Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery

<Ngukurr

Ngukurr is on the Roper River in south-east Arnhem Land. Ngukurr artists have a diversity of painting styles that is at first bewildering to outsiders used to reading traditional iconography of specific geographic regions. The artists of Ngukurr are drawn from a wide area that stretches north to NE Arnhem Land , Central Arnhem Land, south to Tennant Creek, east to the Gulf country and Groote Eylandt and west to Katherine.

In Ngukurr Arts one can see paintings in the central desert dot style, raark crosshatching, and a hybridity of influences that reflect the layered history of Ngukurr's past as a mission centre that brought together people from outside the traditional owners country. The uniting element in all the paintings is the love of uninhibited colour to depict the landscape and cultural stories of ceremony.