Previous Exhibitions

Wakarninpa Laltu, Tjukurrpa Laltu - Many Paintings, Many Dreamings

‘Wakarninpa Laltu, Tjukurrpa Laltu’ features stunning works representing tjurkarrpa (dreaming) stories of a beautiful and ancient Country painted by artists who themselves span generations. From...

Bangariny-warriny Ngarjiepum - Two Sisters

“Warlawoon is my dad Rammey Ramsey’s country, my beautiful old artist dad who left his memory with me to carry on after him.” – Kathy Ramsay Tracey and Kathy Ramsay’s father was one of the most inf...

Back In Time

Angelina  Karadada Boona brings Wandjina imagery into the realm of contemporary art with command and dynamic expression. She was selected as a finalist in this year's National Aboriginal and Torres...

'Doorloo' Tracey Ramsay solo

Aboriginal Contemporary is proud to present ‘Doorloo’, Tracey Ramsay’s second solo exhibition. Doorloo is Tracey’s ‘bush name’ and how she is known by those closest to her. 2021 was both a momentou...

Kapi Tjukurpa

Kapi Tjukurpa - Water StoriesAn exhibition of new works by Tjulyata Kulyuru and Janice Stanleyfrom Ernabella Arts Tjulyata Kulyuru and Janice Stanley are cousins, both from celebrated families of a...

Lyaapa-Lyaapa Lyupara

To the custodians of the West MacDonnell Ranges Tjurritja or Tjoritja refers to the caterpillar dreaming that travels east from Alice Springs to Glen Helen. This is Reinhold Inkamala’s Country, wh...

Ngayulu Litju Palyarnu - We Did This Together

Cynthia Burke and Nancy Jackson are inseparable. They talk, laugh, sing and tell stories as they paint together at the remote Warakuna art centre, 330km from Uluru near the NT border.Cynthia is dau...

Ngunytju Yuntalpa - Mother Daughter

The inimitable Tjawina Porter and her daughter Elsa Fiona Young are two pillars of Tjarlirli Art. Both daily presences in the art centre, they paint steadily from open until close, planted firmly o...

The Beginning of Time - Angelina Karadada Boona

Angelina Karadada Boona works at Kira Kiro Artists in Kalumburu, the most northerly Aboriginal community in WA.  Her art captures the spirituality of the wet season rain storms through enigmatic de...

Malanypa Munu Kangkuru - Younger Sister Older Sister

Sisters Rachael and Alison Lionel first came into the Ernabella art centre as children. They would sit, watch and learn from their mother, Yurpiya, and grandmother, Pantitiji (now deceased), both s...

Wigim

Hot on the heels of an exhibition of rare works by their father, renowned artist and elder Rammey Ramsey, Aboriginal Contemporary and Warmum Arts are proud to bring you WIGIM: an exhibition of exce...

Rammey

Rammey is a senior Warmun artist whose country, Warlawoon, lies to the west of Bedford Downs. Rammey lived and worked on stations around Warlawoon for most of his life until he moved to Bow River S...

Looking Back, Looking Forward

Mangkaja Arts and Aboriginal Contemporary present Looking Back, Looking Forward, a unique exhibition of works on paper by Mangkaja’s leading artists: Sonia Kurarra, Rosie Tarku King, Penny K-Lyons ...

Nganampa Tjukurpa Ananyi Kakarara - Our Stories Going East

It is not often we get to showcase three different mediums from a single art centre; but Ernabella is no ordinary art centre. Located on APY Lands in the north-west corner of South Australia, Ernab...

badem mawoondool - red ochre, white ochre.

Last year, Aboriginal Contemporary was privileged to curate ‘Bow River Country’, a sell-out exhibition of works by Kathy and Tracey Ramsay from Warmun Arts. One of the highlights of the show was ho...

Mangkaja Perspex 2020

Aboriginal Contemporary and Mangkaja Arts are delighted to present ‘Mangkaja Perspex 2020’.We have worked with this iconic East Kimberley art centre for many years and have long recognised them as ...

Living Water

The 16 new artworks in Living Water showcase both senior and emerging artists and pay homage to the significance of water to the peoples of Martu Country. During the pujiman (traditional, desert dw...

Martumili Ngurra - Out Country

Martumili Ngurra – Our Country is Martumili Artists’ only exhibition in Sydney this year. This stunning show, hand-picked on a recent trip to the Western Desert, pays homage not only to Martumili’s...

Tracey Ramsay Solo

Tracey Ramsay - Solo is a watershed moment for this emerging East Kimberley artist,  It’s her first solo show anywhere in Australia, following critical acclaim of her work in exhibitions with her s...

Bow River Country

Late last year, I travelled to the East Kimberley to help Warmun Art Centre celebrate its 20th anniversary. It was a wonderful weekend in many ways and while contemplating the 20-year legacy of War...

Jooroob Exhibition from The Kimberley

Jooroob 'Coming Together' was a unique exhibition, bringing together, for the first time in public, Warmun's iconic style with rare works from the East Kimberley's other landmark art movement, Jirr...

Coming Together - Lurrtjurringkula/Tunguringanyi

Coming Together - Lurrtjurringkula/Tunguringanyi The title of this exhibition, chosen by the artists, celebrates the coming together of two language groups, two art centres and four artists in a si...