Edel Assanti

Final few days to visit 'Each Place Its Own Mind', closing this Saturday. Featured in the show are two paintings by Aboriginal Australian artist Yukultji Napangati.

Napangati grew up living a seminomadic lifestyle in the Gibson Desert, Western Australia, until 1984, when at the age of fourteen, she and her family group were sighted by settler Australians and reunited with their Pintupi kin at the newly established community of Kiwirrkura.

She began painting for Papunya Tula Artists in 1996. Minimalist in palette and formally abstract, her works are rooted in ancestral knowledge, narratives, and histories passed down from her mother and grandmother. Her singular approach to mark-making utilises a repeated pattern of interconnected lines and dots that consume her canvases and generate the illusion of movement.

📸 Photo: Tom Carter.

Salon 94

Anna Hulačová has incorporated beekeeping into her artistic practice for over a decade. Featured in the exhibition 'Each Place Its Own Mind' her concrete busts, 'Dialog: Bugonia V' (2024), house honeycomb interiors constructed by bees during the swarming season.

Intertwining mythology, history, and environmental concerns, Hulačová’s sculptures explore the ecological and symbolic significance of bees – revered across cultures as conduits between the natural and divine. The work's title references the myth of 'bugonia', an ancient belief that bees could emerge from the bodies of sacrificed animals, as a transforming spirit strengthening the bond between the living and the dead.

Embodying the deep-rooted interconnection between our two species, these sculptures evoke a hybrid organism, whilst symbolising the permeable nature of body and consciousness.

📸 Photo: Tom Carter.

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