Master Weavings

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Master Weavings

MANINGRIDA Arts & Culture is a pre-eminent site of contemporary cultural expression and art-making, abundant with highly collectable art and emerging talent.

Through their homelands resource organisation, Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation, artists turned an art trade that began just over 50 years ago into an arts and cultural enterprise.

Ways of learning and schools of art in Arnhem Land are based around a system of passing knowledge and information on to others. The art here has its genesis in body design, rock art and cultural practices, in concert with more than 50 years of collaborations, travel and political action to retain ownership of country. Values and law are expressed through language, imagery, manikay (song), bunggul (dance), doloppo bim (bark painting), sculptures, and kun-madj (weaving) – the arts.

Maningrida Arts & Culture is based on Kunibídji country in Arnhem Land in Australia’s Northern Territory. The area where artists live encompasses 7,000 square kilometres of land and sea, and over 100 clan estates, where people speak more than 12 distinct languages. Aboriginal people in this region are still on country, surviving and resilient because their country is the centre of their epistemology, their belief system, culture – djang.

This exhibition of recent weavings contains handiwork by Dorothy Bunibuni, Vera Cameron, Winnie Mason, Indra Prudence, Margot Gurawiliwili, Roxanne Carter & Jessie Rostron.

Eclectus Australis & McGlennon’s Audubon Folio

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Eclectus Australis & McGlennon’s Audubon Folio

Jospeh McGlennon’s Eclectus Australis series and Audubon Portfolio made their worldwide debut at Melbourne Art Fair 2018.

The 19th Century saw a rapid evolution in the publication of natural history books. Magnificent large-scale tomes, sumptuously bound and illustrated with hand-coloured plates, celebrated all the latest discoveries of exotic birds and animals around the world. The ornithological genius that was John James Audubon (1785-1851) had as his magnificent contribution to the world, an “elephant folio” of such engravings entitled; The birds of America: from drawings made in the United States and their Territories, 1840-1844.

It was however, Audubon’s user-friendly far more accessible library folios, of bird studies that circulated his reputation across the globe. The contemporary artist Joseph McGlennon, drawing on Audubon’s twin notions of the grand and lavish alongside the lavish and accessible – inspired the artist to undertake Australian Bird Studies from McGlennon’s Audubon Folio, 2018.

Capturing many of the birds to be found in the large-scale series Eclectus Australis, 2018, the McGlennon folio channels the 19th century notion of art as an intimate collecting pleasure. An older style of viewing to be experienced in the art of now. A viewing to be experienced slowly, colour plate by colour plate; to be savoured in private and at the collector’s leisure.

Joseph McGlennon
Eclectus Australis – Two Galahs, 2018
$4,000$8,000
Joseph McGlennon
Eclectus Australis – African Grey Parrot, 2018
$4,000$8,000
Joseph McGlennon
Eclectus Australis – Black Cockatoo, 2018
$4,000$8,000
Joseph McGlennon
Eclectus Australis – Two Cockatiels, 2018
$4,000$8,000
Joseph McGlennon
Eclectus Australis – Indian Peacocks, 2018
$4,000$6,000
Joseph McGlennon
Eclectus Australis – Brown Goshawk, 2018
$4,000$8,000
Joseph McGlennon
Eclectus Australis – Galah, 2018
$4,000$8,000
Joseph McGlennon
Eclectus Australis – Three Cockatiels, 2018
$4,000$8,000
Joseph McGlennon
Eclectus Australis – Australian Barn Owl, 2018
$4,000$8,000
Joseph McGlennon
Eclectus Australis – Salmon Crested Cockatoos, 2018
SOLD
Joseph McGlennon
Australian Bird Studies from McGlennon’s Audubon Folio, 2018
$8,800
Joseph McGlennon
Australian Bird Studies from McGlennon’s Audubon Folio – Black Cockatoo
Joseph McGlennon
Australian Bird Studies from McGlennon’s Audubon Folio – Eclectus Green Parrot
Joseph McGlennon
Australian Bird Studies from McGlennon’s Audubon Folio – Eclectus Red Parrot
Joseph McGlennon
Australian Bird Studies from McGlennon’s Audubon Folio – Gang-Gang Cockatoos
Joseph McGlennon
Australian Bird Studies from McGlennon’s Audubon Folio – Grey Goshawk
Joseph McGlennon
Australian Bird Studies from McGlennon’s Audubon Folio – Kookaburra
Joseph McGlennon
Australian Bird Studies from McGlennon’s Audubon Folio – Lord Derby’s Parakeet
Joseph McGlennon
Australian Bird Studies from McGlennon’s Audubon Folio – Palm Cockatoo
Joseph McGlennon
Australian Bird Studies from McGlennon’s Audubon Folio – White Breasted Sea-Eagle
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