Exhibitions

ReDot Fine Art Gallery, in collaboration with the renowned Spinifex Arts Project Aboriginal Corporation, is proud to announce an exclusive exhibition featuring two distinguished senior Pitjantjatjara artists from the Spinifex community: Timo Hogan and Kunmanara Presley. 

Hosted at the historic National Arts Club in Gramercy Park, this presentation offers New York audiences a rare opportunity to experience the profound depth and spiritual power of contemporary Australian Indigenous art from the remote community of Tjuntjuntjara in Western Australia's Great Victoria Desert. 

ReDot Fine Art Gallery, in collaboration with the renowned Spinifex Arts Project Aboriginal Corporation, is proud to announce an exclusive exhibition featuring two distinguished senior Pitjantjatjara artists from the Spinifex community: Timo Hogan and Kunmanara Presley. 

Hosted at the historic National Arts Club in Gramercy Park, this presentation offers New York audiences a rare opportunity to experience the profound depth and spiritual power of contemporary Australian Indigenous art from the remote community of Tjuntjuntjara in Western Australia's Great Victoria Desert. 

The transfer of cultural knowledge within tribal, remote Indigenous communities anywhere in the world is essential for their prosperity and longevity.

This is arguably the most important lesson I have learned over 20+ years of running a community-focused contemporary art gallery.

It cannot be overstated how vital this process is, especially with the passage of time and the growing dependence on Western models of living.

For centuries, the Indigenous people of Australia have understood the threat to their existence amidst the changing landscape of their lands and the interference of white settlers.

Their birthright bestows upon them custodial rights and responsibilities to Country and Lore, thereby tasking them to nurture, protect, and pass on cultural knowledge.

The Indigenous art movement, in large part, sprung from this objective – ensuring the continuity of cultural legacy.

This ‘task’ is embedded in every Indigenous Australian man, woman, and child. 

The bastion of the modern Indigenous art movement, Papunya Tula Artists, was born from this need, which was seminal to both its genesis and evolution.

The early Papunya Tula boards of 1971-1973, painted by the men of the community, initiated a relentless body of work, Tardis-like in nature, profoundly deeper beneath the surface than it appeared from initial outside observation.

Over the last 50 years, art has played a pivotal role in this cultural transference.

However, the passage of time affects us all, and most, if not all, the ‘first contact’ guardians of culture and Tjukurrpa (Dreaming stories) of otherworldly phenomena have now passed on.

The need to preserve these stories presents a complex cultural evolution, with each new generation omitting, obscuring, elaborating, massaging, altering, and changing inflections to better fit the shifting cultural paradigm. 

This ‘old and new’ body of works speaks to this transition: the baton of responsibility taken on by the children and grandchildren of the pioneering Pintupi painters of the Western Desert art movement, a movement catalysed by a culture so deep and profound that we are still learning from it and discovering new stories today.

Enjoy works which transcend over 25 years of production, father and son side by side, aunts next to nieces, nephews and uncles — all bound by one unbreakable, invisible need:

The continuance of culture.

Long may it continue.

ReDot Fine Art Gallery has a close and treasured working relationship with Spinifex Arts Project, one built on years of mutual shared objectives.  In 2025 we will be honouring this relationship with a series of events and exhibitions, across the globe.  To kick this ambitious programme off locally in Singapore, we present our first exhibition of 2025, rawa tjunguku - working together a long time;  the release of a set of major works (recent and from the archives of the galleries collection) by the community and us.

The exhibition will be held at our old gallery premises Artspace @ Helutrans, in the Tanjong Pagar Distripark at 39 Keppel Road, Singapore 089065. A fitting place to host a show 10+ years on from our 10th anniversary presentation, which was also by the same community art centre.

Much has changed in the transpiring years, the loss of many important senior artist, a period of massive global change and upheaval, BUT what remains consistent and true is the joyous and remarkable resilience and beauty this very remote and isolated community of the south-west of Australia is able to achieve.

A must-see for anyone interested in following the on-going developments in Indigenous art and an opportunity to better understand the amazing evolution and resilience of one of Australia’s finest community based Indigenous art projects.

ReDot Fine Art Gallery is very proud to launch 28 exquisite works on paper from the estate of Janangoo Butcher Cherel, many of which have never been seen before in public, in conjunction with Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency.

Butcher whom joined the community art centre in the early 1990s, worked closely with the founding art coordinator Karen Dayman and was introduced to Arches paper, a medium ideally suited to his artistic practice which has served to distinguish Mangkaja work of the 1990s from that of other Kimberley and Western Desert art centres. 

Enjoy this tightly curated selection by Lynley Nargoodah, which is of the highest international standards.

 Butcher was an artist's artist who eschewed the notion of painting to a formula or revisiting previous successes.

LANDSCAPES OF MEMORY - The Art of Janangoo Butcher Cherel, encapsulates the rich cultural heritage, vibrant storytelling, and artistic spirit that this gentle man bought to the Indigenous art movement up until his passing in 2009.

"with my eyes, my heart and with my brain I am thinking.

When I go to sleep nighttime, I might talk to myself 'ah, I might do (paint) that one tomorrow,' not dreaming; I think about what to do next."

Delve into this very special show, and join us in celebrating a central figure in the Modern Indigenous Art Movement.

The ReDot Fine Art Gallery is always extremely proud to be able to welcome back the beautiful work(s) of Australia’s foremost Aboriginal art community, Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd.  With the gallery now in its 20th year of operations, we looked back and reflected on our partnership with Papunya Tula and all the extraordinary exhibitions.

There have been 17 dedicated shows, some incredible solos thrown into the mix, with many works subsequently travelling to all four corners of the world and been exhibited in many museum shows in the process.

We marked the galleries 10th anniversary with a major show at ArtStage in Singapore, which opened the eyes of the Asian collector base to this movement and showcased works which now read like an almanac of Indigenous power and greatness.

This year we thought we would look back, and reflect, on these shows and many other events that included this colossal institution.

We have always been honoured to be Papunya Tula’s only official representative in Asia, not to mention one of literally only a handful globally.

So, Papunya Tula - Through the Years (1999-2017) showcases works from the last 20 years.  Works in my collection, works never seen before and a sprinkling of other gems from our extensive stockroom.  This show doesn’t exhaust our commitment to the community, search the website....  

There are many many more...

Enjoy the selection, which is of the highest international standards, and be drawn into the link between land, spiritual being, and connectivity, teaching us of the ways of the oldest living culture on this planet.

Adrian Robertson is a widely respected Warlpiri man and prolific artist from the Central Western Desert region of Australia.

His country travels from west of Walungurru through Karku at Nyirrpi to Warlurkurlangu at Yuendumu.

Adrian is well-known for his landscape and portrait paintings made using a restricted palette.

He is a deliberate and thoughtful painter; reworking, pushing, and pulling the image to completion.

A confident artist, Adrian, enthusiastically advances his practice, experimenting with new techniques and mediums to portray his mother’s country Yalpirakinu and recalls of family on country. 

Adrian is a long-standing member of the Bindi Mwerre Anthurre Artists and since 2002 he has never skipped a beat.

He is in the studio daily, with a page or canvas in front of him, eager to conceptualise through bold mark-making and colour, his memories and deep connection to country. 

As a boy attending school in Papunya, Adrian remembers Geoff Bardon working as a schoolteacher alongside the early Western Desert painters.

He has since enjoyed strong artistic influences throughout his life including his uncle, the late Darby Ross Jampijinpa and his mother, the late Eunice Napangardi.

Upon joining the Bindi Mwerre Anthurre Artists, Adrian worked alongside his greatest mentor and friend, the late Billy Benn Perrurle.

An accomplished artist, Adrian has exhibited nationally and internationally.

In 2020 he won the NATSIAA General Painting Award, and more recently he won the Artist of the Year, Mparntwe NAIDOC awards (2021), and the prestigious Alice Prize, Mparntwe National Contemporary Art Award (2022). 

Courtesy of the Mwerre Anthurre Artists (Bindi Inc)