Indigenous Australian artist Lena Nyadbi in Paris on the day of the official opening of her art installation on the roof of the Quai Branly Museum.
Photo : Alastair Miller 6 june, 2013. Photo courtesy of Warmun Art Centre
Indigenous Australian artist Lena Nyadbi on the Eiffel Tower, surrounded by media, on the day of the official opening of her art installation on the roof of the Quai Branly Museum.
Photo : Alastair Miller 6 june, 2013. Photo courtesy of Warmun Art Centre.
Indigenous Australian artist Lena Nyadbi in Paris with her painting, which became an art installation on the roof of the Quai Branly Museum.
Photo : Alastair Miller 6 june, 2013. Photo courtesy of Warmun Art Centre
We extend our heartfelt congratulations to Gija/Kija artist Lena Nyadbi on recieving an Order of Australia in the Australia Day Honours List. Her majesstic evocations of Country and Culture resonate the world over and we are privileged to live and work in the company of her resplendent paintings every day at Wesfarmers.
We join with our arts partners National Gallery of Australia and Art Gallery of Western Australia in acknowledging this wonderful recognition of a truly great Australian artist. We also pay tribute to the wonderful Warmun Art Centre where Lena has worked since 1998 on the Gija Country that has nurtured among the greatest of Australian artists.
The Wesfarmers Collection of Australian Art holds a major work by the artist you can see and read about here: Dayiwul and Jimbirla Ngarranggarni
More work by Lena Nyadbi is currently on display at the Art Gallery of Western Australia in the international touring exhibition Ever Present: First People’s Art of Australia