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Merran Sierakowski

Yumutjin Gumana, Waturr Gumana and Djirrirra Wunungmurra, Hollow log ceremonial poles, 2005–06, ochre and fixative on stringybark log. In Gangan at RAFT Artspace, 2/8 Parap Place, Parap, Darwin, from 16 June to 8 July. Call 08 89410810 or visit www.raftartspace.com.au.

Gallery Sometimes proposals

Gallery Sometimes is an artists-run initiative and is dedicated to showing the broad spectrum of work that Darwin artists have to offer. The exhibition spaces are the vacant shop-fronts of the Darwin CBD, with each show running for three weeks. Gallery Sometimes has been successfully running for over three months, and your work can reach a large and diverse audience through this project. To be involved, submit a maximum of five, low-res jpegs to gallerysometimes@hotmail.com or call Ivor Cole on 0413 478 258.

Congratulations…

To the people, actors and artists of Raminginning on the selection of the feature film 10 canoes for screening at the 59th Annual Cannes Film Festival in France. 10 canoes, which is filmed entirely in the Indigenous Yolgnu language, is a co-production between Bula Bula Arts, Vertigo productions and is directed by Rolf de Heer. It is based on stories surrounding photographs taken by Donald Thompson in Arnhem Land in 1937 (see AMA #189 May 2006). The film is listed for competition in the prestigious Un Certain Regard category. It also opens the Sydney Film Festival (9 – 25 June) on Friday 9 June at the State Theatre at 8pm. Visit www.sydneyfilmfestival.org … And congratulations also to local printmaker, Monique Aurichio who took out first place in the Jaques Cadry Memorial Art Prize. This prize worth $8,000 benefits the Sydney Children's Hospital and was announced in April. Aurichio won with her painting entitled Lamb that was selected from a field of thirty-seven works … But wait there’s more, three NT artists have been shortlisted for the City of Hobart Prize – Jett Street (jewellery); Natasha Rowell and Neil Emmerson (printmaking). Short-listed finalists are invited to exhibit at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in Hobart. Winners will be announced on Friday 18 August, and the exhibition runs from 19 August to 1 October. Congratulations all!

What’s on in June

An exhibition entitled Gangan at RAFT Artspace in June features work by Djirrirra Wunungmurra, Waturr Gumana, and Yumutjin Gumana. The exhibition explores the relationship of aesthetic encoded design used by the three artsists from Gangan, an Indigenous homeland about 150 km, southwest of Yirrkala in eastern Arnhem Land. The exhibition runs from 16 June to 8July, at RAFT Artspace, 8/8 Parap Place. Call 08 89410810 or visit www.raftartspace.com.au … Artist Jasmine Jan is having an exhibition of watercolours from 30 June at Territory Colours Gallery in Darwin. The exhibition entitled Wild Jasmine will be opened at 6.00 pm on 30 June by His Honour the Administrator of the NT Mr Ted Egan, AO. Call 08 8981 1803 or email territorycolours@octa4.net.au …Tobias Richardson 's exhibition entitled Circumambulation deals with psychology and memory of buildings and with the physical aspects of religious observance. The exhibition opens on 1 June and runs until 17 June and can be seen at The Gallery, Charles Darwin University, Building 12, Casuarina Campus. Call 08 8946 6419 … June is also a big month at 24hr Art with a new programme of exhibitions starting on 23 June and running until 29 July. Curated by Binghui Huangfu and featuring works by Suzann Victor, Sangeeta Sangdrasser and Mahmoud Yekta Light and shade,showing in Gallery 1, explores issues of gender, politics, humanism, intimacy, feminism and the relationships between cultural representation of these concepts. A video installation by Sarawut Chutiwongpeti entitled Wishes, lies and dreams deals with concepts surrounding memory, dreams and unconscious fantasies. Also opening on 23 June, this work can be seen in the Screening Room. Call 08 8981 5368 or visit www.24hrart.org.au … and last but definitely not least, if you're quick and live in Adelaide you can get yourself along to an exhibition of paintings by Darwin artist Bryan Bully The show is called Fables, myths, love and other falsehoods and it's on at the Greenhill Gallery Adelaide until 13 June. Bully has been painting his lush tropical and mythological works in the territory in a practice that stretches over ten years. These works were painted over the last eighteen months and this exhibition gives you cold southerners a chance to view a bit of the tropics.