Justin Tjungurrayi Corby is one of the youngest and most promising emerging Indigenous artists working today. Born in Papunya in 1982 and schooled in Kintore, Corby now lives and paints in the small Aboriginal community of Ikuntji (Haasts Bluff) about 230 kilometres west of Alice Springs. Justin is the son of the famous Papunya artist, Lindsay Tjungurrai Corby, and nephew of David Corby Tjapaltjarri, one of the early group of artists at Papunya Tula. Founded by Geoffrey Bardon in 1972, Papunya Tula Artists is regarded around the world as the birth of the contemporary Australian Aboriginal art movement.

Justin was given permission by his father who was custodian of many important Dreamings to paint his family’s stories and ensure the continuation of their artistic and cultural heritage. Whilst he was instructed in his family’s particular style of painting, Justin was intuitive in creating his own unique style with bold yet simply geometric forms and vibrant colours.

The four main Dreamings in Corby’s art are all played out in ancestral sites near Jtunti (meaning a rock shelf or cave in Pintupi language) north-west of Papunya.
A major waterhole resides at Jtunti and people come here to dig to find fresh water. His inherited Dreamings include the Budgerigar Dreaming, Emu Dreaming, Travelling Snake Dreaming and Kangaroo Dreaming, all different in composition and colour but interconnected in terms of topography.

This outstanding collagraph is the first editioned work by Justin Corby.  It is based on a painting by the artist which was exhibited alongside seven other Western Desert Artists at G’Day USA Australia Week in New York in January 2008. In the painting he depicts the story the Budgerigar Dreaming with the circular waterhole in the centre of the composition surrounded by the sources of water. Budgerigars are common to this area and according to Justin Corby “fly from all over and cover this land”.

Laura Matthews was born in South Wales in 1964. She studied at the prestigious Slade School of Fine Art, London University as an undergraduate and post-graduate student. During this 6 year period her work matured under the tutelage of the greatest modern British painters, amongst them William Coldstream and Euan Uglow. A regular visitor at the Slade, Lucien Freud offered criticism and support and Laura subsequently received numerous accolades, awards and travelling scholarships under this exceptional guidance. A twice recipient of the International Elizabeth Greenshield Bursary, Laura left her homeland in 2002 to immigrate with her family to Australia.

Upon arriving here Laura has continued to receive high acclaim. She has been selected twice in 2003 and 2004 as a finalist in the Portia Geech Memorial Award for Portraiture held at the SH Ervin Gallery; a finalist in the prestigious Fleurieu Peninsula Award for landscape in 2004- one of 56 finalists from 520 entries, and in the same year a finalist in the Paddington Art Prize.

Laura’s work is represented in private collections in Europe, the U.S.A and Australia. She is included in the extensive collections of Royal Caribbean Cruise Liners, many of which were specially commissioned. Her work is also found in the Slade Collection and on the cover of The Oxford Book Of Twentieth Century English Verse chosen by Philip Larkin (Oxford University Press).

"Matthews applies layers of paint, building up the autonomous marks to reflect real space and light, but rather than representing the landscape as ‘a reality’ it becomes more of a memory of a place, a hint or glimpse. "  Donna Brett, Art Gallery of New South Wales

In the Beginning - Mt Canobolis

Oil on canvas
150x201cm

Geoff Dyer is regarded as one of the premier landscape artists currently working in Australia. He is a renowned watercolourist and oil painter with work held in major corporate and private collections throughout Australia, Europe, UK, USA and the Asia Pacific region.

Geoff Dyer’s landscape imagery is highly evocative, reminiscent of the work of the great Fred Williams but also adheres to the aesthetic principles of the Masters of (English) landscape painting such as J.W.Turner.

Critical and market acceptance of Geoff Dyer has been widespread. His record in Australia’s most recognized awards is prodigious.

Geoff Dyer was a popular winner of Australia’s most prestigious painting prize The Archibald Prize for portraiture in 2003 at the Art gallery of NSW. He has been a finalist in The Archibald Prize 10 times since 1993.

Dyer has also been selected in Australia’s premier landscape award, The Wynne Prize in 2004, 1997, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988 and 1977 and a finalist in the Sulman Prize for genre painting in 1997 and 2006.

In 2008, Dyer has been selected as a finalist in the John Glover prize for landscape painting and the Salon des Refuse for his Archibald entry - a portrait of Jim Everett. The exhibition is on show at the SH Ervin Gallery until May 4th.

This superb collagraph by Master Printmaker Paul Smith is limited to an edition of 60 prints.

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