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A Superb Old New Guinea Water Drum Sawos People Middle Sepik River area East Sepik Papua New Guinea

A Superb Old New Guinea Water Drum Sawos People Middle Sepik River area East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea 

This rare old Sepik River musical instrument is a Water Drum and is called abuk in the local Sawos & Iatmul languages. Water Drums are important ceremonial musical instruments that were used in pairs along with pairs of Sacred Flutes that were used in an enclosure where women & the non-initiated couldn’t see them, a hole was dug in the ground and filled with water, the Drum is handled by two men each holding one side of the handle the drum is pushed into the water and then quickly pulled out creating an eerie whooshing sound caused by suction. This is said to be the voice of powerful ancestral spirits.

The Water Drum is carved from a single piece of heavy hardwood & beautifully carved with two sets of totemic bird’s heads on both handles, the lower part with finely incised clan designs that include stylized faces and traces of ochre painting. The three ridges at the top of the drum where there are no designs, that is where the Drum gets submerged in the pool of water & hence the discoloration from the water & mud and it makes sense to leave that undecorated except as those ridges might be necessary to make the unique acoustical sound.

The Sawos people, who live along the middle reaches of the Sepik River, are among the most prolific and accomplished sculptors in New Guinea. Sawos’ religion was complex and included a diversity of rites and ceremonies devoted to ancestors, spirits, and other supernatural beings. Almost every important occasion had ceremonial aspects, and some, such as male initiations, lasted for months. Sawos ceremonies often included both secret rites known only to men and public performances in which women and children participated. In the past, warfare and headhunting were integral elements of religious life.

There seems there were three types of Water Drums: A shallow oval Dish Form with lugs which was the more common, An hourglass-shaped Water Drum with handles only at the top

and this type is the tallest and the rarest & most interesting in my opinion with the handles in the middle of the drum

Of my type of Water Drum, there are only three known examples I could find: the one in the PNG National Museum collected by Dadi Wirtz, the two in a photograph by Laumann which no one knows where or if they still survive.

Provenance: Old Collection Australia and The Todd Barlin Collection of New Guinea Oceanic Art

See my new EXHIBITIONS GALLERY  showing the Museums and Art Galleries Exhibitions that I provided artworks for over the past 40 years. There is the link to the article about my artworks published in the prestigious Louvre Magazine in 1996

I have artwork for Museums and art Galleries but also for collectors at every stage of their collecting. I want to encourage people to explore the fine art of New Guinea & West Papua and the Pacific Islands and to be able to see and touch the artworks in a relaxed and friendly manner in my Sydney Gallery. I would like to invite you to visit my gallery and see the artworks in person and also look at my website www.oceanicartsaustralia.com where there are many Galleries & Sub Galleries to explore.

My Gallery of nearly 40 years is the last physical gallery in Sydney that specializes in New Guinea and Oceanic Art.  Sydney is very close to New Guinea & the Pacific Islands where all of these amazing artworks came from, Australia’s closest neighbors.

 

If you have a similar “object” for sale please contact me for the best price and honest advice by a Government approved valuer 

To see many more rare items and the finest masterpieces, please make an appointment with us to visit the gallery.

For all inquiries, please contact us 

 

A Superb Old Australian Aboriginal Hooked Boomerang & Woomera Northern Territory & West Australia

A Superb Old Australian Aboriginal Hooked Boomerang & Woomera Northern Territory & West Australia

This beautiful old boomerang is carved from a single piece of hardwood, it is finely incised with fluting on the front surface and with traces of ochre painting, the back of the boomerang is finely adzed with traditional tools.  Hooked boomerangs were non-returning boomerangs, they were used to kill multiple birds when thrown into a dense flock. Boomerangs are multi-purpose tools that are used for hunting and could be wielded as clubs, for digging, to start friction fires, and as musical instruments when two are struck together during ceremonial dancing.

With the dramatic hooked form, this boomerang looks like an abstracted bird or Brancusi Sculpture

And A Fine Old Woomera Spear Thrower from West Australia with a Stone Knife in the handle. Late 19th to Early 20th Century.

The Woomera Spear Thrower is a sophisticated technology that elongates the arm making the spear travel much further in distance & with great accuracy. This beautiful old Woomera finely incised with a Zig Zag design & red ochre, there is a small stone knife in the handle, a multi-purpose tool.

Provenance: The Todd Barlin Collection of New Guinea & First Australians & Oceanic Art 

See my new EXHIBITIONS GALLERY  showing the Museums and Art Galleries Exhibitions that I provided artworks for over the past 40 years. There is the link to the article about my artworks published in the prestigious Louvre Magazine in 1996

I have artwork for Museums and art Galleries but also for collectors at every stage of their collecting. I want to encourage people to explore the fine art of New Guinea & West Papua and the Pacific Islands and to be able to see and touch the artworks in a relaxed and friendly manner in my Sydney Gallery. I would like to invite you to visit my gallery and see the artworks in person and also look at my website www.oceanicartsaustralia.com where there are many Galleries & Sub Galleries to explore.

My Gallery of nearly 40 years is the last physical gallery in Sydney that specializes in New Guinea and Oceanic Art.  Sydney is very close to New Guinea & the Pacific Islands where all of these amazing artworks came from, Australia’s closest neighbors.

 

If you have a similar “object” for sale please contact me for the best price and honest advice by a Government approved valuer 

To see many more rare items and the finest masterpieces, please make an appointment with us to visit the gallery.

For all inquiries, please contact us 

 

A Fine Old New Guinea Shell Currency Matt Lumi Area West Sepik Province Papua New Guinea

A Fine Old New Guinea Shell Currency Mat called Poli from the Lumi Area West Sepik Province Papua New Guinea

This beautiful old woven wealth object from the Lumi Area of the West Sepik Province (now called Sandaun Province) of Papua New Guinea it is made from thousands of tiny Nassa shells each individually sewn onto the sago spathe and woven mat backing.  On the elegant oval form, you can see a design made with the pattern of the shells arranged in a V  shape.  The design is likely a stylized figure.  These woven & shell mats are called Poli  in their language, they are important wealth objects that are used as a traditional currency for bride price payments (a dowry) paid by the young man’s family.  This is the largest type of Poli and is much more beautiful than other square or rectangular-shaped examples. Fine weaving takes great skill and many many hours to make this one poli.

Provenance: The Todd Barlin Collection of New Guinea Oceanic Art 

See my new EXHIBITIONS GALLERY  showing the Museums and Art Galleries Exhibitions that I provided artworks for over the past 40 years. There is the link to the article about my artworks published in the prestigious Louvre Magazine in 1996

I have artwork for Museums and art Galleries but also for collectors at every stage of their collecting. I want to encourage people to explore the fine art of New Guinea & West Papua and the Pacific Islands and to be able to see and touch the artworks in a relaxed and friendly manner in my Sydney Gallery. I would like to invite you to visit my gallery and see the artworks in person and also look at my website www.oceanicartsaustralia.com where there are many Galleries & Sub Galleries to explore.

My Gallery of nearly 40 years is the last physical gallery in Sydney that specializes in New Guinea and Oceanic Art.  Sydney is very close to New Guinea & the Pacific Islands where all of these amazing artworks came from, Australia’s closest neighbors.

 

If you have a similar “object” for sale please contact me for the best price and honest advice by a Government approved valuer 

To see many more rare items and the finest masterpieces, please make an appointment with us to visit the gallery.

For all inquiries, please contact us 

 

A Superb Old Australian Aboriginal Tiwi Dance Spear Melville Island Northern Territory Australia

A Superb Old Australian Aboriginal Tiwi Dance Spear Melville Island Northern Territory Australia & Two Old Arnhem Land Hafted Stone Spears

This very beautifully carved & ochre painted Tiwi Dance Spear is used for Pukamani Ceremonies

According to the Tiwi & Indigenous Art Curator Judith Ryan ;

” The original inhabitants of Melville and Bathurst Islands, the Tiwi, have been separated from mainland Aboriginal peoples and from murrintawi (white people) for much of their history.

Evidence of Tiwi ingenuity, brought about in part by their geographical position, is found in their language, customary ceremonies, material culture, kinship system. The two principal cultural events for the Tiwi are the pukumani (mourning) and kulama (coming of age) ceremonies, both of which are unrestricted in relation to age and gender.

Tiwi art is intimately connected with song and dance and with jilamara, the idiosyncratic body painting designs with which performers celebrate kulama and conceal their identity from mapurtiti (spirits of the deceased) for pukumani ceremonies. The spirit of each work resides in the Tiwi notion of individual creativity, expressed through colour & patterns of lines, and the randomness of the decoration. For Tiwi people, to sing is to dance is to paint. A painted design on any surface has deep associations with singing and dancing and elements of Tiwi language and culture that are non-verbal “.

Provenance: The Todd Barlin Collection of New Guinea Oceanic & Australian Aboriginal Art 

 

If you have a similar “object” for sale please contact me for the best price and honest advice by a Government approved valuer 

To see many more rare items and the finest masterpieces, please make an appointment with us to visit the gallery.

For all inquiries, please contact us 

 

A Superb Old Australian Aboriginal Bark Painting From Groote Island in the Northern Territory

A Superb Old Bark Painting depicting Totemic Birds at a Sacred Waterhole Groote Eyland Northern Territory Collected in 1968 (Artist Unrecorded in 1968)

Groote Eylandt, in Anindilyakwa Country off the coast of northeast Arnhem Land, has been a center of bark painting since the 1920s. The heavy black background and dashed lines of red, white, and yellow ochres that comprise this painting are characteristic of Anindilyakwa bark paintings from the middle of the twentieth century. The black pigment comes from the manganese that has been mined on Groote Eylandt for decades.

This painting is in near-perfect condition, the family who owned had it packed away in a clean dry box for 55 Years, and the colour is as bright as the day it was painted due to their conservation of the painting never being kept in sunlight

Groote Islanders painted and decorated the inside walls of their bark huts. Anthropologist Norman Tindale in 1921-1922 made the first collections of bark paintings. This collection is now in the collection of the South Australian Museum. Frederick Rose made another large collection in 1938, with the help of Fred Gray. Fred Gray encouraged local Groote Islanders to paint barks as a means of financial independence. Charles Mountford collected his work in 1948 during the American Australian Scientific Expedition. In the 1950s, the Rev. L.M. Howell commissioned eight sets of narrative paintings from Thomas Nanjiwarra. Later, Helen Groger-Wurm collected Nandjiwarra’s barks and these became the National. Gallery of Australia’s first major acquisition of Aboriginal art in 1972.

In the 1960s and 70s, this distinctive and celebrated style reached a peak. It ceased with the advent of manganese mining operations which brought a disruptive influence to the island.

 Provenance: The Todd Barlin Collection of New Guinea Oceanic and Australian Aboriginal Art 

See my new EXHIBITIONS GALLERY  showing the Museums and Art Galleries Exhibitions that I provided artworks for over the past 40 years. There is the link to the article about my artworks published in the prestigious Louvre Magazine in 1996

I have artwork for Museums and art Galleries but also for collectors at every stage of their collecting. I want to encourage people to explore the fine art of New Guinea & West Papua and the Pacific Islands and to be able to see and touch the artworks in a relaxed and friendly manner in my Sydney Gallery. I would like to invite you to visit my gallery and see the artworks in person and also look at my website www.oceanicartsaustralia.com where there are many Galleries & Sub Galleries to explore.

My Gallery of nearly 40 years is the last physical gallery in Sydney that specializes in New Guinea and Oceanic Art.  Sydney is very close to New Guinea & the Pacific Islands where all of these amazing artworks came from, Australia’s closest neighbors.

 

If you have a similar “object” for sale please contact me for the best price and honest advice by a Government approved valuer 

To see many more rare items and the finest masterpieces, please make an appointment with us to visit the gallery.

For all inquiries, please contact us 

 

 

A Collection of Fine Old Tiwi Clubs Melville or Bathurst Islands Northern Territory Australia

A Collection of Five Fine Old Tiwi Clubs Melville or Bathurst Islands Northern Territory Australia Dating from the early 20th Century 

These very beautiful old Clubs, each carved from hardwood, and then finely ochre painted with clan designs.

According to the Tiwi & Indigenous Art Curator Judith Ryan ;

” The original inhabitants of Melville and Bathurst Islands, the Tiwi, have been separated from mainland Aboriginal peoples and from murrintawi (white people) for much of their history.

Evidence of Tiwi ingenuity, brought about in part by their geographical position, is found in their language, customary ceremonies, material culture, kinship system. The two principal cultural events for the Tiwi are the pukumani (mourning) and kulama (coming of age) ceremonies, both of which are unrestricted in relation to age and gender.

Tiwi art is intimately connected with song and dance and with jilamara, the idiosyncratic body painting designs with which performers celebrate kulama and conceal their identity from mapurtiti (spirits of the deceased) for pukumani ceremonies. The spirit of each work resides in the Tiwi notion of individual creativity, expressed through colour & patterns of lines, and the randomness of the decoration. For Tiwi people, to sing is to dance is to paint. A painted design on any surface has deep associations with singing and dancing and elements of Tiwi language and culture that are non-verbal “.

Each of these Clubs are beautiful and unique but together as group they truly look their finest.

Provenance: The Todd Barlin Collection of New Guinea & Australian Aboriginal Art 

If you have a similar “object” for sale please contact me for the best price and honest advice by a Government approved valuer 

To see many more rare items and the finest masterpieces, please make an appointment with us to visit the gallery.

For all inquiries, please contact us 

 

A Fine Old New Guinea Maternity Sculpture Kambot Village Yuat River East Sepik Province Papua New Guinea

A Fine Old New Guinea Maternity Sculpture by the famous Kambot Artist Ignas Keram from Kambot Village in the Yuat River area of the East Sepik Province Papua New Guinea

This beautifully carved Maternity Ancestor Figure is by the famous Kambot Artist Ignas Keram, his sculptures have been well known since at least the 1970s when this sculpture was likely made.

Keram’s unique style shows a mother sitting and breastfeeding her baby, an everyday event where both mother & baby have a cheerful look with prominent round eyes. The mother has tattoo designs on her face & chest.

I find this sculpture has a softness & warmth and something optimistic about his style.  I have had several carvings by Ignas Keram but I think this is the best one I saw and when it came up for sale I immediately bought it.  I hear regularly about “the Age of Oceanic Artworks” Age is one aspect of artwork but I think what is the most important is choosing an artwork that you find beautiful & engaging to look at. This figure is a good example, the figure is only 50 years old but to me, it’s beautiful artwork & I enjoy it as much as any older sculpture.

Provenance: The Todd Barlin Collection of New Guinea Oceanic Art 

See my new EXHIBITIONS GALLERY  showing the Museums and Art Galleries Exhibitions that I provided artworks for over the past 40 years. There is the link to the article about my artworks published in the prestigious Louvre Magazine in 1996

I have artwork for Museums and art Galleries but also for collectors at every stage of their collecting. I want to encourage people to explore the fine art of New Guinea & West Papua and the Pacific Islands and to be able to see and touch the artworks in a relaxed and friendly manner in my Sydney Gallery. I would like to invite you to visit my gallery and see the artworks in person and also look at my website www.oceanicartsaustralia.com where there are many Galleries & Sub Galleries to explore.

My Gallery of nearly 40 years is the last physical gallery in Sydney that specializes in New Guinea and Oceanic Art.  Sydney is very close to New Guinea & the Pacific Islands where all of these amazing artworks came from, Australia’s closest neighbors.

 

If you have a similar “object” for sale please contact me for the best price and honest advice by a Government approved valuer 

To see many more rare items and the finest masterpieces, please make an appointment with us to visit the gallery.

For all inquiries, please contact us 

 

Exhibitions of New Guinea Art at NGV National Gallery of Victoria

Exhibitions: Oceanic Artwork & New Guinea Art at The National Gallery of Victoria

Over two & a half decades Todd Barlin worked with Judith Ryan to build up the Oceanic Art collection at the NGV National Gallery of Victoria.

This superb State Art Gallery had fantastic exhibitions of Oceanic Art in many different spaces at different times, they always made the artworks & exhibition spaces look their very best.

Judith Ryan selected from Todd Barlin the finest Oceanic Art for the NGV Collection, they got both older Artworks & new Artworks but were the most interested in artworks that had information about the artists & their communities and field photos that Todd took in New Guinea

Sana Balai was assistant Curator at NGV National Gallery of Victoria and she was a great pleasure to work in conjunction with Judith Ryan.

It was such a great experience to see Oceanic & New Guinea Art set in clean large spaces with modern & Australian Art.

Above are some photos of NGV Exhibitions from those decades of collaboration.

I first went to Papua New Guinea in 1985 for an adventure & what I found was that I really enjoyed being with the people of New Guinea, over the next 38 years I spent extensive time spent collecting and documenting traditional art & ceremonies in remote areas of Papua New Guinea & West Papua, The Solomon Islands & Vanuatu & the other Pacific Islands countries. During these travels, I made major collections of New Guinea & Oceanic Art for major Museums and Public Art Galleries

I was honoured by being in the prestigious Louvre Museum Magazine for the collections I made for The Museum of African & Oceanic Art Paris in1996 (now the Musee Quai Branly) for the exhibition “Asmat et Mimika d’ Irian Jaya April 1996 At THE MUSEE NATIONAL des ARTS D’AFRIQUE et d’ OCEANIE, Paris

See all of the links & photos in my new EXHIBITIONS GALLERY and there is the link to the article in the prestigious Louvre Magazine 1996

I have artwork for Museums & Art Galleries but also for collectors at every stage of their collecting. I want to encourage people to explore the fine art of New Guinea & West Papua and the Pacific Islands and to be able to see and touch the artworks in a relaxed and friendly manner in my Sydney Gallery.  I would like to invite you to visit my gallery and see the artworks in person and also look at my website www.oceanicartsaustralia.com  where there are many Galleries & Sub Galleries to explore.

My Gallery of nearly 40 years is the last physical gallery in Sydney that specialises in New Guinea & Oceanic Art. Sydney is just a couple hours’ flight to New Guinea & the Pacific Islands where all of these amazing artworks came from, Australia’s closest neighbours.

Exhibition: TAPA BARK CLOTH FROM THE PACIFIC at Campbelltown City Art Gallery Sydney 1999

TAPA: BARK CLOTH FROM THE PACIFIC at the Campbelltown City Art Gallery, Sydney Australia 1999

This superb exhibition showcased Tapa Cloth from the Pacific Islands curated by Greta North & Tom Gilbert at The Campbelltown City Art Gallery and it had a big display of Tapa Paintings from Lake Sentani and Humboldt Bay area from the Todd Barlin Collection & a contribution of the essay for the exhibition booklet (below)

Tapa Cloth Paintings from Lake Sentani & Humboldt Bay area of West Papua by Todd Barlin 1999

The appreciation of indigenous art has come a long way in the past ten years, indigenous artists from around the world have benefited from the interest in their cultural heritage and visual arts. This is certainly the case with the Tapa Cloth Paintings from Northwest Irian Jaya or West Papua

Tapa Cloth Paintings from Lake Sentani & Humboldt Bay in NW Irian Jaya are locally known are Maro Smo. Early accounts of local people making and wearing decorated Tapa cloth are sketchy, but it seems that married women did wear Tapa Cloth Skirts with were sometimes decorated with designs.

An early 20th-century photograph by the ethnographer Paul Wirtz in 1926 shows a large painted Tapa Cloth displayed next to a grave of young women (published in the book The Art of Northwest New Guinea by Suzanne Greub 1992 page 130 shows this early Paul Wirtz photo)

The Tapa Cloth paintings that the outside world associates with Lake Sentani & Humboldt Bay were mainly collected in the late 1920s by Jacques Viot, the French surrealist author & art dealer who made a trip to the area in 1929 and collected a number of Tapa Cloth Paintings along with the more famous wood sculptures from Lake Sentani (one of the most famous sculptures from Viot’s trip to New Guinea is the double Lake Sentani Figure now in the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra)

These works of art had a great impact on the Parisian Art scene when exhibited in Paris on his return, especially on the surrealist artists like Joan Miro.

By the mid-1920s, artists active in Paris held a fascination with objects created in tribal communities in the Pacific. In their search for art beyond the real, surrealists turned to sculptures that came from the dreams and imaginations of Pacific Islanders, who were themselves considered exotic

From World War 1 through to the 1950s, it seems that the practice of making decorated Tapa Cloth largely died out. In the 1970s however European interest brought about a revival of Tapa Painting, this stimulus was essential to the continuity of the art and its progression.

Many of the design elements in these more contemporary Tapa Cloths are ancient traditional designs that belonged to specific clans & chiefly families.

One of the main Lake Sentani motifs is called Fouw, an interlocking spiral design that is said to represent eternity and is associated with to power of the chief.  The Fouw designs are commonly used on many types of traditional carved wood objects including women’s canoe paddles, food bowls & plates, and house posts that are all related to chiefly families & clans.

Other common designs are stylized totemic animals, birds & fish that are all plentiful in their natural environment. There are also depictions of powerful mythological spirits that inhabit the lake, bush & ocean.

The artists in Lake Sentani & Humboldt Bay have recently received some positive results from their artistic endeavors, they have had several exhibitions and articles have been written about their art of Tapa Cloth Painting and its revival. Consequently, this interest in their art has meant sales of their Tapa Cloth Paintings to international buyers which has brought prestige and economic benefits to the artists and their communities. The best Tapa Cloth Painters some are represented in this exhibition are very pleased with the recognition and the financial rewards they have received.

One of the most beneficial aspects of the revival of this ancient art form is that is has given strong cultural symbolism for all of the Melanesian people in West Papua, this is a time of great changes in West Papua as there is a great influx of non-Melanesian people perhaps leading to them being a minority in their own traditional land.  Whenever West Papuans see one of their traditional designs it reinforces a feeling of their unique cultural identity.

The people of Lake Sentani & Humboldt Bay would feel a great sense of pride in their inclusion of this exhibition of Pacific Tapa Cloth.

May 2023 post note: 24 years after this exhibition, though I have not been back to the Lake Sentani area for 2 decades I have seen some recent Tapa Cloth Paintings from the area, they seem to be less spontaneous and a bit more rigid. There was a flowering of artistic inspiration for Tapa Cloth Paintings in the 1970s & 1980s but some of the older artists would have passed away and like all over the world often younger people are not as interested in their traditional art.

Exhibition: The Shields of Melanesia at The Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts Festival Sydney College of the Arts

Exhibition: The Shields of Melanesia at The Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts Festival Sydney College of the Arts

This superb exhibition of Melanesian Shields was sponsored by The Oceanic Art Society Sydney & curated by Geoff Carey.

The exhibition showed New Guinea Shields in a way never seen before in Australia at the Sydney College of the Arts who gave use of its large exhibition spaces to allow this exhibition to be part of The Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts Festival showcasing Pacific Islands Art & Culture.

The exhibition was supposed to be in conjunction with a publication of a book by the same name The Shields of Melanesia that was printed five years later in 2005.

The Shields of Melanesia Edited by Harry Beran and Dr Barry Craig

This is the first comprehensive compilation of the war shields of Melanesia. The volume illustrates more than one hundred types of shields from all cultural areas of Melanesia that used such objects. Approximately eighty percent of the shields illustrated in the book have never appeared in print.

The editors describe why the use of fighting shields in the South Pacific was confined to Melanesia. The typology of war shields used in the book is based on an exhaustive survey of the literature, on the field experience of the authors, and on a survey of the collections of the major Australian museums.

Twenty-Four of the shields shown in photos in this book belong to the Todd Barlin Collection of New Guinea Art 

Todd Barlin Wrote three sections of this book

3.1 Shields from the North Coast of Western New Guinea: Pages 28- 32

5.1 The Shields of the Highlands of Western New Guinea : Pages 112- 1117

6.1 Shields from the Southern Lowlands of Western New Guinea: Pages 155-165

I first went to Papua New Guinea in 1985 for an adventure & what I found was that I really enjoyed being with the people of New Guinea, over the next 38 years I spent extensive time spent collecting and documenting traditional art & ceremonies in remote areas of Papua New Guinea & West Papua, The Solomon Islands & Vanuatu & the other Pacific Islands countries. During these travels, I made major collections of New Guinea & Oceanic Art for major Museums and Public Art Galleries

I was honoured by being in the prestigious Louvre Museum Magazine for the collections I made for The Museum of African & Oceanic Art Paris in1996 (now the Musee Quai Branly) for the exhibition “Asmat et Mimika d’ Irian Jaya April 1996 At THE MUSEE NATIONAL des ARTS D’AFRIQUE et d’ OCEANIE, Paris

See all of the links & photos in my new EXHIBITIONS GALLERY and there is the link to the article in the prestigious Louvre Magazine 1996

I have artwork for Museums & Art Galleries but also for collectors at every stage of their collecting. I want to encourage people to explore the fine art of New Guinea & West Papua and the Pacific Islands and to be able to see and touch the artworks in a relaxed and friendly manner in my Sydney Gallery.  I would like to invite you to visit my gallery and see the artworks in person and also look at my website www.oceanicartsaustralia.com  where there are many Galleries & Sub Galleries to explore.

My Gallery of nearly 40 years is the last physical gallery in Sydney that specialises in New Guinea & Oceanic Art. Sydney is just a couple hours’ flight to New Guinea & the Pacific Islands where all of these amazing artworks came from, Australia’s closest neighbours.