Utopia Art News

04.12.08

Art

New Aboriginal Art and Furniture Store for Paddington

We are thrilled to announce the launch of our new Eastern Desert Art and Furniture store - Bell & Son (named after the owners - Annable Fay and Sonja Chalmers). Based in the heart of Paddington, the store offers a wide selection of affordable early Australian and European furniture and art from the Eastern Desert in the Northern Territory. Go on down and enjoy a coffee with Bell while you browse through unusual and affordable early Australian and European furniture, glass and ceramics and admire exceptional Aboriginal art from important local painters of the Eastern Desert and Utopia region of central Australia. Work from Cowboy Louie Pwerle, Kathleen Ngala, Joy Kngwarreye Jones, Susan Pitjara Hunter, Ruby Kngwarreye Morton and Natalie Pula Holmes is on display this month. Prices start at $100.00 a piece for a beautiful triptych by Lucky Kngwarreye Morton. Continue reading New Aboriginal Art and Furniture Store for Paddington

10.09.08

Art

The Bough House - a traditional painting place for the local Artists.

Stockmen Tommy Bloomfield and David Bird have built a beautiful traditional Bough House for our Eastern Desert Artists. The Artists have longed for a large traditional dwelling in the outback in which to paint - place where they would feel comfortable and relaxed with the atmosphere of the bush all around. Within a couple of weeks of commencing the project, a beautiful Bough House emerged - a large round house approximately 19metres in diameter with a gumleaf -thatched roof and hessian sides. Next to it Tommy and David erected a small shed where we - myself and Elsa (our energetic English backpacker) - mix paints, prime the linen and make snacks and tea for the women. On Mondays the women come to paint at the Bough House. Their families join them and the day is spent meeting and chatting with people from the surrounding communities. The male artists always prefer to come in, collect their primed linen and take it back to the camp to complete. Continue reading The Bough House - a traditional painting place for the local Artists.

20.02.07

Art

“Featured Online Listings for Utopian Aboriginal Art”

Eastern Desert Art works hard at attracting all levels of Aboriginal art collectors, galleries and interested parties to our Utopian Aboriginal Art website in an effort to create awareness about our business and the Utopia Community Project. Continue reading “Featured Online Listings for Utopian Aboriginal Art”