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Janice Stanley born 1987, is the third generation of Stanley women to create artwork at Ernabella Arts. She is an early career painter and ceramic artist showing great promise. Her grandmother is a founding artist and traditional healer Tjariya Stanley and her aunts are senior artists, Alison Milyika Carroll and Renita Stanley.
Janice has two children.
Janice’s paintings depict pantu, or salt lakes near Atilla (Mt Conoor). This is a significant location for the seven sisters creation story. This story tells of seven sisters running across the country creating landforms in their wake. Although Janice has never seen them from this perspective herself, she imagines viewing the salt lakes from above.
In 2020 she exhibited in Nganampa ngura-nguru nyurampa ngurakutu (From our place to your place) at Aboriginal Signature in Brussels, as well as several national exhibitions. She has been exhibited around Australia and internationally, in Adelaide, Alice Springs, Broome, Sydney and Brussels.
The Australian Embassy in Zagreb has Janice’s work in their collection.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS TO 2021 (in descending order)
Painting Now: Peindre aujourd’hui en terres aborigènes – IDAIA, Le Havre, France
Ernabella Arts Group Exhibition – Outstation, Darwin, NT
Ananyi Nyurakutu- Going Home – Artitja Fine Art Gallery, South Fremantle, WA
Flying Colours – Talapi Gallery, Alice Springs, NT
Tarnarthi Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art: Open Hands – Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Nganampa Tjukurpa Ananyi Wilurara (Our Stories Going West) – Short Street Gallery, Broome, WA
Ernabella Arts: About place – Artitja Fine Art, South Fremantle
Nganampa Tjukurpa Ananyi Kakarara (Our Stories Going East) – Aboriginal Contemporary, Sydney, NSW
I know my Country – Artitja Gallery, South Fremantle, WA
Flying Colours – Talapi Gallery, Alice Springs, NT
Nganampa ngura-nguru nyurampa ngurakutu (From our place to your place) – Aboriginal Signature, Brussels, Belguim Summer Salon – Artitja Gallery, South Fremantle, WA
Desert Mob 2019 – Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT
Desert Colour featuring Ernabella ceramics – Talapi Gallery, Alice Springs, NT
An Idea Needing to be Made: Contemporary Ceramics – Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, VIC
Uwankara Tjungu (all in) – APY Collective Gallery, Adelaide, SA
Anniversary pukulpa. Katu parpakani! (Happy anniversary. Flying high!) – APY Collective Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Hold our connection to country strong for malatja-malatja (future generations) – Aboriginal Signature, Brussels, Belguim Spirited – Kurunitja – Short Street Gallery, Broome, WA
Our Country in Clay – Nomad Art, Darwin NT
Inuntjii – Regeneration – Aboriginal Signature • Estrangin gallery, Bruxelles, BELGIUM
Pukatjalanguru kungka tjuta kunpu warkarinytja | Ernabella women: strong work, together – Sabbia Gallery, Paddington NSW
The Blooming Desert – Talapi Gallery, Alice Springs
Rising Stars 2019: New Directions – Outstation Gallery, Darwin
Collections
Australian Embassy in Zagreb
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