Earth Wind & Fire

Earth Wind & Firegriffin-gallery09jul(jul 9)12:00 am10aug(aug 10)12:00 am

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Earth Wind & Fire features the indigenous Australian artists: Kittey Malarvie | Lily Nungarrayi Hargraves | Freddie Timms | Ngarrlia Tommy May |Mawnhura Jimmy Nerrimah | Keturan Nangala Zimran and the British artists Ralph Anderson | Ben Cove | John Greenwood | Sigrid Holmwood | Richard Kirwan | John Stark and Daniel Sturgis.

The exhibition is a celebration of contemporary Australian Indigenous art, and Western European contemporary art, presenting 6 esteemed Australian Indigenous artists alongside 7 British artists. The exhibition is co-curated by Jennifer Guerrini Maraldi, director of JGM gallery, London and Juan Bolivar, artist and curator also based in London.

Earth Wind & Fire offers a fresh look at contemporary indigenous Australian art, and its rich and unbroken tradition of 60,000 years. The exhibition reflects the similarities of conceptual theme and craftsmanship between northern and southern hemisphere artists, with treatments and motifs such as home-made pigments, symbolism, abstraction, depictions of nature, and the celebration of culture; both ancient and modern.

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