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AJ TAYLOR | PAPERBARKSBuilt through layers of oil paint and abrasion with a handheld sander, AJ Taylor’s paintings move ...
24/06/2026

AJ TAYLOR | PAPERBARKS

Built through layers of oil paint and abrasion with a handheld sander, AJ Taylor’s paintings move between construction and erosion. Surface becomes memory, with traces of previous marks emerging through successive acts of covering and revealing.

AJ Taylor
Martin Browne Contemporary

AJ Taylor
Paperbarks 1, 2014
Oil on board
165 x 243 cm
$32,000

To secure this work or enquire about other available works by AJ Taylor, please contact the gallery on (02) 9331 7997, send us a DM or email [email protected]

LEON RUSSELL BLACK ACQUIRED BY ARTBANKWe are delighted to share that Artbank has acquired this remarkable bark painting ...
19/06/2026

LEON RUSSELL BLACK ACQUIRED BY ARTBANK

We are delighted to share that Artbank has acquired this remarkable bark painting by Tiwi artist Leon Russell Black for its national collection.

Painted with natural ochres on stringybark, the work is Leon’s largest bark painting to date and forms part of his ongoing Bush Holiday Dreaming series, expressing enduring connections to Sea, Country, family and Tiwi cultural knowledge.

We extend our sincere thanks to the Artbank team and congratulate Leon Russell Black and Munupi Arts & Crafts Association on this significant acquisition. It is a privilege to see this extraordinary work enter a collection dedicated to sharing Australian contemporary art with communities across the country.

Pictured with Leon Russell Black’s bark painting are members of the Artbank team during their recent visit to Martin Browne Contemporary.

Munupi Aboriginal Arts
Artbank
Martin Browne Contemporary

Leon Russell Black
Bush Holiday Dreaming (24-219), 2024
Natural ochres on stringybark
93 x 260 cm

LEON RUSSELL BLACK ACQUIRED BY ARTBANKWe are delighted to share that Artbank has acquired this remarkable bark painting ...
19/06/2026

LEON RUSSELL BLACK ACQUIRED BY ARTBANK

We are delighted to share that Artbank has acquired this remarkable bark painting by Tiwi artist Leon Russell Black for its national collection.

Painted with natural ochres on stringybark, the work is Leon’s largest bark painting to date and forms part of his ongoing Bush Holiday Dreaming series, expressing enduring connections to Sea, Country, family and Tiwi cultural knowledge.

We extend our sincere thanks to the Artbank team and congratulate Leon Russell Black and Munupi Arts & Crafts Association on this significant acquisition. It is a privilege to see this extraordinary work enter a collection dedicated to sharing Australian contemporary art with communities across the country.

Pictured with Leon Russell Black’s bark painting are members of the Artbank team during their recent visit to Martin Browne Contemporary.

Munupi Aboriginal Arts
Artbank
Martin Browne Contemporary

Work featured:
Leon Russell Black
Bush Holiday Dreaming (24-219), 2024
Natural ochres on stringybark
93 x 260 cm

NGINI NGARWULLA KIRRIJIPUNI
OUR CLAY: NATURAL OCHRES FOR PAINTING AND STORY
Artists from Munupi Arts, Pirlangimpi, Melvi...
18/06/2026

NGINI NGARWULLA KIRRIJIPUNI
OUR CLAY: NATURAL OCHRES FOR PAINTING AND STORY

Artists from Munupi Arts, Pirlangimpi, Melville Island.

On view until 27 June.

Munupi Aboriginal Arts
Martin Browne Contemporary

For all enquiries or to acquire one of these works, contact the gallery on 02 9331 7997, DM us or email [email protected]

ZAK TILLEY | NEW IN THE GALLERY
Drawing upon a reported cryptid sighting near Tower Hill, Victoria, in the early 1980s, ...
16/06/2026

ZAK TILLEY | NEW IN THE GALLERY

Drawing upon a reported cryptid sighting near Tower Hill, Victoria, in the early 1980s, ‘Worry Quarry’ occupies a space between landscape, memory and folklore. Rather than documenting the event itself, Tilley turns his attention to the terrain that held it, treating the quarry as a site where observation, testimony and imagination become inseparable.

Charged with expressive brushwork and vivid passages of colour, the painting reconstructs the landscape as something at once familiar and elusive. Fragmented forms emerge and dissolve across the surface, inviting viewers into a scene that resists certainty and rewards prolonged looking.

Zak Tilley
Martin Browne Contemporary

Zak Tilley
Worry Quarry, 2026
Oil on cotton
92 x 82 cm
$6,500

For all enquiries or to acquire this work, contact the gallery on 02 9331 7997, DM us or email [email protected]

Standing before the intricate works of Simplicia Tipungwuti, visitors are often drawn into the remarkable detail, rhythm...
13/06/2026

Standing before the intricate works of Simplicia Tipungwuti, visitors are often drawn into the remarkable detail, rhythm and storytelling held within each painting. Created using natural ochres from Country, these works invite a slower way of looking, revealing layer upon layer of cultural knowledge, connection, and memory.

Part of our current exhibition, Ngini Ngarwulla Kirrijipuni – Our Clay: Natural Ochres for Painting and Story on until 27 June.

Works featured:

Simplicia Tipungwuti
Untitled (24-281), 2024
Ochre on canvas
120 x 180 cm
$8,000

Simplicia Tipungwuti
Pupuni Jilamara (26-90), 2025
Ochre on canvas
100 x 160 cm
$6,000

Simplicia Tipungwuti
Pupuni Jilamara (25-400), 2025
Ochre on canvas
80 x 120 cm
$3,700

For all enquiries, to organise a video viewing or to acquire one of these works please contact the gallery on (02) 9331 7997, send a DM or email [email protected]

LEON RUSSELL BLACK | MUNUPI ARTS For Leon Russell Black, painting is a way of recording life in Pirlangimpi.Working excl...
09/06/2026

LEON RUSSELL BLACK | MUNUPI ARTS

For Leon Russell Black, painting is a way of recording life in Pirlangimpi.

Working exclusively with natural ochres on black grounds, his paintings draw upon hunting, fishing and travelling through Country on the Tiwi Islands. Built through intricate fields of repeated marks, these lived experiences become compositions that are both deeply personal and unmistakably Tiwi.

Leon began painting in 2017 after learning from his mother, Lidwina (Nina) Puruntatameri, and drawing inspiration from his grandfather Romuald Puruntatameri, a respected Tiwi artist, cultural leader and songman. Since then, his work has been exhibited widely across Australia, including at Melbourne Art Fair and TARNANTHI Festival, and has been selected as a finalist in the Wynne Prize, Telstra NATSIAA, Churchie Emerging Art Award and Hadley’s Art Prize.

“In my paintings I can tell everything about my life in Pirlangimpi, paint all these things in the Tiwi way, in my way, my own way.”

Works by Leon Russell Black are currently on view in Ngini Ngarwulla Kirrijipuni – Our Clay: Natural Ochres for Painting and Story at Martin Browne Contemporary.

On view until 27th June.




Works featured:

Leon Russell Black
Bush Holiday Dreaming (25-222), 2025
Natural ochre on stringybark
191 x 68 cm
$12,500

Leon Russell Black
Bush Holiday Dreaming (26-10), 2026
Ochre on canvas
120 x 180 cm
$11,400 (detail)

Leon Russell Black
Bush Holiday Dreaming (25-26), 2025
Ochre on canvas
78.5 x 117 cm
$5,400

Leon Russell Black
Bush Holiday Dreaming (26-49), 2026
Ochre on canvas
120 x 80 cm
$5,400

Leon Russell Black
Bush Holiday Dreaming (24-107), 2024
Ochre on canvas
100 x 100 cm
SOLD

For all enquiries or to acquire one of these works, contact the gallery on 02 9331 7997, DM us or email [email protected]

SIMPLICIA TIPUNGWUTI | MUNUPI ARTS | NOW SHOWINGAcross dense fields of repeated marks, Simplicia Tipungwuti transforms t...
07/06/2026

SIMPLICIA TIPUNGWUTI | MUNUPI ARTS | NOW SHOWING

Across dense fields of repeated marks, Simplicia Tipungwuti transforms the visual language of Pupuni Jilamara into paintings of remarkable intricacy and scale.

Traditionally painted onto the bodies of dancers during important Tiwi ceremonies, these ceremonial designs form the foundation of Simplicia’s practice. Built through rhythmic patterning and finely structured geometries, her paintings unfold slowly across the surface, revealing layer upon layer of interconnected forms.

Working from Pirlangimpi on Melville Island, Simplicia has painted with Munupi Arts since 2019 and has exhibited both nationally and internationally, including at TARNANTHI Festival and London’s Saatchi Gallery. Her ambitious large-scale paintings demonstrate a distinctive approach to Tiwi painting, balancing the precision of ceremonial design with a dynamic contemporary sensibility.

Works by Simplicia Tipungwuti are currently on view in Ngini Ngarwulla Kirrijipuni – Our Clay: Natural Ochres for Painting and Story at Martin Browne Contemporary.

View the exhibition via the link in bio.




Works featured:

Simplicia Tipungwuti
Pupuni Jilamara (26-90), 2025
Ochre on canvas
100 x 160 cm
$6,000

Simplicia Tipungwuti
Pupuni Jilamara (25-400), 2025
Ochre on canvas
80 x 120 cm
$3,700

Simplicia Tipungwuti
Untitled (24-281), 2024
Ochre on canvas
120 x 180 cm
$8,000

For all enquiries or to acquire one of these works, contact the gallery on 02 9331 7997, DM us or email [email protected]

JACQUELINE PURUNTATAMERI | MUNUPI ARTS
Pupuni JilamaraNatural ochres on stringybark.Currently on view in Ngini Ngarwulla...
05/06/2026

JACQUELINE PURUNTATAMERI | MUNUPI ARTS

Pupuni Jilamara
Natural ochres on stringybark.

Currently on view in Ngini Ngarwulla Kirrijipuni – Our Clay: Natural Ochres for Painting and Story at Martin Browne Contemporary.

Work featured:
Jacqueline Puruntatameri
Pupuni Jilamara (26-51), 2026
Natural ochre on stringybark
97 x 47 cm
$4,200

For all enquiries or to acquire this work, contact the gallery on 02 9331 7997, DM us or email [email protected]

OPENING SATURDAY | NGINI NGARWULLA KIRRIJIPUNI | MUNUPI ARTSNow installed across the gallery, ‘Ngini Ngarwulla Kirrijipu...
04/06/2026

OPENING SATURDAY | NGINI NGARWULLA KIRRIJIPUNI | MUNUPI ARTS

Now installed across the gallery, ‘Ngini Ngarwulla Kirrijipuni – Our Clay: Natural Ochres for Painting and Story’ brings together new works by artists from Munupi Arts, Pirlangimpi, on Melville Island in the Tiwi Islands.

Working with natural ochres on canvas, stringybark and salvaged car bonnet, the exhibition presents a remarkable range of contemporary Tiwi painting, from intricate ceremonial designs to deeply personal reflections on Country, family and everyday life.

Join us for the opening reception this Saturday, 6 June, from 2–4pm.

Martin Browne Contemporary
15 Hampden Street, Paddington NSW

Exhibition continues until 27 June.




Works featured:

Leon Russell Black
Bush Holiday Dreaming (25-401), 2025
Ochre on canvas
120 x 180 cm
$11,400

Leon Russell Black
Bush Holiday Dreaming (24-219), 2024
Ochre on stringybark
93 x 260 cm
$22,000

Leon Russell Black
Bush Holiday Dreaming (26-10), 2026
Ochre on canvas
120 x 180 cm
$11,400

Lidwina (Nina) Tepomitari
Kulama Design (26-45), 2026
Ochre on canvas
120.5 x 181 cm
$7,600

Jacqueline Puruntatameri
Kulama Design (23-341), 2023
Ochre on canvas
120 x 80 cm
$3,200

For all enquiries or to acquire one of these works, contact the gallery on 02 9331 7997, DM us or email [email protected]

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15 Hampden Street
Paddington, NSW
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