Coconut Studios

Coconut Studios Coconut Studios was founded by Stephanie Martin in 2020 on Larrakia land in the suburb known as Coconut Grove, NT. Opening hours 10-5pm Fri-Sun.

Coconut Studios presents important work by contemporary artists in a bid to reveal ways of seeing and relating in present times. Call 0475 381 170.

Dear patrons and supporters, Coconut Studios gallery in Coconut Grove - new year update.With love and appreciation,🧡 Ste...
22/01/2025

Dear patrons and supporters,

Coconut Studios gallery in Coconut Grove - new year update.

With love and appreciation,

🧡 Steph

On this beautiful wet season day in January, the latest edition of  drops in Garramilla, Larrakia Country. 🧡Written by D...
17/01/2025

On this beautiful wet season day in January, the latest edition of drops in Garramilla, Larrakia Country. 🧡

Written by Darren Jorgensen, a double-page spread (p.130-131) features artworks by Rita Kemarr Beasley and Julie Beasley (respectively) and highlights the last 3 exhibitions at Coconut Studios:

✬ Rita & Julie (Rita Kemarr Beasley and Julie Beasley)

✬ MY STORY WITH THEM, Joseph Jungarayi Williams

✬ LOOKIN’ AT COUNTRYSIDE, LOOKIN’ AT THAT PLANE (group exhibition featuring Adrian Jangala Robertson, Billy Kenda, Charles Inkamala, Conway Ginger and Lance James) .mwerre.anthurre.artists

The Karrabing Film Collective’s 2022 exhibition MERMAIDS: MIRROR WORLDS is also referenced as well as the legacy of founded by Dallas Gold which has since evolved into - an article about this story features further along (p.230-231).

Thanks to all involved. 🧡

As the end of 2024 inches closer, a heartfelt thank you to the artists, arts workers and organisations involved in this ...
02/12/2024

As the end of 2024 inches closer, a heartfelt thank you to the artists, arts workers and organisations involved in this year’s exhibitions, and big thank you to patrons of the gallery, friends and family whose continued support sustains it all.

Wishing you all a peaceful break.

💛 Steph

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All my Country is the first substantive book on the little-known Batchelor Institute (BIITE) Art Collection, a unique cu...
29/10/2024

All my Country is the first substantive book on the little-known Batchelor Institute (BIITE) Art Collection, a unique cultural and artistic resource which has developed over the decades-long life of the Institute.

RRP $75, contact [email protected] for sales and enquiries. 💛

ISBN: 9781741311051, Page Count: 220

Author: Dr Ngatkali Wendy Ludwig, Gary Lee, Chips Mackinolty, Dr Joanna Barrkman, Maurice O’Riordan, Desktop Publisher: Therese Ritchie, Editors: Dr Ngatkali Wendy Ludwig (Editor-in-chief), Maurice O’Riordan, Photographer: Maurice O’Riordan, Therese Ritchie, David Hancock, George Fragopolous, Graphic Designer: Therese Ritchie, Colour Format: Full Colour, Binding Type: Perfect Bound, Dimensions: 23 cm × 2 cm × 28 cm, Weight: 950 g

This powerful work by Georgie Mattingley that recently featured in the NT Art Award is now available through the Coconut...
14/10/2024

This powerful work by Georgie Mattingley that recently featured in the NT Art Award is now available through the Coconut Studios website. Visit the link in the bio.

‘Once Upon a Time’ 2024
Oil on silver gelatin print, hand-poured resin frame
60 x 90cm, edition 1 of 3

Once upon a time a centre called Don Dale housed youth in detention. The children were moved to a neighbouring facility and the old site was left unoccupied after a Royal Commission recommended its closure in 2018. The jungle began to take over.

I captured this photograph of the old Don Dale site using 35mm black and white film and developed the print in a photographic dark room. I then rubbed a thin layer of transparent oil colours over its surface to evoke a surreal blurring between the real and the imagined. I made the frame by casting an old classical frame and pouring in resin with translucent inks. ‘Once Upon a Time’ illicits the language of fairy tales, dreams and child-like longing. But in this case, ‘Once Upon a Time’ represents a true place that existed/exists to incarcerate our young people.

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8/18 Caryota Court
Coconut Grove, NT
0810

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