2016!

This is a must-see show for anyone interested in following the recent 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 be hosting the first ever international show by the community art centre known as Erub Arts, which has become famous for their production of Ghost Net sculptures and artefacts made from debris collected from the oceans around Darnley Island.

Erub rises sharply from the au karem (deep sea) in the eastern Torres Strait, and their daily life is governed by the rhythms of the ocean and the seasons. As one of Australia’s most remote art centres, located in the outer eastern islands of the Torres Strait, Erub Art’s success is based on the cultural integrity and collaborative practice, which is deeply rooted in cultural traditions/stories and performance.

This ongoing theme of the ocean has led to much of the art centres current work reflecting the fragility of life and connection to this ocean, using the derelict drifting fishing net known as "Ghost Net" as the perfect and primary medium to tell this story and create their art.

Erub Arts started making Ghost Net artworks in 2010 with an initial workshop by Sue Ryan from Ghost Net Australia and then subsequently under the artistic direction of Lynnette Griffiths it has blossomed, going on to make more ambitious large scale sculptures and installations and their success has been nothing short of meteoric.

’Our Island, Our Sea – an ocean away’, will be a collection of over 40 works, crafted by 16 artists, that will travel to Singapore for the community to educate, engage and stun their international audience. A variety of skills and techniques will be showcased via the 3D sculptural installations that are making Erub Arts one of the hottest commodities in the Australian art scene at the moment.

Widely collected by institutional organisations, from the British Museum, London to the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Melbourne this is the first opportunity to see their magical weaving and stitching in an installation setting where predominately marine life will mingle and cohabit from the ceilings of the gallery and interact with the viewing public, thereby raising awareness to the plight of the fishing net debris and the effect it has on remote communities in Australia. There will also be a couple of other surprise installations to surprise the Singaporean public as well.

The exhibition begins on Wednesday 21st October and runs until Saturday 21st November 2015 and will be attended by several Erub Islanders together with Lynnette Griffiths and Diann Lui the Art Centre manager, in what will be for some of the Islanders’, their first ever trip overseas.

A must-see show for anyone interested in following the recent developments in Indigenous Art and an opportunity to better understand the work being done to protect our fragile eco-system and precious marine life in this amazing remote community.