MANTANGURU | From the Sand (expired event)

Artitja Fine Art is delighted to be hosting guest artists from Ernabella Arts, the oldest continuously running Indigenous art centre in Australia located in the remote north west of South Australia

Three artists from the remote community of Pukatja, in South Australia will make the 2300km journey to attend the opening weekend of the MANTANGURU| From The Sand exhibition curated by Artitja Fine Art Gallery in partnership with Ernabella Arts.

Opening on March 8th at 6pm (rsvp essential) at Earlywork in South Fremantle, the exhibition is the third held by the Gallery in as many years in which over twenty paintings and fourteen ceramic vases will be on display.

Some of the respected artists to be exhibited are Freddy Ken, whose Kulata Tjuta stories tell of the spears travelling through the sky to catch the snake man; Rupert Jack’s Pulukangka (Stockman) whose stories tell of his time as a stockman on cattle stations, and Langaliki Lewis’ intricate mark marking in her aerial sand dune paintings.

Gallery Director Anna Kanaris visited the art centre in the Pitjantjatjara lands in August last year to experience the day to day activity in what is a thriving and happy creative space which includes both a painting and a ceramic studio.