When David Corazza and his partner in life and business Peter Boyle moved to the Northern Rivers in 2011 to open The Channon Gallery, the gallery brought a fresh, contemporary approach to the local gallery scene and very quickly came part of the artistic landscape of the region.  Sadly however, the long-term partnership they’d planned was not to be, and after Boyle’s untimely death in March this year, Corazza not surprisingly closed the gallery for a while.

But this weekend, Sunday May 31 at 3.00pm, sees the re-opening of The Channon Gallery with an exhibition of Aboriginal Desert artists, entitled Mountain Devil Lizard’ , after Kathleen Petyarre’s painting of the same name. (Kathleen Petyarre: Mountain Devil Lizard’ , acrylic on canvas, 208 x 208cm, 2002)

Other artists that featuring in the exhibition include Shirley Purdie, Minnie Pwerle and daughter Barbara Weir, Josie Petrick Kemarre, Lily Kelly Napangardi, Madigan Thomas, Malcolm Jagamarra and Jack Britten.

Jack Brittan: Bungle Bungles, 120 x 169cm, acrylic on canvas, 1998

The gallery specializes in quality art work created by Northern Rivers artists and sources works from mid and late career artists from elsewhere in Australia.  The gallery also has in-house collection of high quality Australian Indigenous art from the Central and Western Desert regions of the country.  Says Corazza: “The guiding curatorial framework of this collection is rooted in Australian Aboriginal art with a modernist aesthetic with a leaning to abstract expressionism.  The work has, at its heart, the Australian landscape and the stories and spirit of the land, rendered in expressive brush strokes and mark-making.”

Provenance documentation will be provided for each art work sold. Any enquiries are welcome by telephone or email.

The exhibition opens at 3.00 pm on Sunday May 31 and you can find The Channon Gallery at:

52 Terania Street
THE CHANNON NSW 2480 Australia

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