HEAD ON PHOTO FESTIVAL Wayne Quilliam A Collection:Lowanna, The Land and Community
Tali Gallery is delighted to present a collection of stunning photographs by the exceptional Indigenous photographer, Wayne Quilliam – til late June. This exhibition features three themes as a collection – Lowanna,The Land and Community. Each is distinctively different yet linked as Lowanna shows the human form merged into country, there is the Land in...
Digby Moran – Someone’s Always Watching You
“As a boy growing up on an island in the Richmond River (Northern Rivers, NSW) a wise old spiritual man once told me “no matter what you do someone’s always watching youâ€. I never really knew what he meant, but now I’m older and wiser I can see for myself what he was trying to...
Papunya Tjupi – On Line Exhibition
Tali Gallery is pleased to exhibit work from the Papunya Tjupi Aboriginal Owned Community Enterprise, representing over 100 artists, where sharing of knowledge and skills to foster self determination and cultural development is encouraged. Â This is done through arts practice, community activities, meaningful employment and training opportunities. All proceeds are shared between the artists 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...
Danielle Mate Sullivan’s Evocative Landscapes
Danielle M Sullivan draws on her heritage from the Kunja people of Queensland.  Danielle was born in Fairfield NSW and has a raft of achievements in her young career as a versatile and talented painter. This collection of works is about Country, light and space and is a delight to the eye as a celebration...
Estate Works from an Ikuntji Artist
Molly Jugadai passed away in recent years and we are proud to now present her  highly impactful and colourful work for sale.  Depicting Molly’s mother’s country of Lake Mackay, these are bold and beautiful with a very simple but very evocative depiction of the sandhills of country, the white line indicating drought conditions –...
Exhibition Opening – Special Event
Art Month Sydney, Close the Gap, Charlie McMahon’s Graduation Presentation, mixT 3D Opening, Moving 3D – Fashion – All in One Night!!!
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)...
Emerging Artists Exhibition Big Mob of Rocks
Accompanying our 3D exhibition, we are introducing young emerging artists from  an Aboriginal owned art centre in the desert, Ikuntji Fine Art.  Keturah Nangala Zimran paints the rock formations and Benisa Napurrula Marks  paints the sandhills of her country around Haasts Bluff, west of Alice Springs. Francis Japanangka Marshall tells how his father...
Desert Gems – from Remote Aboriginal Owned Communities
Tali Gallery regularly receives new paintings from the curators of Aboriginal Owned Art Centres in the remote desert regions of Australia. Â These are diverse in stories, colours and executions. Many are painted by women and men who followed a nomadic existence in their early years and were handed down survival skills by their parents...