ReDot Fine Art Gallery is honoured to be able to release a stunning body of works from the heart of the Modern Contemporary Indigenous Art movement. Tjungu Palya is an artist-run art-centre, in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in the far north west of South Australia.

With many of their artists ‘first contact’ bush people, they retain strong cultural knowledge and a willingness to share what is appropriate to people of other cultures. Promoting traditional arts practices while also encouraging new forms of artistic expression in the re-telling of the Tjukurpa (‘Dreaming’ - Law), the stories virtually leap off each canvas, begging the viewer to look more deeply for meaning and consequence.

Tjintu Kutjupa Tjintu Kutjupa - Desert Days, brings some of the most important Indigenous artists of the day to Singapore in a collection of gems that resonate with an abundance of cultural integrity, vivid colours, mesmerising designs and deep knowledge, encapsulating a celebration of ceremony, ancestry and landscape.

As children, the now senior Tjungu Palya artists lived a traditional nomadic life travelling in small family groups. Their traditional lifestyle continued until the 1930s, when desert people were migrated to Ernabella and Warburton missions, initially as a result of the assimilation policy of the day but also due to terrible drought and the atomic testing at Maralinga.

The desire to return to their own country remained critical to the community elders throughout this time, and by the 1960s families began returning to their lands and establishing small remote settlements. In spite of the interruption, the extreme remoteness of this area and the continued connection to the land has contributed to the maintenance of an Aboriginal lifestyle rich in ceremonies and traditional observances.

Tjungu Palya artists have powerful spiritual links to their country, and produce paintings that are exuberant and have highly individual compositions depicting their myth cycles embedded in the topography of the land. Join us to be mesmerized by this latest journey through the Australian outback as we look at works by highly collectable master of the Modern Indigenous Art movement as well as new starlets that have emerged over the last few years to carry the torch of this Art movement forward with vigor and much positive expectations despite the challenging times that lie ahead for these nomadic, cultural warriors!

Image: © Keith Stevens, ReDot Gallery