Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Perth International Arts Festival - Ngaanyatjarra Exhibition and Book Launch
















Lawrence Wilson Gallery, University of Western Australia in association with Western Desert Mob, present

PURNU, TJANPI, CANVAS - ART OF THE NGAANYATJARRA LANDS

The Ngaanyatjarra Lands have produced some of the great artists and art works of recent times. From a network of community art centres that support the diversity of Ngaanyatjarra creative practice - Maruku Arts and Crafts, Tjanpi Desert Weavers, Papulankutja Artists, Kayili Artists, Warakurna Artists and Tjarlirli Art - comes a new exhibition of paintings, carvings and sculpture.

Purnu, Tjanpi, Canvas
is a journey into one of Australia's most vibrant creative and cultural landscapes, presented in conjunction with the launch of a publication

OPENING THURSDAY 23 FEBRUARY 5.30PM


EXHIBITION RUNS 10 FEBRUARY - 12 MAY 2012


PLEASE RSVP ON Tel: 08 6488 3707 Email: lwag@uwa.edu.au


The University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA, Australia 6009
P +61 (0)8 6488 3707 F +61 (0)8 6488 1017
E lwag@uwa.edu.au W http://www.lwgallery.uwa.edu.au/

PUBLIC PROGRAMS: Artists talks and activities on 24th + 25th Feb

BOOK LAUNCH: A session with Hetti Perkins, John Carty and Tim Acker at the Perth Writers Festival on 25 Feb to discuss the new Western Desert Mob publication Ngaanyatjarra - Art from the Lands (details to be confirmed)

Image: Jackie Giles, working on a new painting, 2009.
Photograph Tim Acker © Kayili Artists.


Supported by Visual Arts Program Partner Westfarmers Arts

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