Everywhen Artspace

Everywhen Artspace Contemporary First Nations art from leading and emerging artists & art centres across Australia

Kumanjayi Nangala was born at Haasts Bluff/Ikuntji circa 1933 of Ngaliya/Warlpiri parents and was a director of Papunya ...
17/06/2026

Kumanjayi Nangala was born at Haasts Bluff/Ikuntji circa 1933 of Ngaliya/Warlpiri parents and was a director of Papunya Tjupi right up until her passing, a highly respected senior law woman with a deeply felt knowledge of country and ceremony.

This empowered her bold lyrical and expressive paintings depicting the topography of hills and creeks that create the feeling of flowing water.

The great Water Dreaming site of Mikantji she inherited from her father was nearly always her subject. 

Finalist in the Vincent Lingiari Art Award (2016) and Wyndham Art Prize (2019),  her works are held in the Artbank Collection and Central Land Council Collection.

Kumantjayi Tilau Nangala
Mikantji, 2016
acrylic on canvas
46 x 61 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Papunya Tjupi Arts

‘This story is an important story, Kalaya Tjukurpa, my Tjamu’s story. Kalaya Tjukurpa (Emu creation story) for Kanpi Com...
17/06/2026

‘This story is an important story, Kalaya Tjukurpa, my Tjamu’s story. Kalaya Tjukurpa (Emu creation story) for Kanpi Community. The emu is walking around the country, leaving travelling tracks where his has walked. He is eating many bush foods as he travels. All his children are gone. They have hidden in the bush.

The Kalaya was playing a trick on the Kipara (Bush Turkey Man).’

Kunmanara Fabian Baker was the grandson of leading Pitjantjatjara artist and traditional healer Jimmy Baker - one of the founding artists of the APY art movement of the 1990s.

This masterful work demonstrates the ethos behind the exhibition Small Works, Big Stories; encapsulating an epic narrative of the artist’s powerful ancestral creation story of Country on a small pictorial scale.

Fabian Baker
Kalaya Tjukurpa
acrylic on canvas
65.5 x 40.5 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Tjungu Palya

A leading Papunya Tula artist, George Tjungurrayi was born in the desert in the vicinity of Kiwirrkura in approximately ...
14/06/2026

A leading Papunya Tula artist, George Tjungurrayi was born in the desert in the vicinity of Kiwirrkura in approximately 1943. He started painting with Papunya Tula Artists in the early 1980s and since, his work has grown to great prominence - widely exhibited and collected in Australia and internationally.

His classic paintings depict designs associated with the soakage water site of Tjulurulnga, west of the Kiwirrkura Community in Western Australia.

During ancestral times two Ngangkari (Aboriginal Healers) were camped at this site after travelling from further west. The two men also performed healing techniques to remove sickness from the other, who was ill in the stomach.

Since events associated with the Tingari Cycle are of a secret nature no further detail was given.

Generally, the Tingari are a group of ancestral beings of the Dreaming who travelled over vast stretches of the country, performing rituals and creating and shaping particular sites. The Tingari men were usually followed by Tingari women and were accompanied by novices, and their travels and adventures are enshrined in a number of song cycles.

These ancestral stories form part of the teachings of the post initiatory youths today as well as providing explanations for contemporary customs.

Image: George Tjungurrayi
Tjulurulnga, 2012
acrylic on Belgian linen
61 x 31 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Papunya Tula Artists

Emily Pwerleʼs country is Atnwengerrp and her language is Anmatyerre and Alyawarr. Sister of the late Minnie Pwerle, Emi...
14/06/2026

Emily Pwerleʼs country is Atnwengerrp and her language is Anmatyerre and Alyawarr. Sister of the late Minnie Pwerle, Emily Pwerleʼs extended family are all artists.

She was possibly born in the 1920s (no records exist) and lives in Irrultja, a tiny settlement in Utopia, NT of about 100 people.

Pwerle paints ʻAwelye Atnwengerrpʼ, meaning womenʼs ceremony, which is depicted by a series of lines and symbols, often criss-crossed patterns that are layered across the canvas with colours that are explosive, colourful and energetic.

Image:
Emily Pwerle
Awelye Atnwengerrp, 2011
acrylic on linen canvas
79 x 60 cm
Courtesy of the artist

Pintupi artist Elizabeth Nyumi’s (1947-2019) enduring subject was the Country known as Parwalla, which is her father’s c...
13/06/2026

Pintupi artist Elizabeth Nyumi’s (1947-2019) enduring subject was the Country known as Parwalla, which is her father’s country. This country is far to the south of Balgo (where she painted with Warlayirti Artists) in the Great Sandy Desert, west of Kiwirrkurra, and is dominated by tali (sand hills).

Parwalla is a large swampy area, which fills with water after the wet season rain and consequently produces an abundance of bush foods. The majority of Nyumi’s work shows the different bush foods, including kantjilyi (bush raisin), pura (bush tomato) and minyili (seed).

Women, shown as the U shapes, with their wana (digging sticks) and coolamons gathering the foods are also depicted. The whitish colours, which dominate the print, represent the spinifex that grows strong and seeds after the wet season rains. These seeds are white in colour, and grow so thickly they obscure the ground and other plants below.

Nyumi was one of the most famous of the second generation of artists of Warlayirti Artists of Balgo. A painter, dancer and teacher of traditional dance and song from a family of artists, in her maturity as a painter she initially worked with a thick brush, covering the canvas in emanating lines in muted tones.

Her work is held in the collections of the NGV, AGNSW, AGSA and most other Australian public collections.

Images:
Elizabeth Nyumi
Parwalla, 2009
acrylic on canvas
30 x 40 cm

Parwalla, 2009
acrylic on canvas
30 x 45 cm

Courtesy of the artist and Warlayirti Artists

Considered one of most established Martumili Artists, Bugai Whyoulter is known as a master of colour, gesture and subtle...
13/06/2026

Considered one of most established Martumili Artists, Bugai Whyoulter is known as a master of colour, gesture and subtlety. Bugai was born at Pukayiyirna, on present day Balfour Downs Station. She grew up, walked and hunted primarily around Punmu, Kunawarritji and Kun Kun.

She has lived in Kunawarritji community, where she was taught to paint by relatives Nora Nungabar and Nora Wompi. The three women painted together as often as possible.

Her work has been exhibited in numerous exhibitions including Martu Art from the Far Western Desert, 2014, Museum of Contemporary Art and is held in the collections of the NGV and NMA.

This duo of paintings depict an area in the artist’s country where she lived and travelled extensively throughout the pujiman (bush) days with her family. She travelled from what is now Balfour Downs station where she was born, all around the Parnngurr area and up and down the Canning Stock Route as far as Kunawarritji.

Kunawarritji is also known as Well 33 and is now her Ngurra (home) community.

Images: Bugai Whyoulter
Kunawarritji, 2014
acrylic on canvas
36 x 76 cm

Kunawarritji, 2014
acrylic on canvas
36 x 76 cm

Courtesy of the artist and Martumili Artists

Jaru/Walmajarri artist Biddy Timbinah was born in the Western Desert at Kiwirrkurra in the 1920s. As a child with her da...
13/06/2026

Jaru/Walmajarri artist Biddy Timbinah was born in the Western Desert at Kiwirrkurra in the 1920s. As a child with her dad, three mums, sister and brother, she walked 1200 kms from there to Sturt Creek Station near Halls Creek.

She arrived to live in Halls Creek in 1973 and in 2007 started painting with Yarlyiil Arts. She painted her country and the stories of when she was young. In 2012 she won both the Mid-West Art Prize in Geraldton for the overall award of excellence and the best work by an Indigenous artist at the Port Hedland Art Award. Her work is in the collection of the Art Gallery of WA and the City of Greater Geraldton Art Collection.

This painting represents the leaves of the Koongaberry tree. It was used as a licensed design by Headsox. Since Biddy has passed away, 10% of the purchase price from this specific design goes directly to Biddy Timbinah’s family to honor her artistic legacy.

Image: Biddy Timbanah
Koongaberry Leaves, 2010
acrylic on canvas
51 x 51 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Yarliyil Arts

Adrian Jangala Robertson joined the Bindi Mwerre Anthurre Artists in 2002. He is a landscape painter and uses apredomina...
10/06/2026

Adrian Jangala Robertson joined the Bindi Mwerre Anthurre Artists in 2002. He is a landscape painter and uses a
predominantly restricted palette. His paintings consistently refer to the
desert mountains, ridges and trees which are part of Yalpirakinu. His brushwork is loaded with energy, drama and memories. He is a deliberate and thoughtful painter; reworking, pushing and pulling the image to completion.

Jangala is a brother to the late artist Darby Ross Jampitjinpa, and his mother is the late Eunice Napangardi, a well known painter. It is her country, Yalpirakinu, that Adrian paints.

Adrian won the NATSIAA General Painting Award (2020), the Artist of the Year, Mparntwe NAIDOC awards
(2021), and The Alice Prize, Mparntwe National Contemporary Art Award
(2022), and has twice been selected in same year as a finalist in the three major Art Gallery of NSW prizes - the Archibald, Wynne and the Sir John Sulman.

Image: ADRIAN JANGALA ROBERTSON
Yalpirakinu, 2014
acrylic on canvas
19.5 × 46 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Mwerre Anthurre Artists

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08/06/2026

Open today 💫
Everywhen is open today Monday 8 June for the public holiday
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Thank you to everyone who came to our Small Works, Big Stories opening & curators floortalk yesterday 💫 we had a wonderf...
07/06/2026

Thank you to everyone who came to our Small Works, Big Stories opening & curators floortalk yesterday 💫 we had a wonderful afternoon sharing the stories of the many great artists whose 50+ works comprise this exhibition.

Small Works, Big Stories continues this weekend and until the end of June.

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