RED DESERT DREAMINGS

SUMMER DAYS

CAN YOU BELIEVE IT'S 2025?

If you're like us it really doesn't feel like all that long ago that we were celebrating the beginning of a new millennia, and it's difficult to wrap your head around that fact that a quarter of a century has passed. Time does indeed fly.

We at Red Desert Dreamings want to wish you all the very best for this coming year and hope that 2025 brings you all prosperity, health, happiness, and good times with family and friends.

NEW ONLINE EXHIBIT

We've curated a new online exhibit celebrating 4 outstanding artists from Papunya - Tjawina Porter, Maisey Campbell, Esther Giles Nampitjinpa, and Nyurapaiya Nampitjinpa (also known as Mrs. Bennett, and one of our absolute favourite artists).

These artists work mostly in more muted and ochre-ish colour palettes (though there are some very vibrant ones as well) and there's a large variety of sizes, styles and prices to see here.

We hope you enjoy this mini collection and perhaps find a piece that speaks to you and would complete a room in your house.

COLLECTOR'S SPECIAL 20% DISCOUNT

Minnie Pwerle

Awelya-Anemangkerr

127 x 109cm

$10,800

FEATURED ARTIST

BILLY STOCKMAN TJAPALTJARRI

Billy Stockman’s life began with tragedy. His mother and others of his family were killed in the 1928 Coniston Massacre, 280kms north of Alice Springs, while he was sleeping in a coolamon under a bush where his mother had concealed him. Just one of only two survivors, Billy was consequently found and taken in by the family of perhaps Australia’s most famous Aboriginal artist, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, and raised as an adopted brother.

Billy worked as a stockman on Napperby Station, where he would sell carvings and boomerangs to U.S soldiers stationed nearby during WWII. In time, he began to paint designs on them.

Billy Stockman was a wood carver before he became a painter like Kaapa Tjampitjinpa and Clifford Possum, He was one of the first artists to start painting large scale canvasses.

Billy Stockman served as Chairman of Papunya Tula Artists from 1976-77 and as a member of the Aboriginal Arts Board of the Australia Council from 1975-1979.

NEW STOCK AVAILABLE ONLINE

Red Desert Dreamings is a bit of an oddity in the world of Art Galleries in that we don't work on consignment and own all the paintings that are available for sale here as part of a Private Collection that we also have for sale.

All artists have been paid for these works and where appropriate will also receive royalties from any further sales.

We're always updating our available works on the website, so if you haven't been through our catalog in a little while you can always go to ARTWORKS and then at the top right, filter by New to Old to see what's fresh and you may just fall in love!