Hugo Michell Gallery Open: Nyunmiti Burton | Marc Etherington

Nyunmiti Burton was born in Alice Springs and grew up in Pukatja (Ernabella) where she now lives and works. For this solo exhibition ‘Kungkarangkalpa (Seven Sisters Songline)’ Burton paints the ancestral story of the Seven Sisters, a significant Tjukurpa that describes the intergenerational strength of Aṉangu women learning from and protecting one another.

“I heard these stories from my father, mother and grandfathers. I think about the future of the country for the next generation.” - Nyunmiti Burton

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Marc Etherington
Strange days indeed

Marc Etherington’s works take pop culture, fantastical imagined scenarios and scenes of everyday life as his subject matter, rendering them through a darkly humorous and sometimes absurd lens.

About his latest body of work, Marc shares: “I am living in a small town in Alberta where it’s not uncommon to see somebody wearing a cowboy hat, cowboy boots or a big shiny belt buckle. Also dinosaur bones are found sometimes down by the river. A man found a huge one last year imbedded into the river bank which went to a museum collection. I’m obsessed with finding my own dinosaur bones. I think maybe these two things have seeped into my subconscious and worked their way into my new paintings.”

Please join us in celebrating the launch of these two exhibitions!

Hugo Michell Gallery acknowledges the Kaurna people as the traditional custodians of the Adelaide region, and that their cultural and heritage beliefs are still as important to the living Kaurna people today.