UTOPIA

The Sandover region in Central Australia, Northern Territory, is vibrant and expansive, layered with billowing grassy-plains, clusters of spinifex mounds, water soakages and sacred springs. It is marked by winding riverbeds that traverse the ranges and hills that ascend across Country.

Within these works, we delve into the heart of the Utopia community and associated homelands and explore the art movement that emerged in the early 1990s.

Revered in the paintings are topographical views of Country, ceremonial scenes, scared grasses, bush medicine and associated dreaming stories of the Anmatyerr and Alawyarr artists, connected through cultural ties, ceremony, language and Country. The hues that reverberate are reminiscent of the Country, which the Ancestors have walked for millennia.