Lockhart River Artists

QLD & Torres Strait Artists

Australian Artists

Western Desert Artists

Port Douglas Oceanic Art Gallery Specializes in Australian Aboriginal Art both Contemporary and Traditional. We feature the Lockhart River Artists, Rosella Namok, Fiona Omeeyno, Samantha Hobson and Silas Hobson. The Lockhart River Art Gang Are a group of young contemporary painters from the east coast of Cape York, who have achieved considerable success in Australia and overseas. Their fresh vibrant paintings reflect their lifestyle, culture and the environment in which they live. Their work encompasses important belief issues such as kinship groups and community responsibility. This diverse range of subject matter involves traditional stories, laws and even good fishing spots. The artists create works that are influenced by the rain forest and Coral Sea surroundings in which they live, along with traditional stories and contemporary issues within their community. Representing a new generation of indigenous art, the artists have made an impact on the Australian visual arts. The Lockhart River Gang is a wonderful inspiration for all Aboriginal communities.

We have aboriginal artists from the Western Desert Regions of Balgo - Eutopia - Kintore. The Western Desert aboriginal art movement originated in the small community of Papunya, and has placed Aboriginal art in the international arena. Papunya Tula Art was established by a small group of Aboriginal artists in 1971, after being encouraged by school teacher Geoffrey Bardon to create art using the motifs and symbols of their own traditions. Over the next decade individual aboriginal artists began to emerge as major creative forces. Following the outstation movement of the late 1970s and early 1980s, many of the aboriginal artists moved to their traditional homelands, to country as far west as Kintore and Kiwirrkura. In the 1980s the aboriginal art movement flourished and other desert communities such as Utopia, Yuendumu and Balgo also began to produce works of art.