The Waringarri Suite

The first US exhibition of fine art prints by the Australian Aboriginal Artists of Waringarri

Dates: Thursday, 21 January - Thursday, 18 March 2010

Opening Reception:  5:30  - 7:30 p.m.   Thursday, 21 January 2010

Location: Booker-Lowe Gallery
4623 Feagan Street, Houston, Texas
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For Aboriginal art fanciers and fine art print collectors, the announcement of new works from one of Australia's leading printmaking studios, Northern Editions at Charles Darwin University, is always reason for celebration.  The introduction of The Waringarri Suite is no exception.

The leading Aboriginal artists of Waringarri are world-renowned painters.  They follow ancient traditions as they search dry creek beds for the richest red and gold clays called ochres, as well as white pipe clay or kaolin. Then, they grind the pigments into fine powders and mix them with modern fixatives, blending the colors to create their own distinctive palettes, which they use to depict their ancestral landscapes in contemporary fashion.

Recently, these artists turned their experienced hands to a different task, producing a suite of 13 hand-printed etchings in conjunction with Northern Editions, the printmaking studio of Charles Darwin University.  The result of a series of workshops held during a sixteen-month period, these  prints comprise a critically-acclaimed limited-edition collection.  Booker-Lowe will present the works individually, matted and framed, as well offering the boxed folio set of 13 prints.   Only fifty folios were produced.

Booker-Lowe Gallery is pleased to be the American representative for The Waringarri Suite, and will open the exhibition with a reception, 5:30-7:30 pm, Thursday, 21 January 2010, at the gallery, 4623 Feagan Street, Houston, Texas. 

For more information please contact the Booker-Lowe Gallery at 713.880.1541.

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