Kuruṉpa Kuṉpu | Strong Spirit

Kuruṉpa Kuṉpu | Strong Spirit features a collection of award-winning furniture works that resulted from a multi-year cross-cultural design collaboration between First Nations makers Tanya Singer and Errol Evans and designer Trent Jansen. Over three years, Tanya, Errol and Trent spent time in each other’s communities, learning about their unique relationships with Country, family and community. By engaging with their respective cultural practices and traditions, the designers have realised a collection of works that speak to the resilience of both First Nations people and ngura (Country), celebrating the potential for inter-cultural collaboration to embody diverse cultural values and lived experiences. 

Exhibitors: Errol Evans, Trent Jansen, Tanya Singer

The exhibition is part of Tarnanthi 2025

Nurnakanha Lyaartinya Urrkaapuntja | Our New Work on Glass

Artists from the lltja Ntjarra Art Centre have partnered with Canberra Glassworks to reinterpret the Hermannsburg School watercolour tradition through the medium of glass. Following a series of collaborative workshops in Mparntwe (Alice Springs), the Canberra Glassworks has created glass ‘blanks’ that were sent to Mparntwe for artists to work on, and these were then returned to CGW for engraving and hand finishing. The result is a spectacular series of blown glass vessels featuring the artists’ landscape paintings in a continuation of Albert Namatjira’s work. The collaboration follows an artist-led approach, focusing on stories and the curatorial rationale at Iltja Ntjarra Art Centre.

Exhibitors: Mona Lisa (Benita) Clements, Carita Coulthard, Dellina Inkamala, Dianne Inkamala, Kathy Inkamala, Raelene Inkamala, Reinhold Inkamala, Vanessa Inkamala, Mandy Malbunka, Betty Namatjira Wheeler, Mervyn Rubuntja, Kumantjai M Wheeler 

The exhibition is part of Tarnanthi 2025

Trent Jansen and Tanya Singer, Manta Pilti | Dry Sand Low Chair, 2023, American walnut, photographer: Fiona Susanto

Dellina Inkamlala of Iltja Ntjarra Art Centre, Tjoritja - West MacDonnell Ranges, 2025, Watercolour, Gouache, Glass Paint on Glass Dome, 350 x 200 x 230, Photo: Connor Patterson