A series of brown and green dots that coalesce in the centre of a beige coloured canvas to form a series of concentric circles
Museum of the Goldfields

Location

Museum of the Goldfields
17 Hannan Street, Kalgoorlie / Karlkurla

Dates

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Dates

This exhibition has now finished. Please visit Exhibitions to see what’s on at the Museum.

Saturday 1 June – Sunday 14 July 2024

Tickets

Free exhibition

This exhibition has now finished. Please visit Exhibitions to see what’s on at the Museum.

This exhibition stems from a desire to create togetherness in our community.

Derived from the language groups of the five artists featured, the word ‘Lurrtjurni’ shared across all, evokes a sense of togetherness and connection to the present.

Togetherness refers to the artist and their works and the community surrounding them – arts workers, patrons, and appreciators. It refers to the people, the ideas, and the artistic and cultural identities they can share and celebrate together.

Inspired by the Kalgoorlie-Boulder area, a shared place between woodlands and desert, togetherness also symbolises the community overcoming obstacles and identifying opportunities in their unique environment, finding ways to thrive in interesting terrain.

 

A colourful artwork containing black circular graphic lines over a vivid orange and green background
Pirriyarri - Becoming spring in Upurli Country, Tina Carmody-Elliott
A colourful artwork featuring tight parallel dot painted lines which come toegther to form images of Country, kangaroos, an emu, a lizard and tools and plants of Country
Big Celebration - appreciation dance, Rob Wilson
A painting featuring snakes and lizards which crawl from the canvas corners towards a centre of bright concentric circles with a background of colourful tiny dots
Birni Kapi birti - Many Waterholes, Jason Dimer
A colourful painting with a variety of multicoloured small petal-like strokes with small nuts and concentric circles.
Seven Sisters - Kungarangalpa and wati by the rockhole, Debra Frazer
A colourful painting featuring a series of circular shapes in blue yellow grey and green surrounded by a series of tight white dots
Upurli Upurli Nguratja and Minyma Tjurta, Debbie Carmody

Meet the artists!

Debbie Carmody wears a a black graphic shirt with a fur vest and smiles as they stand next to a sculpture of a kangaroo painted with various dot and line patterns.
Debbie Carmody

Debbie Carmody is a Traditional Owner of Upurli Upurli Nguratja and Kepa Kurl. She is Anangu, Spinifex and Wudjari Nyungar.

Debbie is a visual artist, writer and director whose work has been exhibited statewide and nationally. With an A Class Honours in Communications, Debbie has worked in the media since 1983 and her films have featured on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and Special Broadcasting Service (SBS).

 

 

 
Debra Frazer wears a yellow red and black shirt and smiles proudly as they hold a large canvas painted with vivid yellow pink white and green petal-like colours.
Debra Frazer

Debra is a visual artist based in the Warburton Ranges Milyirrtjarra-Warburton Community in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands. Milyirrtjarra-Warburton is part of the Western Desert Cultural bloc, part of the cultural connection to Kalgoorlie-Boulder.

Debra works mainly with acrylic on canvas and her paintings depict her traditional homelands including Tjurkurpa stories. These stories are the basis for daily life, survival and social systems, highlighting the importance of celebrating cultural family traditions.

 

 

Jason Dimer wears a grey shirt, black denim jacket and wire frame glasses and holds up a large canvas painting featuring snakes and lizards alongside long lines and concentric circles.
Jason Dimer

Jason Dimer is a Wangkatha–Ngadju man born in Kalgoorlie-Boulder on the lands that his ancestors lived in well before the settlement of the 1890s Goldrush in the Goldfields. 

Jason has worked as a multi-talented visual artist for over 30 years and runs Aboriginal Cultural Awareness programs and an Arts and Culture consultancy. His high-quality works in this exhibition showcase his connection to the local Dreamtime (creation stories) and the narratives of daily life in Karlkurla country where those stories take place.

 

Rob Wilson has a thick black and grey beard, and wears a grey shirt. They proudly hold up a colourful painting featuring dot painted lines and concentric circles interspersed with different animal footprints
Rob Wilson

Rob Wilson is a local artist, based in Kalgoorlie-Boulder for over 23 years. His ancestry is Yamatji on his mother's side and Noongar on his father's side. His Wangkatja – Wongi family is based in Kalgoorlie-Boulder.

Rob's passion for painting has been strong for many years and he has exhibited at Victoria Park Centre for the Arts, City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder Art Prize, Goldfields Arts Centre Community Gallery, Creative Native – Forrest Chase, Black Crow Studios and Bush Blossom Gallery.

Rob's style blends some traditional dot work with contemporary figurative symbols representing the traditions of hunting and gathering bush foods.

Christine Carmody wears a blue shirt with their black hair in a bun and proudly holds up a small canvas with vibrant purple and black details
Tina Carmody- Elliott

Tina Carmody-Elliott is Anangu, Spinifex (Great Victorian Desert) and traditional owner for Upurli Upurli Nguratja (Cundelee) through to Boulder via Tjukurpa songlines and traditional Wudjari – Noongar owner for Kepa Kurl (Esperance).

Tina is a multi-award-winning artist, specialising in Walka (traditional designs), on timber boards and natural eucalyptus logs. Tina’s exquisite artworks showcased in the Lurrtjurni – Together exhibition depict her heritage and the uniqueness of the Kalgoorlie-Boulder region.

A Bush Blossom Gallery collaborative exhibition

Bush Blossom Gallery is a social enterprise that specialises in local First Nations art endeavouring to include artists from many different language groups in the region including Wangkatja/Wangkatha, Maduwongga, Waljen, Ngadju, Kaalamaya, Kaalako (Galagu), Tjupan, Martu, Manytjilytjarra, Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjarra and others.

Artwork Partner

The Nani logo featuring the word nani in lower case red lettering with the 'a' letter partially made of concentric circles