$300 Day Fundraiser 2017
Friday 21st July 6pm - Sunday 23rd July 4pm

Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative is celebrating 30 years of existence in 2017. Boomalli was established in 1987 by 10 Aboriginal Artists, Jeffrey Samuels, Arone Meeks, Euphemia Bostock, Tracey Moffatt, Bronwyn Bancroft, Michael Riley, Avril Quaill, Fernanda Martins, Brenda L. Croft and Fiona Foley.
 
Boomalli’s primary goal is to promote Aboriginal Artists whose language groups exist in the NSW State boundaries. We support, promote, educate and protect copyright for our members. Boomalli strives to improve access for Aboriginal Artists from both regional and metropolitan NSW.
 
Like most arts organisations we must fundraise to survive.
 
Our $300 fundraiser invites Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Artists to donate artworks exceeding $300. The artworks (we currently have over 200!) are then sold over the exhibition period for $300. 
 
This year’s fundraiser will open on Friday 21^st July 6pm and will continue until Sunday 23^rd July 4pm.

It is going to be a great night, so come along and support NSW's longest running Aboriginal Artists Co-operative. Please share far and wide among your networks.

Our generous donors this year include:
 
Arone Meeks, Matthew Johnson, Deborah Taylor, Euphemia Bostock, Graham Toomey, Oral Roberts, Jeffrey Samuels, Reg Mombassa, Sharon Smith, Blak Douglas, Jasmine Sarin, Adam King, Bronwyn Bancroft, Sharon Hickey, Kim Healey, Lottie Consalvo, Anni Jane Linklater, Luke Cornish, James Drinkwater, Euan Macleod, Joe Hurst, Darren Charlwood, Tracey L. Bostock, Susan Wald, Janelle Evans, Danie Mellor, Somchai Charoen, Suzy King, Dinah Vandermeys, Janny Grant, J.E Thomas, D. Ryan, Edwina Wrobel, Ann Daly, Louise Tuckwell, Hardie Grant Egmont, Fremantle Press, Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience, Harper Collins, Allen and Unwin, Magabala Books, Bangarra Dance Theatre, Tillys Art Supplies, and a collection of Ariyoshi Kenzo Prints donated by Colleen Doorey. We would also like to acknowledge art collectors who have donated works from their private collections, Reg Richardson, Sharon Page, Mark Stapleton, Mark Lucas and Bronwyn Bancroft.

SILENT AUCTION

Alongside the exhibition we will also be conducting a silent auction which includes artworks, book packs, theatre tickets, vouchers and more. Silent auction forms will be available on the opening night, Friday 21st July 6pm. Bidding ends Friday 28th July 4pm.

Silent auction items include:

2 x Allen and Unwin Book Packs

Fremantle Press Book Pack 

2 x Hardie Grant Egmont Book Packs

3 x Harper Collins Book Packs

Magabala Book Pack

$300 AIME Apparel Voucher

Louise Tuckwell. 2017. Memory Lost. Acrylic on Board. 80 x 10 cm. Value: $1600.00

Euan Macleod. Mungo x 2 6/20. Etching. 24.5 x 34.5 cm. Value: $550.00

Danie Mellor. 2016. The Story Place (anthology of history). Lambda print on metallic photographic paper. 25.5 x 29.5 cm. Value: $990.00

$100 Tillys Art Supplies Voucher

Double pass to Bangarra Dance Theatre production ONES COUNTRY: the spin of our stories & post-show function with dancers and creatives, Carriageworks, 245 Wilson St, Eveleigh (Friday 24th November 7:30pm) https://www.bangarra.com.au/whatson/productions/ones-country-2017 

2 x Tiwi Designs T-shirts (Hand painted Bathurst Island, Northern Territory) Donated by Sharon Page.

DYINDA DESIGNS by Jessica Birk and Frances Belle Parker

Currently Exhibiting in Boomalli's Front Galleries

Continues until Sunday 14th May 2017

The range of products include cushion covers, tea towels, silk scarves, cards and bunting.

NEED SOME CHRISTMAS GIFT IDEAS?

Come along to Boomalli and have a look at our gorgeous and unique selection of gifts created by our Artist Members.

We will be open until Friday 23rd December.

Deborah Taylor. Before the Fires. Acrylic on Canvas. 105 x 80.5 cm.
Jeffrey Samuels. The Cube Invisible and Triangle. Mixed media on Canvas. 10 x 8 cm.
Photography by Sharon Hickey. 

We as Aboriginal people have been traversing this land,

this country for over 60,000 years and still

' Makin Tracks'

Celebrates with us for our
29th Year
Members Exhibition

Next year we turn 30! So we are ' Makin Tracks '  into 2017 to celebrate this milestone.

Come along and make some tracks with us by supporting our remote, regional and metropolitan Aboriginal Artists on the

12th November 4pm - 6pm
For our end of the year exhibition with light refreshments

Details of Artwork from Members Exhibition 2016 Top L-R; Deborah Taylor, Gordon Syron, Jeffrey Samuels, Bronwyn Bancroft.
Details of Artwork from Members Exhibition 2016 Bottom L-R; Sharon Smith, Annalisa Wilson, Janice Brown, Euphemia Bostock.

Come and celebrate a great year for the Co-operative, surrounded by the diverse works of Boomalli's Aboriginal Artist Members. 

Confirmed Artists include Jeffrey Samuels, Graham Toomey, Sharon Smith, Jessica Johnson, Lewis Burns, Leeanne Hunter, Burri Jerome, Greg Weatherby, Aroha Groves, Bronwyn Bancroft, Danny Eastwood, Jamie Eastwood, Joe Hurst, Jenny Fraser, Val West, The Euraba Paper Artists, Cassandra Jones, Arone Meeks, Euphemia Bostock, Nicole Phillips, Tracey L. Bostock and Shirley Amos.

We will also be exhibiting two solo shows by Artists, Val West and Jenny Fraser in Boomalli's front galleries.

The Aboriginal Womens Artists Collective Show 'Belonging Now: Personified Landscapes' will open on Saturday 10th October at 4pm. The exhibition is being curated by Emerging Artist, Jessica Birk. 

The exhibition will include works by Jessica Birk, Bronwyn Bancroft, Shirley Amos, Leonie Binge, Euphemia Bostock, Tracey L. Bostock, Charmaine Davis, Joy Duncan, Danielle Gorogo, Kim Healey, May Hinch, Leeanne Hunter, Deborah Taylor and Carmel Richardson.  

The NSW Aboriginal Womens Artists Collective have been exhibiting together since 2005 and this show marks their last year. They have been exhibiting at Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative since 2012. 

So come down to Boomalli on Saturday 10th October and join us to celebrate 11 years of exhibiting and creating extraordinary works of art from this talented group of NSW Aboriginal Women Artists.

Boomalli will also be exhibiting a solo exhibitions of works by Jenny Fraser in the front gallery. We hope you can make it, as it will be a show not to be missed! 

Alongside the Members Show, Boomalli will be exhibiting works by Founding Member Artist and Boomalli Chairperson, Euphemia Bostock alongside Emerging Artist, Carmen Sandy in the two front galleries.

The annual Eora Art Exhibition featuring students from Eora TAFE College. The exhibition opens Tuesday 16th June at 6pm and will continue until Thursday 25th June.

Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative is one of Australia's longest running Aboriginal owned and operated art galleries. Established in Chippendale Sydney in 1987, Boomalli is a word derived from three different New South Wales language groups and means: "To strike; to make a mark".