A little video of what happens when the art arrives from it’s remote location! And when you’ve had two missed deliveries, you have to go to the airport warehouse to pick the freight up… these all the way from Fregon in the Pitjantjatjara Lands…
I won’t go through all our close to eighty exhibitions since our first one, just the extra significant ones! Named DESERT DREAMINGS it was held at the beautiful Old George Gallery in Duke Street, East Fremantle – a great artists’ studios and exhibition space (alas, no more). It was very exciting, the art was very […]
The first remote community we visited was in the Utopia region in the late 1990’s – and the multiple outstations at which the Utopian artists painted. Utopia is approx 270km north east of Alice Springs, along the Sandover Highway. When the former pastoral lease was returned to its Indigenous owners in 1979, members of the […]
It all began in 1998 when a friend who had worked in the Alice (Alice Springs in the Northern Territory) was nostalgic for both her friends and the beautiful country. She was thinking of a visit back and I immediately said “I’ve never been to Alice Springs – I’ll come!” I hadn’t been invited, but […]
