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left and right ... Northam artist of some twenty years experience Patricia Rose is currently managing studio, gallery and art supply shop in Northam.
Teaching private classes for adults and children.
Silk screening workshops and oil painting work shops in regional area’s.
Working on exhibition works. Has had several solo exhibitions and has done some major portrait commissions

 

 

 

 

 

Oil painting on masonite. South west Australian landscape by Noongyar artist, G.T. Kelly. Painted in the Carrolup School tradition. The Carrolup movement has recently been rediscovered and publicised in an exhibition by the Western Australian Art Gallery. These highly evocative, almost surreal landscape paintings are unique to the Aboriginal painters associated with Carrolup. $350

 

 

oil on artist board signed Bella Kelly ..unframed

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

Series of pen and ink sketches on paper. Aboriginal stockmen on Pilbara station. Artist James Vernon Wigley. Wigley was a contemporary of Nolan and Boyd and studied with these artists in London. Wigley chose a different path, away from the prestigious art coterie of his native Melbourne. He was extremely sympathetic to the plight of the Aboriginal people and in the early 60's took up residence in the Port Hedland region and worked within Aboriginal communities. . He eventually returned to Melbourne in his later years. P.O.A ..currently in the process of being mounted and framed

 

 

Hand coloured lithograph by John Gould. Platycercus Palliceps, more commonly know as the 'Budgie'. An original early lithograph of his famous Australian Fauna series. Some very light foxing in one small area. AU$1250

 

 

Aboriginal stockman, North West station. Oil on masonite. Signed, Edwards '68 lower right. Very reminiscent of the work of J.V. Wigley in its sympathetic depiction of a typical north west station scene. Stockman in foreground with the 'mob' congregated in the shade of the tree in background. AU$370

 

 

 

Hermannsberg School. Large watercolour on board, signed Benjamin Landara. A stunning depiction of the MacDonald Ranges capturing the end of day mauves and purples. The colours in this vintage piece are bright and fresh. There is damage to the board in the lower left hand corner . AU$750

 

 

 

 

 

 

Russell Fitzgerald... a Northam based artist paints in the style of "Carrolup" ..oil on canvas .Winner Aboriginal section AVAS (Northam) Art Prize 2006..currently involved with Sculptures in the Park Maylands for the City of Bayswater

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Surreal Landscape in the style of "Carrolup" school...Oil on masonite..unsigned unframed AU$250

 

 

Richard Forrester..born 21/3/1938 at Oodnadatta S.A. language group-Luritja...Hermannsberg School. Large vividly coloured watercolour on paper, signed Richard Forrester. Forrester's interpretation of the MacDonald Ranges is highly personalised and said to embody aspects of Aboroginal mythology in the shape of the rocks and position of the trees.AU$950

 

 

G Narkle a watercolour again in the "Carrolup" style...bold colours AU$650

 

 

Carrolup Native Settlement ..

The Carrolup Native Settlement, situated 25 kms from Katanning, was established in 1915 under the Aborigines Act 1905. People were reluctant to move there as it took them away from their traditional places.

The appointment in 1945 of Noel White as Headmaster at Carrolup brought a period of enlightenment in the education of Nyoongar children and a teaching programme, which fostered their creativity and imagination. The result is a remarkable collection of paintings produced by the boys at the school. Carrolup closed in 1951 and the younger children were moved to Roelands Mission near Bunbury.  By this time, the older boys who were the painters had reached school leaving age but many have continued painting in adult life.

Landscape is the predominant subject for the painters at Carrolup and the distinctive use of colour characterises the work from these painters. Noel White took his students on bush walks and urged them to look around at the countryside and then to depict what they saw.  Individual styles soon emerged and individual students favoured particular subjects. Native animals and traditional ceremonies and dances were also depicted in the landscape. The huge trees of the South-west feature prominently.

For many of these children, painting was a way of maintaining a connection with their Nyoongar culture, while it was being eroded and absorbed by contact with the colonising culture.

 

 

 

 

Oil on canvas Vietnamese girl and child signed framed AU$280

 

 

Oil on board framed Junks at Sunset ... AU$180