australian contemporary art
Please join us for the launch of Zaachariaha Fielding’s ‘Ngangkali (Night Sky)’ and Daniel Emma’s ‘World Expo 2025’ on Thursday 24th July from 6-8pm, presented as part of the 2025 South Australian Living Artists Festival.
Zaachariaha Fielding
Ngangkali (Night Sky)
Ngangkali (Night Sky)
Zaachariaha Fielding's solo exhibition ‘Ngangkali (Night Sky)’ continues his exploration of ancestral narratives and songlines. His paintings pay homage to his inherited Tjukurpa (ancestral knowledge and law) through a vivid palette and expressive use of Pitjantjatjara language.
Fielding is a multidisciplinary artist, originally from the Mimili Community in the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands of South Australia, currently working out of the APY Collective Art Centre. Widely recognised as the frontman of the electronic musical duo ‘Electric Fields’, his visual arts practice has gained momentum in recent years, having exhibited at prominent Australian institutions such as the National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of New South Wales, and Art Gallery of South Australia, in additional to international presentations.
DANIEL EMMA
World Expo 2025
World Expo 2025
‘World Expo 2025’ captures the unique moments intertwined with exploring new places and the experiences shared, resulting in a still life scene of furniture and objects embodying magic memories.
Daniel To and Emma Aiston established the design studio Daniel Emma in 2008 as a platform to express their ideas through Industrial Design. The studio engages in a wide range of projects, from desk objects to large-scale installations. With a focus on creating the unexpected from simple objects and forms, Daniel Emma draws inspiration from the rich and diverse culture of Australia. Their designs aim to be “just nice,” blending subtlety with originality.
Hugo Michell Gallery are proud to partner with Bird in Hand Winery for this opening event.
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.
Please join us on Thursday 18 June 6-8pm for the launch of ‘Living Waters’, an exhibition by Maningrida Arts & Culture artists Maureen Ali, Nola Garrba, Lorna Jin-gubarranguyja, Sylvia Marrgawaidj, Anniebell Marrngamarrnga, Jennifer Brown, and Indra Prudence. We’re also delighted to launch ‘Yiminga Ampirnipapurti - Sunrise’, a solo exhibition by Josephine Burak from Munupi Arts.
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Maureen Ali, Nola Garrba, Lorna Jin-gubarranguyja, Sylvia Marrgawaidj, Anniebell Marrngamarrnga, and Jennifer Brown
Living Waters
Living Waters
‘Living Waters’ presents a powerful body of work that speaks to the deep interconnection between culture, Country, and ancestral knowledge. Working from Maningrida Community and the surrounding homelands in central Arnhem Land, these artists maintain and reinterpret the enduring weaving traditions of fish trap and net making. These skills are passed down through generations of women and intrinsically tied to the seasonal rhythms of freshwater and saltwater life.
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Josephine Burak
Yiminga Ampirnipapurti - Sunrise
Yiminga Ampirnipapurti - Sunrise
Emerging with a quiet strength from the Tiwi Islands, Josephine Burak's first solo exhibition marks a significant recognition of her practice. Working from Munupi Arts on Melville Island, she is the daughter of respected custodian of traditional medical knowledge, Lydia Burak. Having gained her mothers’ carving skills as well as painting skills Josephine Burak often prepares her own pwoja (comb, painting tool) to shape it to her exact needs.
Burak’s practice is deeply rooted in ancestral knowledge, Tiwi cosmology, and lived experience. Her paintings honour traditional bark painting techniques and often feature the significant Kulama Ceremony and her designs are also wonderfully reminiscent of astronomic star charts.
Hugo Michell Gallery are proud to partner with Bird in Hand Winery for this opening event.
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.
Please join us in celebrating the launch of these two exhibitions!
We’re thrilled to share that Clara Adolphs and Bridie Gillman have been selected as finalists for the 2025 Ramsay Art Prize!
The Ramsay Art Prize is a $100,000 acquisitive prize for contemporary Australian artists under the age of 40, supported in perpetuity by the James & Diana Ramsay Foundation.
This year's expert judging panel was comprised of leading Australian artist Michael Zavros; Associate Professor and Program Director of Visual Art at the Queensland College of Art and Design and recipient of the inaugural Ramsay Art Prize’s People’s Choice Prize, Julie Fragar; and Emma Fey, Deputy Director of the Art Gallery of South Australia.
All finalists will exhibit in a major exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia from 31 May to 31 August 2025, and the winner will be announced on Friday 30 May 2025.
Please join us for the launch of Binygurr Wirrpanda’s ‘Dancing Brolgas’ and Min Wong’s ‘You can’t talk butterfly language to caterpillar people’ on Thursday 12th September from 6-8pm.
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Binygurr Wirrpanda
Dancing Brolgas
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Binygurr Wirrpanda
Dancing Brolgas
In the accompanying catalogue essay, Will Stubbs writes: “Each particular pattern carries the essence of an estate of land which is held in the hundreds of songs which are encoded in that design. These epic song cycles are a cross between poetry and the Latin Mass. They retell the movements of ancestral forces through the landscape.”
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Min Wong
You can’t talk butterfly language to caterpillar people
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Min Wong
You can’t talk butterfly language to caterpillar people
Birthed from a broken heart, this work examines the emerging principles of interpersonal neurobiology as an embodied and relational process to support compassion, kindness, resilience, and well-being in our personal lives, our relationships, and our communities.
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Hugo Michell Gallery are proud to partner with Bird in Hand Winery for this opening event.
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Hugo Michell Gallery are proud to partner with Bird in Hand Winery for this opening event.
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.
Please join us for the launch of Marisa Purcell’s ‘Light Savour’ and Kate Ballis’ ‘Liminality Antipodes’ on Thursday 27th June from 6-8pm.
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Marisa Purcell
Light Savour
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Marisa Purcell
Light Savour
"After a drive back to the city from the bush at dawn, Marisa Purcell, mesmerised by the early morning light and its ability to shapeshift a landscape, drove straight to the studio and started work. With a lush palette of greens, she recreated the moment she had seen through the windscreen — night passing the baton to day, light carried on the fog and splintering through the trees. Purcell has long been interested in windows and frames — both what we see through a window and what we don't see.
To the edges of her paintings are clues to what lies within, a cipher to decode the ceaselessly captivating ambiguity of light and colour. One painting calls to mind the experience of flash blindness; the moment when harsh light floods the retina, causing both an explosion of colour and a temporary loss of vision. Another is like a fragment of Monet’s Water Lilies writ large “Everyone will see a different colour,” she says, on the erraticism of light, perception and colour. “Like a lamp in front of a mirror, these works reflect their own source of light.” – Ariela Bard, exhibition catalogue essay
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Kate Ballis
Liminality Antipodes
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Kate Ballis
Liminality Antipodes
In the liminal spaces where the ethereal touches the terrestrial, my infrared exploration of the South Island of New Zealand captures a world both familiar and otherworldly. As alizarin crimson mountains rise and teal waters mirror the rich deposits of pounamu (greenstone), these surreal landscapes bridge the realms of reality and myth.
About this exhibition, writer Dylin Hardcastle writes: “To find a home in Liminality, in the threshold of a horizon, between deep sky and wide lake, where the near and far feel not so far apart, is to surrender, voluptuously, to something felt. It is an ability to sit between regions - opaque and edged - and to feel, instead, the incredible release of shapelessness.”
___Hugo Michell Gallery are proud to partner with Bird in Hand Winery for this opening event.
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.
Please join us for the launch of Kate Just’s ‘50 Rules for Making Art’ and Fiona Roberts’ ‘Hereafter’ at Hugo Michell Gallery on Thursday 23rd May from 6-8pm, with an artist talk with Kate Just at 6pm to launch her accompanying publication.
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Kate Just
50 Rules for Making Art
Artist talk with Kate Just at 6pm to launch her accompanying publication.
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Fiona Roberts
Hereafter
‘Hereafter’ explores humanity's eternal quest for psychological and physical safety, manifested through the interplay of symbolism, superstitions, rituals and belief systems. Drawing upon symbolic representations of life and existence beyond, Roberts explores the profound existential inquiries that have plagued human consciousness throughout history.
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Hugo Michell Gallery are proud to partner with Bird in Hand Winery for this opening event.
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.