COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT : YUENDUMU: ARTWORKS FROM THE BUNGALOW

COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT : YUENDUMU, ARTWORKS FROM THE BUNGALOW
Yuendumu community has one of the longest running and most successful Aboriginal-owned art centres in Central Australia. The community supports local artists and the neighbouring communities of Nyirripi and Yuelumu. It is common practice to find several generations of one family painting at the art centre, with the younger generation being instructed in the stories and designs of their traditional culture. In this way artists such as Julie Nangla Roberston, the daughter of the renowned Dorothy Napangardi, grow their art practice to become as accomplished and successful as their for bearers.

Julie Nangla Roberston has become a highly sought after artists. Her spectacular paintings have seen her win the painting prize at the NATSIA Awards and hold a number of highly successful exhibitions across Australia in 2023. Her artwork, alongside her contemporaries, carries a significance and weight that belies their incredibly fine mark making and reduced considered palette. All the  artists in todays Spotlight have a distinct ephemeral style and an accomplished pared back palette; their paintings tell the story of their connection to country, the features of the landscape, the plants and animals that are found there and the creation myth that occurred in the Dreamtime.

Short St Gallery invites you to view this stunning collection of Yuendumu artworks.