Northern Culture – Artefacts from Arnhemland
Mimih’s, Wandurrks and Wyara, bark paintings, fish traps, pandanus dilly bags, mats and baskets, yawk yawks, stingrays and…..
Tjanpi Creatures from the Desert
The Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (NPY) Women’s Council was formed in 1980.  They encourage women to carry on culture and build esteem through their creativity and operate a Co-Op for the promotion of weaving and jewellery making.  Known as the Tjanpi Desert Weavers, the women  use desert materials such as natural grasses and feathers as well...
Bagu and Jiman Figures from Girringun Community, Queensland
The form and imagery of the objects in this installation has its origins in the sky. A mystical spirit of fire, the Chikka-bunnah, would throw the jiman (firesticks) across the sky and a trail of fire would follow. The subject of many campfire stories, this malevolent spirit was capable of “instilling great fear into...
New Arrivals – Award Winning Fibre Artists
Robyn Djunginy was named NAIDOC Artist of the Year in 2011.  Robyn weaves and paints for her community art centre at Ramingining in Arnhemland (Bula Bula) and visited the gallery on the weekend of her Awards Ceremony and gave weaving demonstrations.  Her ‘bottle’ shaped pandanus works are included in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art...
Fishtraps from Arnhemland
Stunning sculptural shapes created from pandanus from communities in Arnhemland.
mixT : Indigenous Art in 3D
OPENING THURSDAY 21ST MARCH FROM 6 TO 8PM Please join us to welcome Wayne Liwingu McGinness and his edgy stainless steel sculptural works. Wayne enjoyed a sell out show at UMI Arts in Cairns last year with Steel Jidju and this will be his first Sydney exhibition. Wayne is of paperbark, rainforest and Torres...
Fabulous Fibre Artefacts
Fabulous Fibreworks from Ramingining, Maningrida and Elcho Island always adorn our upstairs gallery  – yawk yawks by Anniebell Marrngamarrnga  and Lulu Luradjbi, sting rays,  saratoga (fish) such as the one pictured, a butterfly,  mats, baskets, dilly bags, and fish traps, and animals and owls by Mavis Ganambarr (included in the LoveLace exhibition and the Powerhouse Collection)...
Yawk Yawks from Anniebell Marrngamarrnga
Included in our new Fibre collection are several small but exquisitely coloured and patterned yawk yawks by Annibell Marrngamarrnga whose work has been displayed in the Lovelace exhbition at the Powerhouse Museum among 600 international artists and purchased into their collection.
Top End Fibre and Carvings
Tali Gallery represents the work of several art centres located in Arnhemland and on various islands off the coast of the Northern Territory. Â The gallery exhibits hollow logs, fish traps, dilly bags, baskets, paintings on bark and carvings including spirit figures (Mimih, Wandurrk, Wyarra…)
Aboriginal Spirit Carvings
Mimih Spirits, Wyarra’s and Wandurrks are ancestral, not creator beings who are widely depicted in rock art, carvings and legends of Western Arnhem Land.  Tali Gallery has a large collection of these spirit figures. Mimih are a non-physical being, which can be  culturally constructive and teach knowledge and skills relating to hunting and cooking or...