DESERT ART CENTRE specialises in Central & Western Desert Indigenous Artwork.

The artists we represent are regarded as friends, some of whom have been known to us for many years, and are considered a part of our extended family.

The majority of the artists that DESERT ART CENTRE represents, have achieved world wide recognition and their artworks are included in the permanent collections of many National and International Museums and Public Art Galleries.

All DESERT ART CENTRE works are fully documented, guaranteed and supplied with:

• Story associated with the painting
• Artist Biography
• Signed Certificate of Authenticity

In most cases, Multiple progress shots, are also supplied.

We also take High Definition Video of many of our artists whilst they paint.
A condensed version of this footage is also supplied with the artwork documentation.
Refer to the artwork specific page for details.
You can also visit our YouTube Channel by clicking HERE to enjoy the many (almost 400 to date over 5 years) video's of artwork created here in our Studio and on the Homelands.

We trust you will enjoy your experience browsing our online gallery.
Please feel free to contact us with queries about the artworks or artists on this site, or to give us feedback on the site: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

All of the artists are frequent visitors to our studio and paint for us on a regular basis.
Should you see a painting on the website which has been sold,
please contact us and we will endeavour to source, or commission a similar painting from the artist directly..

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Cheers,
Desert Art Centre Team.

                     

For the Months of May and June, we are featuring Artwork by the World renowned Utopian artist,
Kudditji Kngwarreye
When Kudditji began painting, he depicted the Dreaming stories from around the Utopia area such as “Emu Dreaming at the Boundary Bore, Seed Dreaming and the Yam Dreaming”.
He soon gained recognition as a precise and authoritative documentator of ceremony, living and breathing the songs, bringing them through to the physical world on canvas.

Towards the end of the Nineties Kudditji style changed radically.
He began to experiment beyond the established norm, to develop fresh techniques and journey deep into his interpretation of his country.
He used vibrant and broad colours, applied with a heavily loaded brush, with sweeping strokes, resulting in massive blocks of colour, laid alongside each other.
Occasionally using only two shades, while in other paintings, three or more, to give the impression of a patchwork quilt of juxtaposed colours.

To the first viewer, Kudditji's artworks appear random, however they are in fact spiritual portrayals of his land and all it's changing seasonal colours, he knows intimately, from the many years he travelled across it on foot, as a stockman and also a miner.
A little known fact, is that whilst Kudditji paints, he sings to himself the songs that he was taught as a boy, that are as old as the culture itself.

He proudly calls these works; ‘My Country’