3 Out of Alice
Featuring Marina Strocchi, Adrian Robertson and Trudy Inkamala, three of Australia’s leading contemporary painters in this first time USA exhibit. Based in Mparntwe (Alice Springs) Northern Territory, these artists are connected place, environment and connection to home country. This act of upholding personal and cultural identity is paramount for each artist who are renown for their figurative and landscape paintings that support innovative forms of storytelling.
Trudy Inkamala was born at Hamilton Downs Station Northwest of Alice Springs in 1940. A respected elder in her community Trudy is a role model and spokeswoman for her people. Her mother, her two sisters and herself along with ‘some other strong people’, set up Yipirinya School to celebrate and nurture the Aboriginal kids of Alice Springs. Now her children and grandchildren work at Yipirinya school as teachers, linguists, advisors. Since her husband passed away in 2014 Trudy has traveled every day on the school bus to work side by side with her sister Dulcie Sharpe at the Yarrenyty Arltere Art Centre. Doing art is her new joy she says, a way forward for the kids.
Adrian Robertson was born at Papunya in 1963. He went to school at Papunya and remembers Geoff Bardon working alongside the early Western Desert painters. Adrian’s paintings consistently refer to the desert mountains, ridges and trees of his country, Yalpirakinu. His brushwork is loaded with energy, drama and memories. Career highlights: Adrian has been exhibited in both the NATSIAA and Togart Art Awards.
Marina Strocchi is an internationally-exhibited Australian painter and printmaker whose work is held in many national collections. Hovering somewhere between abstraction and landscape, Marina Strocchi's paintings are rich evocations of her experiences of living in the Central Australian desert, working for a substantial period with the Aboriginal artists of the region.
