Despard Gallery, in association with Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane, is pleased to announce its third major curated exhibition featuring three leading indigenous artists from Lockhart River; Fiona Omeenyo, Samantha Hobson and Rosella Namok.
Lockhart River is a small community, located eight hundred kilometres north of Cairns on the Eastern Cape York Peninsula. This unique place remains the primary influence behind each artist’s work, drawing experiences of growing up within this special landscape and learning traditional ways. Hobson, Namok and Omeenyo are attributed as key members of the Lockhart River Art Mob, developed in the 1990s, helping to build a strong collective of indigenous artists and as a result, a distinctive contemporary creative voice.
Recognised as a highly innovative collective, each artist has also demonstrated a keen commitment to be creatively independent, developing their own unique style and distinctive approach to painting. This includes adopting a very vivid colour palette and multiple processes of application to create dynamic and multilayered compositions. Lineage presents a new suite of these vibrant paintings, alongside a selection of important sculptural works, carefully curated to explore how each of their distinctive styles seamlessly blends the traditional experiences from their birthplace with contemporary social issues.
Through their work , Hobson, Namok and Omeenyo each reflect on their Aboriginality as women, as well as balancing life between community and city. Linage reveals how painting remains a poignant contribution to a greater conversation around the ongoing complexities for indigenous Australians and how each artist continues to navigate this journey, both as individuals and as a community.
[photo by Mick Richards]
Click here to register your interest for Rosella Namok, Samantha Hobson & Fiona Omeenyo.
ROSELLA NAMOK Unchii Night Fire (triptych) 2021 acrylic on canvas 150 x 160 cm SOLD
#10 ROSELLA NAMOK Rainforest Lagoon 2021 acrylic on canvas 135 x 135 cm $8,800.00
ROSELLA NAMOK #17 In The Mangroves 2022 acrylic on canvas 125 x 75cm. $5,900.00
ROSELLA NAMOK #9 Kaapay & Kuyan 2022 acrylic on canvas 120 x 90 cm. $6,600.00
ROSELLA NAMOK #16 Kaapay & Kuyan (Changes) 2022 acrylic on canvas 107 x 229 cm $14,500.00
ROSELLA NAMOK#19 Mangrove Moieties 2022 acrylic on canvas 30 x 30 cm [framed] SOLD
ROSELLA NAMOK #18 Mangrove Moieties 2022 acrylic on canvas 30 x 30 cm [framed] SOLD
ROSELLA NAMOK #21 Selfie In The Mangroves 2022 acrylic on canvas 30 x 30 cm [framed] SOLD
ROSELLA NAMOK #20 Selfie In The Mangroves 2022 acrylic on canvas 30 x 30 cm [framed] SOLD
#8 ROSELLA NAMOK Couple VI 2020 acrylic on linen 150 x 100 cm $7,700.00
#7 ROSELLA NAMOK Couple II 2020 acrylic on linen 150 x 100 cm $7,700.00
#12 ROSELLA NAMOK Houses In The Storm 2021 acrylic on canvas 100 x 100 cm $5,250.00
#13 ROSELLA NAMOK Party House 2021 acrylic on canvas 120 x 120 cm $6,600.00
#24 ROSELLA NAMOK Beach House 2021 sand cast bronze with ash white patina 37.5 x 29 x 10 cm Artist Proof 1 of 2 [Edition of 7] $10,500.00
ROSELLA NAMOK Selfie By The Water (Mangrove) 2022 sand cast bronze with aqua:green patina 66.5 x 35 x 15 cm Artist Proof 2 of 2 [Edition of 7] $15,900.00
#25 ROSELLA NAMOK My Place 2021 sand cast bronze with red ochre patina 46 x 39 x 10 cm Artist Proof 1 of 2 [Edition of 7] SOLD
#23 ROSELLA NAMOK Kaapay & Kuyan (Two Moieties Land & Sea) 2021 sand cast bronze with patina 120 x 82 x 33 cm Artist Proof 1 of 2 [Edition of 7] $32,500.00
VIRTUAL VIEWING ROOM CATALOGUE
GALLERY VIEWS
#1 Samantha Hobson #1 young people fishing at night #2 rainforest people
#2 Gallery view Rosella Namok - Samantha Hobson
Entry view #13 Rosella Namok party house #15 Unchi Night Fire
Lockhart River is a small community, located eight hundred kilometres north of Cairns on the Eastern Cape York Peninsula. This unique place remains the primary influence behind each artist’s work, drawing experiences of growing up within this special landscape and learning traditional ways. Hobson, Namok and Omeenyo are attributed as key members of the Lockhart River Art Mob, developed in the 1990s, helping to build a strong collective of indigenous artists and as a result, a distinctive contemporary creative voice. 
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