Current, upcoming and past exhibitions at Flinders Lane Gallery

Wangkatjungka Art Centre


Wangkatjungka Biddee Baadjo Piyurr 2010 97 x 116 cm WJ2495		Wangkatjungka Biddee Baadjo Piyurr 97 x 117cm WJ 2298


Wangkatjungka Rosie Goodjie Purlkupartu 2009 84 x 125cm WJ2284		Wangkatjungka Rosie Goodjie Kuranjunku 2010 82 x 131cm WJ2488


Wangkatjungka Rosie Goodjie Wijinti and Purrpurn 2010 77 x 133cm WJ2523


Wangkatjungka Nada Rawlins Wirnpa 2010 98 x 86cm WJ2454		Wangkatjungka Nada Rawlins Lukakurlu 2010 96 x 116cm WJ2514


Wangkatjungka Jean Tighe Lurrpungu 2010 96 x 76cm WJ2460		Wangkatjungka Jean Tighe Parrugu 2010 93 x 75cm WJ2461


Wangkatjungka Penny K Lyons Parpurta – Springwater 2010 76 x 131cm WJ2530 $3,000AUD


Wangkatjungka Collaboration Rita Thomas, Jean Tighe, Elsie Thomas, Nora Tjookootja, Penny K Lyons, Biddee Baadjo, Rosie Goodjie All the Desert Country 2010 152 x 119cm WJ2536		Wangkatjungka Collaboration Elsie Thomas, Nora Tjookootja, Penny K Lyons, Biddee Baadjo, Rosie Goodjie, Nada Rawlins, Rita Thomas, Jean Tighe Waterholes and Desert Country2010 173 x 117cm WJ2538


Wangkatjungka Collaboration Jean Tighe , Elsie Thomas, Nora Tjookootja, Penny K Lyons, Biddee Baadjo, Rosie Goodjie, Nada Rawlins, George Tuckerbox Water Comes to the Desert 2010 203 x 125cm WJ2542

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Warlukurlangu Art Centre


Warlukurlangu Artists Ormay Nangala Gallagher Emu Dreaming acrylic on linen 183 x 91 cm #4359/08 & FG09433.OG		Warlukurlangu Artists Otto Jungarrayi Sims Warlu Jukurrpa (Fire Dreaming) 1267/10 183 x 91cm


Warlukurlangu Artists Ormay Nangala Gallagher Yankirri Jukurrpa (Emu Dreaming) - Ngarlikurlangu 4935/09 122 x 76cm		Warlukurlangu Artists Ormay Nangala Gallagher Yankirri Jukurrpa (Emu Dreaming) - Ngarlikurlangu 1911/10 122 x 91cm


Warlukurlangu Artists Ormay Nangala Gallagher Emu Dreaming acrylic on linen 61 x 47cm #2319/09 & FG09430.OG	Warlukurlangu Artists Ormay Nangala Gallagher Emu Dreaming acrylic on linen 91 x 76cm #3454/09 & FG09432.OG	Warlukurlangu Artists Ormay Nangala Gallagher Yankirri Jukurrpa (Emu Dreaming) - Ngarlikurlangu 4934/09 122 x 61cm


Warlukurlangu Artists Lee Nangala Gallagher Emu Dreaming acrylic on linen 91 x 67cm #618/08ny/FG09431.LG	Warlukurlangu Artists Lola Nampijinpa Brown Water Dreaming acrylic on linen 107 x 61cm #3246/07ny & FG07416.LNB	Warlukurlangu Artists Lola Nampijinpa Brown Vaughan Springs Dreaming acrylic on linen 122 x 76cm #764/09 & FG09425

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Crossing Paths brings together the work of emerging indigenous artists from two regions now represented by Flinders Lane Gallery. In particular, Gallery Director Claire Harris has been following the work of Biddee Baadjo (Wangkatjungka) and Ormay Nangala Gallagher (Warlukurlangu) and is pleased to have this opportunity to showcase their works as part of this survey of Western Desert and Yuendumu painters. 'Both Biddee and Ormay have exceptional futures ahead of them and reflect the enduring strength and fabulous colouristic style of contemporary Indigenous art practices.'

Claire also has a more personal reason for being excited about this exhibition. In late February 2008, while researching emerging Central Desert painters, one of the artists that was of interest to her was named Ormay Nangala Gallagher, pronounced in the same way as her own mother's name, Ormé. 'I had been working with artists from these regions for some years now, but when I heard about Ormay my interest was piqued.'

Recalling her mother's stories about teaching in Yuendumu during the 1960s, the region from which Warlukurlangu Arts Centre operates, Claire made a quick call to the centre's manager Cecilia, who confirmed Ormay's date of birth and that Ormay had indeed been named after Ormé. Ormé and Ormay's mother Coral have since resumed contact and all four will come together again on opening night. Ormay states of her paintings 'The dreaming that I paint is about Emu and Water, that dreaming is at Mikanji and that is my fathers dreaming. I also paint Pama-pardu and Emu, that dreaming is North of Nyirrrpi a place call Waylka and wantungurru that is also another of my fathers dreaming.'

Also featuring in Crossing Paths will be the work of emerging artist Biddee Baadjo. Now in her early 70s Biddee, known for her intricate depictions of country with delicate brush markings and rich colour combinations, is exemplifies the sensitivity, complexity and exuberance of the Western Desert region's artists.

Born near Purrpurn, a spring water site in the Great Sandy Desert around 1938, Biddy is also known for her story of having been snatched by an eagle as a child. Biddy and the other children had been left in their coolamon's while their parents hunted. Her mother saw the eagle flying away with her child and ran after it before the eagle dropped Biddy down into the Spinifex grasses. Along with the other female painters of this region Biddee's paintings depict the series of waterholes and other land formations that run along the region followed by the Canning Stock Route.

Crossing Paths

Flinders Lane Gallery 2010