Tennant Creek Brio at ACCA

Tennant Creek Brio is a collective of artists living and working on Warumungu Country in the Northern Territory, including some originally from as far apart as northern Central Australia and Melbourne. It includes key members Fabian Brown Japaljarri, Lindsay Nelson Jakamarra, Rupert Betheras, Joseph Williams Jungarayi, Clifford Thompson Japaljarri, Jimmy Frank Jupurrula, Fabian Rankine Jampijinpa, Marcus Camphoo Kemarre, and collaborators including Eleanor Jawurlngali Dixon, Lévi McLean, and Gary Sullivan. The artists first converged in 2016, when they initiated an outreach program at the local men’s centre, Anyinginyi Health Aboriginal Corporation.

Juparnta Ngattu Minjinypa Iconocrisis is the first major survey of Tennant Creek Brio’s work, reflecting on First Nations cultural traditions and histories, the mining industry, and regional and international art influences through the punk lens of a frontier community. The artworks reveal a suite of personal and intergenerational influences that shape the artists’ lives and identities, showing up on materials as wide-ranging as oil barrels, car bonnets, solar panels, poker machines, TV screens and geological maps from the abandoned Warrego mine.

Curated by Dr Jessica Clark, Max Delany, Elyse Goldfinch and Dr Shelley McSpedden, Juparnta Ngattu Minjinypa Iconocrisis also features a new large-scale work comprising painting, sculpture, installation, video, drawing and performance.

Opening on Friday September 20, the first weekend’s celebrations continue the following day with artist talks in the gallery and a live music performance by Eleanor JawurIngali Dixon.

Juparnta Ngattu Minjinypa Iconocrisis is free to enter and runs until Saturday November 17.

This article is produced by Broadsheet in partnership with ACCA.