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Ronnie Tjampitjinpa: does the double whammy work?

A commercial gallery and art museum work side-by-side to magnify the salute to Indigenous painter Ronnie Tjampitjinpa.

15 Apr 2015

Gina Fairley

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Visual Arts

Detail of Ronnie Tjampitjinpa Untitled 1994 © Ronnie Tjampitjinpa; Licensed by Aboriginal Artists Agency Ltd, courtesy AGNSW

Concurrently showing across two venues in Sydney – a commercial space and the Art Gallery of NSW – the spotlight has been turned on Pintuip artist Ronnie Tjampitjinpa, making a decisive statement about his place as one of Australia’s most important Aboriginal artists.

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Gina Fairley

Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's National Visual Arts Editor. For a decade she worked as a freelance writer and curator across Southeast Asia and was previously the Regional Contributing Editor for Hong Kong based magazines Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. Prior to writing she worked as an arts manager in America and Australia for 14 years, including the regional gallery, biennale and commercial sectors. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Twitter: @ginafairley Instagram: fairleygina